The Chief <[email protected]> wrote: : On Aug 23, 7:10?am, Dennis Ahern <[email protected]> wrote: :> Daniel Sullivan <[email protected]> wrote: :> :> : Has anyone ever run across the meaning of a robin or a lizard above :> : the crest of a coat of arms? These are both depicted above the :> : Sullivan-Beare Crest. I've sent requests to various "experts" in the :> : field of Arms. However, to date, I have received no responses. :> :> See: ? ?http://www2.smumn.edu/uasal/welcome.html :> ? ? ? ? Irish Nobility, Heraldry, and Genealogy : Dennis, : You never check these links you throw out, do you? And in : any case, referring a question such as this to such a site is : misleading. : Regards, : The Chief No, I do not. I only know that at one time I had saved the link as having some value to Irish researchers. Sometimes websites die or change their address. I do not constantly monitor their status. When someone gets back to me that a link is broken I take a look and see if I can track it down. One method I use to do this is search for the old url on the Wayback Machine at the Internet Archive. There you can usually find several iterations of the missing page as it existed at various times. Given that you have expressed the opinion that this particular site is misleading, I assume you have already done this, else how could you express an opinion. In which case I would expect you to qualify that statement by explaining why the recommended site is unlikely to be of any value. Or do you just enjoy denigrating the efforts of others without contributing anything yourself? See http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www2.smumn.edu/uasal/welcome.html -dja
Thanks again Denis, for the hundreth time. I had trimmed your URL back to the edu/ , Saint Mary's University of Minnesota, and searched for the article from there. After a long circuitous search I found the article. BUT you introduced me to a remarkable new site that I never knew existed, the Wayback Machine at the Internet Archive, that brought me to the article in a flash. Furthermore you introduced me to the Internet Archive site that is an interesting site to explore. Again, I can't thank you enough for all the information I have obtained from you over the decades. josephum On Aug 24, 2008, at 9:37 AM, Dennis Ahern wrote: > http://www2.smumn.edu/uasal/welcome.html