This message is from: "Mike May, Registrar NFHR" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
At 11:16 AM 7/2/2006, you wrote:
This message is from: Steve McIlree <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Mike--
Sunday, July 2, 2006, you wrote:
> Our current database does go back to Njal N-166 and a bit farther.
> Take a look at HAKON JARL N-645
That's true and really great, but I don't believe the database
allows tracing every horse currently registered with the NFHR back
that far.
No it doesn't. I said that in my first message. When they
originally went from paper log books to a database system they only
put the horses in that were in pedigrees back 5 generations. None of
them went back as far as Njal. I added him and a few other well
known lines a few years ago. Wish I had the time to go back & add
all of the old lines but I just don;\'t.
I know that would be a tremendous undertaking, because it
would require coordinating all registry's studbooks, but that's the
reason I propose it should be a project undertaken by the FHI.
The only way I see it ever happening is if all of the world's
registries were able to upload their own new horses as they are
foaled. Even at that it would take a great deal of coordination of
effort to get it to a usable state.
Without such a combined pedigree database it is impossible to do
more than guess about the closeness of any given cross.
Yes you are right there.
Mike
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Steve McIlree - Pferd, Skipper & Clust - Omaha, NE/Las Cruces, NM, USA
Paranoia is just knowing all the facts. --William S. Burroughs
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