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Subject:	Have a little time, want to perhaps help Katrina victims out?
Newsgroups:	lugnet.off-topic.geek
Date:	Sun, 4 Sep 2005 18:50:06 GMT
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There are a LOT of different missing persons databases out there, making it hard to search them all if you're a relative or one of the missing, so someone came up with the idea of consolidating the info. See: http://192.122.183.218/wiki/index.php/PeopleFinderVolunteer for info and key in some data if you want to. Do some checking first of course, but it seems legit and useful to me. If you work carefully, transcribing a page of entries (25) will take you a half hour, and might help reunite some people. you'll have to register at that wiki to mark the page you're transcribing to avoid duplication... Hope that helps.

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		Re: Have a little time, want to perhaps help Katrina victims out?
(...) So many people volunteered to help with this that the load from many many simultaneous connections apparently took the New Orleans Network (where the data is being collated) DB server down, they're upgrading and said they'd be back up soonish. (...) (19 years ago, 4-Sep-05, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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