Thought I would forward this on. Haven't had a chance to check it out yet but looks like a worthwhile project. ----- Original Message ----- From: Patrick Hays <gsdownr@geocities.com> To: <ingen@ingenweb.org> Sent: Saturday, February 05, 2000 8:03 PM Subject: Announcement! February 4, 2000 > *****Migrations is leaving Beta testing, we're official now!***** > > Migrations was conceived on February 8, 1999 when I coded the first > Migrations pages for Custer and Fremont Cos., CO and Hancock Co., KY. From > there, within days The Colorado and Kentucky state Migration pages were > coded. In October, I started a Migrations Project in Michigan. Then > everything started to pick up speed. After several days of negotiations, > the Domain name was purchased on October 30, 1999, and coding was begun on > the projects national database. We entered beta testing on November 12, and > after some minor problems, sicknesses, glitches, baby's being born (ok, that > was major!) etc., we are now ready to roll. The 600+ entries that have been > retained during beta testing will remain in the database, the test data has > already been deleted. If your immigrant, emigrant, migrant relatives are > not there yet, submit them NOW! > > To make the database accessible to everybody, we made buttons for your > state and county pages. The buttons make links to the submission form, and > the location/county/state search utility for the national project. With > these two buttons, we can connect people anywhere across the country. The > submission form accepts up to ten moves in addition to the place of birth. > The project then searches each of these up to 11 place names per entry to > produce locality, county or state specific searches. There is also a > surname search engine, which searches the entire entry (except submitters > names), including the 1000 character "additional information" field for any > name or word. I think this database will be very useful for our > researchers. If your county or state isn't already linked, you can still > submit your information, and when the location becomes linked, the data will > already be there, waiting, because we are a National project. Stop by and > give us a try! > > Patrick Hays > http://www.migrations.org > Migrations Staff > migrations-staff@mailcity.com > > > >