Re: Directory to 6,017,770 Genealogical Resources

On 2007-09-11, Wes Groleau <groleau+news@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> Dr. Brian Leverich wrote:
>
> > genealogical resources on the Internet.  In fact, Linkpendium is
> > one of the largest human-edited directories of *any* kind on the Web.
>
>
> While I appreciate your thoroughness in a way, perhaps a little MORE
> human editing would be worthwhile, since some of your automated
> links point nowhere.
>
> Automatically putting every surname into a findagrave search string
> when findagrave has NO entries for some of those surnames for
> example....

Wes, FWIW, I expect we did check the Findagrave links.  You
should only find them on about 1/3 or so of the surname pages,
and that just reflects the fact that Findagrave actually has
a fairly large collection.

If you're finding dead Findagrave links, it's probably time we
checked them again.

If I recall correctly, the only links we do for *every* surname
are the Ancestry.com 1920 family distribution maps, and that's
because almost all surnames appear there.

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> And then links to scam sites like houseofnames
>
> Please.

Lighten up, dude.  (:  Sure it's junk, but it's *fun* gift junk
for the non-genealogists in the family and the HoN folks are
pretty good at order fulfillment.  And, so far as I recall, that's
the only junk site to which we link.

Cheers, B.  <-- Writing about http://www.linkpendium.com/


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