<div dir="ltr">Greetings,<div><br></div><div>tl;dr - While the form likely connected to a database/datastore and there is no way to retrieve that, the wayback machine archived a lot (but not all) of the data in another format.</div><div><br></div><div><b>The Bad News</b></div><div><br></div><div>So for funsies I took a look at this form:</div><div><br></div><div><img src="cid:ii_1610572eae06f30c" alt="Inline image 1" width="562" height="265"><br></div><div><br></div><div>And the HTML for it:</div><div><br></div><div><img src="cid:ii_16105734fbfaa7fc" alt="Inline image 2" width="328" height="348"><br></div><div><br></div><div>From this we can see that the information entered is POST'ed back to the server at yearlastwild.asp to handle the request. Just to be absolutely certain, I went ahead and submitted a request monitoring the network traffic:</div><div><br></div><div><img src="cid:ii_161057507c007e17" alt="Inline image 3" width="336" height="343"><br></div><div><br></div><div>And there we see the post request. That ASP script was likely connecting to some sort of database to retrieve and then format the data for presentation.</div><div><br></div><div>Just to be SUPER certain there wasn't a whole huge blob of javascript representing the dataset (which would be incredibly unlikely, but you never know...):</div><div><br></div><div><img src="cid:ii_1610576abe4bb070" alt="Inline image 4" width="520" height="552"><br></div><div><br></div><div>There largest request is 27.7 KB, and it's for a font.</div><div><br></div><div><b>The Good News</b></div><div><b><br></b></div><div>Well, then, let's see if the marriage data is presented in any other format on the site, like a big huge list. Crazier things have happened...</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20030208012802/http://vienici.com:80/abmomarr.html">https://web.archive.org/web/20030208012802/http://vienici.com:80/abmomarr.html</a><br></div><div><br></div><div><img src="cid:ii_161057dfd3da32e7" alt="Inline image 5" width="562" height="272"><br></div><div><br></div><div>If we scroll down we can see Washington County:</div><div><br></div><div><img src="cid:ii_161057ffddd20a79" alt="Inline image 6" width="562" height="134"><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>And if we select the He- we can see the same entry for Henry S:<br></div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20030219131906/http://vienici.com:80/moabs/xmarrwash/xhe-j.html">https://web.archive.org/web/20030219131906/http://vienici.com:80/moabs/xmarrwash/xhe-j.html</a><br></div><div><br></div><div><img src="cid:ii_1610581bdc8d7d74" alt="Inline image 7" width="196" height="39"><br></div><div><br></div><div>Which actually matches the data from yearlastwild.asp:</div><div><br></div><div><img src="cid:ii_16105822dbf01ef1" alt="Inline image 8" width="562" height="25"><br></div><div><br></div><div>So it seems for washing county there is some data and possibly more from the Washing County GenWeb. I do see for other counties there is much more data, such as Franklin County:</div><div><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20030407195843/http://www.vienici.com:80/mofran/vB/p201225.html">https://web.archive.org/web/20030407195843/http://www.vienici.com:80/mofran/vB/p201225.html</a><br></div><div><br></div><div><img src="cid:ii_1610585046d44559" alt="Inline image 9" width="562" height="325"><br></div><div><br></div><div>So with some work and a whole bunch of parsing you could recreate a good chunk! Of course, I'd probably hunt high and low to see if someone else had this dataset I could use (or buy) but nice to know at least parts of it live on.</div><div><br></div><div>Hopefully you find the above helpful.</div><div><br></div><div>Best Regards,</div><div>Robert Stone</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 8:54 PM, Mike Flannigan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mikeflan@att.net" target="_blank">mikeflan@att.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
This is an archive of a website that went dead in 2011:<br>
<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090609191130/http://www.vienici.com:80/moabs/lookups.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20<wbr>090609191130/http://www.vienic<wbr>i.com:80/moabs/lookups.html</a><br>
<br>
The 3rd search box (link) takes you to:<br>
<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090306211924/http://www.vienici.com:80/moabs/yearlastwild.asp" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20<wbr>090306211924/http://www.vienic<wbr>i.com:80/moabs/yearlastwild.<wbr>asp</a><br>
<br>
The search does not work on that page, for obvious reasons. I have looked at<br>
the page source and decided the search was run by javascript, but I could be<br>
wrong about that. If you are snowed in and have some time to devote to this,<br>
what I want to know is what format was the marriage license data in on this<br>
guys server. I don't think that can be told from the page source, but I thought<br>
I would ask you guys. Perhaps you would need the ASP file to tell that??<br>
It was not a huge amount of data, so it could have been in almost any format.<br>
<br>
The reason I am asking is because we are trying to find that data 6 years<br>
after the guy died.<br>
<br>
I'm pretty sure he had an account at the Wayback Machine, and he may have stored<br>
the data there, in addition to other places.<br>
<br>
<br>
Mike<br>
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