Bygones Users Database Sharing Page

This page contains links for databases created by Bygones Users with information you can download and import into your Bygones databases. For example, the Source databases below may contain database records with source citations and "text source templates" for censuses, etc.

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Downloading & Importing Instructions
Source Databases
Given Name Databases
Record Type Databases
Log File Databases
Misc Items
Submitting Databases for this Page

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Downloading & Importing Instructions

If you would like to download and import some of these records into your Bygones databases:

1. Download the database you are interested in from this web page.
2. Open the downloaded database with the Bygones program to review the records and decide which specific records you would like to import into your databases. If you don't want to import a specific record into your database, you may either delete that record from the downloaded database (by using the Delete Record command from the Mode menu, or the keyboard shortcut shown in the menu), or you may "omit" that record from the "found" set of records (by using the Omit command from the Select menu). Omitting a record does not delete it from the database, it only excludes it from the records in the current "found"/active records in the database. When you import or export records from the database, only the "found" records will be imported or exported.
3. Now, open up your Bygones database that you wish to import the records into--for example, your Sources database.
4. From the File menu, select the Import/Export-->Import Records command, and select the database that you are importing records from in the "Open File" window. Then, complete the import process.
5. Finally, go over the imported records and edit any fields that you need to. For example, in the Sources database, each source should have a unique source number and short source name, so you may need to edit the source numbers. (You can edit a lot of source numbers using the Replace command. But be careful when you use this command since you can not undo it, and it will replace data in each of the records in your current found set of records. To use this command, first click in the field you want to change, and then select the Replace command from the Mode menu.)

Source Databases

Sourc001.byg by Bev Levine. Contains source information and templates for the three U.S. WWI draft registrations/cards in 1917 & 1918, the Social Security Death Index, and for an SS-5 Social Security Application.

Sourc002.byg by Elizabeth Shillabeer. Contains source information and templates for General Registration Indexes of Births, Marriages & Deaths in England & Wales.

Sourc003.byg by Troy Adair. Contains source information and text templates for the 1790-1920 U.S. Federal Censuses. These are designed for use with the landscape layouts in the Sources database, and the landscape research extract layouts in the Research database (when the information is brought into the Research database via a "Source Look Up"). Most of the "text templates" fit on one line of text, but in order to get them to fit on one line, some of the less-used columns of the census have not been included in the "text templates." For example, a column for "deaf or dumb" may have been omitted. If you have a family in which that column applies, simply add the applicable column you need to the text headings for that extract.

Sourc004.byg by Troy Adair. Contains source information and portrait text templates for the 1790-1920 U.S. Federal Censuses. These text tamplates usually use two lines of census heading per census, in order to be able to extract the census in a portrait oriented research extract.

Sourc005.byg by Marilyn Symonds. Contains source information and landscape text templates for the 1790-1920 U.S. Federal Censuses. These extracts use multiple lines of census headings per census, so that all census headings and columns can be included.

Sourc006.byg by Marilyn Symonds. Contains source information and portrait text templates for the 1790-1920 U.S. Federal Censuses. These extracts use multiple lines of census headings per census, so that all census headings and columns can be included.

Given Name Databases

GvnNm001.byg by Martha Lyle. A file of given name variations collected from a variety of sources.

Record Type Databases

RecTp001.byg by Elizabeth Shillabeer. Contains record types applicable to research in the United Kingdom. (Updated Apr 2003.)

Log File Databases

LogFL001.byg by Elizabeth Shillabeer. A set of County+Event-Type (Research) "Log File" names used in a UK based one-name-study. Includes one full county set of LogFiles to copy & edit, plus a few that are not county specific for national indexes, family bibles, etc.

Miscellaneous Items

Bygones3x5.pdf by Charley C. Langley Jr. A PDF file for printing 3" x 5" index cards (on 8-1/2" x 11" sheets of cardstock paper) that are similar to a blank Bygones Research Extract.

BygFlyr.pdf. A brief 2 sided flyer on Bygones, which can be used to print out a few flyers to give to friends at genealogical conferences, etc.

Submitting Databases for This Page

If you would like to submit a database to be included on this page:

1. Make a copy of the database containing the records you would like to share with others.
2. Open that copied database with Bygones, and delete any records you do not wish to share or submit, using the Delete Record command from the Mode menu.
3. Then, attach that database to an email message, and send it to me at bygones@utah-inter.net.
4. In the email, include your name and a description of what your database contains.

If you would like to update a database you have previously submitted, please send me an updated copy with a new description, and the name of the file it is replacing as listed on this page.

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Last Updated: 4/14/2003