WOW, Tina, I will be there on Wednesday night with my thinking cap on... I have all my pages for each site backed up to disk in the event the server crashes or whatever. I also think we should discuss a "will" in the event (like Shelley said - one of us should croak! heaven forbid, but the chances increase as we age - grin) As for people asking for money, hmmmmm, I haven't seen that yet on our WI sites that I visited, but I don't get to all of them. I do see some things, like even on my site, where the information is copyrighted, and people are going out of their way to do the lookups, like traveling long distances and ask for a small donation..., or a list of professional genealogist (of course they get money - grin) Also some of the Genealogical Sites do ask for a donation also... I don't ask for or get a dime (so I was grinning about the cc who commented if they did, they'd be rich. Me TOO !!!} But I agree with Shari, if there is nothing on the site, and they are charging for every little thing, that is totally against our By-laws, and those people should be dealt with by the SC and /or national... Problem is, who is going to rat them out??? I am too busy doing my own sites to police others... Besides, we have a GREAT group of people here in WI, the cc's are always helpful, especially when I get requests for counties and cities no where near mine, I grin and pass them on... To date, not one cc, hasn't replied back to the person and me with a nice note and some data if they found it... And D, no I never was Miss Popularity, but then again, I am enjoying life, and have lots of fun... even if I am obnoxious at times (grin)... I really don't mean to be, it's my genes, half German and half French, what can I say??? Both sets of grandparents used to tell me I got all my bad traits from the other side of the family, does that mean I don't have any good traits (ha ha ha)... Tina, don't get a headache over this. BTW, I have a great story to share. As you may know, I live in Sunny Southern California, land of perpetual sunshine. On Saturday, it started out with a beautiful sunshine day where we were in Shorts and tank tops, and had two different earthquakes (one North of me, and one South) which both shook my house pretty good - felt like something hit the building), a thundershower (which killed my computer), hail, and snow, over the course of 8-10 hours within our little area from LA to Orange County... People were freaking out. Only in California... Today we are dealing with massive flooding and freezing temperatures (well for CA, that is)... R/S MAK --- WIGEN-D-request@rootsweb.com wrote: __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/

Well MAK, I won't name any names here, but let me say that yes, Wisconsin does indeed have some CC's that do indeed charge for information. Shocked as I was, this is the case. Debie