Thursday, June 1, 1995 3:55:20 PM
GenWeb Item
From: Vickie Seley,vseley@iadfw.net,Internet
Subject: software
To: GenWeb
I am just starting genealogy research and am looking for a good software
package. Thought that some of you out there with experience could enlighten
me as far as a Great Genealogy software goes.
Searching in Texas
Vickie Seley
Friday, June 2, 1995 12:23:16 PM
GenWeb Item
From: Bruce_Dunlop@mouse.edmonton.ab.ca,Internet
Subject: Re: software
To: GenWeb
Hi Vickie:
I am a Macintosh user and a proponent of Reunion IV by Leister Productions.
In the past I have used other programs such as Family Roots and the LDS
church's Personal Ancestral File. The price of PAF is right - US$35.00 , but
it is very basic. All of the above are available in a PC format. I'm not sure
if Family Roots comes in the Windows flavour but the other two certainly do.
I wouldn't recommend Family Roots though. There is a demo package of Reunion
for the Mac and I'm sure it is also out there for Windows. Hope this is of
some help. If you want more information let me know.
Bruce Dunlop
bdunlop@compusmart.ab.ca
Sunday, June 4, 1995 6:46:47 AM
GenWeb Item
From: Rob Joyce,rjoyce@clark.net,Internet
Subject: New web site with 2,100 individuals
To: GenWeb
Announcing a new web site with our family tree information of over 2,100
individuals.
The address is:
http://www.clark.net/pub/rj/joyce.htm
The following are our direct line ancestors that we are most interested in:
ANDRE, BARTLETT, BELL, BILLINGSLEY, BUCHAMMER, BURTON,
CARTHY\CARTY\MCCARTHY, CLERE, COOKE, CUMINS, CUMMINS, DOYLE, ELLIOT/ELLIOTT,
FAUGHT, FENLON, FITZGERALD, FLOOD, GEORGE, HAMBRICK, HARDING, HERBERT,
HERKLESS, HOLDREDGE, HUNTERDON?, INSLEY, JOYCE, JUNDT(YOUNT), KELEHER, KIDD,
KNECHT, KUNKLE, LANDON, LEAP, LEE, LUNKES, MYERS, NODECKER, NORRIS,
O'CALLAGHAN, OSGOOD, PARKHURST, PASCO, PEASE, POLLARD, POWELL, PRENDERGAST,
QUIMBY, QUINN, REDMOND, SCHENK, SCHNABEL, SCHUMACHER, SHATTUCK, SHEA,
TALBOT, THORP/THORPE, TISCH, VAN DYKE, WARNER, WEICKERT, WELLER, WHEELER,
WOOLLEN/WOOLER, YOUNT
We have quite a large collection of information on the names JOYCE, KNECHT,
LANDON, WOOLLEN and YOUNT.
Rob Joyce
2400 Winding Ridge Road, Odenton, MD 21113 (410) 672-6670
rjoyce@clark.net
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Rob Joyce
rjoyce@clark.net
2400 Winding Ridge Road / Odenton, MD 21113 / (410) 672-6670
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Monday, June 5, 1995 4:58:00 PM
GenWeb Item
From: mavrogeorge@sfo.com,Internet
Subject: GenWeb indexing
To: GenWeb
The discussions I have seen to date have presumed an
indexing scheme that includes individual entries. And the
RootsBook model is in this mode also. I propose that the
indexing be hierarchical and the the high-level index
contain only surnames. The model Iam thinking of is the
tiny-tafel.
For those not familiar with it - it has one line per
surname and indicates the surname, the first date and
geographic location for that surname in the research and
the last date and geographic location.
For example:
Bonner,Bohner,Boner 1776 Mexico, Juniata Co, PA 1820
Chillicothe, Ross Co, PA
(the actual tiny-tafel model has the fields in a different
order but what is important in my proposal is the fields
themselves not the order.)
Individual GenWeb sites could create a tiny-tafel for the
gedcom(s) at that site and then send the tiny-tafel to a
central index site. That site would archive the submitted
tiny-tafels and create a master index.
Someone looking for Bonner would look at that index site
and perhaps hyperlinks like this:
Bonner, Bohner, Boner 1776 Mexico PA 1820 Chillicothe PA
Boner 1745 West Virginia 1820 Greenfield PA
Bonner 1689 South Carolina 1875 South Carolina
Clicking on one entry would link you to that particular
site's individual index. The individual GenWeb site index
would have an entry for each individual in the GEDCOM at
that site.
This puts the responsibility for the content and accuracy
of the individual index with the owner of the site where
the Gedcom file is. It also says the individual owner has
the responsibility for sending the central site the
tiny-tafel form index for the site.
The central site does not have to store and maintain a
master individual index. The central site merely exists to
accept the tiny-tafels for a site and to add those surname
entries to the master index. (the software to do this
alreadys exists for the DOS platform).
It also means that the index would use a format already
familiar to genealogists - the tiny-tafel format.
-----------------
Im missing som GenWeb discussions so if this repeating
something already
discussed let me know..
Tuesday, June 6, 1995 12:50:24 PM
GenWeb Item
From: Mickey Lane,MLANE@csi.compuserve.com,Internet
Subject: ROOTSBOOK web server
To: GenWeb
Hi y'all,
Well, I was going to send:
The ROOTSBOOK web server is now serving a tad over 240,000 entries.
I was going to wait till I got to a quarter million but during work
to remove duplicates, I managed to mangle the current index/database
validitiy to the point where a re-build is warrented.
but NT's sort command blew up on a 17 Mbyte index file so now I gotta go
write an index sort utility. What fun.
Mickey.
Wednesday, June 7, 1995 9:30:29 AM
GenWeb Item
From: Mickey Lane,MLANE@csi.compuserve.com,Internet
Subject: ROOTSBOOK web server, part duex
To: GenWeb
Hi,
The ROOTSBOOK web server is now serving 227,000 entries in 23,000
surnames.
I was going to wait till I got to a quarter million but during work
to remove duplicates, I managed to mangle the current index/database
validitiy to the point where a re-build is warrented.
I haven't turned on the code that draws links from an entry to a form
giving information about who entered the data. I've almost completed
the work to make this part function.
I also haven't found the cause of the frequent system crashes. I've
enabled auto-reboot from crash (which I think works :-) so service
interruptions should be minimal.
http://mlane2.inhouse.compuserve.com:8000/GenWeb.html
Have fun with it. It seems a lot of you are...
Mickey.
