Anybirthday.com is offline for good. Their server used to
crash at times, but you could always get to their search
form although you couldn't do a search. Now you can't even
get to their search form -- you get a page-not-found error
instead. And when you go to their partner site,
locateme.com, you get a message saying that their domain
registration has expired.
That means that Steve Morse's one-step form which obtains
its data from
anybirthday.com no longer works. But the
good news is that he has found another source for the
birthday data and created a one-step form for it. You can
find that one-step form in the Births and Deaths section of
his homepage
http://stevemorse.org/ .
There are two links for birthday forms there -- one to the
now-defunct
anybirthday.com and the other that uses this
new source.
The bad news is that this new source requires the full
first and last name. Partial names are not permitted and
the first name is no longer optional. So it's no longer
possible to find potential relatives by searching for
everyone having your surname.
Please pass this message on to other lists that might be
interested.
-- Lorine McGinnis Schulze
* Olive Tree Genealogy (Ships Passenger Lists)
http://olivetreegenealogy.com/
* Naturalization Records
http://naturalizationrecords.com/
* Images of Ships Lists
http://www.rootsweb.com/~ote/ships/
otg(a)csolve.net or olivetreegenealogy(a)gmail.com