To Holmes Co Listees: I belong to another list and received this information this morning. Thought you might be interested. Linda San Diego, Ca Researching Snyder in Pa, Md, Va and Oh; Shipman in Ct, Nj, Pa and Mi ISTG <http://istg.rootsweb.com>. Transcriptions of passenger lists for 404 ships have been uploaded by the Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild as of 16 February 1999. Approximately 500 volunteers continue to transcribe lists that will be uploaded as they are completed. Additional volunteer transcribers will be accepted on a quarterly basis (see the ISTG FAQs for details). The passenger lists are searchable by: (1) Date (1600s, 1700s, 1800s, 1900s); (2) Ship's Name (by country, to date including Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, England, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Mexico, Netherlands, Nicaragua, Panama, Portugal, Scotland, Spain, Sweden, Venezuela, Wales, and the West Indies); (3) Port of Arrival (to date including Baltimore, Maryland; Canada; Galveston, Texas; Massachusetts; New Orleans, Louisiana; New York, New York; New Zealand; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Port Jackson, NSW, Australia; Virginia; and Wilmington, North Carolina); and (4) Surname and Captain's Name. * * * GENEALOGY BOOKS. A free service for RootsWeb mailing list subscribers. List used genealogy books you wish to sell at: <http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~ayrshire/indexbookmall.html> * * * * * LETTER TO THE EDITORS. I found two Web sites listing my family information-current living family, with birth dates, marriage dates, locations, and personal information such as adoption and nursing home placement. I was horrified and irate and felt I had just found a Peeping Tom at my window. When I wrote to the Web person to inquire about the source of the information and complain about the public display, I received a reply that expressed surprise that anyone would complain; he said others thank him for the Web exposure. He was irate that I was irate! Finally, he grudgingly agreed to delete adoption and nursing home information, but no deletion of birth dates for any of these living people. He said "That is just not going to happen." He did supply the e-mail address of the submitter, but no name-he protects the privacy of the submitter, but not of the victims! In response to my complaint, the person who submitted my information to the Web site I described wrote to say that she has asked the Web manager to delete the information that referred to living persons in my family. I don't know her or how she received my information, but I am grateful for her help. This Web site is supposedly a family Web site, but it is certainly far afield from what I would consider my extended family-I have never heard of these people. The second Web site I looked at was an individual family site on Family Tree Maker done by a cousin who received information from me about three years ago. She has all the names and birth dates (some were copied incorrectly), but not place names or personal comments about living people, so at least she used some restraint. I would prefer not to have the living people, or at least not the birth dates, listed, however, and will ask her to delete them. I have sent family information-by Snail Mail-on three or four occasions to new "cousins" that I met through Web inquiries, and most of those I knew about even if I did not know them personally. There was no implication that this information would be sent to the Web. I like my privacy, and I suspect others do too. I guess I just thought anyone with common sense would understand that it is not in anyone's interest to disperse private information about living people. Even if such information is available as public record, it is not available in such convenient organized form with links to others. We can cut down on public display of information on living persons by deleting it from materials we send to others. Carolyn DeWolfe <[email protected]> * * * * * PERMISSION TO REPRINT articles from ROOTSWEB REVIEW is granted unless specifically stated otherwise, PROVIDED (1) The reprint is used for non-commercial, educational purposes. (2) This notice must appear at the end of the article: Written by <author's name, e-mail address, and URL, if given> Previously published by RootsWeb Genealogical Data Cooperative, RootsWeb Review, Vol. 2, No. 7, 17 February 1999. Please visit RootsWeb's main Web page at <http://www.rootsweb.com/>.