I agree that sources should be properly cited, and that plagarism is stealing. I found this suggestion very sensible: > If you wish to be acknowledged for providing info, assistance, etc... Perhaps you could include, as a signature, just how you would like to have this acknowledgement appear. But I wonder where the "genealogical ethics" are in this practice, which I have heard one other time before reading it here: > I also add a few choice errors in my things just to make sure, so I can track it down. I dunnow... maybe this is a different kind of "wrong" but I'm not sure how this practice could ever be right. Best wishes to all, Liz J

I would not place errors in my work....I understand the concept, but it just seems to me that it will create even MORE mistakes to be passed around and accepted as fact.....and God knows, there are MORE than enough of those !!! I DO remember once reading through someone's files and finding very obvious mistakes, like Superman, Elvis Presley,etc...things that I wouldn't think could possibly be taken seriously - at the time it never occurred to me that this was done for the given reasons, and I simply thought to myself, "what a crazy person THIS is"...and, it immediately made me 'question' everything else in the files...duh!. (my favorite ''mistake' is the many people who are listed with the surname Unk.....they have been taken from someone's work...the original writer used the initials Unk to indicate an unknown surname.... someone else 'found' it on the internet somewhere and mistakenly interpreted it as a surname of Unk....put it in their files....and off it went, just ANOTHER mistake, probably being perpetuated to this day! (if you doubt this, or that ANYONE could be that silly, do some google searches for the surname Unk....there are a TON of them out there....there is even a section of the genforum for those RESEARCHING the Unk surname.....how many folks do you figure are REALLY named Unk? I was surfing the forum and found someone who actually believed she has an ancestor with the surname NmMdUnk.....to me this says that some other researcher listed her as Married, Name Unknown.......but to her, it's her ancestor Rachel NmMdUnk! S. " I also add a few choice errors in my things just to make sure, so I can track it down." -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.407 / Virus Database: 268.12.9/458 - Release Date: 9/27/2006