Is there any software package that can help connect family members by
combining birth, marriage, and death records?
A friend of mine was doing something like this a while ago, and I now
find myself doing the same thing. I am going through the birth,
marriage, and death records for a small town where my ancestors are
from. I sometimes run into someone with a last name that appears on
my tree, but this person is (so far) unconnected. I have been
recording these events, and when done, would like to construct the families
For a birth record, it will usually list the parents and sometimes
the wife's (or even husband's) parents, and sometimes a sponsor / godparent.
For marriage records, it lists the couple and their parents, and
sometimes witnesses.
For death record, it lists the father and mother or children, and
sometimes the spouse for an adult
Theoretically, you should be able to take the individual records and
match birth records to marriage records to build families, and then
death records to birth records to get the lifespan. Of course,
sometimes records are missing, and sometimes the names are spelled
differently, etc. so it has to be a soundex match or something like
that. Hopefully it would use the dates when matching records so it
doesn't confuse parents and children.
Once the trees are constructed, you should be able to generate a GedCom file.
Does anyone know of such a program? If not, I might end up writing
something if/when I get time. ;^)
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Bill Pringle
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