Tuesday, June 13, 1995 10:47:29 PM
GenWeb Item
From: Mickey Lane,MLANE@CSI.compuserve.com,Internet
Subject: ROOTSBOOK (again)
To: GenWeb
Greetings,
Well, we're up to 293,028 folks in 27,313 surnames. 520 databases.
I got a lot of work done on the "Who wrote this database?" problem
but it's still a mess. I'll turn on what I have soon but I'm not holding
my breath hoping for any great results.
Mickey.
http://mlane2.inhouse.compuserve.com:8000/GenWeb.html
Wednesday, June 14, 1995 12:17:18 PM
GenWeb Item
From: Bill Harten,Internet
Subject: Archives and Z39.5
To: GenWeb
Can anyone please lead me to a description of the Z39.5
standard that might be accessible via the internet?
Thanks in advance.
Bill Harten
Wednesday, June 14, 1995 2:25:19 PM
GenWeb Item
From: steele@census.works.ti.com,Internet
Subject:
To: GenWeb
's message of Wed, 14 Jun 1995 13:02:57 -0600 (MDT)
<01HRP3VRZXES934PIW@yvax.byu.edu>
Subject: Archives and Z39.5
Reply-to: steele@census.works.ti.com
A search through IETF Documents & Drafts yielded the following:
WAIS Search of "Z39.5" in internet-drafts
This is a searchable index. Enter search keywords:
Index internet-drafts contains the following 7 items relevant to
'Z39.5'. The first figure for each entry is its relative score,
the second the number of lines in the item.
1000 52 draft-ietf-iiir-z3950-00.txt /ftp/internet-drafts/
805 60 draft-ietf-iiir-wais-00.txt /ftp/internet-drafts/
278 187 draft-ietf-uri-url-irp-02.txt /ftp/internet-drafts/
115 590 draft-christian-global-info-lsp-00.txt
/ftp/internet-drafts/
68 686 draft-weider-comindex-00.txt /ftp/internet-drafts/
51 1187 1id-index.txt /ftp/internet-drafts/
9 4025 1id-abstracts.txt /ftp/internet-drafts/
Use the following HTML to locate any of the Internet drafts and documents:
IETF Documents & Drafts
http://nearnet.gnn.com/gnn/wic/netinfo.08.html
Jeri
Friday, June 16, 1995 10:13:45 AM
GenWeb Item
From: JimIsaak,isaak@ljo.dec.com,Internet
Subject: Z39.5 Standard
To: GenWeb
Bill,
In general ANSI and ISO standards are not available online,
information about them can be obtaine on the web:
http://www.ansi.org/home.html
Jim Isaak
Tuesday, June 20, 1995 3:34:20 PM
GenWeb Item
From: bill,wleigh@xionics.com,Internet
Subject: HTML images
To: GenWeb
I have a question about html that I have not been able to find an answer
to: what types of image or bitmap files are acceptable in html programs?
I know that .gif files are accepted, but what about tiff or jpeg? I am
trying to put together a web page for my genealogy with some pictures
which I will scan in, but I need to know the proper format.
I figured that this is the forum where people might have a fair amount
of knowledge.
Thanks,
Bill Leigh
wleigh@xionics.com
Tuesday, June 20, 1995 2:31:45 PM
GenWeb Item
From: Greg Keller,gkeller@@,Internet
Subject: Re: HTML images
To: GenWeb
GIF and JPG are the usual formats with GIF the more accepted (it can
be saved in an interlaced format which allows browsers like Netscape
to read in the picture and display it a little at a time.
GK
> Date: Tue, 20 Jun 1995 16:26:58 -0400
> From: bill
> To: genweb@ucsd.edu
> Subject: HTML images
----------------------------------------------
gkeller@metronet.com
Greg Keller
Keller Technologies
http://www.metronet.com/~gkeller/pan-net.html
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Tuesday, June 20, 1995 4:23:54 PM
GenWeb Item
From: Gary Hoffman,ghoffman@ucsd.edu,Internet
Subject: Re: How to unsubscribe GenWeb
To: GenWeb
Just a reminder. If you would like to unsubscribe from the genweb mailing
list, please send a message to
listserv@ucsd.edu
NOT to the list itself. In the
body of the message, please put the following:
UNSUB genweb
That's all folks. It's easy, it's simple, and it's quick. But if you don't
do it right, then someone else has to do it for you--usually me. Give me a
break and follow these simple instructions.
Thanks,
Gary
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Tuesday, June 20, 1995 7:52:49 PM
GenWeb Item
From: Charles Tucker,ctucker@owl.csusm.edu,Internet
Subject: Re: HTML images
To: GenWeb
Bill asked if HTML can handle images other than GIF. Actually, I believe
that HTML can specify a link to any kind of image format; however, the
browser program that is interpreting and displaying the HTML file may
have restrictions on the types of images it will handle.
I am running Netscape 1.1, and it handles GIF and JPEG files just fine.
I have no experience with others.
Chuck Tucker
Wednesday, June 21, 1995 5:45:12 AM
GenWeb Item
From: Matt Soffen,matt@aai.com,Internet
Subject: RE: HTML images
To: GenWeb
Jpegs are acceptable and I believe so are Tiffs
--
Thanks Matt Soffen (matt@aai.com)
======================================================
"Repeat to yourself it's just a show, you should really
just relax"
Mistie #52123 - Theme to 'MST3K' -
Wednesday, June 21, 1995 3:37:05 PM
GenWeb Item
From: Robert Fieg,bfieg@gn2.getnet.com,Internet
Subject: LDS Family History Library
To: GenWeb
I am planning a trip to the LDS Family History Library in Salt Lake City
in early July. I know they close for certain holidays, and I'm not
certain of their weekend schedule.
Does anyone have a schedule of the days and hours that they are open?
Or if this info is available on the web, does anyone know where?
Thanks,
Bob
Wednesday, June 21, 1995 4:22:48 PM
GenWeb Item
From: Susan Shoop,sshoop@q.continuum.net,Internet
Subject: LDS Family History Library
To: GenWeb
>X-UIDL: 803776913.001
>Date: Wed, 21 Jun 1995 12:58:47 -0701 (MST)
>From: Robert Fieg
>To: genweb@UCSD.EDU
>Subject: LDS Family History Library
>
>I am planning a trip to the LDS Family History Library in Salt Lake City
>in early July. I know they close for certain holidays, and I'm not
>certain of their weekend schedule.
>
>Does anyone have a schedule of the days and hours that they are open?
