In a message dated 6/11/2002 9:18:18 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
LKnight609(a)aol.com writes:
Does anyone know how to get errors on the Internet corrected?
Hey I think I know the answer to this one. ( trust me, this is long winded)
It has to do with contacting whomever owns the web site or author of said
material, and asking them to fix it. It is up to them if they fix it or not.
Two examples. My family is now on the Camp web site thank goodness and one
of my cousins or me or someone ( thanks, Barbara :-D ) However there are some
mistakes due to nature; people have been born, and people have died. Some
kids and hubbies and wives are left out. Not too pressing for these are my
generations, however 50 years from now someone with a tad of my blood in them
is going to be really angry at me for not taking time and care of our
history. My Bad, not Barbara's as she can't fix it until I ask her too, send
her the correct information, she has time to fix it etc. So far I do not have
my thing together to even make a request of a change, just to busy, will get
it together one o these days and will ask Barbara when she has the time if
she can fix it for me. May be annoying for one of my cousins or anyone
researching my line, but so much to do so little time.
Another example. I wrote a research paper on the Melungeons, from which my
other side of the family is descended from. Some of the grammatical errors
bother some people and they ask me to kindly fix them. Note My page has been
read now by almost 12,000 people and I am asked permission all the time from
someone or another wanting to put it in their magazine, etc. Again too busy
at the present, and if they want permission to reprint it in their Geo mag,
they are welcome and encouraged to fix the grammatical errors, or not. I
wrote it, Martha Short Published it first and that's it. Does not matter for
me. To get it fixed means getting the lady whose web page it is on, Martha
Short, to go in there and fix it after I send her a corrected version.
Martha is studying to be a lawyer at Wise Law School in Wise, Virginia,
and when some wacko X student from Libya decided to shoot up the school last
January, and kill the dean and as many students as he could, she caught a
bullet in her throat, and lived and is recovering thank God.
The point being she was indisposed at that moment to fix anything and the
web page was most likely at the bottom of her priority list, even though it
is important to me to have it look its best since it seems to be so popular.
Here is a link BTW to my research paper on Martha Short's Melungeon page. <A
HREF="http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~mtnties/kelly.html">Who Are the
Melungeons?</A>
So the answer to your question is well it can be done but depends
mightily upon the moods of people who may not be right there with ya. I
suppose a good business to get into would be to look at and repair web pages
at the request of someone or other.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~OFF TOPIC, YOUR CAR~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
As long as your still with me here, cousins, on anther subject not
related to genealogy but related to money and selling of things, (I promised
long winded) when it comes to selling things, you may want to check with your
car or boat insurance to make sure if you are ever in a fender bender and the
fender costs more than the value of your whole car or boat, that you have
first salvage rights.
I found this out when some guy bumped into my 10 year old car and it was
deemed a total loss as the bumper costs more than the whole car. < fuzzy math
at work here folks > In reality while they were saying they were going to fix
it and put it in a shop they were really auctioning it off at
copart.com <A
HREF="http://copart.com/">Copart Auto Auctions Home Page</A> Where
anyone in
the world can bid on my car on the Internet, and buy it for much more than
it would sell for in my neighborhood, so I get the value of my car in my
neighborhood minis $1400 less than I paid for it last year. Copart gets 10%
of the selling and shipping price for doing the deal and the insurance
companies come out the real winner as they get more money for the car than
they paid the person whose car they totaled. This is a USA wide company and
their bid is what you must match to have first salvage rights on your car,
and some insurance companies and states do not give you first rights, only a
check for about a two-thirds the value of your car, and take your car away
from you. They target recovered stolen cars and cars 10 years old and less.
So cousins I would take time to find out if something happens to your car
do you have first salvage rights? Or does your insurance company? For those
interested in reading further about these companies and how they make money
on your misfortune here is a link to a mag article on it. <A
HREF="http://www.claimsmag.com/Issues/August99/salvage.asp">... Magazine
August 1999 - E-Salvage</A> I know I will never again buy car insurance
without making sure in writing are the words I retain first salvage rights
for my vehicle, and try to get in at an average local salvage yard bids.
Locally my car would have been made salvage for about $150. Copart bid about
$500 for my car and that is how much I have to pay to keep my car and fix it
myself which I am doing. So we settled for the blue book on the car less the
$500 they will pay to copart on my behalf. So just a heads up sorry I am so
long winded. usually I have nothing to say so enjoy!
Thanks for reading and check your insurance on all things valuable to make
sure you retain salvage rights. Your junk may not be your own!!!