Anyone can download a website and store the information on their own computer with some free software. HTtrack is one example. There is also waybackmachine that has archived billions of websites from 1996. http://www.archive.org/web/web.php The site is painfully slow, but it can get back websites that have gone away. HTtrack is free - free to download and use. It is described as: "It allows you to download a World Wide Web site from the Internet to a local directory, building recursively all directories, getting HTML, images, and other files from the server to your computer. HTTrack arranges the original site's relative link-structure. Simply open a page of the "mirrored" website in your browser, and you can browse the site from link to link, as if you were viewing it online." Waybackmachine has the following description: "Browse through over 150 billion web pages archived from 1996 to a few months ago. To start surfing the Wayback, type in the web address of a site or page where you would like to start, and press enter. Then select from the archived dates available. The resulting pages point to other archived pages at as close a date as possible." Hope this helps someone. Alan. John Hogg wrote: > There are programs to download web sites. I have done several of those > where persons are deceased and am trying to get permission to publish > publically like Rootsweb > > I have enough disk space to download some if you have some specific names > > Guess I asked for that > > I personally wont miss the Geocities advertising > > > > > > ------------- > Our community web-site: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~cotyroneireland > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to COTYRONEIRELAND-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > >