Hi Carolann at seawillie1, Oh I agree to a certain point that identity theft is on the rampage and no need to add to the jepardy, but I'd much rather exchange information and communicate with my living cousins than all my dead ones. I find it much more interesting and enjoyable to make those family connections with the living, than do all the diggin' in graveyards and records. Plus those records I need to search are usually 100's of miles from where I am, and perhaps I have living cousins who live closer and might be talked into doing research. When I began my family tree climbing, back in the late 1950's, my family didn't know much about their ancestry. So I began by recording what I knew of my immediate family, my aunts and uncles, my grandparents, their brothers & sisters, their parents (my great grandparents), and I'm still trying to do the same today. One generation at a time. Just my way of workin' and climbin' and i do respect your opinion too. Tom Evans In a message dated 9/25/05 12:01:38 PM, WELLS-D-request@rootsweb.com writes: > > X-Message: #5 > Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2005 10:09:32 -0600 > From: seawillie1@juno.com > To: WELLS-L@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: <20050925.100933.528.0.seawillie1@juno.com> > Subject: Re: [WELLS-L] Re: (only for people born before 1901) in the DNA > Merge > > Tom, in answer to your query, I would like to interject my thoughts on > this.  In this generation of identity theft....the more info put out on > living people jeopardizes their safety. The living can add their info > later, but it is my opinion that choice should be theirs.  We have enough > research to do on past generations...let's leave the now generation to > them....just my opinion....Carolann > > On Tue, 20 Sep 2005 02:46:55 EDT OoliticIN@aol.com writes: > >  Hi Bonita, > >      May I ask why the "only for people born before 1901" in the DNA > > merge? > > That was a 104 years ago. > >           Tom Evans > > >