Honorable Rep. Pease: What will it take to make our federal and state legislators realize that we don't need more regulations and laws, we need less! The more laws and regulations we have, the less freedom we have, and therefore the closer we become to a police state. We certainly do not need any regulation on genealogy on the Internet, or even a general regulation of any kind on any internet activity. It might be a good idea to have a regulation to control the behavior and thinking of many legislators. I have many European friends who are concerned about the way we, as a nation, are moving towards a police state, more and more every day. In their opinion, the loss of freedom is by small steps, until all freedom is gone, which usually results in a revolution. Ask them, they know. As they say they've had them for hundreds of years in Europe. They are convinced that a revolution in the United States will happen sooner, rather than later. I have a web site on the Internet that is accessed and used by hundreds of school districts on a daily basis on History, and the Westward Movement. I have upwards of 1500 "hits" per day. I'm an historical researcher and writer, have studied and interpreted history all my life, and for those reasons I believe that the thinking of the Europeans is valid. I'm a firm believer in the free speech on the Internet, and lack of regulations, but I also believe strongly that the Internet needs to be self-regulating. That's the job of the family. Please take the time to look at my website on the "Overland Trail" which is in Northern Colorado: http://www.over-land.com and see that there are no advertisements, even though on a daily basis I'm bombarded with requests to put on ads that may net me thousands of dollars per month. This is another example of "self regulation." I believe that the genealogy sites on the Internet have sparked an interest in billions of families to look at their "roots." A person that is searching his genealogy is helping to build family identity and values. I am of Icelandic descent, and have no need to search the genealogy web sites, as all of our history has been published for hundreds of years, is readily available to all Icelandic citizens, and it's availability hasn't hurt us in any way. But, the freedom to have such genealogical sites, and to search these sites by others, for basically no cost at all, needs to remain unregulated! Thank you. Elizabeth Lawrence