Many Federal Government Web Sites Suspended The Civil War Soldiers and Sailors site listed in our December 31st tip is one of many U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) sites which have been disconnected from the Internet at the direction of District Court Judge Royce C. Lamberth. This action stems from the compromising of access to Indian Trust Management data accessible through the same server(s). Select DOI Web pages will be made available to the public through USGS, which has received court approval to reconnect to the Internet. All information posted on this version of DOI.GOV will be certified not to contain or provide access to individual Indian trust data. In the meantime, sites such as the Bureau of Land Management's land patent database, all National Park Service sites, and other sites of interest to genealogists and historians are currently inaccessible. Check the site map at USGS to see what sites have been reconnected. http://www.usgs.gov/ see the memo from the DOI's Deputy Secretary on this issue. http://www.doi.gov/news/grilesmemo.htm - George G. Morgan George G. Morgan is an internationally recognized genealogy writer and lecturer, with two books published, and online columns at Ancestry.com and at Chineseroots.com.