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These Terms of Service (the 'Agreement') are an agreement between you - the user of our hosting and related services (collectively, the 'Services'), and Idca Hosting, in association with LiquidNet US LLC, a US company headquartered in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and LiquidNet Ltd., a UK company headquartered in London, UK. All billing and hosting services are rendered by LiquidNet US LLC and LiquidNet Ltd. (billing operations will be handled here). Legal details about the two companies can be found in the 'Customer Service Contact Details' section of this document.
For the sake of brevity, Idca Hosting, LiquidNet US LLC and LiquidNet Ltd. will be referred to as 'We', 'Us', 'Our' and 'Service Provider' in this document.
When signing up for a Dedicated server hosting account with the Service Provider, the Customer agrees to abide by the rules and provisions explicated in these Dedicated Terms of Service, as well as all their coherent policies (Order Verification Policy, Acceptable Use Policy, etc.) mentioned herein.
The Customer of our Services should also be aware that when signing up for a Dedicated server hosting account with the Service Provider, he/or she agrees to position data on our servers and make it accessible to the wide internet public. In this respect, the Customer understands and agrees that it is beyond the power of the Service Provider to restrict any public access to this data and guarantee the security of the Customer's files. The Customer, therefore, is completely in charge of protecting his/her web content on our Dedicated servers and should consider carefully each piece of information before uploading it to his/her newly allocated Dedicated server space. We highly recommend that Customers avoid publishing online personal data that could be abused.
The Service Provider shall provide its Services to You - the Customer - under the Terms and Conditions explicated in this Service Agreement. The Agreement is intended to keep the integrity of both the Service Provider and the Customer and to protect both parties from liability. This Service Agreement will be enforced to ensure the speed, power, performance, and reliability of our Services.
The Service Agreement, together with the Order Form, the Acceptable Use Policy (AUP), and any other policies or agreements mentioned in this document, constitute the whole act of convention between the Service Provider and the Customer.
Upon submitting of the online order form, the Customer agrees to abide by our Order Verification Policy and the following provisions:
- The payment of the Dedicated server hosting service is set up on a monthly basis. The Customer agrees to pay for the rendered Dedicated server hosting services in advance for each monthly service term.
- Non-Payment of the service shall result in a immediate service disconnection. Customers failing to secure payment by the time of the due date will incur service interruption. The data hosted on the Dedicated server will be kept for one month, after that it will be permanently deleted.
- Setup fees and monthly service fees are non-refundable. The Customer agrees to a no-refund policy in advance.
The Service Provider guarantees 99.9% network uptime and server stability. This, however, does not refer to problems stemming from:
- Server Hardware Breakdown;
- User error(s) or purposeful interruption(s) of the user service (e.g. if the client shuts his/her own server down, the Service Provider is not responsible for the downtime);
- Failure due to software that is not explicitly supported by the Service Provider. If a hardware crash provoked by the Customer consequently happens, the Service Provider is beyond the control and responsibility for the resulting downtime.
For more information, please refer to our Service Level Guarantees.
Each Customer will get a default backup space quota of 100 GB, which they can avail of at any given moment.
Additionally, each Google Drive and/or Dropbox account owner is entitled to another 100 GB of backup space.
A 50 GB backup storage option is available as part of our Managed Services package as well.
For newly signed up clients - the Services are activated only after our Sales Department gets in touch with the Customer over the phone to verify the payment details (this is required due to the high fraud activity spreading online, and in order to prevent fraudulent account usage). The payment verification procedure is obligatory and if we fail to approve a transaction within 48 hours of the payment submission, the funds will be credited back to the payer and the order will be canceled.
For existing customers - the services for existing Customers, including upgrade services and renewals, are activated immediately after our Sales Department receives the according service payment.
Dedicated Server Accounts - The newly-created Dedicated server hosting accounts with the Service Provider are valid for 1 month. They can be renewed on a monthly basis, i.e. for another month that will be added to the official expiration date of the Dedicated server account.
