IP (Newfoundland Geneological group)

Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1999 19:53:30 -0400
From: Mark Rushton <Mark@chebucto.ns.ca>
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>Date:  Sun, 19 Sep 1999
>From:  crant@ns.sympatico.ca (B. Crant)
>To:  ip-help@chebucto.ns.ca
>Subject: Re: Infomation Provider
>
>Hi;
>
>I am writing to ask what are your requirements to become and information
>provider, we now have that status with InfoNET at Memorial University in
>St. John's, NF, but are looking for other servers to expand, since we do
>develop a large amount of Information. I think we used about 25 meg. at
>InfoNET and then Wordplay a book store in St. John's gave us 50, which
>we also filled. This information consist of Historical and Genealogical
>Data related to Newfoundland, including the 1921 Census, 1864-65 and
>1871 Directories of Newfoundland and much more. We are now looking to
>complete the 1898 and start on the 1904 Directory of Newfoundland, which
>requires about 10 meg of disk space. We feel that spreading the
>information on various servers is the proper thing to do since 75% of
>the traffic at InfoNET comes from the data we supplied and that adding
>more would over burden them and Wordplay is really not that reliable.
>I note that you say Atlantic Canada, rather than Maritime Canada, so
>that's why we ask you, since Newfoundland is part of Atlantic Canada.
>Now the bottom line for us is we really never formed any legal formation
>in this group of three people that are involved as one myself lives in
>Nova Scotia, another in Florida and the other in Alberta. This makes it
>to difficult as volunteers, we simply acquire the info, then ask the
>hundreds of Volunteers to type it and they pay for copies and postage
>and we do the rest as far as getting it on the internet, sort of loose
>knit, so we couldn't actually sign any papers that required a legal
>affiliation, although we are considering applying for registration as a
>non-profit organization with the NS or NF government.
>The bottom line is would we "Newfoundland's Grand Banks" qualify as
>Information Providers within your organization and if so what route
>should we take as we don't have any funding.
>
>Thanks in Advance!
>--
>Bill Crant, PO Box 86, 24 Lorna Crt., Elmsdale, NS B0N 1M0
>Phone (902) 883-8634
>Founder - Newfoundland's Grand Banks
>http://www.infonet.st-johns.nf.ca/project21/
>or http://www.wordplay.com/ngb/
>

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