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From: "Paul Featherstone" <>
Subject: [FEATHERSTONE] FW: [G] GenePool database
Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2000 01:44:50 +0100


I have just copied some 470+ Featherstone's or variants from this database
as the message says no sources but if you are looking for someone in the USA
this might help to give you an idea of where to look.

Paul

-----Original Message-----
From: Anne Higham [mailto:]
Sent: Monday, January 01, 1601 12:00
To:
Subject: [G] GenePool database


This curious database is available for free until 10 July.
Considering that surname LYFORD is not that common, I was surprised to get
1303
hits.
The big drawback is that sources are not quoted but there are leads aplenty.

>From the blurb......

The Gene Pool was created while gathering genealogical data for use in the
study
of human genetics and disease. Compiling data for genetic research does not
require the same type of documentation as traditional genealogical research.
The
genes themselves verify relationships and qualify or disqualify a person
from a
particular study. Citing the source of every genealogical fact in the
electronic
gene pool was deemed unnecessary and cost prohibitive by medical
researchers.
Millions of individual records were created from birth, marriage and death
records; obituaries; probate records; books of remembrance; family
histories;
genealogies; family group sheets; pedigree charts; and other sources. The
records collected that did not fit a specific study became the project's
"by-products" and were schedule to be discarded. After viewing the quality
of
the source material used to create the gene pool and despite the absence of
cited documentation, the electronic rights to the data were purchased,
rather
than see it destroyed.

http://www.ancestry.com/search/rectype/inddbs/4725.htm

Anne Higham
1020

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