Domain Name Registrations/Transfers - the Service Provider offers for registration/transfer all TLDs (Top-Level Domains) displayed in the table below. A domain name can be purchased either at sign up together with the Dedicated server hosting account (at a regular or PROMOTIONAL price) or separately (later on) as an upgrade from the Customer's Dedicated management account. The Customer agrees to abide by the Service Provider's Domain Name Registration Agreement and Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy. The table below displays the minimum and maximum registration periods, as well as the annual NON-PROMOTIONAL prices of all TLDs:
tld min/max period of registration @ min period price .academy 1-10 years @ $43.00 per year .ae 1-5 years @ $53.00 per year .agency 1-10 years @ $33.50 per year .asia 1-10 years @ $30.00 per year .at 1 years @ $30.00 per year .bargains 1-10 years @ $41.50 per year .be 1 years @ $20.00 per year .biz 1-10 years @ $27.50 per year .business 1-10 years @ $20.00 per year .ca 1-10 years @ $32.50 per year .cafe 1-10 years @ $46.50 per year .capital 1-10 years @ $71.00 per year .cc 1-10 years @ $45.00 per year .center 1-10 years @ $32.50 per year .ch 1 years @ $30.00 per year .cheap 1-10 years @ $41.50 per year .church 1-10 years @ $50.00 per year .club 1-10 years @ $30.00 per year .cn 1-10 years @ $24.50 per year .co 1-5 years @ $50.00 per year .co.il 1 years @ $45.00 per year .co.nz 1-10 years @ $35.00 per year .co.uk 1-10 years @ $16.00 per year .co.za 1 years @ $25.00 per year .coach 1-10 years @ $66.50 per year .codes 1-10 years @ $66.50 per year .com 1-10 years @ $21.50 per year .com.au 1-5 years @ $20.00 per year .com.cn 1-10 years @ $24.50 per year .com.mx 1-5 years @ $90.00 per year .com.tw 1-10 years @ $50.00 per year .company 1-10 years @ $21.00 per year .computer 1-10 years @ $43.50 per year .consulting 1-10 years @ $49.00 per year .cool 1-10 years @ $43.00 per year .coupons 1-10 years @ $63.00 per year .de 1 years @ $23.50 per year .deals 1-10 years @ $50.00 per year .digital 1-10 years @ $40.00 per year .dk 1-3,5 years @ $50.00 per year .education 1-10 years @ $38.50 per year 1-10 years @ $35.00 per year .engineering 1-10 years @ $66.50 per year .enterprises 1-10 years @ $43.00 per year .es 1-5 years @ $20.00 per year .estate 1-10 years @ $43.00 per year .eu 1-10 years @ $15.00 per year .events 1-10 years @ $43.00 per year .expert 1-10 years @ $66.50 per year .express 1-10 years @ $43.00 per year .family 1-10 years @ $36.00 per year .farm 1-10 years @ $43.00 per year .fi 1-5 years @ $30.00 per year .fitness 1-10 years @ $43.00 per year .forsale 1-10 years @ $41.00 per year .foundation 1-10 years @ $40.00 per year .fr 1 years @ $20.00 per year .fun 1-10 years @ $42.00 per year .fyi 1-10 years @ $30.00 per year .games 1-10 years @ $39.00 per year .gr 2 years @ $60.00 per year .group 1-10 years @ $25.00 per year .guru 1-10 years @ $50.00 per year .host 1-10 years @ $115.00 per year .ie 1-10 years @ $40.00 per year .in 1-10 years @ $25.00 per year .info 1-10 years @ $29.00 per year .international 1-10 years @ $36.00 per year .irish 1-10 years @ $23.00 per year .it 1 years @ $20.00 per year .jp 1 years @ $50.00 per year .land 1-10 years @ $43.00 per year .life 1-10 years @ $41.00 per year .ltd 1-10 years @ $34.50 per year .marketing 1-10 years @ $46.50 per year .me 1-10 years @ $30.00 per year .me.uk 1-10 years @ $16.00 per year .media 1-10 years @ $46.50 per year .mobi 1-10 years @ $40.50 per year .money 1-10 years @ $43.00 per year .mx 1-5 years @ $90.00 per year .name 1-10 years @ $22.50 per year .net 1-10 years @ $25.00 per year .net.au 1-5 years @ $17.50 per year .net.cn 1-10 years @ $24.50 per year .net.nz 1-10 years @ $35.00 per year .network 1-10 years @ $38.00 per year .news 1-10 years @ $33.00 per year .ninja 1-10 years @ $37.50 per year .nl 1 years @ $24.55 per year .no 1 years @ $30.00 per year .nu 1-10 years @ $30.00 per year .online 1-10 years @ $50.00 per year .org 1-10 years @ $25.00 per year .org.au 1-5 years @ $22.50 per year .org.cn 1-10 years @ $24.50 per year .org.nz 1-10 years @ $35.00 per year .org.uk 1-10 years @ $16.00 per year .partners 1-10 years @ $70.00 per year .party 1-10 years @ $50.00 per year .ph 1-2,5,10 years @ $88.00 per year .photography 1-10 years @ $39.50 per year .photos 1-10 years @ $32.50 per year .pl 1-3 years @ $50.00 per year .plus 1-10 years @ $43.00 per year .press 1-10 years @ $80.00 per year .pro 1-10 years @ $28.00 per year .productions 1-10 years @ $43.00 per year .properties 1-10 years @ $43.00 per year .pt 1,3,5 years @ $30.00 per year .qa 1-5 years @ $40.00 per year .recipes 1-10 years @ $57.50 per year .rentals 1-10 years @ $43.00 per year .repair 1-10 years @ $43.00 per year .rocks 1-10 years @ $24.00 per year .run 1-10 years @ $34.00 per year .sale 1-10 years @ $43.00 per year .school 1-10 years @ $43.00 per year .se 1-10 years @ $30.00 per year .services 1-10 years @ $50.00 per year .site 1-10 years @ $50.00 per year .social 1-10 years @ $43.00 per year .software 1-10 years @ $43.50 per year .solutions 1-10 years @ $37.50 per year .space 1-10 years @ $36.50 per year .store 1-10 years @ $70.00 per year .support 1-10 years @ $33.50 per year .systems 1-10 years @ $37.50 per year .team 1-10 years @ $41.00 per year .tech 1-10 years @ $65.00 per year .technology 1-10 years @ $36.50 per year .today 1-10 years @ $33.50 per year .top 1-10 years @ $25.00 per year .tv 1-10 years @ $50.00 per year .tw 1-10 years @ $50.00 per year .uk 1-10 years @ $16.00 per year .us 1-10 years @ $20.00 per year .website 1-10 years @ $42.50 per year .wine 1-10 years @ $62.00 per year .works 1-10 years @ $43.50 per year .world 1-10 years @ $43.50 per year .ws 1-10 years @ $45.00 per year .xyz 1-10 years @ $23.00 per year .zone 1-10 years @ $43.00 per year
Domain Renewals - Even though the Service Provider will provide regular reminders about the expiration of the domain name(s) registered through the company, it is your obligation to keep track of when the registration service(s) will expire. Should you fail to renew a domain name before its expiration date, the domain name will be suspended or canceled.
- After a domain name's expiration date, there is a period of 30 days, in which the domain name can be renewed. Certain domain name extensions do not have such a period, so leaving a domain name to expire before attempting a renewal is at your own discretion.
After the 30-day renewal period has passed, some domain names (as per TLD Registry Policies) enter a so-called Redemption Grace Period. A domain name which has entered a Redemption Grace Period can still be renewed. However, additional fees will be added to the domain's renewal price. You can find the official information regarding the Redemption Grace Period on ICANN's page: http://www.icann.org/registrars/redemption-proposal-14feb02.htm.
If a Redemption Grace Period is applicable for a specific domain name, it will last between 30 and 42 days.
- After the Redemption Grace Period (or the renewal period – if RGP is not applicable) has passed, domain name(s) can be: provided to third parties; the Service Provider may choose to auction the domain name(s); the Service Provider may return them in the public registration pool. All of these actions can be carried out at any time and without your consent.
