I, too, have had the experience of sharing data, and finding on someone else's website. While I first felt somewhat violated (and then worried -- was all sensitive material taken out before I shared?) -- I later decided that the more reasonable view was this: a) I do this partly for fun -- because it is like working a crossword puzzle, except more fulfilling, and the game is never over and b) I do it partly for posterity -- and the more places my research appears, the more likely it is to survive. Whether or not I get credit is not the point. Bottom line: I would never publish someone else's work on the net or elsewhere as my own. I would ask permission to include, or something. Or I would document the secondary source with primary sources, so that it became my first-hand work and research. It is rude for people to make the assumption that it is all right to publish someone else's findings. However, I have decided just to make my own work as good as possibly, and not worry about who else appropriates it. What DOES matter is that this sort of thing means you must be scrupulously careful about everything that you share, both the accuracy (so that an innocent mistake will not be perpetuated) and the sensitive material. Just my viewpoint. My MAURY county names: WALKER, McGILL, BRASEL/BRAZZELL, McMILLAN, ROBERTSON, CLARK Janis Walker Gilmore jgilmore@sccoast.net www.elijahwalker.com