I will admit to having reservations about posting or publishing any of my genealogical work to the Internet. But you have to bring something to the party. This arises in part because of incorrect family data submitted to FHL/LDS in the 1960's by a certain gentleman. It has caused no end of mischief to our Carrel researchers. But mostly, because genealogical data is often subject to amendment as newer data is uncovered. There may be a way to revise data submitted to LDS 50 years ago, but I certainly don't what it is. With that and other issues in mind, I reluctantly submitted my GEDCOM file to RootsWeb.com. several years ago, believing their statement that it would remain under my control, even to the point of deleting it altogether. Also I could revise it as needed. I did take the extra precaution offered which was to make the GEDCOM not downloadable. To my knowledge no person have been able to download the whole thing, a modest 2000 names that I have directly researched.. Good for RootsWeb! My purpose was and is to allow unknown cousins, etc., a way to contact me. Bait on the hook, so to speak. And that was very successful and may continue to be so. Then I started seeing entries at the WorldConnect Project of these huge GEDCOMs of over 20,000 names, etc., which included parts of my GEDCOM file. Call me paranoid, but I did insert a false datum in my submitted family tree. I invented a husband for a great grand aunt, whose real husband's name I did not know. It is an old trick employed by publishers of maps., etc., to protect their intellectual property. But so what, I'll know who incorporated it into their own bloated GEDCOM files, but nothing I can do about it. That's life in the genealogical world where we deal with public records... Now if I were to write a history, as Sandra has, I would be extremely pissed-off if someone posted or published it as their own research, without attribution. Eric Olson Seattle ericbear01@earthlink.net Eight nickels makes 2 paradigms.