On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, Chuck Mahaffey wrote: > Thanks David. I'll put the emails together accordingly and get them up to > this group. I just finished ftp'ing the 1970 Death records for all the > counties, I'll send them up in a separate email. > > Working with Lee on her 1971 to 1974 death records, I came across a problem. > The 1972 files I pulled down are about 10 meg in size. All the others I've > pulled down are about 16 to 18 meg in size. I have not had a chance to look > at the contents yet, but what problems will this raise for us, and should I > run with what we got or let someone know of the discrepancy? I don't have an answer for that, unless fewer people died in 1972. You can check your records against the Rootsweb database, which used the same state records. http://www.tdh.state.tx.us/bvs/registra/INDEX.HTM http://userdb.rootsweb.com/tx/birth/general/search.cgi Texas births - 1926-1949 http://userdb.rootsweb.com/tx/birth/summary/search.cgi Texas birth summaries - 1950-1998 (parents are not named) http://userdb.rootsweb.com/tx/death/search.cgi Texas deaths - 1964-1998 http://userdb.rootsweb.com/tx/marriage/search.cgi Texas marriages - 1966-1997 http://userdb.rootsweb.com/tx/divorce/search.cgi Texas divorces - 1968-1997 > Dave, With the complexity of this project, don't sweat the lack of details > in the instructions. I'm just glad there are folk like you and the others > out there !!! :-) > > TTFN, > > Chuck Mahaffey > Glad you are here! David dmorgan@efn.org David W. Morgan Honolulu Hawaii http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~dmorgan/ http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/tx/txfiles.htm