Dear All: *Derick Hartshorne said: Regarding Find-a-Grave, I have contributed a good deal of information from my own research to them and I appreciate the efforts they have made to make information available. * Find-a-Grave is a wonderful source; I have contributed as well, because I have found long lost ancestors' burial places there; however, I recently was perusing FOOTNOTES.COM as a "free" member to try it out. I ran across a statement where Footnotes.com will be acquiring Find-a-Grave. I decided to go into deep denial, because Footnotes is initially free for limited research but is charging for full membership. Footnotes.com is based in Utah. All the good free sites are diminishing rapidly, and they're all going to Utah. Must be the climate. ? I think we've all been "had." I stay totally confused regarding copyright laws for material that should be in the public domain and available for everyone's perusal regardless of who has it. And I become totally irritated when I go to a "free" site, search, and the answer to my query is embedded in a paid site, where I'm denied access unless I join and pay for a years' membership. Happened just this morning. It's a total waste of my time and energy. I don't mind paying for postage and copying ever...nor paying for someone's time spent on help, but having to pay to get into a site to simply view information that is over a hundred years old is ludicrous. Brownie MacKie Total Skeptic and proud of it