Hi Eva I am sure I will not dissuade you but frankly doubt there was any connection to the person on Ancestry collecting information, more likely to be a name collector as you get on genesreunited who want you to do all the research Getting someone to reply at all on Ancestry or GR is a feat in itself anyway <g> At the end of the day if you use e mail your address is out there somewhere and it can be found and spam will come at some point like it or not If people wanted personal details there are easier ways of getting it than using Ancestry or the like As to name reversal, I see that quite often, there is also a trend of late to use a fictional name rather than their own Best wishes Nivard Ovington, in Cornwall (UK) > It is not only Facebook we must be on guard about. A few weeks ago I found > a > person on Ancestry.com who I believed had information on my family line. I > wrote to him, and had a quick response. But the person never offered any > additional information. > > To make a long story short, he replied with his name reversed The first > name > became his last and the last his first. I thought it strange, I > apparently > had just picked a random name on a family tree and was waiting for > someone to