In a message dated 1/5/2004 2:15:37 PM Mountain Standard Time, singhals@erols.com writes: <<Other medical information -- I don't share most of it, but I keep track of it and share discretely if it seems appropriate. With health and life insurance companies getting so nosy, it doesn't seem right to pass out information that COULD affect someone else.>> On the other hand, I include cause of death in the fields. (But I don't generally share information about living people unless I know that person very well.) Cause of death includes recent info as well. My grandfather and granduncle both died of prostate cancer that was noticed in the 70s, but nothing was done by the doctors. It reminded me of the syphilis epidemic of the late 19th and early 20th Century. Doctors just did not discuss these things with their patients unless it was under certain circumstances. Other causes of death range from suicide (1890s when a girl was upset when the man she loved married another woman), TB (an epidemic took 5 out of 8 family members), floods, and even teething. It took a bit of research, but a lot of infants died of teething and ear infections that became out of control. Basically, if it's on a death certificate, newspaper, county vitals, etc., I include it. I probably keep track of too much information like what country church they belong, occupation in the military, will/probate dates, residences/years...anything that gives some insight or character to my ancestors and their families besides the usual name, birth, death, marriage. Affiliated families: Appley, Asbury, Ayers, Barnum, Bauder/Bader, Bowling, Briggs, Burton, Carr, Clark, Dyer, Ecker, Finch, Flannery, Fox, Grim, Goodale, Hall, Hardendorf, Harman, Harper, Hawk, Hayes, Henkle/Hinkle, Keith, Marcy, Miller, Pier, Sawyer, Summerfield, Schenk, Shepard, Slocum, Strong, Teter, Tinkham, Thompson/Thomson, Tripp, Vansant, Walker, Whitlam, Wilks/Wilkes, Wolford, Wood, Woolever. http://www.treelines.com http://www.lineage.net Regards, Diane Wolford ====Useful sites==== http://rwguide.rootsweb.com/ (Hints for starting) http://communities.msn.com/AGenealogyExperience (A Genealogy Experience)