>Or if this info is available on the web, does anyone know where?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Bob
>---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Bob, I don't know why, but I've been getting all of *genweb*'s mail since
Sat. I'm forwarding all of it, hope your trip is a good one! Sue
>
Wednesday, June 21, 1995 6:54:16 PM
GenWeb Item
From: John Burke,jburke@fsb.superlink.net,Internet
Subject: FW: ROOTSBOOK (again)
To: GenWeb
---------------Original Message---------------
Greetings,
Well, we're up to 293,028 folks in 27,313 surnames. 520 databases.
I got a lot of work done on the "Who wrote this database?" problem
but it's still a mess. I'll turn on what I have soon but I'm not holding
my breath hoping for any great results.
Mickey.
http://mlane2.inhouse.compuserve.com:8000/GenWeb.html
----------End of Original Message----------
-------------------------------------
Name: John Burke
E-mail: jburke@fsb.superlink.net
Date: 06/21/95
Time: 21:49:46
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Wednesday, June 21, 1995 6:55:26 PM
GenWeb Item
From: John Burke,jburke@fsb.superlink.net,Internet
Subject: search
To: GenWeb
---------------Original Message---------------
's message of Wed, 14 Jun 1995 13:02:57 -0600 (MDT)
<01HRP3VRZXES934PIW@yvax.byu.edu>
Subject: Archives and Z39.5
Reply-to: steele@census.works.ti.com
A search through IETF Documents & Drafts yielded the following:
WAIS Search of "Z39.5" in internet-drafts
This is a searchable index. Enter search keywords:
Index internet-drafts contains the following 7 items relevant to
'Z39.5'. The first figure for each entry is its relative score,
the second the number of lines in the item.
1000 52 draft-ietf-iiir-z3950-00.txt /ftp/internet-drafts/
805 60 draft-ietf-iiir-wais-00.txt /ftp/internet-drafts/
278 187 draft-ietf-uri-url-irp-02.txt /ftp/internet-drafts/
115 590 draft-christian-global-info-lsp-00.txt
/ftp/internet-drafts/
68 686 draft-weider-comindex-00.txt /ftp/internet-drafts/
51 1187 1id-index.txt /ftp/internet-drafts/
9 4025 1id-abstracts.txt /ftp/internet-drafts/
Use the following HTML to locate any of the Internet drafts and documents:
IETF Documents & Drafts
http://nearnet.gnn.com/g
nn/wic/netinfo.08.html
Jeri
----------End of Original Message----------
-------------------------------------
Name: John Burke
E-mail: jburke@fsb.superlink.net
Date: 06/21/95
Time: 21:49:45
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Thursday, June 22, 1995 7:40:44 AM
GenWeb Item
From: mavrogeorge@genealogysf.com,Internet
Subject: Another site and its Greek!
To: GenWeb
The Mavrogeorge/Paspalas family is now online. I used the
G2HWIN methodto create html files from a GEDCOM file and
then PEDIGREE to add the pedigree charts. Since the
genealogy is so small it took very little time and was a
snap to do thanks to Bob's excellent instructions.
You will find it off the Genealogy SF page.
Thursday, June 22, 1995 6:27:57 PM
GenWeb Item
From: Gene Stark,gene@starkhome.cs.sunysb.edu,Internet
Subject: GED2HTML GEDCOM to HTML converter, version 2.2 available
To: GenWeb
Version 2.2 of my "GED2HTML" GEDCOM to HTML converter program is now
available via my home page at:
http://www.cs.sunysb.edu/~stark
The distribution contains C source, executables for MS-DOS and MS-WINDOWS,
a copy of the GEDCOM 5.3 standard document, and a copy of the "royal92.ged"
database for testing the program.
From the above home page you can also view my family history document,
which shows what the output of GED2HTML looks like. I have used the program
to completely preprocess my own data into HTML files. However, several
other people on the net are using older versions of GED2HTML together with
LifeLines to construct HTML pages on the fly.
I have made a number of enhancements and improvements over the previous
version (2.1a). These are:
* Added capability of outputting multiple individuals per HTML
output file.
* Added capability of including "pedigree charts", with hypertext
links to ancestors, in HTML output files.
* Added capability of producing hierarchical indexes of
user-specified width. Hierarchical indexes avoid the problem
of extremely large index files that take a long time to load.
* Added capability of producing a surname index.
* Arranged for URL's to be "lower-casified" under MS-DOS to
avoid some problems that occur when HTML files produced
under MS-DOS are uploaded to a WWW provider running Un*x.
* Improved output formatting.
* Fixed a bug that caused the program to crash if it encountered
NAME records with more than two '/' in a name.
Small GEDCOM's of under 1000 individuals are processed into HTML by GED2HTML
in a few seconds on a modern PC running Un*x (processing is somewhat slower
under MS-DOS due to the inefficient filesystem). However, on a system with
sufficient swap space and main memory, much larger GEDCOM's can be processed.
The program is capable of processing all the GEDCOM's on Yvon Cyr's
Acadian/French Canadian CD-ROM. The largest database I have attempted is the
file "t-roux.ged" on that CD-ROM, which is a 5478458 byte, 214266 line GEDCOM
file containing 15472 individuals and 7012 families. On my system (486/33
with 16MB RAM and IDE disks, running the FreeBSD 2.0.5 operating system),
it took roughly 35 minutes to process this file, of which under five minutes
was spent reading the file and constructing the database, and the remainder
was spent in outputting 1548 HTML files of individual data, 10 individuals per
file, organized into 31 directories, a three-level hierarchical index
consisting of 574 HTML files, and a surname index in a single HTML file.
The HTML output files consumed 18738K of disk space. The processing itself
required 32MB of virtual memory.
