"Joe D. Deaver" wrote: > In case you have not heard, the Texas State Archives has made an enormous > amount of data available online recently about births and deaths. TXGenWeb > has initiated a project to break down this data into county segments. There > are several volunteers, including myself soon, who are working on this > effort to add to digital archives for each Texas county. Thanks to project > coordinator Larry Oliver <loliver@tyler.net>, the first datafile (1943 > births) has been added to the Bell County online archives: > > ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/tx/bell/vitals/births/1943/bellb43a.txt > ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/tx/bell/vitals/births/1943/bellb43b.txt > > There's a lot more files to come over the next few months. If you are > interested in helping out with this project, mostly parsing out large > datafiles to smaller county segments, please let me know. > > Joe D. Deaver > BellCoTX Coordinator > http://www.rootsweb.com/~txbell/ > ancestry@deaver.com > > ==== TXBELL Mailing List ==== > Please Clear Off-Topic Posts With The Webmaster FIRST! The List Archives > Are At: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/archives/TXBELL-L/ The public posting of the Texas Archives birth data from 1943 is more than a little upsetting to me. I don't want my full name, birthdate, and mother's maiden name posted! Only one missing item, my SS #, and the wrong person has the keys to several of my financial data kingdoms. When I'm dead, it'll be fine, but not now. With all of the historical data such as old census records, marriages, etc. waiting to be entered online, why waste time and resources posting private data of living persons? This is going way too far. Sincerely, Cindy cindfunk@home.com