In a message dated 10/22/2006 3:06:30 PM Central Daylight Time, jreck@ecenet.com writes: you mean when they can make up another neat little package of birth dates to sell to us too??? No, I mean when an appropriate amount of time has passed for this info to be put on a public site. That index included the dates of not only myself, but my kids, and my grandkids. I wasn't real comfortable with that. Not only that, but info that is not easily obtained in person was on the net. Not a real comfortable feeling, especially when you have a name that only 9 other people in the world have, and more than half of them are vulnerable adults or children. As far as them making money, I really think people should stop to think about that. They are a business, of course they want to make money. But have you ever noticed that they seem to plow an awful lot of that back into the business? Have you ever inquired as to the cost of maintaining servers to hold all that info, the cost to upgrade and add servers to handle all the new info they are constantly adding. The cost to hire techs to maintain those servers and databases, search engines, etc.? My son-in-law is a tech and sets up and maintains servers for the customers of the company he works for. They guarentee 97% up time, which I think ancestry equals. So I do have an idea of the cost. Check it out sometime. Even with the outsourcing they do, the cost has to be incredible for them to be able to constantly add the amount of info they are doing. Annie in Minnesota