Let me throw in my two cents. The family tree information on ancestry.com was helpful when I started my Perrin family research because I had no idea what was known about the family, and it gave me a start. That said, I spent the next two years trying to either prove of disprove what was there. On the one hand, the information on the One World Tree regarding Thomas Perrin (?1763 - 1847) and his eleven children has proven to be ninety percent plus accurate when I can find corroboration, down to some very specific information (like his son's (James K.) birthdate, which I was able to confirm on his gravestone in Brownsville). As this information, so far as I can tell, does not exist anywhere else, I am extremely grateful that someone, somewhere, posted it. On the other hand, the information repeatedly cited concerning his father John Perrin (Jr.) , his three wives and twenty-two children have some serious errors. But these errors come from the original citations from J.H.P. Adams and his daughter in the early twentieth century, not the internet itself. So the internet just allows us all to accumulate both the good and the bad. And all the writers to this message board who state you have to confirm your data, no matter where it comes from, are correct. But I don't think we should restrict the availability of our own research results. When using other people's information I believe we should simply state where it comes from. Like any research we should provide the source citations for our data, and when making speculations we should state them as such. So I have posted everything I know (ADVERTISEMENT HERE) at http://web.me.com/rpday and convinced Google to index it so others can find it. Yes, I pay for the site (through this Email account) and I had to learn html and css to write it, but that means I can control what I have to say. If ancestry.com wants to steal it, either directly, or indirectly when others use my data, that is OK. Because those who want the truth will not take my word for it, and they will use the references I provide to come to their own conclusions. Richard Perrin Day On Jun 15, 2009, at 8:37 AM, Ruth Sprowls wrote: > possibly the solution to posting our trees is to use websites where we > are the webmaster and if someone is interested, we send them a > password for READING data only. (I plan to check out tribalpages > website, which is free for a minimal memory, but worth checking out, > or so I think.) > Ruth > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] > with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and > the body of the message