Good Points Mike. I read the copyright laws available, and feel that we are all doing research...so topic is pretty much educational. Of course there are those hoping to profit off of what they find, but unless they see the documents themselves how can they say they know they are true? If I have work that has been copyrighted at one time, and I intend to do lookups using it, I always see if the work is in publication through the genealogy store at the Huntington Beach Library. If that provides nothing, I will attempt to contact the author's family by mail, phone, and other similiarly named people I find in the same state. If that doesn't work, I quote only the portions that pertain to the researcher's leads. Sometimes they have proven invaluable If using one of the many gedcoms I have had donated (which I keep seperate from my work), I have asked permission of the provider before using their material. Most request that notes be kept seperate from factual detail. Christen -- Please Visit My Master Genealogical Site http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~rosamili and follow the link there to GG's Genealogical Graphics Free Graphic Sets for the Genealogist Note If there is an +AH4- in the url take it out and replace it with a tilde , the key to the left of the number one along the top of the keyboard. CAPITALIZE it. :)