Lindsay Graham wrote: > There was a brief exchange about this web site on GenANZ a month or so > ago, and it seemed that very little was known about this site. > > I had found the site last December and left a message asking for > information on a person I found listed on their database. I forgot all > about it and never looked at the site again, until the message below > arrived today!! When I tried to leave a comment at the URL that > namessite gave me, all I got was an error message. > > It seems very clear to me that the information shown below has been > copied direct from the Ryerson Index which is, of course, available to > everybody free of charge. > While I've not seen any suggestion that namessite is going to start > charging for information supplied, the web site has advertising links to > some pretty suss-looking USA sites that do charge for similar information. > > Not a web site that I would recommend or use again. Anybody else had > experience with it? > > Lindsay Graham > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Followup on your namessite.com.au request > Date: 19 Sep 09 22:00:25 > From: Admin <admin@namessite.com.au> > To: Lindsay Graham<LDGraham@aapt.net.au> > > > Dear Lindsay Graham > The following information is available to assist you with your request > that you sent to http://www.namessite.com.au on the 21-DEC-08. > Type of Notice: Death > Published Date: 03JUL1985 > Publication: SYDNEY MORNING HERALD > > For this record, this is all the details we currently have. You will > need to go to the source for further information > Please update the following link to close off this request. > http://db.namessite.com.au/names/ <snipped by LDG> > Please do not reply to this email, it has been sent from an un monitored > mailbox. > > We have not been able to find anything this site does that is not already freely available. Paul