Dear John, I am not sure why your offer would create controversy. If you quote pages and pages of info, there can be a copyright question, but you were not doing that. Huron Co. OH's rootsweb list has simplified this copyright question by requesting that all people who request info limit their request to two names per request, even if they have 10 people with the same surname they are researching. Huron Co. also gives the book name and page so that good family historians can confirm the info (and we all know that books can contain their own typos) by requesting the legal documents from the county or ordering a LDS microfilm of the original documents. You could also give the requesting person the book number (A,B, or C) and page and even remind folks to confirm the info themselves. The important thing to those you help is that you are pointing them in a POSSIBLY correct direction. I say "possibly" only because I have come across transcription errors and even name errors written by the county recorders themselves: example #1: The Coshocton county recorder listed an 1823 land sale as John Douglass to James Abraham, however the document itself was James Douglass to James Abraham with no mention of a John anywhere. All books I've found so far list this sale as John Douglass because they used the county recorder's master list/index. There was an unrelated John Douglass in the county at the time and maybe John and the county recorder were friends (my guess only) and so an honest recording error was made. I found it only because I knew the sale occurred 1816-1824 and took a chance and ordered the LDS film of the original documents. example#2: a justice of the peace first recorded the 1819 marriage of Mary Douglass to John Upson and then later recorded it (correctly) as Mary Douglass to Jesse Upson. Both marriages were listed for the same date. The justice of the peace was related to Mary and lived only a few miles away, so you would have thought he would know the groom's name. Also, jp's recorded marriages AFTER they were performed, not before. Yet if a person didn't look at it for themselves, the wrong husband might be listed in a family chart. (In case anyone is wondering,Jesse had no brother or cousin named John in the area, so Mary didn't change her mind.) Douglass is one of the families I am searching. Not only are there lots of them, even in 1800 in relatively unsettled OH, they weren't all related. Some were Irish and some Scots! One in particular seems to have an aversion to ever being mentioned, but I know he was there. So any help I can get from all sources is much appreciated. Folks who have resources and time to share are "genealogy angels" and much appreciated by 99.9% of those of us online. I deeply appreciate each and every one of you! Finally, if someone recommends a book to those of us online, which you didn't but some others have, I ALWAYS order it via interlibrary loan through my local library before I purchase it. This has saved my 100's of dollars because often there is nothing on my families, other times there is a reference or two (which I photocopy along with the title page), and every once in awhile there is enough info that I order the book myself or ask the library if they would consider purchasing a copy (their budget is limited, but bigger than mine). I appreciate your offer to do lookups and hope you will reconsider withdrawing your help. Patti, in WA state