Periodically I send a test email to all in my query, surnames, and volunteer lookups
addees. If it bounces, I remove it all together. In my mind, it doesn't serve to
frustrate a visiting researcher with bad links or bad email addresses.
Speaking to the query requirement as a whole: While it may certainly be a very active
process in some counties, it has crawled to nothing in my four counties.
1 - about 80 queries I converted from an old system in 2009. Latest add or comment -
September 2014.
2 - about 50 queries I converted from an old system in 2009. Latest add or comment -
October 2015.
3 - took over county in February 2016. Converted about 10 queries from old system. No
activity.
4 - took over deserted county in 2014. Query system was very old but recall there was no
activity. Before I could convert to new system, previous queries lost by rootsweb. After
several tries of recovering, established new system in March 2016. No activity.
I remember in it's day, it was a very good source and I used it a lot in my research.
Current technology has pretty much made it archaic. If it wasn't a bylaw requirement
[Section XI.C.], I would have discontinued mine. I've tried to make it look current,
look active and a good resource to no avail.
Again, my experience only and it may be a very active and good tool in other counties.
Along the same intent of the bylaw, I've established facebook groups for each of my
four counties. Except for one county, actual activity is not much better than the query
systems although the lookie-loo is evident. I do have a lady in one county who does a lot
of research in a community in that county and has provided a lot of good information. We
have a standing agreement that I may take what she offers on facebook and place it in my
county site which I do and I give her credit on my site for it.
Mike Peterson
On 7/9/2016 5:42:06 PM, Timothy Stowell via <usgenweb-discuss(a)rootsweb.com> wrote:
Working on an old site, it shows 215 broken links of which a vast majority
are from email addresses where the return says 'no such host'. I realize
many are from ISPs that went belly up or were absorbed by another entity.
Thus the question - does the Project, states or counties or you have any
rule on how long one retains queries on-line? Do you just comment out the
email address, note it as dead but leave the query or dispose of them after
so many months or years?
I have queries back to 1996 on some sites.
Tim S.
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