- Gene Stark
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From: Gene Stark
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To: genweb@ucsd.edu, Kevin James <3248511@mcimail.com>,
"W. James Colosky" ,
"Kevin J. Muth" ,
"Birger A. Wathne" ,
Allyn Brosz ,
Michael Cooley ,
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"James P. Jones" , Jay York ,
Jim Dial ,
ANNELISE ANDERSON ,
Herbert Stoyan ,
LouPero@aol.com,
Phlete Teachout ,
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clark.net!rjoyce@sbstark.cs.sunysb.edu (Rob Joyce),
mkshouse@quake.xnet.com, asu.edu!fieg@sbstark.cs.sunysb.edu,
JHARMON@FDANT.NCTR.FDA.GOV, f307@rex.re.uokhsc.edu (Becky Bonner),
bday@mailhost.ecn.uoknor.edu, pettit@mv.us.adobe.com,
stevem@boi.hp.com, mike.schwitzgebel@lunatic.com,
johnw@hpcpbla.bri.hp.com, gwforister@ucdavis.edu, Kerry@alaska.net,
dmday@facstaff.wisc.edu, TNBM39A@prodigy.com, himmelberger.1@osu.edu,
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brons@ultranet.com, sshaffer@microdataware.com,
rwarner@oswego.Oswego.EDU, srsimon@buffnet1.buffnet.net,
dunavant@alaska.net,
,
jet.uk!Gordon.Grant@sbstark.cs.sunysb.edu,
pi.se!anders.berg@sbstark.cs.sunysb.edu,
ccnet.com!dougs@sbstark.cs.sunysb.edu (Doug Smith)
Subject: GED2HTML GEDCOM to HTML converter, version 2.2 available
Friday, June 23, 1995 12:54:44 PM
GenWeb Item
From: Gary Hoffman,ghoffman@ucsd.edu,Internet
Subject: You are Tuned to GenWeb
To: GenWeb
Whoever receives this message is subscribed to the electronic mailing list
called GenWeb. The purpose of the GenWeb list is to discuss the use of the
World Wide Web and other Internet technologies to create distributed
genealogy data references.
If you do not wish to participate in these discussions, you may unsubscribe
your e-mail address from the list. Send a message to LISTSERV@UCSD.EDU. Put
in the body of the message: UNSUB GENWEB.
Please DO NOT invoke your mailer's REPLY function. If you do, you will most
likely send your message to the entire list, over 300 people at last count.
None of them wants to see your unsub message.
Also, please do not forward messages by using the REPLY command. Again, it
will just relay the message that you have received back to the entire
subscription list.
Please be considerate of others. Think before you press 'send.'
Thanks,
Gary
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Saturday, June 24, 1995 7:46:59 AM
GenWeb Item
From: mavrogeorge@genealogysf.com,Internet
Subject: ged2html
To: GenWeb
I recently had an exchange of messages with Gene about his
excellent conversion program. There had been a problem
with sources not being included on the html page. He has
fixed that so it shows SOUR records that follow the INDIV.
But it still does not put on the html page SOUR references
found after other tags, e.g. BIRT or RESI.
My suggestion to him is that all the sources be included
at the bottom of the html page in a numbered list and be
treated as footnotes with the citation number
superscripted or in parenthesis after the event. Like this
--
Brian Mavrogeorge
Birth: 99/99/99 (1)
Marriage: Dorothy Wonderkind (2,3)
- John Mavrogeorge (2)
- Mary Mavrogeorge (2)
- Denise Mavrogeorge (3)
Notes:
xx xxx xxx xxx
Sources:
1. birth certificate xx xxxx xxx
2. Family Group sheet xx xxx xxx
3. Probate records of xxxx on xxx in xxxxx.
Tuesday, June 27, 1995 4:04:52 AM
GenWeb Item
From: Mickey Lane,MLANE@csi.compuserve.com,Internet
Subject: RE: GEDCOM from the twilight zone
To: GenWeb
Larry Maddocks sez:
>You have some bad GEDCOM, unless:
>0 @I2753 & 2752@ INDI
>1 NAME John /DEAR/
>2 FAMS @F146@
> :
No such luck. There's an @I2753@ and an @I2752@.
>The syntax of "@I2753 & 2752@" is incorrect, though. The "&" is suspect and
the spaces
>are invalid. Ged-Fix.exe might repair the file.
Tuesday, June 27, 1995 6:26:43 AM
GenWeb Item
From: Mickey Lane,MLANE@csi.compuserve.com,Internet
Subject: Re: Twilight Zone
To: GenWeb
Arne Venstad said, refering to GEDCOMs with pointers to non-existant things:
>At least common sense forbid this. I think I remember seeing in one GEDCOM spec
>(I dont have it ready) that all references must be closed in the context
>of the GEDCOM file.
Common sense should forbid a lot of GEDCOM... :-)
How do other programs deal with missing entries?
Mickey.
Tuesday, June 27, 1995 7:12:02 AM
GenWeb Item
From: Anders Andersson,andersa@Mizar.DoCS.UU.SE,Internet
Subject: RE: GEDCOM from the twilight zone
To: GenWeb
Mickey Lane writes:
>Larry Maddocks sez:
>>0 @I2753 & 2752@ INDI
>No such luck. There's an @I2753@ and an @I2752@.
Mickey, what's the conclusion then? Are you saying that the syntax
is valid? If so, what are the semantics of such a record?
>>The syntax of "@I2753 & 2752@" is incorrect, though.
>>The "&" is suspect and the spaces are invalid.
>>Ged-Fix.exe might repair the file.
I don't see how any program can safely repair a syntactically invalid
file without human guidance. A human who is familiar with the GEDCOM
format could just as well use an ordinary text editor. What does this
GED-FIX.EXE program do, really?
To make the issue of more general interest, it would be useful if GEDCOM
errors discovered in various databases could be attributed to particular
software packages (or maybe even human editors) in order to provide
feedback to the responsible authors rather than to the innocent database
maintainers. Correcting the flawed output of flawed programs is a
Sisyfos task. Better fix the source, when possible. If it's not
currently possible, strive to make it so. Where's the problem now?
--
Anders Andersson, Dept. of Computer Systems, Uppsala University
Paper Mail: Box 325, S-751 05 UPPSALA, Sweden
Phone: +46 18 183170 EMail: andersa@DoCS.UU.SE
Tuesday, June 27, 1995 10:06:17 AM
GenWeb Item
From: Matt Soffen,matt@aai.com,Internet
Subject: RE: GEDCOM from the twilight zone
To: GenWeb
You are correct. It is alwas best to fix the problem instead of
kludging it.
--
Thanks Matt Soffen (matt@aai.com)
======================================================
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Tuesday, June 27, 1995 1:27:23 PM
GenWeb Item
From: Jim Angus,jangus@usc.edu,Internet
Subject: New to list.
To: GenWeb
I thought I would take a moment to introduce myself. My name is Jim Angus
and I manage the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County's Web Site.
I also have an interest in genealogy and have started to transfer my family
records into html documents. The records are pretty extensive (being of a
long line of Mormons). I would be interested in hearing a bit about this
list, how many people subscribe, and what kinds of backgrounds people have.