We strongly recommend that Customers renew their domain registrations before their domain names are placed into redemption period. After a domain name transits in redemption period, we are not able to prevent its zone files from being removed from the DNS system, and any web site and associated services will cease working.
We can assist Customers in retrieving their domain names only if the domain names were registered with us. Customers will be charged a REDEMPTION FEE of $270.00 USD for each domain registration renewal. If the domain name was registered with another registrar, the Customer needs to contact that registrar for more information regarding its retrieving.
In order to cancel a Dedicated server account, the Customer must send a support ticket to the Service Provider's Sales Department via his/her Dedicated management account and provide any authentication credentials requested by the Service Provider. Any other form of cancellation request will not be accepted.
Dedicated server hosting accounts - The Dedicated server accounts are set up on a monthly prepay basis. Customers may cancel their accounts at any time, however they will not be entitled to a refund for the unused period of the prepaid month, since these services do NOT include Money Back Guarantee. Any incentives offered to the Customers upon sign-up will be also canceled.
Domain Name Registrations/Transfers - Domain name registrations/transfers are also treated as non-refundable services and cannot be canceled or refunded after activated upon Customer request. The domain name owner will have access to a domain management account, and will be able to transfer the domain name to another registrar.
Chargebacks are not considered as a way of refunding. Any Customer who initiates a credit card chargeback in response to a bill or order placed with the Service Provider will be subject to full investigation.
When signing up for a Dedicated server hosting account with the Service Provider, the Customer agrees to the terms and conditions explicated in this document (and its coherent policies). Thus, the Service Provider, as well as the Service Provider's authorized retailers (PayPal, WorldPay, 2CheckOut), will resort to these documents as an evidence for the Customer's agreement, especially in the event that a Customer sends a chargeback inquiry based on points that he/or she first accepted, but is trying now to refute.If/When a chargeback report is received, the first step of the Service Provider's Customer Care team will be to try to contact the Customer. Meanwhile, the Customer's Dedicated server account will be suspended (in order to protect our system from fraudulent activity and misuse) and will remain suspended until the reasons for the chargeback have been clarified and decision has been taken for according action.
If the chargeback has occurred due to some misunderstanding, a reverse payment procedure will be initiated with the authorized retailers and eventually the Dedicated server account will be re-activated.If the Customer has sent a chargeback request based on groundless argumentations (according to the Service Provider's own judgment and these Dedicated Terms of Service), then a dispute will be started with the authorized retailers in which the Dedicated Terms of Service and the AUP of the Service Provider will serve as evidence of the Customer's agreement. The retailers then, taking into consideration all provisions in these legal documents, will decide whether the Customer has had sufficient grounds for the chargeback or the Service Provider has the right to a reverse payment.
In case that the chargeback originates from a fraudulent user (end-client) and no reverse payment procedure can be activated, then the respective Dedicated server account will remain suspended and a $30 USD fee will be withdrawn from the commission of the reseller (the client of our Free Reseller Hosting Program) whose client's account (the end-client) has been the reason for the chargeback (in order to be covered the fees imposed to the Service Provider from our authorized retailers for the claimed unauthorized transaction).
A collection of free hosting reseller tools : a free billing software (ClientExec) and a free domain reseller account is available with each Dedicated Server hosting package. All bonuses are given per customer's request.
In consideration of their use of the Service, Customers agree to:
- Provide true, accurate, current and complete information about themselves as prompted by the registration form of the Service. Maintain and promptly update their registration data to keep it true, accurate, current and complete. If the Customer provides any information that is untrue, inaccurate, not current or incomplete, or the Service Provider has reasonable grounds (at its sole discretion) to suspect that such information is untrue, inaccurate, not current or incomplete, the Service Provider has the right to suspend or terminate the Customer's account and refuse any and all current or future use of the Service (or any portion thereof). If untrue details are used in order to avoid VAT the customer can be held responsible by the respective national tax collecting agency.
