Researching living cousins

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Researching living cousins

Legg inn av Joe User » 10 jan 2006 06:36:48

I am researching my family.

My family is very large.

I have hundreds of living cousins of 3rd cousin rank or closer.

Does anyone know of a database I can buy (on CDs) of all births, deaths
and marriages in a US state (or nationally), covering about 100 to 10
years ago, to identify all of these cousins?

I am not an identity thief or a private investigator, or anything like
that, I just want to automate the process of looking up hundreds of living
cousins. And hooking them into my genealogical database.

I can get information from GED files on the net up to about 100 years ago,
but people do not include the living.

Can anyone point me to a CD product that I could buy and examine on my
home PC?

--
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"

Charlie Hoffpauir

Re: Researching living cousins

Legg inn av Charlie Hoffpauir » 10 jan 2006 16:30:41

On Mon, 09 Jan 2006 23:36:48 -0600, Joe User <axyz@yahoo.com> wrote:

I am researching my family.

My family is very large.

I have hundreds of living cousins of 3rd cousin rank or closer.

Does anyone know of a database I can buy (on CDs) of all births, deaths
and marriages in a US state (or nationally), covering about 100 to 10
years ago, to identify all of these cousins?

I am not an identity thief or a private investigator, or anything like
that, I just want to automate the process of looking up hundreds of living
cousins. And hooking them into my genealogical database.

I can get information from GED files on the net up to about 100 years ago,
but people do not include the living.

Can anyone point me to a CD product that I could buy and examine on my
home PC?

Some states have vital records data available on-line. for example,
Texas at one time have birth, death, marriage, and divorce records
available, but has since removed the birth records. Even so, the files
are really HUGE! I have downloaded the Texas records, and have them
converted to Access database files. To give you an idea of the sizes
involved, the Texas marriages, 1980-1989 total 230,456 KB. That's 230
MB, just for those 10 years of marriages! The birth records are
similar in size, 268 MB for the same 10 year period. I know that Texas
will sell you these records on CDs... I suppose that some other states
may do so also. check out
https://www.dshs.state.tx.us/vs/marriag ... index.shtm

or, if you'd like to buy copies of my data, contact me at charliehoffp
at yahoo dot com.
Charlie Hoffpauir
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~charlieh/

Robert G. Eldridge

Re: Researching living cousins

Legg inn av Robert G. Eldridge » 11 jan 2006 07:44:21

On Tue, 10 Jan 2006 09:30:41 -0600, Charlie Hoffpauir
<invalid@invalid.com> wrote:

Some states have vital records data available on-line. for example,
Texas at one time have birth, death, marriage, and divorce records
available, but has since removed the birth records. Even so, the files
are really HUGE! I have downloaded the Texas records, and have them
converted to Access database files. To give you an idea of the sizes
involved, the Texas marriages, 1980-1989 total 230,456 KB. That's 230
MB, just for those 10 years of marriages! The birth records are
similar in size, 268 MB for the same 10 year period. I know that Texas
will sell you these records on CDs... I suppose that some other states
may do so also. check out

Are the files actually that big or have you just not compacted the
database lately?

Tools > Database Utilities > Compact and Repair Database ...

--
Bob

Gjest

Re: Researching living cousins

Legg inn av Gjest » 12 jan 2006 17:28:01

You could consider an membership in the Godfrey Library
<www.godfrey.org> which gives you access to the FindUSA database of
persons living in the United States. That database include birth dates
in most cases, as well as relatives and other family members residing
at a particular address. Some entries include mortgage details and some
more personal data such as criminal cases or bankruptcy proceedings. In
many cases, wives maiden names are shown.

Best wishes,

John

Joe User wrote:
I am researching my family.

My family is very large.

I have hundreds of living cousins of 3rd cousin rank or closer.

Does anyone know of a database I can buy (on CDs) of all births, deaths
and marriages in a US state (or nationally), covering about 100 to 10
years ago, to identify all of these cousins?

I am not an identity thief or a private investigator, or anything like
that, I just want to automate the process of looking up hundreds of living
cousins. And hooking them into my genealogical database.

I can get information from GED files on the net up to about 100 years ago,
but people do not include the living.

Can anyone point me to a CD product that I could buy and examine on my
home PC?

--
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"

Joe User

Re: Researching living cousins

Legg inn av Joe User » 12 jan 2006 18:33:52

On Thu, 12 Jan 2006 08:28:01 -0800, john.brebner wrote:

You could consider an membership in the Godfrey Library <www.godfrey.org
which gives you access to the FindUSA database of persons living in the
United States. That database include birth dates in most cases, as well as
relatives and other family members residing at a particular address. Some
entries include mortgage details and some more personal data such as
criminal cases or bankruptcy proceedings. In many cases, wives maiden
names are shown.

Other people have told me to join godfrey library. I believe I will.
Thanks for the info.

--
Just as important as having ideas, is getting rid of them.

-- Francis Crick, Nobel Prize winner

Charlie Hoffpauir

Re: Researching living cousins

Legg inn av Charlie Hoffpauir » 12 jan 2006 20:39:31

On Wed, 11 Jan 2006 17:44:21 +1100, Robert G. Eldridge
<robert.eldridge@hunterlink.net.au> wrote:

On Tue, 10 Jan 2006 09:30:41 -0600, Charlie Hoffpauir
invalid@invalid.com> wrote:

Some states have vital records data available on-line. for example,
Texas at one time have birth, death, marriage, and divorce records
available, but has since removed the birth records. Even so, the files
are really HUGE! I have downloaded the Texas records, and have them
converted to Access database files. To give you an idea of the sizes
involved, the Texas marriages, 1980-1989 total 230,456 KB. That's 230
MB, just for those 10 years of marriages! The birth records are
similar in size, 268 MB for the same 10 year period. I know that Texas
will sell you these records on CDs... I suppose that some other states
may do so also. check out

Are the files actually that big or have you just not compacted the
database lately?

Tools > Database Utilities > Compact and Repair Database ...

they are very large. I have compacted. As an example, the text file
(original form they were in on the Texas web site) for Divorces thru
2000 is 249,497 KB in size. After converting it into an Access file
and adding a couple of fields for my own use (ie, to mark items that I
actually use.... so only a tiny percentage of the records have
anything in these fileds) I get an MDB file of 389,708 KB.

BTW, after my post of a couple of days ago, I revisited the Texas
site, and can no longer find the files for downloading. They do still
have microfiches of the data available for sale.... but that's a
bummer. What was once free and easy to get is now for sale and
requires a special, expensive viewer!
Charlie Hoffpauir
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~charlieh/

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