This is similar to my sister-in-law finding her sister that she hadn't seen for 45 plus years. She did get to see her before she died and it was due to the Internet and searching records. -----Original Message----- From: SusiCP@aol.com [mailto:SusiCP@aol.com] Sent: Monday, March 24, 2003 12:55 AM To: VA-Harrison-Monongalia-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [VA-Har-Mon] Dangerous Info I think not What a shame that you are all so paranoid. LET me share a story with you. When my Parent and Uncle were small family split. For 50 years family hunted for family. MY Uncle had unlisted numper was not in phone book. MY DAD moved to area family was not aware of. When I started genealogy I was able to get permission to advertize my Uncle's name on the web. Within weeks we had calls from family looking for his generation. His name was different and harder to track my DAD's was very common and not easy to find for name purpose though we were looking for DAD's Aunts, Uncles and his Father since I was about 8 years old. Yes we found his DAD when I was 11/12. I got to meet a special human because DAD and Uncle knew they had family. Dad was oldest, Uncle almost youngest so he learned most from DAD. We learned family had come to our town looking for Uncle and his name because he was not in phone book no one ever found him, til many many years later. HE missed three cousins he knew when small by having an unlisted number. The wife came to visit 2 weeks after we found each other. She told us how they hunted so many times in San Diego for my Uncle. :<( My Uncle cried that he had not changed his unlisted to listed after learning family spent so much time and money looking for him. I located my Dad's cousin within the state and other cousins in states near us. MY Uncle got to meet these cousins my DAD had already passed on. So go ahead and remove your name and address, its like a phone book. Then you might just as well close the books on your genealogy for your future generations and stop what your doing for its all for naught. When I joined the local society they didn't want there names on the surname file. I said,"HOw can people contact you if you don't leave a name and address?" They looked at me sorta dumb and said," O, we didn't think of that." Our parania is going to to destroy our research. Some day there will be no phone book, only on line and then people again will fight the same problem we have today. NO ADDRESS, NO PHONE, NO NAME. I use the white pages to find same last name kin, it was one of the first things I was taught in the old school before computers. We use the old ones today for people for census in the 1850's and up and sometimes before. Think before you function.