HI List,

The below database was added on ancestry.com yesterday and as per noted on 
the site, will be free until 07/10/2000. Seems to have a lot of good info.

AOL users click on underline:

 Ancestry.com
 - Individual Database Search

Other servers:

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

Description:
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 and 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. 

Ruth in NC  e-mail: [email protected]   Rootsweb Sponsor

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