I think there was some discussion a while back regarding Ancestry.com which I no longer have in my mailbox. Someone had posted a message I think regarding information they'd found in a family tree submitted to Ancestry by a "Roberds" or something similar. I think I stumbled on the same submission last evening. What I found was information I know to be erroneous. There was a box to contact the submitter. I clicked on the box and a prewritten email came up that said in replying to the submitter, I could be assured that my identity would not be revealed. Now why would I want to contact this person if I didn't want him to know who I was is beyond me. Anyway....I added my name and email address to the message and sent it. I quickly got a message back that I'd performed an illegal act (presumably by adding my email address) which would be registered on their server. "Roberds" or whatever the name is; is a phony identity assigned to the submitter by Ancestry.com for some reason beyond my understanding. Apparently they don't want people exchanging information freely. My impression is that when you submit data to them, it becomes _their data; not yours. Has anyone else come to that conclusion? What aggravates me about this is that I know what this "Roberds" source was for this particular part of his submission; and what that source was, was an inquiry to the Bowser rootsweb list 6 years ago asking for information regarding a Bowser family. The inquiry contained erroneous information, which is now part of "Roberds" submission. And of course the person's email address who made the original inquiry 6 years ago is no longer valid. For my own part, I'm willing to share what I've found with anyone who cares to exchange information, but I have no intention of donating it to Ancestry.com for commercial purposes. Sam