In a message dated 4/16/2006 2:53:35 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: > Working on allied lines to geT at the big picture!!- I hope you retain > credit for your work.. > Frankly, in this electronic information age, I'm not sure how one does this. The simplest solution is not to put it when others can "steal" it. But this begs the issue. Unless one has been a total purist all his genealogical career, we are all indebted to the work of others. I have seen people lift other people's work bodily from a web site, add some stuff of their own, and then complain when someone has "stolen" their work. They take wrong information, make it wronger, and offer a poor rendition of this, with poor or no citations for a serious researcher to be able to evaluate the validity of the work. It is simply a case of intellectual honesty and rigor. One should admit they used the work of others. One should provide enough information for others to evaluate the work. We should have learned this in college, or in the scientific community. Tony