Neil Grantham wrote: > Does one really need consent for adding a link to another website? > > Surely, you are getting free advertising of your website. > > Search Engines use 'Spiders' to build their search Engine > Databases, and certainly don't ask your permission to add your > website. If you have a website that is informational based, for the > good of others, what's the problem? Hallo No site really needs consent to add a link to another, but it is polite do ask. The main point of my mail to Carol Eales was that her transcipts had NOT been lifted at all. It was merely a link to the site where her transcripts are. If the FreeAncestry site can highlight new or different resources for researchers, then I, for one, do not see it as a problem for anyone. Connie in London