Over the past few years I've been entering data into a Family Tree Maker database that I've gleaned from a number of books about St. Louis residents. For each "primary" individual I typically gathered date and place of birth as well as marriage, his parents' names, his wife's name, and the names of their children. The vast majority of the source data comes from the following three books.

These three major works combined to yield information on more than 26,000 individuals. There were many more books, too numerous to mention, that I would extract data here and there. Also, much of the data from the thousands of individuals entered in the database were enhanced with census information. Adding much of my personal genealogy research, the database presently has a total of 33,499 individuals with 10,570 marriages, and 7532 different surnames. I have endeavored to limit access to data on those still living.

The problem is that the software program that I use to structure the data creates a separate HTML file for each and every individual. I've tried a few times to upload the nearly 34,000 files to my server, and the system crashes each time. As a matter of fact, just opening the subdirectory on my hard drive that contains these files is a challenge for my "state-of-the-art" Dell PC. That's why, if you click on any of the individual names contained in the "Index of Names" website below, the file is not there. Therefore, the best I can do to provide this info on the "Genealogy in St. Louis" website is to publish small extracts of the data (e.g., lists of birth, deaths, marriages). This, of course, defeats the purpose of having the data in a database, where my intention was to allow one to click on a parent's name and go to that page, etc. etc.

Unless someone can come up with an idea, I can only think of publishing this data on a CDROM. Let me know what you think.