As you know, the search engines for the Archives return paths that are
not the permanent URL's for the actual files. Many times, visitors would
like to bookmark the file (and some do then find out they don't work) to
visit later. For instance, a search hit:
http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/ifetch2?/u1/data/va+index+5987954157...
The actual URL of the file is:
ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/va/surry/deeds/stokes1.txt
There is nothing in the file to reveal to the visitor where the file is
actually archives.
A suggestion was made by a county coordinator to place the actual URL of
the archived file within the text file itself. I also recommend this. :)
It's too much to ask to add that line to the existing files, but please
keep it in mind when uploading new files.
Thanks,
Linda