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