Index of published GEDCOMs

[Gjest]

Greetings:

I am announcing a new genealogy site consisting of an index of entries
in published (on the web) GEDCOM files.

The site is at http://GEDCOMindex.com

Entries are grouped geographically, with some detail to help you see if
it's your Mordecai LINCOLN or a different one. If you think it's yours,
click on the link to download the GEDCOM file off somebody else's site,
and open a new folder in your genealogy software to import it into.

For those who don't know it, GEDCOM files are special genealogy files
readable by almost any genealogy software.

Tom Alciere

[Joe User]

On Wed, 01 Feb 2006 05:46:53 -0800, TomAlciere wrote:

I am announcing a new genealogy site consisting of an index of entries in
published (on the web) GEDCOM files.

The site is at http://GEDCOMindex.com

Entries are grouped geographically, with some detail to help you see if
it's your Mordecai LINCOLN or a different one. If you think it's yours,
click on the link to download the GEDCOM file off somebody else's site,
and open a new folder in your genealogy software to import it into.

I applaud the intention, but you have a link for each person. That leads
to looking through a page with 100 links to the same ged file.

THAT is aggravating.

How about the links being changed to 'DOWNLOAD http:/x.y.z/joe.ged'? That
way, the user can see that a page offeres 100 links to the SAME ged file.

Good luck.

--
The clergy successfully preached the doctrines of
patience and pusillanimity; the active virtues of
society were discouraged; and the last remains of
the military spirit were buried in the cloister;
a large portion of public and private wealth was
consecrated to the specious demands of charity and
devotion; and the soldiers' pay was lavished on
the useless multitudes of both sexes...The sacred
indolence of the monks was devoutly embraced by
a servile and effeminate age..

-- Edward Gibbon
"Medieval Sourcebook: General Observations
on the Collapse of the Roman Empire"

[Gjest]

The link URL appears in the status window near the bottom of the screen
when you mouse over, allowing you to see whether it's the same URL or
not, and refreshing the page makes the visited links change colour.

[David Wilkinson]

Joe User <[email protected]> wrote in
news:[email protected]:

On Wed, 01 Feb 2006 05:46:53 -0800, TomAlciere wrote:

I am announcing a new genealogy site consisting of an index of
entries in published (on the web) GEDCOM files.

The site is at http://GEDCOMindex.com


I applaud the intention, but you have a link for each person. That
leads to looking through a page with 100 links to the same ged file.

THAT is aggravating.

Try looking here, http://tngnetwork.lythgoes.net/

You can search for surnames or for individuals and then be taken directly
to the website where the database resides.

And no, you don't have to purchase or use TNG to use this site.

[Hugh Watkins]

David Wilkinson wrote:

Joe User <[email protected]> wrote in
news:[email protected]:


On Wed, 01 Feb 2006 05:46:53 -0800, TomAlciere wrote:


I am announcing a new genealogy site consisting of an index of
entries in published (on the web) GEDCOM files.

The site is at http://GEDCOMindex.com


I applaud the intention, but you have a link for each person. That
leads to looking through a page with 100 links to the same ged file.

THAT is aggravating.



Try looking here, http://tngnetwork.lythgoes.net/

You can search for surnames or for individuals and then be taken directly
to the website where the database resides.

And no, you don't have to purchase or use TNG to use this site.

quite interesting


132 with Surname lapham
2 databases

LAPHAM, John Abt 1635 1710 Dartmouth, Bristol Co., MA, USA The
Sprague Project
LAPHAM, John 1635 Devonshire, England John H. Wyman

==========================
BUT
http://wc.rootsweb.com/
Results 1-20 of 13964

Names: 423709863 Surnames: 4191358 Databases: 386524

Results 1-20 of 106 for Lapham, John 1635

AND
Ancestry.com OWT One World Tree, combines 128 databases at this point

RootsWeb.com, Inc. is NOT responsible for the content of the
GEDCOMs uploaded through the WorldConnect Program. If you have a problem

with a particular entry, please contact the submitter of said entry. You
have full control over your GEDCOM. You can change or remove it at any
time.

<< you need to add something similar

or why are you trying to reinvent the wheel?

good luck

Hugh W

[Joe Pessarra]

<[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...

Greetings:

I am announcing a new genealogy site consisting of an index of entries
in published (on the web) GEDCOM files.

The site is at http://GEDCOMindex.com

Entries are grouped geographically, with some detail to help you see if
it's your Mordecai LINCOLN or a different one. If you think it's yours,
click on the link to download the GEDCOM file off somebody else's site,
and open a new folder in your genealogy software to import it into.

For those who don't know it, GEDCOM files are special genealogy files
readable by almost any genealogy software.

Tom Alciere

Is there any way we can search the whole site at once to find a surname, or
must we check each individual town in each country? Thanks for a reply.

Joe in Texas