All of our family records are paper. None of the resources available to me
are digitized, thus I'm faced with the prospect of entering all the
information manually. I've started entering the information directly into
linked hypertext documents, but would like to hear peoples opinions on
whether this is a good or bad idea.
To give an example,
The records of John Markham born in 1300 are added to an html document
titled index.html which resides in a directory called Markham_John_1300.
It seemed that this would be a good way to group all associated html
documents and to allow a list of individuals to be easily generated.
Separate html documents are created for each spouse, parent and offspring,
each contained within a directory of the same format. The data is listed
as follows:
Name: last, first
Birthdate:
Place of Birth:
Died:
Place of Death:
Spouse 1:
Date of Marrage:
Family 1:
Father:
Mother:
Biography:
Data Submitted By:
Source of Information:
Jim
--------------------------------------------
Jim Angus
Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
Molecular Systematics Laboratory/Web Manager
900 Exposition Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90007
(213) 744-3317
jangus@usc.edu
http://cwis.usc.edu:80/lacmnh
Tuesday, June 27, 1995 2:48:00 PM
GenWeb Item
From: ATAYLOR@EAC.CC.AZ.US,Internet
Subject: Researching Surname LESLIE.
To: GenWeb
Can anyone help me with information on Robert LESLIE? Here is the story as I
have it - Robert Leslie was from Ayrshire, Scotland,and was born probably
between 1800 and 1810.He got into trouble for being on the wrong side of
the political fence played a mimor part in a plot against George lll. He
was put on a ship to America and for some reason was thrown off the boat
somewhere the Carolina coast. He fell in with the Cherokee Indians and
married one the squaws. Later he hit the trail with Sequoia for Mexico.He
never made it, however, stopping somewhere in Georgia, I believe, his wife
gave birth to a son, Robert (my great grandfather ), about 1854.Any
information on Robert (Sr.) will be appreciated.
ataylor@eac.cc.az.us
Albert D. Taylor
934 Stratton Dr.
Safford, AZ 85546-3235
Tuesday, June 27, 1995 2:59:55 PM
GenWeb Item
From: ATAYLOR@EAC.CC.AZ.US,Internet
Subject: Researching Surname ANDREWS.
To: GenWeb
Can anyone help me with information on the name ANDREWS?
Henry Forney Barto Andrews, (my Grandfather)came from a family that
settled in Anniston, AL in the 1700's. He was born there in 1861, being one
of thirteen children, whose birth dates range from 1814 to 1865.
Four of the Andrews brothers migrated to Texas. Two of them, Bart and Graves
settled and made their homes in Jacksonville.
any information on the early history of the Andrews family will be
appreciated.
ataylor@eac.cc.az.us
Albert D. Taylor
934 Stratton Dr.
Safford, AZ 85546-3235
Tuesday, June 27, 1995 3:04:13 PM
GenWeb Item
From: JohnR238@aol.com,Internet
Subject: Re: New to list.
To: GenWeb
Earlier Jim Angus stated...
>>All of our family records are paper. None of the resources available to me
are digitized, thus I'm faced with the prospect of entering all the
information manually. I've started entering the information directly into
linked hypertext documents, but would like to hear peoples opinions on
whether this is a good or bad idea.
While I'm enthralled with the idea of the web, and I've been spending
considerable time experimenting with it, I'm hesitant to commit to doing
serious work at this point for two reasons:
1. The data typed into an HTML document and linked are essentially
unformatted text files with imbedded links which on any significant scale,
requires a computer for decoding and using. The web language and structure
is so new and non standardized, that virtually anything we do now will
require some (if not major) reworking in the months and years ahead.
2. With genealogy particularly, I am researching for future generations, my
great great grandchildren will need to see and verify the work I and others
have done.
Having said that, I'm working on turning one of my books, The Boys of The
Fifth (on the CSA Fifth Brigade "Clinch Rifles" of Richmond County, GA) into
an on-line document. In addition to giving summaries of this unit's
participation in the various battles of Shiloh, Vicksburg, Atlanta, etc. it
has biographical and genealogical info on the 165 men who made up the unit.
It seems to me that this will make a beautiful web document, but I still
feel the paper book was and will remain an important resource. With that in
mind, I will continue to maintain a Word Perfect document of the book, and
GEDCOM files on each of the men I've traced. I would really hate to find
myself with an essentially unusable, unformatted, copy of this essentially
original research in a few years (a la a CPM formatted Wordstar disk). Tried
extracting someone's data from one of those lately?
John R @ EDR
"Your Genealogy Super Store"
Tuesday, June 27, 1995 3:16:48 PM
GenWeb Item
From: ATAYLOR@EAC.CC.AZ.US,Internet
Subject: Researching Surname HOLCOMB.
To: GenWeb
My grandmother, Martha Virginia Holcomb Andrews, was born in
Jacksonville, Texas on April 4, 1869 to Wesley and Mary Elizabeth Johnson
Holcomb.
Two other children were born to the Holcombs before Wesley was
struck and killed by lightning.
This is all of the information that I have on my grandmother's
family.
Any information on the early history of the Holcomb family will be
appreciated.
ataylor@eac.cc.az.us
Albert D. Taylor
934 Stratton Dr.
Safford, AZ 85546-3235
Tuesday, June 27, 1995 5:47:05 PM
GenWeb Item
From: Jim Angus,jangus@usc.edu,Internet
Subject: Re: New to list
To: GenWeb
I've received enough comments from people to know that I ought to avoid
entering my family records directly into html documents, but ought to go
through an intermediate genealogy database.
Now, rather than re-invent the wheel, I'll see if any of you have done what
I want to do. What is the best way to generate html documents from a
genealogical database on a Mac?
My system:
All data entry and construction of html documents are being done on a
Macintosh computer. The html documents will ultimately reside on a UNIX
server, but the primary database will be on a Mac.
If forced to, I could enter the records in a commercial Database program
like FileMaker Pro, instruct Filemaker to construct all neccessary URL's,
then use Applescript and Microsoft Word to generate plain text html
documents. This would be a big pain, and Filemaker is not really designed
for genealogy, and at this point, I'm not sure just how scriptable it is!
Does anyone know a better solution?
Jim, the novice.
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Jim Angus
Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
Molecular Systematics Laboratory/Web Manager
900 Exposition Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90007
(213) 744-3317
jangus@usc.edu
http://cwis.usc.edu:80/lacmnh
Tuesday, June 27, 1995 7:27:24 PM
GenWeb Item
From: Gene Stark,gene@starkhome.cs.sunysb.edu,Internet
Subject: New to list.
