Christie- The only way an ID thief would benefit from such a page would be if you were to post your Mother's maiden name (which is used by many institutions as a private identity device assuming only you and a few close friends would know it) - and it is recommended that living generations NEVER be posted on the web for just such reasons... The purpose of a password is to thwart the MECHANICAL information harvesters who are not human but computer programs that cannot read specific instructions or enter a password. Barbara Diane Wolford Wrote: That is true. Automated Dataminers go through several times a day just taking info. To prevent this, your site should have a password protection. Anyone that wants to look can just enter a simple password like KING or ANCESTOR or something easy. You can even post that password on the front of your site, or if you want, have them email and ask you for the password. Dataminers do not read sentences and figure a way to open pages. They just mine off pages already open. If the password is on the front page, then what's the point of the password? I think people who want to see the information posted on the site, should have to email their decendency or some proof that they're not an ID thief and honestly want to see the information on the site. Christie

My only concerns with is is that for some reason, a very distant relative HAS posted my, my father's, and my mother's information on their website. They refuse to remove it. That is why I replied as such. Christie