charles, Sounds like a good idea but it is a big job. I have over 8000 names and most connect to Franklin Co. but I don't have a rewriter or large harddrive. You are welcome to use my gedcom. Part of mine is on OPD too. > Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 10:08:53 -0500 > From: "Bonedigger" <bonedigr@concentric.net> > To: GAFRANKL-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: [GAFRANKL] Testing the Waters "consolidated GEDCOM" > > Many folks are aware of the Old Pendleton District consolidated > GEDCOM File containing probably 300000 people or more. > I am wondering if there is enough interest out there for a similar > project for the Franklin County area. > What they do is have folks contribute their gedcom files then they > consolifdate them and make them available for download to whomever > wants a copy. then after they got so huge that the d/l process took > a long time they made CDROMs and sold them at about cost for > duplication and mailing, around $10 I think, just enough to make it > come out even. I don't have a CD Rewrite capability but I suspect > somebody reading this does have and would be willing to make the > CDs. > I just did a sample project to see what would happen [on Family > Tree Maker 5.0] and I believe it worked well. I took Franklin Co > Smiths file I had and merged it with the Fr. co Ayers file I had > and with original files of 8000 and 2000 people I ended up with a > file of more than 10000 people. > I don't know how much hard drive it would take to do such a project > and how much help I would need to do this but I am willing to start > it and see what results. I have only a 6 gig hard drive with 128 > megs of memory. > Are there others WILLING to contribute, WILLING to review and act > as editors for each increment as we build such a huge gedcom file. > Editing is mandatory to view the results of a merge of files to > remove or reconcile similar or duplicate individuals. I feel quite > sure Mr. David Stephenson, the Fr. Co. Website coordinator would > give us prominent advertising on the web page, right David? > First I want to say that I am the kind of guy who shares, anytime > you ask me for information I will gladly share and these are the > type folks I am hoping to enlist for this project. > Shown above are the files I now have that COULD constitute the > nucleus of the gedcom [I have a lot more but they are all smaller > files] but I welcome any LARGE CONTRIBUTOR who believes he has a > larger file to become the nucleus. I think the larger file the > better for the first increment upon which we build the overall > file. I have other files but of smaller variety. Please let me know > what you think of the possibilities of this project, I will not > start it unless I hear from some key players [genealogists] in the > Fr. Co Community and receive a thumbs up on participation to make > it a success. This is certainly not a go-it-alone project for > anyone; contributions are mandatory and we will have to throw out > that ole jealousness that makes us want to hide what we have > accomplished for some UNKNOWN reason for a later time. If we start > this project we will need the info now. then it will be available > to ANYBODY who wants it. That way we will have helped our fellow > man honor his fat! > hers and mothers as we are supposed to do. > We can swap files back and forth using gedcom attachments to email. > Or via snail mail diskettes. > Please get back to me with your comments, questions, pledges of > contributions or whatever you want to say to me. > Charles > ]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]] > Don't worry bout me. I'm as organized as a henhouse full of chikens > jus don't expect perfexion. ===== Thanks, David S. Payne View my Gedcoms at: http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=otime My Wife's line: http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=cateel Searching for surnames mostly in Upstate SC/GA: ADDISON, ALLISON, ARENDALE/ARENDELL/ARENDALL, CANADY, CORBIN, COX, CRAIG, DEAN, FOWLER, GILLILAN, HALEY, GORDON, GRAY, HENSON, JAMES, McMILLIAN, McPHERSON, MOODY, NEWTON, PARKER, PASSMORE, PATTERSON, PAYNE, POINDEXTER, REDWINE, REID, ROY, SHIRES, SWANN, WEST, TODD, WHITMIRE, WOODALL __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/