To: GenWeb
>All of our family records are paper. None of the resources available to me
>are digitized, thus I'm faced with the prospect of entering all the
>information manually. I've started entering the information directly into
>linked hypertext documents, but would like to hear peoples opinions on
>whether this is a good or bad idea.
I would suggest that it is almost certainly better to enter your data using
software capable of exporting GEDCOM. The GEDCOM data can be converted to
hypertext automatically. It is not as easy to go the other way.
If you are expending the effort to enter your data once, then you want to
make very sure that it is entered in form that will permit it to be manipulated
electronically, without further extensive manual modifications. At the moment,
entering your data using one of the various pieces of genealogical software
capable of producing GEDCOM is adequate. If you are using an ad hoc method
such as you describe, it would be best to consult an programmer experienced
at such things to find out whether your format will be easily parsable by
a computer program.
- Gene Stark
Tuesday, June 27, 1995 10:06:14 PM
GenWeb Item
From: Scott McGee,smcgee@microware.com,Internet
Subject: Re: New to list
To: GenWeb
Jim,
My suggestion would be to use a database program on the Mac that can export
the data as a gedcom file. Then, after getting the gedcom to the unix system,
you can either read it into a LifeLines database and set up cgi scripts to
retreive it on demand, load into lifelines and use that to generate a set
of "static" html files, or use something like Gene Stark's ged2html to create
the "static" html files directly from the gedcom file.
I personally would suggest the first or the last. I have implemented the
first suggestion myself (with the help of others on this list) and can share
with you my software. I have also, just today, been looking at the ged2html
stuff with a mind to recreating the stuff off my home page (which was created
by the second, less recommended method) since I don't have cgi on the site I
have public access on (see my homepage). (I have cgi here at work where I have
the first method implemented, but it will not respond to offsite requests.)
I can pass on a copy of the post Gene Stark's recent post with the URL where
you can get his ged2html, or you can download my own LifeLines based software
(and LifeLines too) from links on my home page under the genealogy section.
Scott
PS Feel free to ask any questions on this stuff, either to me by private
email or to the list in general. Lots of friendly knowledgeble people here.
If at first, you don't succeed, | smcgee@microware.com (Scott McGee)
go fry a hen. After all, fried | -----------------------------------------
chicken beats failure any time. | I was paid $5.00 to express these views!
-------------> http://www.cc.utah.edu/~sam8644/homepage.html <-------------
Wednesday, June 28, 1995 7:12:14 AM
GenWeb Item
From: Tim Doyle,tdoyle@just.doit.com,Internet
Subject: GenWeb Database Index Page
To: GenWeb
I checked the access logs this morning for the GenWeb Database Index page
that I maintain and found that it has been accessed 15,421 times! The
index currently lists 56 databases accessable on the web. I have
recently added e-mail links to each person who has created one of the
databases and my next goal is to better describe the processes which people
have used to create the databases. If you have a database online and you
have a chance, please email me with information about how you did it
(what program do you use to store your information in? What program do
you use to generate the HTML files? Do you generate the HTMLs
'on-the-fly' or do you pre-generate all of them? If you have written
custom routines, are they available for others to use? Where are they
located?)
For anyone who has not yet visited the index, it is located at:
http://www.doit.com/tdoyle/genweb/
If anyone has any comments or suggestions on how the index can be
improved, I would appreciate hearing from you.
Tim Doyle / tdoyle@doit.com / tdoyle@netcom.com / 73267.260@compuserve.com
WWW homepage: http://www.doit.com/tdoyle/
ftp directory: ftp.doit.com pub/tdoyle
Wednesday, June 28, 1995 8:00:14 AM
GenWeb Item
From: bill,wleigh@xionics.com,Internet
Subject: Re: New to list.
To: GenWeb
I use Brother's Keeper to maintain my data base and generate gedcom
files. I have written a program that runs on a Sparc workstation to
generate various reports, as I could not find the type of reports that
I would find useful to analyze and extract various data. When I
started thinking about using the Web, I spent a couple of hours and
added html generation capability. It has much the same sort of
features and type of output as Gene Stark's ged2html program, but I
can add to it, and I have some other thoughts on features to add. It
does not handle all of gedcom. Those parts that are not handled are
just ignored, for now.
If you are interested in seeing my web site, it is at:
http://metro.turnpike.net/~wleigh/genindex.htm
and my homepage is:
http://metro.turnpike.net/~wleigh/index.htm
I'd appreciate any suggestions or comments you might have.
Bill Leigh
wleigh@xionics.com
Wednesday, June 28, 1995 10:02:31 PM
GenWeb Item
From: Becky Bonner,f307@REX.RE.uokhsc.edu,Internet
Subject: new html page
To: GenWeb
Hi everyone. I finally got a web page working of my family file up today.
http://www.uokhsc.edu/~rbonner
Thanks to ALL the rooters who have sent (and are still sending) Harrison
data and helping me fill in the gaps. The Harrison database now contains
almost 2000 records.... about half are HARRISON. Data in the Harrison pages
age all gleaned from books and info from rooters....not verified. My family
file has been pretty well verified.
Main surnames in my ancestry:
McCANTS HARRISON LINDSAY BONNER BASS CORLEY HIGGINBOTHAM LEFEVRE GUERRANT
At the moment ....
I am working on getting more space for the Harrison link - out of disk space
and almost didn't get the one I have up. so the Harrison web link will be a
couple of days before it's up.
I am continuing to rapidly add to this database and have not run out of
material yet. I was hesitant about creating the web pages, but Gene Stark
clalms that updating is no problem.... so I am bringing it up. Maybe later
we can add some pictures and stuff - but right now it is pure genealogy text.
Anyone with HARRISON info particularly of the Benjamin H. (signer of the
Declaration of Independence), I would love to hear from you. Also have
quite a lot on Benjamin H. from Isle of Wight and his descendents; and
Anthony H. from ENG. I am sure there are many families that link to one set
of parents but don't have the info to make the link yet. so when your out
and about, cruising etc. and see something you know - that I don't know (or
something wrong), please give me a shout -
kinda a HARRISON respository to help Rooters figure out where they belong in
the scheme of things. Hope all of this work helps somebody. It has helped
me to keep track of all the H's, but I still haven't found how I am related
to anyone (if anyone) in this database.
happy hunting
becky :-)
Becky Bonner
f307@rex.re.uokhsc.edu
Thursday, June 29, 1995 4:47:18 PM
GenWeb Item
From: Irwin Greenwald,irwin.greenwald@mogur.com,Internet
Subject: GenWeb Database Index Pag
To: GenWeb
In response to your recent message:
I use Brothers' Keeper to maintain my entire database. Its "split"
feature enables me to make a slice of that family I want to put up on
the WEB, starting with some common ancestor. I then use BK's GEDCOM
export capability to create the GED file for this family and follow that
with GED2HTML to produce the html files. Because GED2HTML produces
poorly formatted notes, I run an AWK routine to clean them up.
