Re: New Genealogy Search Engine

> That site is likely the king of junk and useless data...  I found my
> previous site listed:
>
> >Denis Beauregard Genealogy Page
> >Resource Details
> >Type: Web Page
> >Discovered: 11/Jul/1999
> >[ Internal Use Only: resource 5764 ]
> >Last Visited: 23/Oct/2008 (Failed: 404)
> >View Online:http://www.cam.org/~beaur/gen/welcome.html
>
> I abandoned that URL in 1999...
>
> Denis Beauregard <denis.b-at-francogene....@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>


Excellent feedback.  When I started the Live Roots project, I knew
one of my toughest challenges would be dealing with dead links.
I've been a genealogy webmaster for almost ten years now, and this
is one of the toughest and most unrewarding parts of the job.  With
Live Roots, I have tried to build in different tools to deal with
broken links.  As you can see in the snippet you posted, the site
had detected that the link failed when it checked on Oct 23rd.
Rather than drop broken links, I decided to leave them in and allow
visitors to make the final decision.  Using the Wayback machine,
many links (including yours) have already been corrected.  It will
take time, but I'm encouraged by the first month of Live Roots being
online and the number of links that have been reestablished.  Many
visitors have also told me that through the Live Roots search and
the Wayback machine, they were able to find transcribed data that
they couldn't locate through Google.

illyad <illya@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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