"The presumption is, based on Confidentiality requirements, that a safe rule to follow is NOT to post any information concerning anyone who has been dead at less than 70 years. Family researchers may post a message that they will share their information concerning members of their family with other members of their family but need to be con- tacted off line. SNIP Leigh Leigh C. Eckmair, Historian Town of Butternuts & The Local History Collection The Gilbertsville Free Library Gilbertsville, NY, 13776" _______________________________________________________________________________ Yet I found a immediate family name ( a person who is much alive!) on WorldConnect and rootsweb claims certain family genealogies on the site are from another source and refused to delete the name of the living person. Also rootsweb said something about a 1930 date being the cutoff for names of the living being automatically eliminated. However if it's from another source forget it. I contacted the submitter some years ago with no success. This year s/he responded and I requested removal of the name. It did not happen and so I said I did not wish to turn the matter over to an attorney. That did not win any friends I can tell you, but within a day or so no family name of a living person appeared . It is my firm opinion that rootsweb and any other genealogy program ought to get with it and follow the pattern Leigh has referred to. Leigh has commented on a very important subject. GMFreeman Fanaticism to Barbarism Is Only One Short Step ________________________________________________________________ The best thing to hit the Internet in years - Juno SpeedBand! Surf the Web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today!