My trouble begins when I move the files from my PC to the UNIX system
that GENEALOGY.EMCEE.COM runs on and where my home page is located. As
you may know GED2HTML generates a separate file for each name in the
database in sub directories named "D000000n". I zip the files in each
directory and upload the zipped files to similarly named sub directories
on UNIX. After unzipping I have to use all kinds of little batch files
to rename the PC generated ".htm" files to UNIX ".html" files and to
change the lower case "innn" file names to uppercase "Innn" file names
that GED2HTML generates in the reference fields. It took me a while to
learn the arcane UNIX commands for doing this.
I believe I supplied you with the locations of the major family names I
am working on, but it has occurred to me that people might be interested
in the other surnames in the database (as I am when looking at others'
databases. I don't think it would be difficult to write a little AWK
program to massage the INDEX produced by GED2HTML to produce the "true"
location for the database and send the index to you. Would this be
worth-while?
The major difficulty I see with the approach I am using is that as
additional names are entered for a given family, the order of the GEDCOM
file and, hence, some of the index numbers generated by GED2HTML will
change. I can deal with this for the database I am maintaining by
always replacing the entire database, but external references - such as
those suggested in the preceding paragraph - might be harder to update.
Perhaps you can advise me on this point.
Irwin
Woodland Hills, CA 06/29/95 @ 2:04PM
Internet: irwin.greenwald@mogur.com
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*CMPQwk 1.42-R2 #933
Thursday, June 29, 1995 9:29:40 PM
GenWeb Item
From: Gene Stark,gene@starkhome.cs.sunysb.edu,Internet
Subject: GenWeb Database Index Pag
To: GenWeb
> with GED2HTML to produce the html files. Because GED2HTML produces
> poorly formatted notes, I run an AWK routine to clean them up.
It places each NOTE record (and associated CONT records) into a separate
HTML paragraph. This usually does the right thing, except when the GEDCOM
has been produced so that all notes for an individual are in a single NOTE
record with CONT's. In this case, the notes come out all run together in
one paragraph. At least with PAF (which is what I am using) one can force
separate NOTE records, and hence separate paragraphs by leaving a space
between the data when entering it in the first place. I don't know what
mechanism BK provides for this. In converting GEDCOM to HTML there are
essentially two choices, as I see it: (1) Do what GED2HTML does right now,
as described above; (2) Put a
between the data from each NOTE and
subsequent CONT records, thus preserving the line breaks in the data as it
was originally entered (an older version of GED2HTML did this). The behavior
of GED2HTML can be changed from (1) to (2) by the end user, by creating and
using a slightly modified template (with the additional
inserted) for
producing the files with individual data.
> My trouble begins when I move the files from my PC to the UNIX system
> that GENEALOGY.EMCEE.COM runs on and where my home page is located. As
> you may know GED2HTML generates a separate file for each name in the
> database in sub directories named "D000000n". I zip the files in each
Older versions (prior to 2.2) of GED2HTML did this. The current version
(2.2c) uses "D000n", which is generally long enough and saves bytes in the
output files.
> directory and upload the zipped files to similarly named sub directories
> on UNIX. After unzipping I have to use all kinds of little batch files
> to rename the PC generated ".htm" files to UNIX ".html" files and to
> change the lower case "innn" file names to uppercase "Innn" file names
> that GED2HTML generates in the reference fields. It took me a while to
> learn the arcane UNIX commands for doing this.
This is no longer necessary. The current version of GED2HTML will, when
run under DOS or Windows, "do the right thing" with respect to the production
of links in the text so that the resulting HTML files will work properly
under DOS and also if uploaded without modification to Unix. The only
possible problem is if the HTTP server on the Unix system does not have the
proper mapping of filename extension ".htm" to the MIME type "HTML"
in the system "mime.types" configuration file. The symptom of this problem
is that your browser will fail to recognize the files as HTML source and
will display them as text. The solution is to get your Web service provider
to put the proper mapping into the "mime.types" configuration file.
> The major difficulty I see with the approach I am using is that as
> additional names are entered for a given family, the order of the GEDCOM
> file and, hence, some of the index numbers generated by GED2HTML will
GED2HTML uses the cross-reference ID's (found between @@ in the GEDCOM file)
to name the individual files. Generally programs used to maintain genealogical
data assign these ID's once when an individual or family is entered, and
do not reassign them unless an individual or family is deleted. So, the
ID numbers and links should remain the same if you add to an existing database.
> change. I can deal with this for the database I am maintaining by
> always replacing the entire database, but external references - such as
References between databases is a serious and difficult problem that GenWeb
needs to solve. There has been some discussion here, but no solutions have
been agreed up on and implemented yet.
- Gene Stark
Friday, June 30, 1995 10:09:13 AM
GenWeb Item
From: Gene Stark,gene@starkhome.cs.sunysb.edu,Internet
Subject: Indexes of GenWeb Databases
To: GenWeb
I've been thinking off and on about what should be done in terms of a standard
for GenWeb indexes, so that a combined index to all GenWeb data can be produced
and updated automatically. I think perhaps the time is right for this.
Note first of all that I am talking about indexes to be automatically
processed, not indexes to be used by people browsing the data.
I remember some discussion here about the indexes. One person (I forgot who)
was proposing the use of Tiny Tafel as the index format. I'm not in favor
of this as I don't think this is going to be flexible enough for what we might
want to do with it in the future.
The more I think about it, the more I believe that the proper format for a
"first cut" at GenWeb indexes is a restricted GEDCOM format. To be more
specific, GEDCOM restricted to HEAD, TRLR, and INDI records at level 0,
with the usual NAME, BIRTH, DEATH, SEX fields and structures within the INDI
records. Initially, I don't propose any lineage-linking information, though
it might be advantageous to provide some sort of spouse information for
identification purposes. I'm trying to strike a balance here between
having enough information for indexing purposes, but not so much that some
people will feel that they are essentially putting up their entire database
as the index (some people seem to object to making their data available in
GEDCOM form). We will also need to specify the URL at which the data for that
individual resides. I don't know of a specific GEDCOM tag that would be
appropriate for this, but we could use TEXT records for this.
