At 01:06 AM 3/20/98 -0800, W. David Samuelsen wrote: >> There is an easier way though to do it. First what is needed is a started >> database of George Aldrich's family, say a couple generations out. Then >> everyone could contribute what information they have beyond that in the >> form of gedcoms. What the standards of data verification would have to >> hashed out by the people involved in such a project. Once the project had >> some measure of completeness a gedcom of the database could be made >> available to searchers of Aldrich roots from the Aldrich association home >> page, the Ancestry gedcom world tree, and other sites that might be >> appropriate. What think ye? >I think you know from others, I have the largest database on web. The >only other one is on paper - Robert Criswell has them but only male >lines plus one generation of females. Actually no, didn't have a clue, no one had mentioned it and I'd not see the URL before that I recall. I didn't learn about the Aldrich home page until I searched the Ancestry site and was reading messages about George's parents. I didn't find a link from it to your home page, which would be a good idea. Did find one of the links to mystery is bad because it is misspelled. I've downloaded some gedcoms from www.ancestry.com with George in them. A couple of them gave George a father who is 3 years older than he is.. I though some of the people who done work on some of the lines in tree were sloppy.. >In my case ALL descendants male and female. >http://www.wasatch.com/~dsam/aldrich Went and looked last night a little. But then the computer spontaneously rebooted and decided the heck with it and went to bed. Netscape 4 has acted up on and off since I installed it and was giving me problems before I logged on to your page. I see your using Ancestral Quest. I have 2.0 which is ok. I downloaded the demo version of 2.1 the other day, I think I will wait until 3.0 comes out. The web page generation is an interesting feature but I can live with out it for now. >I have more to add. The database at present time contain around 7,000 >including spouses. This is from the submitted sheets the Aldrich LDS >members sent to the LDS Church Family History Library archives and a I should of found time to go when I lived 3 miles from a small one.. But I've been waiting to see what my Uncle who holds most of the information for that side of the family has. He wanted some of the work I've done and said he would review it and get back to me, that was a year ago.. I have no clue if he has any Aldrich information or not. I know he did not have the Myers cousins data I did from the books obtained at the reunion I got to attend. >good part from volume 1 and small part of vol 2. I have yet to get back Seems like Alison said the information she sent was from Vol. 1 >in the track to get going to get 3 to 6. Mrs. A. J. Aldrich has volume 7 >that is not published yet. The NAA officers are looking for ways to get >that volume published and marketed in her children's behalf. >There are quite a number of errors contained in those GAG books. That is That's what Alison told me. I know some of the Myers books I have differ on the number of children some couples had and the order. D. Scott Scheibe dsscheibe@earthlink.net