Spread the word!
*****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(a)mailcity.com