As index files tend to get large, it may also be useful to have a convention
for splitting them into multiple files. The reason would not be to ease
access to the indexes by human beings, but rather to cater to limitations of
the systems on which the indexes reside and of the network medium over which
they are being transmitted. Splitting of the index could be accomplished
either by including linkage information within each file, or else by a naming
convention in which a definite numbering scheme would be used to name
successive files making up the index at a particular site. It may also be
useful to permit the index files to be compressed using "zip", "gzip" or
"compress". As I expect these files simply to be collected and collated
by a GenWeb indexing program, I do not see any need to make it easy to perform
random access on them.
The advantage of GEDCOM as the index format is that it is flexible, and is
already in wide use and understood by many programs. Though there is wide
variation in the use of GEDCOM, for the restricted subset that I am proposing
I think all programs essentially agree on the format.
- Gene Stark
Friday, June 30, 1995 11:37:41 AM
GenWeb Item
From: brenda@interaccess.com,Internet
Subject: Family Research HARRINGTON
To: GenWeb
Greetings!
I am researching my family genealogy (but then again, aren't we all?) My
ancestor George W. HARRINGTON (1823-1900) married Judith BENNETT HARRINGTON
(1828-1899) of Lockport, Niagara County, NY. George was a Shinglemaker and
tho married they lived with his mom names Electa (? Maiden name) HARRINGTON.
They had several children and eventually moved to Sleepy Eye, Brown County,
MN. I believe Electa was born in VT but this is unconfirmed. Does any of
this ring a bell with anyone? Is anyone else doing HARRINGTON research?
Some of my information is in opder and some not. If you are doing
HARRINGTON research, I will be more than happy to look through my files to
see what I have for you. If you have a family group sheet, I sure would
appreciate a copy of it for my files. I am in the process of writing a
HARRINGTON Family book on genealogy and I hope to finish it in 5-10 years,
God willing! Any help that you could give me would be most appreciated.
Any questions, please feel free to write ot e-mail. I am an over the road
trucker and I usually don't check my e-mail until the weekends so please be
patient. Thank you!
Michael Harrington
2 s 771 Winchester Circle East #4
Warrenville, Illinois 60555
E-mail: Brenda@Interaccess.com
Friday, June 30, 1995 11:51:40 AM
GenWeb Item
From: Deb Yarbrough,afn01452@freenet.ufl.edu,Internet
Subject: Re: Indexes of GenWeb Databases
To: GenWeb
On Fri, 30 Jun 1995, Gene Stark wrote:
From Gene Stark----
Initially, I don't propose any lineage-linking information, though
> it might be advantageous to provide some sort of spouse information for
> identification purposes. I'm trying to strike a balance here between
> having enough information for indexing purposes, but not so much that some
> people will feel that they are essentially putting up their entire database
> as the index (some people seem to object to making their data available in
> GEDCOM form). We will also need to specify the URL at which the data for that
> individual resides. I don't know of a specific GEDCOM tag that would be
> appropriate for this, but we could use TEXT records for this.
The problem with indexing on only one couple is that I may have 20
generations more than you, have sibling names, but have the line through
an unknown sibling. We may have two John Henry Yarbroughs both married
to a Mary, but different years. Mine might be the father of your guys
father, and we might never know it. (I use this as an example, because
the Yarbrough lines used the same names over and over and over. Every
family has combinations of 6 male names and 4-5 females. However, if we
have a way of listing perhaps common names in descendancy, or unusual
names found in descendancy--the Nimrod, Tabitha, Poindexter ones in the
world, we might remember---is that uncle dexter? and be able to make
connections. Also with the common uses of two names (especially in the
South,) my Billy Bo (Actually William Robert) could be the same as your
Uncle Robert, but unless the children are listed, or a very GOOD locality
description is given, we'd miss each other.I
I do agree with the necessity of indexing the files available. I have no
solution, but offer my best regards to those undertaking the project.
Debbie afn01452@freenet.ufl.edu Gainesville, Florida
Anything that appears to be an error is in actuality what I intended and is
put there for the sole purpose of DRIVING YOU BATTY--OUT OF YOUR SKULL ETC!
Friday, June 30, 1995 1:02:35 PM
GenWeb Item
From: Annelise Anderson,ANDRSN@HOOVER.STANFORD.EDU,Internet
Subject: Researching My Family....
To: GenWeb
We are getting quite a few family-specific requests for information or
help on this list.
I read this stuff and post some of it in s.g.surnames and s.g.german,
but not here!
Is there a standard reply that goes out to people who post messages of
this kind, or are we just handling it by steadfast refusal to reply?
Annelise
Friday, June 30, 1995 1:04:32 PM
GenWeb Item
From: Annelise Anderson,ANDRSN@HOOVER.STANFORD.EDU,Internet
Subject: Re: Indexes of GenWeb Databases
To: GenWeb
This is probably a good idea....but should there also be a "place"
included for birth and death? Geographical limitations are helpful
in narrowing things down.
Annelise
Friday, June 30, 1995 2:25:44 PM
GenWeb Item
From: JohnR238@aol.com,Internet
Subject: Re: Indexes of GenWeb Databases
To: GenWeb
My internal indexes now consist of first and last name and a number which
cross reference to the paper or etext files which contain that name. While
I'd be excited to get my indexes included in a much larger data base, and am
working on ways to make the indexes available for searching by people on the
web, the size of the indexes alone are outstripping my systems abilities to
effectively process. I currently have 1.2 million names in GEDCOM files, and
450,000 indexed names from unformatted etext files, and 250,000 indexed names
from paper files, making approx. 2 million names total. I could fairly
quickly add dates, etc to the GEDCOM indexes, but I couldn't efficiently
process them.
It seems what Gene may be proposing is a non-mormon IGI with records
restricted to data which exists in etext format of one kind or another.
While I like the idea of having an index to records existing at various
sites, I'm afraid the net is too transient at present to build a usable
index. There's nothing more useless than an index entry to a non-existant
record. The surname file I maintain on AOL researchers and the ROOTS-L file
maintained by Karen Isaacson changes approx. 10% per month and the biggest
problem is not from folks who send an email saying my address has changed,
but from those who simply drop out of sight after yielding a nice tidbit.
John R @ EDR
"Your Genealogy Super Store"
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