Linkpendium Grows to 8,030,064 Genealogical Links
Dr. Brian Leverich
Hi all!
It's been nine months since I've posted about Linkpendium, and
during that time we've been locating and adding an average of
about 110,000 sources of genealogical information every month.
Linkpendium now has links to 8,030,064 sources of genealogical
information. It is numerically by far the largest directory of
genealogical resources on the Internet. In fact, Linkpendium is
to our knowledge the largest human-edited directory of *any* kind
on the Web.
We're kinda jazzed about breaking 8,000,000 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 (7,087,514 links).
o American localities, generally county-level (942,550 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/
Webmasters are welcome to link to either our homepage or deeply into
the pages that might be relevant to visitors to your sites. Web-
masters of locality sites, like USGW and ALHN county coordinators,
and Webmasters of one-name-study sites are welcome to "steal our
links" for use on their own sites. All we ask is that you include a
link to us somewhere on your site. See our "Acceptable Use Policy"
for details.
We are actively searching the Internet for genealogy sites which
should be added to the directory. If you are a Webmaster, List
Administrator, or Board Administrator for a genealogical resource,
or if you are a researcher who knows a particularly useful Internet
data source, *PLEASE* check the appropriate Linkpendium category and
use the Add-A-Link tool if we haven't included your resource yet.
We don't want to miss your resource!
And everyone, if you like what we're doing, please tell other folks
about us on the lists and message boards.
Thanks all, and enjoy! -B
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Dr. Brian Leverich Co-moderator, soc.genealogy.methods/GENMTD-L
P.O. Box 6831, Frazier Park, CA 93222-6831 leve...@linkpendium.com
donkelly
Brian, when you go world wide, please start with Ireland.
Thank you
[ Ireland and the UK are planned to be the first areas we do.
- Mod ]
donkelly
donkelly <ocol...@comcast.net>
Bob Melson
> Brian, when you go world wide, please start with Ireland.
>
> Thank you
>
> [ Ireland and the UK are planned to be the first areas we do.
> - Mod ]
>
I know it's difficult, if not impossible, to avoid, but what I find
most disappointing and frustrating about linkpendium is the speed
with which it takes one to "pay for play" sites like Ancestry. It
would probably take a fundamental reorganization of your database,
but it would be nice to have a top level "Free Sites" link that, in
fact, presented only free sites to me and the other cheap SOBs "out
there". As is, because it seems to me that I'm increasingly
directed to the pay-to-play sites with something akin to the speed
of summer lightning, I find I only rarely and reluctantly attempt to
use linkpendium, 8-gazillion links or not.
Just a thought.
Bob Melson
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Bob Melson <amia...@mypacks.net>
Dr. Brian Leverich
>> Brian, when you go world wide, please start with Ireland.
>>
>> Thank you
>>
>> [ Ireland and the UK are planned to be the first areas we do.
>> - Mod ]
>>
>> donkelly <ocol...@comcast.net>
>
> I know it's difficult, if not impossible, to avoid, but what I find
> most disappointing and frustrating about linkpendium is the speed
> with which it takes one to "pay for play" sites like Ancestry. It
> would probably take a fundamental reorganization of your database,
> but it would be nice to have a top level "Free Sites" link that, in
> fact, presented only free sites to me and the other cheap SOBs "out
> there". As is, because it seems to me that I'm increasingly
> directed to the pay-to-play sites with something akin to the speed
> of summer lightning, I find I only rarely and reluctantly attempt to
> use linkpendium, 8-gazillion links or not.
>
> Just a thought.
>
Hi Bob -
I just did a quick count and about 92% of Linkpendium's links are to
free sites.
If you don't want to visit the remaining 8% that are pay-for-play
sites, they're all clearly marked with a green "($)". You can
either ignore them or, if you don't even want to know they're there,
use GreaseMonkey or something similar with your browser.
Cheers, B.
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Dr. Brian Leverich Co-moderator, soc.genealogy.methods/GENMTD-L
P.O. Box 6831, Frazier Park, CA 93222-6831 leve...@mtpinos.com
donkelly
> Brian, when you go world wide, please start with Ireland.
>
> Thank you
>
> [ Ireland and the UK are planned to be the first areas we do.
> - Mod ]
>
> donkelly <ocol...@comcast.net>
Doing great. Way to go.
don, NC, IGP
D. Stussy
> Brian, when you go world wide, please start with Ireland.
>
> Thank you
>
> [ Ireland and the UK are planned to be the first areas we do. - Mod ]
>
Anyone and everyone who has or operates a genealogy-related site
should make certain that their site is listed with the index.
That's probably the best way to help out.
A while ago, I noted that Linkpendium was missing some of mine, so I
not only got them listed, I also got some of the surnames listed
under their alternate spellings that all branched from the same root
surname.
For those with a rare surname, consider getting it listed as a
domain name under the ".NAME" TLD. It might actually be available!
"D. Stussy" <sp...@bde-arc.ampr.org>