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Re: Have a little time, want to perhaps help Katrina victims out?
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Sun, 4 Sep 2005 21:35:14 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Larry Pieniazek wrote:
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.

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.

++Lar



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  Re: Have a little time, want to perhaps help Katrina victims out?
 
(...) Server is back up, and something like 15-20,000 free form records (the more automated ones are being scraped rather than hand transcribed) have been transcribed already by volunteers, but there's lots more to do yet. If you want to help, (...) (19 years ago, 5-Sep-05, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.general)  

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  Have a little time, want to perhaps help Katrina victims out?
 
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: (URL) for info and key in some data if (...) (19 years ago, 4-Sep-05, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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