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Author: Dr. Brian LeverichDr. Brian Leverich Date: Sep 8, 2007 10:52
Hi all!
It's been thirteen months since I've posted about Linkpendium, and
during that time we've been locating and adding an average of
more than 80,000 sources of genealogical information every month.
Linkpendium now has links to 6,017,770 sources of genealogical
information. It is numerically by far the largest directory of
genealogical resources on the Internet. In fact, Linkpendium is
one of the largest human-edited directories of *any* kind on the Web.
We're kinda jazzed about breaking 6,000,000 links, though obviously
there are a lot more resources for us to find and categorize.
The links are categorized either by:
o Surnames WORLD-WIDE (5,318,624 links).
o American localities, generally county-level (699,146 links).
We do not yet provide world-wide locality coverage, though we plan
to phase in world-wide locality coverage as resources allow.
The URL is:
http://www.linkpendium.com/
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Author: Puzzle SolverPuzzle Solver Date: Sep 10, 2007 10:00
> It's been thirteen months since I've posted about Linkpendium, and
> during that time we've been locating and adding an average of
> more than 80,000 sources of genealogical information every month.
>
> Linkpendium now has links to 6,017,770 sources of genealogical
> information. It is numerically by far the largest directory of
> genealogical resources on the Internet. In fact, Linkpendium is
> one of the largest human-edited directories of *any* kind on the Web.
>
> We're kinda jazzed about breaking 6,000,000 links, though obviously
> there are a lot more resources for us to find and categorize.
>
> The links are categorized either by:
> o Surnames WORLD-WIDE (5,318,624 links).
> o American localities, generally county-level (699,146 links).
> We do not yet provide world-wide locality coverage, though we plan
> to phase in world-wide locality coverage as resources allow.
>
> The URL is:
> http://www.linkpendium.com/ ...
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Date: Sep 10, 2007 19:07
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....
And then links to scam sites like houseofnames
Please.
--
Wes Groleau
Nobody believes a theoretical analysis
-- except the guy who did it.
Everybody believes an experimental analysis -- except the guy who
did it.
-- Unknown
Wes Groleau freeshell.org>
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Author: Dr. Brian LeverichDr. Brian Leverich Date: Sep 10, 2007 19:46
On 2007-09-11, Wes Groleau freeshell.org> 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.
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Author: Denis BeauregardDenis Beauregard Date: Sep 11, 2007 18:19
(if we want to be published when critisizing Brian, s.g.method
should be removed from the newsgroup list...)
On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 19:46:24 -0700 (PDT), "Dr. Brian Leverich"
linkpendium.com> wrote in soc.genealogy.computing:
>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.
It is not very ethical to keep a link to an Halbert-like company...
Denis
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Author: Hugh WatkinsHugh Watkins Date: Sep 12, 2007 17:13
Denis Beauregard wrote:
> (if we want to be published when critisizing Brian, s.g.method
> should be removed from the newsgroup list...)
>
> On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 19:46:24 -0700 (PDT), "Dr. Brian Leverich"
> linkpendium.com> wrote in soc.genealogy.computing:
>
> >>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.
>
>
> It is not very ethical to keep a link to an Halbert-like company...
it is a no brainer uncreative nerd thing mad by someone with not enough
to do
like a twitcher or a train spotter
I think he send fake cancel notices fo posts like this
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Author: Hugh WatkinsHugh Watkins Date: Sep 12, 2007 17:13
Denis Beauregard wrote:
> (if we want to be published when critisizing Brian, s.g.method
> should be removed from the newsgroup list...)
>
> On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 19:46:24 -0700 (PDT), "Dr. Brian Leverich"
> linkpendium.com> wrote in soc.genealogy.computing:
>
> >>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.
>
>
> It is not very ethical to keep a link to an Halbert-like company...
it is a no brainer uncreative nerd thing mad by someone with not enough
to do
like a twitcher or a train spotter
I think he send fake cancel notices fo posts like this
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Author: Denis BeauregardDenis Beauregard Date: Sep 12, 2007 20:19
>I think he send fake cancel notices fo posts like this
Actually, he is the moderator of soc.genealogy.methods
Denis
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Author: Jim ElbrechtJim Elbrecht Date: Sep 13, 2007 11:15
>>I think he send fake cancel notices fo posts like this
>
>Actually, he is the moderator of soc.genealogy.methods
To see what he was been doing for the genealogy community from the
late 80's to the late 90's read this old article-
http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~socgen/history.html
It's not exactly his first year on Usenet [or contributing to the
genealogy community.]
Jim
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Author: Hugh WatkinsHugh Watkins Date: Sep 13, 2007 15:11
Denis Beauregard wrote:
>>I think he send fake cancel notices fo posts like this
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>
> Actually, he is the moderator of soc.genealogy.methods
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