Very professional and well-explained answer, Illya. I was very impressed
with Live Roots http://www.liveroots.com
and know that it is and will be
a
valuable tool for researchers. Do you mind if I add a link to it from
my
site?
Bill Cribbs
On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 12:16 PM, illyad <illya@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
> > 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<http://www.cam.org/%7Ebeaur/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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