Jim, On balance, I would say it is not worthwhile.
Yes, it is very useful, almost essential, for big databases such as the TABs. And I would dearly love someone to do it for Catholic Parish Records!! But the amount of work required in order to do it for the multifarious sources in CTI is just not a good way to spend your time, in my opinion anyway. I have found plenty of useful information by a judicious use of your current simple search system. I try various combinations of people's names and townland names or churches or parishes and then the little headings that are thrown up are usually enough for me to tell which will be useful. This is very often how I find Len's transcriptions of BMD notices in old newspapers. Others may think different but my advice would be to leave it. Your search engine for TABs is a great help but that only works because it is one database. Regards, Boyd https://www.westulstergenealogy.com/ https://www.facebook.com/westulstergenealogy/ http://familytrees.genopro.com/boydgray26/Boyd/ On 6 July 2018 at 13:25, Jim McKane <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi CTI Supporters - > > PROBLEM - as you know using any search engine to locate individual names > on any website leaves a lot to be desired. As an example typing "james > mckane" into any search engine will find instances of James McKane with the > two words beside each other and in that order only. If you only type james > mckane (without the quotes) you then get every page with the two words > anywhere on those pages......... meaning you might find Thomas McKane and > James Smith in your results but not James McKane. > > INVESTIGATION - I have invested a lot of time lately including investing > in considerable with a professional programmer in an attempt to find an > automated solution to the problem which has resulted in......... there is > NO easy way! Why? Well the major reason is CTI has far too many types of > records in far too many formats to automate the process. > > SOLUTION - The ONLY solution is plain brute force............ meaning > manually creating spreadsheet lists of surnames and firstnames for each > page on CTI. I would then massage those lists into a fully searchable > database similar to the one recently created for the Tithe Applotment Books. > > QUESTIONS FOR YOU - > > - Do you feel this is a worthwhile project? > - If so, would you be willing to type some lists for us? > - If so, please give us an idea of how many hour/days/weeks you might > expect to dedicate to our project. > > If you wish to keep your responses private, please email me directly > off-list at [email protected] > > Thanks for your consideration, > Jim McKane, webmaster > > > > Jim McKane > South Bruce Peninsula, Ontario > > _______________________________________________ > CoTyroneList mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.cotyroneireland.com/mailman/listinfo/ > cotyronelist_cotyroneireland.com > >
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