I agree completely. Just saying this would be the only way to make a difference in harvesting these addresses for spamming -- but would be too hard to accomplish for the reasons you cite. Joan In a message dated 11/18/2011 10:00:23 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, charani.b@gmail.com writes: It would probably be too big an undertaking both time and cost wise, esp as Rootsweb is a free service.