Just thought you all might want to know that the BLM site which houses the
GLO records is offline because of a court decision. You can see the
official version at the Department of the Interior site:
http://www.doi.gov/
Here is a message from a genealogical librarians listserv which came from
the government documents librarian's listserv originally:
There has been a lot of discussion on GOVDOC-L (a list for
government
documents librarians) about the Interior Department web site
shut-down.
Below I have appended the first message that came through about
it. Since
this message was posted, the USGS site has come back, but I'm
still not able
to reach either BLM or the National Park Service.
I guess most of us were waiting to see if it would all blow over (as
things
like this so often have in the past), but it's now going on 2 weeks.
Wish I
could think of something productive to do about it! Several of the
main
databases that we use for genealogical research are being
affected, most
notably the GLO land patents and the NPS Civil War Soldiers and
Sailors
databases. I can't believe that access to these sites would
compromise the
Indian trust funds.
The following will at least tell what happened.
Gay E. Carter
Reference/Documents Librarian
Alfred R. Neumann Library, University of Houston-Clear Lake
2700 Bay Area Blvd., Houston, TX 77058
PH: 281-283-3914 FAX: 281-283-3937
CarterG(a)CL.UH.EDU
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From: Ssdb Admin [SMTP:ss3@weber.ucsd.edu]
Sent: Friday, December 07, 2001 12:55 PM
To: GOVDOC-L(a)LISTS.PSU.EDU
Subject: Court Orders Interior Dept. Computers Off The Net
fyi...
An item in NewsBytes (07 Dec 2001) reports that " A large swath
of the
computer network serving the U.S. Interior Department remains
disconnected from the Internet today following a judge's order
demanding emergency security measures to protect systems that
are
supposed to be managing a multi-million-dollar trust fund for
native
Americans."
According to the article the department's main site (
www.doi.gov)
remained offline on Wednesday morning.
also unreachable:
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (
www.fws.gov)
U.S. Geological Survey (
www.usgs.gov)
Bureau of Land Management (
www.blm.gov)
Minerals Management Service (
www.mms.gov)
Office of Surface Mining (
www.osmre.gov)
National Business Center (
www.nbc.gov)
The article:
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/172791.html
Court Orders Interior Dept. Computers Off The Net
By Steven Bonisteel, Newsbytes
WASHINGTON, D.C., U.S.A.,
More information on the case can be found here:
http://www.indiantrust.org .
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Jim Jacobs, Data Services Librarian voice: (858) 534-1262
University of California, San Diego FAX: (858) 534-7548
9500 Gilman Drive Library 0175-R jajacobs(a)ucsd.edu
La Jolla, CA 92093-0175