Surname Index and Relationship Project (SIRP)
Surname Index and Relationship Project
(SIRP) is a "structured extraction and research system used to identify
individuals and combine them into family units". In 2011, SIRP was
successfully used by two of the world's largest ancestral family organizations
to identify and connect hundreds of individuals living in two countries.
SIRP acquires online genealogical data from
multiple sources on individuals having the same (or similar) surname in
a designated geographical area, then inputs all such names and their associated
dates and places of births, christenings, marriages, deaths and burials
into a PAF-style (and GEDCOM friendly) database. Once this database has
been compiled, then analysis, screening and merging tools are used to
match and link individuals together into related families and larger ancestral
lineages.
Some of the genealogical sources used by
SIRP include the following:
1) LDS Ancestral File - still available
at some Family History Libraries and/or on earlier (DOS-style) computer
disks.
2) Pedigree Research File (PRF) - still
available at Family History Libraries.
3) International
Genealogical Index (IGI) - viewable on: http://www.familysearch.org/eng/default.asp
.
4) FamilySearch.org
- viewable on: https://familysearch.org .
6) New
FamilySearch.org - viewable on: https://new.familysearch.org/en/action/unsec/welcome
.
7) Available online Government Indexes of
Births, Marriages, Deaths and Burials, such as the British GRO
(for England and Wales) - viewable on: http://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/search.pl
; and the UKBMD Search -
viewable on: http://www.ukbmdsearch.org.uk/ .
8) Available online Name Indexes and Databases
from commercial sites, such as Ancestry.com
; FindMyPast.com ; and Non
Conformist & Non Parochial Records - viewable on: http://www.thegenealogist.co.uk/user/subscriptions.php
. (These three websites can be accessed free-of-charge at Family History
Libraries throughout the world.)
9) Available GEDCOM files from known and
reliable Family Members and Related Individuals.
In 2011, the Brough
Family Organization (BFO: http://www.broughfamily.org) and Osmond
Family Organization (OFO: http://osmondgenetree.com) used SIRP methodologies
to compile databases of hundreds of "Brough" and "Osmond"
surnamed individuals who had lived from 1800 to the early 1900's in New
Zealand and in New South Wales, Australia. Subsequent analysis, screening
and merging of these databases resulted in the rapid identification of
numerous linked individuals and multiple family lineages.
At the present time, the BFO and OFO are
applying SIRP methodologies to identify and combine thousands of individuals
and their families who lived in the 1800's and early 1900's in England
and Wales.
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