Please read the attached post ESPECIALLY IF YOU ARE NEW TO GENEALOGY. Please pardon my soapbox and please Do NOT respond to me via this list but to my email directly. I am so strongly in agreement with this gentleman that I almost did not post the Annotated 1850 Census online. I have nightmares that, in the future, the web page will be cited as the ones that scrambled LCT genealogy! (somewhat tongue in cheek but not totally). Source: RootsWeb Review, 27 September 2006, Vol. 9, No. 39 (An interesting general genealogy list). "Accepting Undocumented Information By Dan Craycraft in Cleveland, Ohio, USA A word of caution to new genealogists. When I began using the Internet, some five to eight years ago, I accepted everything that was given to me. I was like a magpie, saving everything. Unfortunately, I began to post this undocumented information on the RootsWeb's WorldConnect. Then the problems began. I received dozens of queries over the years as to where I got my information. Of course, I could only explain that it came from John or Jane Doe. After several years of receiving this type of query, I came to the conclusion that if it was not my research, I would delete it from my database and from WorldConnect. My advice to new genealogists -- don't incorporate someone else's work into your database. Use their work as a launching pad, but do not accept their work as fact without doing the research yourself. This process will save you many agonizing hours of answering inquiries as to the source of your information. Be very careful about what you post online and what access you allow others to have to your data. I have several examples where I freely gave my family tree (GEDCOM) to others. They in turn incorporated it into their databases and now, I cannot retract what I gave them. Unfortunately, during those early years of my investigation into my family line, incorrect information was included. Yet, those errors continue today to be posted on their websites!"