Okay, one more thought on identity theft from genealogy sites. First you cannot steal someone identy without more information than just their name. You need date of birth, address and phone number, which you can get from a phone book, along with a social security number. The sights that I have seen only have names of living persons, no other information other than their ancestry. No ones name is so unique that no one else will have it, so only a name will not let someone steal your identity. Anyone who wants to steal someones identity can do it without using a genealogy site. There are ways of hacking into secured sites that have considerably more personal information that a genealogy sight if someone really wants to get your personal information. How many times have you filled out a postcard for something with information on it that anyone who sees it can get? If however, someone is putting more than just a name on their genealogy pages, you should ask them to remove it. A name alone cannot let someone steal your identity. Now that I've gotten that off my chest I hope you will worry a little less. :-) On Wed, 5 Feb 2003 11:47:30 -0500 Jean Loudin <jloudin@rtol.net> writes: > Go straight to the people who run Ancestry.com They helped us as > we > had the very same problem. Ancestry even says not to post names, > etc. of > the living. I have great difficulty in understanding why people > can't > understand this privacy problem. I guess they never had identity > theft > happen to them. It happened to my daughter. Let's not make it any > easier > for the crooks. > > Jean > > > ________________________________________________________________ Sign Up for Juno Platinum Internet Access Today Only $9.95 per month! Visit www.juno.com