- When introducing any changes to their contact details, Customers are obliged to notify the Service Provider in the course of 10 business days after the changes become valid. The introduction of changes should be done online through the customers' Dedicated Management Account, not via e-mail.
Customers will receive a password and account designation upon completing of the
registration process of the Service. Customers are responsible for keeping the
confidentiality of their passwords and accounts, and are fully responsible for
all activities that occur under that password or account. Customers agree to:
- immediately notify the Service Provider about any unauthorized use of their password or account or any other breach of security;
- ensure that they safely exit (log out from) their account at the end of each session.
- If a Dedicated server hosting account is registered with details different than those of the person who paid for the account, and in the case of any dispute, the Service Provider will take the side of the person who paid for the account and shall not provide access to any other person, since - a hosting account owner is and will be considered to be the credit card /PayPal account holder.
The client is obliged not to delete the Service Provider's SSH key, which provides root access
to the server. The root access will be used by the Service Provider in 2 cases only:
- When there is a problem with the server and, as a result, certain services do not run properly - the Service Provider may fix it as he sees fit.
- When there is a report from a third party concerning some sort of abuse, for example, spam, the Service Provider can identify the spammer and suspend him, of which case the client who is in charge of the server will be duly informed. The client, on the other hand, is obliged not to let problems of such kind happen again, whether or not involving that particular abuser. If there are repeated abuse reports - the Service Provider will charge the client $20 for each report, because the latter is obviously unwilling to assist in terminating the abuse actions on the given server.
The client is also obliged not to terminate the SNMP service activated by the Service Provider to keep track of the used IPs on the server. Upon a termination of the SNMP service - the Service Provider will inform the client and the client will have to reactivate the service in 48 hours. If the client does not cooperate - the Service Provider can suspend the client's access to the server at his own discretion.
Тhe Service Provider expressly bans the use of any Dedicated server hardware or software for trying to illegally access another hosted machine or network. Customers may not attempt to gain unauthorized access to any of the Service Provider's Services, other accounts, computer systems or networks connected to any of the Service Provider's Services, through hacking, password mining or other means of close nature. Customers may not obtain or attempt to obtain any materials or information through any means not intentionally made available by the Service Provider's Services. For more detailed information regarding all prohibited uses of our server network, please closely review next chapter of these Terms and our AUP (Acceptable Use Policy). If you still have inquiries over the matter, feel free to contact any of our Customer Care representatives.
Server content MUST comply with the parameters stated in this TOS and our Acceptable Use Policy. Web content requirements exclude the publication of illegal content or content considered inappropriate otherwise. If any of the Service Provider's Services are used for the illegal purpose of SPAM or UCE, they will be instantly terminated. Customers are solely responsible for the content of their messages. Using the Service Provider's Services in connection with surveys, contests, pyramid schemes, chain letters, junk e-mail, spamming or any duplicative or unsolicited messages (commercial or other) is prohibited. In this light, the Service Provider expressly forbids any breach of Federal, State or Local regulation, including, but not limited to, the transmission of: copyrighted material, material legally judged to be threatening or obscene, and material protected by trade secrets. The Service Provider's Dedicated servers CANNOT be used for the propagation, distribution, housing, processing, storing, or handling in any way of lewd, obscene, adult or pornographic material, or any other material which is considered impermissible by the Service Provider's Dedicated Terms of Service (this document) and the Acceptable Use Policy (AUP).
As a condition for Customer use of the Service Provider's Services, you - the Customer, agree that you will not use the Services for any purpose that is unlawful or prohibited by these terms, conditions, and notices, and our Acceptable Use Policy (AUP). The Service Provider's Dedicated servers can be used explicitly and only for legal purposes, and each attempt for taking indecent advantage of the servers, inconsistent with the rules, will be immediately counteracted. The Service Provider reserves the right at any time to disclose any information, as the Service Provider deems necessary, to satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process or governmental request, or to edit, refuse to post or to remove from the Services any information or materials, in whole or in part, in the sole discretion of the Service Provider.
