Hello everyone! I wanted to let you know about some exciting things
happening on the Jay Co. Genealogy USGENWEB site.
A while back, some one donated another death diary containing over 1000
entries from the first half of the 20th C.This was a very large file and
was difficult to format for the site. After playing around with it, we
decided it was time to try out a search engine.
We have created a search engine now, which we have tested and attached (off
line!) to this death diary. Its working well. So well, in fact, that over
the next few months we will try linking the entire site (with the exception
of the Queries Bios and Obits forum which are already searchable) to our
new search engine. This means when you come to the site, you will be able
to enter a last name and find all the entries on the site for it, be they
in a death diary, surname registry, or the civil war vets data base.
This search engine is fairly state of the art...so much so that we can not
put it up on rootsweb. The site will remain where it is..on rootsweb where
it is hosted for free..but I must move some of the databases to my service
provider. We are waiting for the service provider to install what it needs
to be able to run the search engine.
I expect in the next week to have this new searchable death diary on line
and will let you all know when its up and running! We will slowly begin to
index the entire site to it over the next few months. This means that there
will be much work going on and much will change. If you have any data at
all, now is the time to donate it! We are also begining to explore the
possibility of putting searchable gedcom files up as well...don't send your
gedcom's yet, but keep them handy!
Thanks to everyone who uses the site and has made it the great site it is
becoming. Thanks especially to all those who donate information. 1999 will
be an exciting year for Jay County Genealogy on the net.
Amy