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tl;dr - While the form likely connected to a database/datastore and there is no way to retrieve that, the wayback machine archived a lot (but not all) of the data in another format. *The Bad News* So for funsies I took a look at this form and the HTML for it. Turns out that the information entered is POST'ed back to the server at yearlastwild.asp to handle the request. Just to be absolutely certain, I went ahead and submitted a request monitoring the network traffic and confirmed the POST request. That ASP script was likely connecting to some sort of database to retrieve and then format the data for presentation. Just to be SUPER certain there wasn't a whole huge blob of javascript representing the dataset (which would be incredibly unlikely, but you never know...) and the largest request is 27.7 KB, and it's for a font. *The Good News* Well, then, let's see if the marriage data is presented in any other format on the site, like a big huge list. Crazier things have happened... https://web.archive.org/web/20030208012802/http://vienici. com:80/abmomarr.html If we scroll down we can see Washington County and if we select the He- we can see the same entry for Henry S: https://web.archive.org/web/20030219131906/http://vienici. com:80/moabs/xmarrwash/xhe-j.html Which actually matches the data from yearlastwild.asp (although, only the name and date are contained here and not the description). So it seems for washing county there is some data and possibly more from the Washing County GenWeb. I do see for other counties there is much more data, such as Franklin County: https://web.archive.org/web/20030407195843/http://www. vienici.com:80/mofran/vB/p201225.html With some work and a whole bunch of parsing you could recreate a good chunk! Of course, I'd probably hunt high and low to see if someone else had this dataset I could use (or buy) but nice to know at least parts of it live on. Hopefully you find the above helpful. Best Regards, Robert Stone On Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 8:54 PM, Mike Flannigan <[email protected]> wrote: > > This is an archive of a website that went dead in 2011: > https://web.archive.org/web/20090609191130/http://www.vienic > i.com:80/moabs/lookups.html > > The 3rd search box (link) takes you to: > https://web.archive.org/web/20090306211924/http://www.vienic > i.com:80/moabs/yearlastwild.asp > > The search does not work on that page, for obvious reasons. I have looked > at > the page source and decided the search was run by javascript, but I could > be > wrong about that. If you are snowed in and have some time to devote to > this, > what I want to know is what format was the marriage license data in on this > guys server. I don't think that can be told from the page source, but I > thought > I would ask you guys. Perhaps you would need the ASP file to tell that?? > It was not a huge amount of data, so it could have been in almost any > format. > > The reason I am asking is because we are trying to find that data 6 years > after the guy died. > > I'm pretty sure he had an account at the Wayback Machine, and he may have > stored > the data there, in addition to other places. > > > Mike > _______________________________________________ > Houston mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/houston > Website: http://houston.pm.org/ >
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