When buying a Dedicated server for the purpose of creating an e-commerce online store or related e-commerce activities website, the Customer agrees to be fully responsible for the development, operation and maintenance of his/her web site/ online store and e-commerce activities within that website. The Customer is the only one in charge of approving, processing and filling client orders and taking care of client requests or complaints. The Customer is also the only one in charge of the payment or satisfaction of any and all taxes related to his/her web site and online store. The Customer bears the responsibility for ensuring the security and confidentiality of any clients' data (including, without limitation, customer credit card numbers) that he/she may receive in connection with his/her web site or online store.
Each Customer is in charge of all products and services, as well as all contents and materials appearing online, including:
- the accuracy and relevance of Customer Content, and content and material showcased in the Customer store or on its products;
- certainty that the Customer Content and content and materials appearing in the Customer store or on its products do not violate or infringe upon the rights of any person;
- certainty that the Customer Content and the content and materials appearing in the Customer store or on its products are not calumnitous or somehow illegal.
Each Customer guarantees to the Service Provider that he/she owns the right to use the Customer Content and its material, including all text, graphics, sound, music, video, programming, scripts and applets. Each Customer warrants to the Service Provider that the use, reproduction, propagation and transmission of the Customer Content and any information and materials contained inside do not, and will not:
- infringe or abuse any copyright, patent, trademark, trade secret or any other proprietary right of a third party;
- break any criminal law or manifest false advertising, unfair competition, vilification, privacy intrusion; violate a right of publicity or violate any other law or regulation.
Each Customer empowers the Service Provider to reproduce, copy, use and propagate all and any part of the Customer Content for ensuring and operating the Services. The Service Provider is granted the right to estimate, at its own discretion, the extent to which these operations may be carried out.
The Service Provider will thoroughly scrutinize all received orders and decide, to its own discretion, which of them do not comply with the officially stated requirements for use of the Service Provider's Dedicated servers. The Service Provider reserves the right to refuse Service to unlawful parties.
The Service Provider reserves the right to discontinue the Service provision to any subscriber that the Service Provider deems, at its sole discretion, has violated any condition of the Service explicated in this Terms of Service and/or the Acceptable Use Policy.
Notices, including notices concerning breach of this Agreement will be sent either to the e-mail address provided by the Customer at sign up, OR mailed by first class mail to the postal address that the Customer has on file with the Service Provider. In both cases, delivery shall be deemed to have been made five (5) days after the notice has been sent. Notices from the Customer to the Service Provider should be sent to the address provided on the Service Provider's website.
The Service Provider guarantees highest level of Customer Care service round the clock. If you feel dissatisfied with any aspect of the Service, feel free to make use of our complaints procedure detailed below.
In order to file a complaint, please send us an email to [email protected], specifying the nature of the problem you are experiencing. Please, provide as many details about your particular case as possible. The more we know about the situation, the better, prompt and adequate our resolution will be.
Here are our steps of addressing every single complaint:
- The Service Provider will confirm receipt of your complaint in writing, confirming that the complaint will be addressed without delay. The Service Provider reserves the right to refuse to investigate a complaint that is obviously frivolous, abusive or offensive.
- A Service Provider's Customer Care representative will review your situation, look for an appropriate solution and inform you of the timeframe within which a response should be expected.
- If the Service Provider's Customer Care representative can't resolve your complaint within the pre-announced period, your complaint will be escalated to a Customer Care manager.
- If the Customer Care manager can't resolve your complaint, as well, it will be forwarded to the Company Director, who will investigate the case to ensure that all necessary measures have been taken and will respond in writing within two working days, and reply with a solution within five working days.
- An alternative complaint method is submitting a fax to the following number: 510.868.6446
Any way of indecent treatment towards a Service Provider's Customer Care employee will be considered as totally inappropriate and unacceptable. Each Customer is expected to communicate in an utterly polite and professional manner with the Service Provider's employees regarding any request for help or consultation via e-mail, chat, phone or through our Ticket Desk Support System. Each Customer is expected to avoid any form of emotional outburst or inappropriate language, or any other attempt to be undermined the importance of good ethics in communication and human relations. Any act of close nature, or other type of offensive, abusive, disrespectful or condescending behavior - oral, written, or delivered by a second party - to members of the Service Provider's Customer Care stuff will be interpreted as a breach of this TOS. The Service Provider reserves the right to assess at its sole discretion which behavior is to be considered as a violation of the hereby stated rule and agreement, and to undertake according actions.
