Larry, I have info on Carters in Casey County and Vests. I don't want to send a GEDCOM due to size and there are quite a few living "cuzzins" in it and they wouldn't like it much. What can I send you that will help? Do you have Microsoft Word? John Carter -----Original Message----- From: Larry Witt [SMTP:photo@som-uky.campus.mci.net] Sent: Thursday, October 15, 1998 1:21 AM To: KYCASEY-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [KYCASEY-L] gedcom collection Hi all, This Larry Witt to talk a little more about the new project I have started. It has started very well and I have recieved about 7 gedcoms already. Some have a few thousand persons listed and other have under a hundred. There is no requirement for a set number to participate in this project. Also, if you want to contribute and not recieve a combined copy that will be alright also. I plan to end this project in about a month and then merge all of the gedcoms into one huge file. A few people have expressed a concern that their program will not accomodate a number in excess of 1600. My file contains 19,000 and I have already collected over 5000 more. Of course some of these are duplicates but I intend to leave these duplicates seperate in the file. The reason for this is so that if there are errors, which I'm sure there will be, at least the correct info may be put forth by some other contributor. It sometime is a wise thing to evaluate the total info since a person with alot of info on a given person tends to have researched longer or more in depth. The main purpose of this project is to preserve our history and our ancestors history for future generations. I feel the larger the database the better the chance for finding a lost relative. It also helps to weed out a mistake when several researchers can evaluate similar info. If your family tree program can not hold more than a limited number of persons please contribute what you have anyway so that generations to come can share in your research. I will gladly do a decendent chart for you from the large file and email to anyone with a limited program. Before I send out the large combined file I will announce I have it ready and will ask all persons who have contributed to respond with a confirmation that they want to receive it. I am very excited about the possibilities how this project can help us and other researchers years from now locate someone lost in time.