Hello, The following letter is from Patrick Hays <gsdownr@geocities.com>, I am forwarding it to lists I maintain as a courtesy & to ENCOURAGE others to submit data ... Please DO remember to link from your GenConnect Queries to the other data you are posting on-line ... leave a trail for others to follow & it may lead you right back to your most elusive ancestor! Terri Rene -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Announcement! Resent-Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2000 19:42:47 -0800 (PST) Resent-From: MI-GENEALOGY-L@rootsweb.com Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2000 19:47:26 -0800 From: "Patrick Hays" <gsdownr@geocities.com> Reply-To: "Patrick Hays" <gsdownr@geocities.com> To: MI-GENEALOGY-L@rootsweb.com *****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