Please indulge a newbie with 2 questions. 1. How do you know -- on the web -- what is a 'legitimate' or at least, a reliable source of information? I went to the w3g.med.uni-giessen.de/CGB/genetxt/ site that Mike mentioned and noticed that I had been there before. (thanks to browser history) I think that, at the time, I had dismissed the Ron Taylor site but for no better reason than I had found the same information for free at the above mentioned site and also on the cursiter.com site. The first site had no information as to source, that I could find and most info is in German, Cursiter sited the author. And there are so many sites on-line with bits of information -- most of them are commercial, trying to sell software but promising 'free' d-bases and whatever -- how do you choose? 2. How do you credit sources? cursiter.com mentions IGI as a source but unless I missed it, I didn't see 'permission' from the LDS (On the LDS site they tell you need 'permission' to put their records on an active website). In the marriage and birth txt files the LDS copyright etc is clearly spelled out. Are the Cursiter files different from the LDS files? -- I have yet to see the LDS files. If you use information from this source do you credit -- Scottish Birth/Marriage records? the LDS? or Cursiter? OK 3 questions... Again what does 'copyright permission' entail? Thanks for any help, MJ Corrigall