Sandra, I wholeheartily (wholeheartedly?) agree with you. I've had things of mine lifted off the internet. There are 5 gedcoms (yes 5!) uploaded on the net with my personal information, too. And I didn't give the info to even one of those persons. One of my sisters is still fighting with a site that has her 2 previous marriages. And then people say they didn't put it up. Or it wasn't taken from anyone else. ha! When I was in academia, I had an article I was writing stolen from me (that took 2 years of a painful process before the student was reprimanded). To everyone else: To anyone who does this, it creates a lump in our throats to see things which are obviously stolen. It is frequently devastating. Don't wonder if you are giving correct quotes or think that since it was readily available you can just quote the original source. You can't. There is a LOT of time put into *analysis* and just basic research. And sometimes we get it wrong. We then have to spend endless and needless time tracking down people who've 1- taken it 2- quoted it inappropriately. I had a site several/many years ago with a huge gedcom on it. I credited Harrison Cassel for a good half of it and only had his research up because he asked me to do it for him in his failing health and he sadly passed away a few years later. The other things were mine, my analysis and my gas money, my belonging to various historical societies, the plane trips and frequent lonely nights at hotels. And the long process of putting it in, person by person, checking all the sources. If you put in a source, also put in the transcriber of the source and if you ever decide to put it on the internet, think again. It's your family, sure, but not your work. all the best, Michel PS, I also add a few choice errors in my things just to make sure, so I can track it down.