If you click on the link to GPP software <http://gpp.jlconsulting.com/> it takes you to a page that (1) says they are no longer supporting the software (2) lists some states for which there are pages with actual tombstone photos. The "auto resizing" promised on upload resizes the photos to fuzzy and barely legible. One of the photos I checked was 11.67k... not much threat of having anything resaleable in the future! Not exactly what I would want to find if I was looking for my GGrandfather's stone. I agree with Elaine. If they won't put a NAME on the site, then what are they hiding? Suzie txfannin On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 6:15 PM, jimmy <jimmy@txsanpatricio.org> wrote: > Whois shows Jeff Lowe of JL Consulting in Cedar Rapids Iowa owns the > domain. Now, does that mean it his site or did he create for someone > since he is a web consultant, I have no idea. Kind of similar to Mr > Holt "owning" txgenweb.org. > > Yes it is new, domain was created March 16, 2009. Copyright is 1 of 2 > things... 1) make it look like it's been around longer than it has, or > most likely 2) the footer is a copy & paste and he just simply forgot to > change it. I suspect we've all done that!! > > As for email address, you can always send a message in the contact us > form and ask who is running the site, etc. Actually a "contact us" form > is the best method for contacting from a website. Everyone can use it, > but spambots cannot cultivate any addresses. Mail to links and such are > not useful if a visitor does not have a mail client on their computer. > > jimmy > > > > Elaine wrote: > > There is something about this "new" site that bothers me. > > http://texastombstones.org/ > > > > If it is new, why does the copyright say 2003-2009? And why can you not > > find a name anywhere for who "ownes" the site, or a name to call them > > when you contact them? And it is obviously so new they don't have any > > names in the database because when you search for Jones or Smith or any > > other name, it returns no results. So if it is that new, how can it > > have been copyrighted since 2003 yet contain no info? > > > > They don't know how to spell TXGenWeb either. LOL > > > > If we can't determine who has the site, then how do we know what will be > > done with the info we submit? Will it be sold in books, on cds, or be > > placed in some places database, such as Ancestry? They won't even give > > so much as an email address. > > > > No thanks. Think I will pass until they decided to at least give their > > info to the public. This site made me very suspicious. > > > > Elaine > > > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > TXGEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message >