In a message dated 10/29/00 7:29:33 AM Central Standard Time, eeth23@tcainternet.com writes: > Lon, > > Thank you for the well written explanation you sent to the Ozment Digest > on limiting information. What started my thinking about limiting > information is the fact that my family has been placed on numerous World > Family Tree CD's without my permission. In this day and age I just think > it is prudent to be careful. This info is going all over the world, > think it over. As you know, I am very happy to share my research. > > Evelyn Hi, Evelyn I know you have been a gold mine for me and I was lucky when I first started out that you were my first contact. I started out with a certified genealogist that got me started on the right track with sources. I was amazed at how fast that guy could find information. He taught me a lot. He was well worth the money. Then I took a course on genealogy at Amarillo College that was very informing and we visited the LDS library here. Then I met Eleanor and hit another gold mine and things just snowballed. I met so many other wonderful people who were willing to share also. Several were from my branch that I had never heard of before. It has been a true pleasure getting emails from everyone of them. I think that we have come a long way since then. We have corrected some errors and we have exchanged ideas. I am like Jackie. I would hope fifty years from now our grandchildren/great grandchildren would have a more complete record because of our efforts together and that they may keep uptodate on it. It would be wonderful if they would get to know each other. I understand your concern about the cd trees. I put my limited family on the first volumne in order to try and make future contacts. Instead I have seen it repeated on later cds without my consent, also. I will never send Family Tree Maker another one. Since I broadcast my own tree , I never use any passwords that use my mother's maiden name, my home town, my birthday, etc. and I am always cognizant of the fact that anyone may obtain this information. I have seen some trees that have social security numbers on them. Wow. I am still waiting on them to broadcast their credit card numbers. :-) I believe everyone on this list understands confidentiality but we really do not know all the list members. Personally, I send some information person to person with the ones I have known for awhile and who have helped me. Sincerely, Lon