News from GEDCOMP. GEDCOMP is now on its 8'th year a database for genealogists researching Danes. Submit a GEDCOM-file with information about the individuals you have interest in and GEDCOMP will free of charge perform its advanced search for the persons you are researching. For each genealogist that has overlap with your research you will receive an E-mail describing the overlap and the contact information on the genealogist who submitted the GEDCOM-file. Status of GEDCOMP pr. 2004-12-19. Individuals registered in GEDCOMP: 3.149.000 Submitted GEDCOM-files: 1.866 Number of E-mails sent about overlap: 97.629 All GEDCOM-files with information about more than 252 individuals have elicited at least one E-mail regarding overlap of research with another genealogist. Among the remaining, smaller files the observed rate of success by submission of information about X number of persons, where X is at most 252: X Frequency Least Most % 193 252 97 139 192 96 95 138 86 47 94 83 1 46 49 The table is constructed in the following way: The GEDCOM-files that until now have been submitted to GEDCOMP with information about at most 252 persons have been placed according to the number of persons they contain information about in 5 groups with each group containing the same number of files. The %-age in each group is the rate of files in this group, where the submitter has received at least one email regarding an overlap with information submitted by another genealogist. For more information on GEDCOMP go to http://www.lklundin.dk/gedcomp/english.php Best regards, Lars Kr. Lundin gedcomp@lklundin.dk -- GEDCOMP: An extensive and free database for genealogists with interest in Denmark: http://www.lklundin.dk/gedcomp/english.php