Hope those of you "socked" in today down south enjoy it. Good excuse to catch up on your research. This was in the new ROOTSWEB Review as a reminder. Few researchers mind sharing but we do like credit for our years of work. Martha USING OTHERS' WORK By Linda Valentine [email protected] I think it is again time to remind Internet users to put ONLY data on their Web pages and personal charts AFTER they have documented for themselves, and after they have approval from the persons that they obtained it from! I have found my material on all of the genealogy sites in some form or other. Some of my material was given in partial, but it was still used. Some was given more fully and it was used or misstated, and misentered. In all the cases, it was just blatantly copied. So the high percentage of Internet users (as per an Ancestry.com recent poll) could indicate that there are many who simply GATHER from others, and the Internet is the quickest way to gather! Merely copying someone else's work should not make us proud. Knowing that the information is actually documented, and finding it one's self is really what should make us proud to say "I've traced my family back to _______ (fill in the blank).