Hi, I share my information but I do it on a limited basis. Someone put my family in a great big tree- the kind where one compiles thousands of names. She had wrong information for my direct line. I told her several times what the correct information was but she would never change it. I guess that she didn't believe how many children some relatives had when they were my moms cousins and we visited them She didn't even believe that I knew my own birthday which she had wrong. I guess that is just as well. No one gave her permission to put living relatives on line. I don't need my birthday out there for everyone to see. I do share but I don't put my information on line. First, I print 20 copies of the lines that I have worked on each year. These go to my mom's children, grandchildren and great grandchildren at the end of each year (Christmas). When doing research I often run into a distant cousin. So far they have been descendants of a sibling of my direct line ancestor. You can't do a good job of trying to research everyone so we trade the information on our direct line. I and a second cousin have worked on information that has gone into the Archives of a County (two counties) where our ancestors lived. I think that if they go to a county (do research) to find information they are more likely to get it right. The counties are glad to get the information and display it in the Archives. We give them pictures and artifacts. I have also given a write up to rootsweb list for the generation that a family lived in a county. Again they are researching not just copying. One person put a surname list that one could Google on line. It covered several hundred years of that surname. My family had some wrong information for my direct line. When I told her and sent her the correct information she changed it. I can see why there is so much private information on Ancestry. I think one just has to be careful who one gives the information to. I really do like it when people put proofs and pictures on Ancestry, however. Velma