On Jul 31, 8:17 pm, "Gundemarie Scholz" <[email protected]> wrote: > CJB wrote: > > On Jul 30, 7:14 am, Steve Hayes <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Here is a list of some genealogy sites on Geocities > > > > These will not be available after 26 October 2009, so use them or > > > lose them > > > > You can add to the list -- see below. > > > > GENEALOGY SITES ON GEOCITIES > [snip] > > I wonder if its possible to transfer these sites to some other ISP? > > That would in theory possibly be copyright violation, wouldn't it? > > > Or maybe there is a web archive service that could do this? > > http://www.archive.org/might have them. > > > Surely the > > persons / people who set them up need to be alerted to the loss of > > their sites. > > Has anybody tried that already? > > > Maybe somehere could use BlueSquirrel to at least > > download the sites and content for future uploading. CJB. > > HTTrack and wget possibly could do the same job. > > Regards, > Gunde And there's also WebWhacker But the point is not to debate the issue - but someone needs to do save them or the research and data will be lost for all time. CJB.