Please Help Linkpendium Index the Web

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Dr. Brian Leverich

Please Help Linkpendium Index the Web

Legg inn av Dr. Brian Leverich » 10 okt 2004 23:47:33

Hi all!

Having started with a directory of Illinois genealogical resources,
Linkpendium has now finished a first pass through all US localities
and surnames *WORLDWIDE*. (Worldwide locality indices are coming in
the future ... )

We have now built a directory to 1,082,984 sources of genealogical
information on the Internet. Most of the data sources are free, and
the relatively few pay datasets are clearly marked.

Linkpendium is by far the largest genealogical link collection on The
Net.

Nonetheless, we know we have missed many important resources. So,
again starting in IL (but working on the rest of the country and all
surnames in parallel), we are doing a second pass looking for
resources we've missed.


YOU CAN HELP US!

All Linkpendium's lower-level locality and surname pages include
links to a Web form that allows visitors to nominate new links. If
you visit us at:
http://www.linkpendium.com/
please take a moment to make sure that we have links in the
appropriate categories to any Website, mailing list, or message
board that you administer. Also, if you just have a favorite site
that we've missed, PLEASE use the Web form to tell us about it.


WHY HAVING A COMPLETE DIRECTORY IS IMPORTANT

Obviously, a complete directory is useful to genealogists. Having
access to a categorized list of all, say, the Cook County IL resources
will save genealogists a lot of Googling.

But more importantly, in the next phase Linkpendium is going to use
the directory as input to a search engine specialized for use by
genealogists. This will allow folks to search for their ancestors
without having to dig through hundreds (and often many thousands)
of irrelevant links returned by Google.

If we don't have a genealogical resource in the directory, we can't
make it searchable by the search engine. That's why your help in
making the directory complete is so important.


PLEASE PASS THE WORD!

While we're starting the second pass in Illinois, we'll be working
on the rest of the USA and surnames world-wide in parallel. If
you participate in lists or message boards frequented by other
folks who can help us index all the Internet's genealogical
resources, please feel free to tell them about what we're doing
(or just forward this letter).

Thanks, everyone, for the help. I hope we can build something of
great value to the genealogical community. Cheers, B.


--
Dr. Brian Leverich Co-moderator, soc.genealogy.methods/GENMTD-L
Co-founder, RootsWeb.com and Linkpendium.com
P.O. Box 6831, Frazier Park, CA 93222-6831 leverich@linkpendium.com

Margaret Olson

Re: Please Help Linkpendium Index the Web

Legg inn av Margaret Olson » 12 okt 2004 21:06:27

At 10:31 AM 10/11/2004, Tom Tinney Sr. wrote:
Dear Dr. Brian Leverich,

Clicking into "a 1,082,984 link directory of genealogical resources",
currently shows only a blank USA page with ONLY a direct search
link to ancestry.com from Linkpendium.

Dear Tom Tinney Sr,

??? I get something different. Try it again.

I clicked on that "A 1,084,243 link directory of genealogical resources"
link and got taken to: <http://www.linkpendium.com/genealogy/USA/> - which
is NOT blank. It is labeled USA, and it has an ancestry ad in addition to
3 or 4 others on the blue sections of the page - but there are definitely
links. If you use Mozilla you may not even see the ads.

The first link (surnames) is NOT to just US surnames (even though it is
sitting there on a page labelled USA). They are worldwide, I am sure.

Many of the links on Linkpendium do go to ancestry.com sites - but far from
all of them do that. This is a great site for finding things. I like the
organization.

"Worldwide locality indices" are already comprehensively available
at the Genealogy and Family History Internet Web Directory: Index
to over 6,000 quality site listings. Professional worldwide genealogy
and family history home page, connected to thousands of related sub-sets,
with billions of primary or secondary database records.

Great! I'll bet Brian already knows about this link. CyndisList has a
pretty good index, too. More power to you all - and thanks to everyone who
organizes things genealogical for us all.

Margaret

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