Please be aware:
    Too few people; too much to do. When Dick Weber began this project eighteen years ago and then moved it to the Internet thirteen years ago, he never dreamed that there would be more than 328,000 individuals in our database. Dick's workload has increased dramatically every year. We now have a ten-year backlog of "regular" mail, and we have not processed the majority of this year's e-mail.
    It has become clear that we must cut back on some of what we do. Since we became website-based, we have focused on information submitted by e-mail, and material sent by regular mail has simply piled up as a result. Our new focus is first to go through the many dozens of envelopes we have received over the years containing Sprague family histories and research, and enter that information into our database. The consequence is that there will be a significant delay of months or years in our responding to or incorporating e-mail submissions and suggestions. We will, of course, continue to read the e-mail. We will make immediate changes to correct errors in our database, and we will respond to simple suggestions.
    Our focus at present, however, will be on the backlogged material sent by regular mail. (26 Apr 2009)

    The Sprague Database is a computerized database containing information on 328,242 individuals from worldwide families of Sprague and Sprague-derivative names. (Derivative names include Sprag, Sprage, Spragg, Spragge, Spraggs, Spraggue, Sprags, Sprake, Spraig, Sprig, Sprigg, Sprigge, and Spriggs.) The largest sections of the database document the descendants of (1) Francis Sprague, who arrived in Massachusetts in 1623 and (2) Edward Sprague's three sons (Ralph, Richard, and William), who arrived in Massachusetts in 1629. The Spragg and Sprake lines are also major sections. Further, we include another 1,900+ Sprague family lines or individuals that do not yet connect to any of the major family lines in the project database. To see these unconnected Sprague and Sprague-derivative lines, please go to reports.

    Please note: The identification system used on our website often causes confusion when the initial letter "I" for each individual (I248000) is mistaken for the number "1." As a result, erroneous correspondence is sent to The Sprague Project developer. There is no way that we can change this means of identification. When you correspond with the developer, please keep this in mind and use the letter "I" and not the number "1."

The Sprague Database holds the following as of July 6, 2010:   Total individuals: 328,242       Deceased individuals (searchable in website database): 242,990       Living individuals (not searchable in website database): 85,252   Unconnected Sprague lines: 2,617   Individuals with the surname Sprague: 30,754    (Why so few Spragues in such a large database? See FAQ.)   Unique Surnames: 25,254   Total Families: 118,175   Total Sources: 3,480   Total Notes: 84,951   Size of current GEDCOM File: 185MB Major Sprague Groups:    Francis Sprague descendants: 51,056    William Sprague descendants: 55,725    Lt. Ralph Sprague descendants: 18,537    Edward Spragg descendants: 9,136			What's changed in our update of July 6, 2010: Database increased by 1,087 individuals for a total of 328,242 Our major lines have been increased as follows:    Francis Sprague: 246 new descendants    William Sprague: 218 new descendants    Lt. Ralph Sprague: 3 new descendants    Edward Spragg: 1,159* new descendants Current e-mail backlog: 717 (-99)    * (Note: This number is greater than the entire number of individuals added, because a line of descendants not previously connected has now been associated with this line.) What we know about visitors to our website Connect speed: Cable 42% DSL 28.3% Unknown 16.4%  T1 8.2% Dial-up 2.2% Browsers: MS IE 64.5% Firefox 20.2% Safari 9.6% Chrome 4.5%  Opera 0.6% Platform: Windows 86.7%     Macintosh 11.4% (not set) 0.7% Linux 0.6% iPhone 0.4% iPod 0.1% Android 0.1% Screen res.: 1024x768 27.9% 1280x800 14.8% 1280x1024 11.5% 1440x900 8.5% 1680x1050 7.5% 1366x768 4.4% 1152x864 3.3% 1920x1200 3.3%   800x600 3.2% Per Google Analytics for period: 3/01/2010 - 5/31/2010 (~90 days)
Number of individuals named:
Sprage: 2  Spragg: 2,478  Spragge: 419  Spraggs: 345	Spraggue: 2  Sprags : 6  Sprague: 30,754  Sprake:73	Sprig: 1  Sprigg: 131  Sprigge: 3  Spriggs: 495

    The contents of the Sprague Database include information for both living and deceased individuals. However, only content that applies to deceased individuals is made available for public study on this Sprague Website. The sole source of genealogical information on the Sprague Website is the Sprague Database. In addition, supplementary material has been added to the Sprague Website for the use of website visitors. For example, there is a listing of published sources where information on the Sprague family has been found. This material is located in the column to the left.

    The Sprague Website has been developed utilizing an innovative software product named The Next Generation of Genealogy Sitebuilding (TNG). There are significant research facilities available for the use of any visitor to the Sprague Website. A comprehensive search facility allows the website visitor to search for all individuals named John Sprague who were born in Vermont before 1844. A large number of search fields may be used in combination. When an individual of interest is located by a search, a variety of reports is available to show the Family Group Sheet for the individual, an ancestral chart, a descendant’s chart, among others. Since The Sprague Project places equal emphasis on both male and female descendant lines and on Sprague spousal ancestral lines, there are a large number of individuals with surnames other than Sprague recorded in the Sprague Database. The Sprague Website provides the facility for quickly determining how many of any given surname are recorded in The Sprague Database. Reports are predefined to show such information as participants in any of the 13 wars recorded in U. S. history. There are also photos of individuals and photos of individual grave stones that will be displayed as part of the individual data.

    The objective of The Sprague Project Developer and the Sprague Website Webmaster is for the website to be an effective research tool for the massive amount of personal information recorded in the Sprague Database. For an interesting introduction to the Sprague Website, enter Chase in the Surname field and Katherine in the First Name field to the left and then press “Search.” When Katherine is located, click on her name and your fun will begin. Enjoy the Sprague Website. May it provide much insight into your ancestral history.

Copyright © 2010; Richard E. (Dick) Weber / The Sprague Project / (Formerly The Composite Sprague Data Base)
Our first home page was created on August 26, 1996
Moved to mhtc.net on October 9, 1998
Moved to lunarpages.com on January 31, 2003
Moved to networkeleven.com on March 15, 2004
Incorporated The Next Generation of Genealogy Sitebuilding© (TNG) into our website on August 26, 2005
Moved to Simply Hosting on April 5, 2008
Most recent change to this page: July, 29, 2010

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