I guess I must put in my two cents worth on the "nonfactual" information on many sites, LDS ancestral file and Ancestry.com's family trees included. I have actually seen a person who was born in 1798 and died in 1805 claimed as the father of several children. Anyone who takes a few seconds to think about this must realize that would be impossible! I have seen a person's birth date listed before the birth date of his mother. No one should be posting this mis-information on the internet; it should be relegated to the virtual garbage dump. Yes, it is frustrating to search for years with no results, but all genealogists should take care to publicize only the data that they are reasonably sure is fact, OR to label it clearly as an assumption based on correlating data. You are right about the difficulty of getting erroneous information corrected. Several years ago I read a family history which listed me as the source of information which was clearly incorrect. The author had taken data I had provided on my immediate family and condensed two generations into one. This book was in the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, and heaven knows where else. I contacted her and she was uninterested in correcting the record. Consequently I have never accepted any of her information without verifying it with a primary source. Donna Spence