Due to the controversy on the Roots Web McCain List Server about copyrighted data I have chosen to take my McCain Genealogy Pages off line. As I stated on my Pages, I merely organized the data and put it online. I was the sole author of very little of it. Having started my McCain Pages in late 1995 in the early years of the Net I hate to do it. But I do this so as to offend no one by publishing their "private" data. While I have not been contacted I want to preempt that event. I personally disagree with the private data theory since I think the only way to connect our early McCain ancestors is by sharing data. However, I certainly am not going to fight those who feel otherwise. I have too many other lines to research rather than to spend my time fighting researchers in another line about who owns what data. Jim McCain May 19, 2001 I did remove the vast majority of information from my McCain Pages in May, 2001. I did keep that information that I created. What you see today is that tiny remnant plus what I have created since 2001. It also contains links to "public" Web Sites. I will add things I deem relevant from other McCain researchers but only with their permission to "publish" it. There is no "private" information here now. Jim McCain June 7, 2006