I just wanted to pass on a rather unsettling experience that my wife and I went through this past Thursday. You know all those adds that pop up on our ISP, some of which have to do with tracing your family tree. On a whim the other day, my wife checked one out and typed in the name of her great grandfather. It came up with 2 hits. At this point let me backtrack. Last summer, at a family reunion, her cousin's 14-year-old came up to her and told her that he was really interested in the family history. She sent him a ton of information (which was never acknowledged, thank you very much) and it was forgotten--until the other day. It seems that the little so-and-so gave/sold the information to a paid website as his own. All this information that she spent countless hours on, not to mention $$$ paid to a German genealogist is now on the web. Perhaps it will benefit someone, but to me it is downright thievery and plagiarism. I only write this as a caution to others. Will we still give out our information? Yes, but we will both be (and I caution others to be) very leery about it. Tom Price