Technical Support
Due to the specificity of the Service, Customers are fully in charge of the management and maintenance of their Dedicated servers. However, if they need assistance or want to leave this task to our highly-qualified administrators department, they can avail of our Fully Managed Support service available at a monthly fee of $30 USD. Additional software installation and troubleshooting, which are not included in the Managed Support Package will cost $60 USD.
Pre-sale and general questions
Customers may use any of the support options listed below:
- E-mail us using our Contact Us form
- Use our Live Chat
- Open a trouble ticket from the Customer's Dedicated management account. 1-hour support response is guaranteed!
Phone or Fax us at:
This Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of England.
Any controversy or claim arising out of or relating to this Agreement, or any breach of this Agreement, in excess of $250.00 USD will be settled in accordance with the commercial arbitration rules of the American Arbitration Association.
Failure to enforce any of the provisions of this Agreement shall in no way be considered to be a waiver of these provisions, or to affect in any way the validity of this Agreement. If one or more of the provisions contained in this Agreement are found to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable in any respect, the validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions shall remain in full force and effect.
The Customer agrees to indemnify the Service Provider, its management body and employees (each an "Indemnified Party") against any losses, claims, damages, liabilities, penalties, court actions, proceedings or judgments (collectively, "Losses") to which the Indemnified Party may become subject, and out of which Losses arise or relate to this Agreement or the Customer's use of the Services. The Customer agrees to reimburse the Indemnified Party for all legal and other expenses, including any attorney fees paid by the Indemnified Party in connection with investigating, defending or settling any Loss whether or not in connection with pending or threatened litigation in which the Indemnified Party is a party.
Force Majeure Circumstances - the Service Provider shall not be liable for any failure in the provision of the Services to the Customer resulting, directly or indirectly, from any (i) weather conditions and natural disasters, (ii) actions of any governmental or military authority, (iii) failure caused by telecommunications or Internet provider, or (iv)other force or occurrence beyond its control.
Damages & Losses - the Service Provider shall not be liable for (i) any indirect, incidental, special or consequential damages, OR for any loss of profits or loss of revenues resulting from the use of the Service Provider's Services by the Customer or any third parties, or (ii) any loss of data resulting from delays, non-deliveries or service interruptions.
Service Provision - the Service Provider provides the Services on an as-is basis, without any warranties, including but not limited to, implied warranties, merchantability, or fitness of the Services for any particular purpose. The Customer shall be solely responsible for the selection, use and suitability of the Services, and the Service Provider shall have no liability therefore.
Customers do not have the right to assign this Agreement without the explicit permission of the Service Provider. This Agreement shall be in force and effect to the total benefit of the Customer and the Service Provider and their successors and permitted assigns.
The Service Provider reserves the right to revise this document at any time, without prior notice. Customers are encouraged therefore to periodically review these Dedicated Terms of Service and the Acceptable Use Policy.


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By Justin Pope
Associated Press
It was a year of storms, of raging winds and rising waters, but also broader turbulence that strained our moorings. Our atmosphere, our politics, our economy , rarely in memory have they seemed in such constant agitation.
Our emotions, too. In the year's final weeks, amid a torrent of tears in a heartbroken Connecticut town, a rush of grief seemed to wash over all of us from the shooting deaths of 20 children and six adults in an elementary school, and of the shooter's mother in her home. The senselessness and loss plumbed depths of sorrow and outrage we had not felt, together, for many years.
But if 2012 battered us with floods and tempests, and seemed especially dark in its final days, it was also perhaps more distinctively a year of mornings after, when clouds parted and dawn's light fell upon altered landscapes.
Surveying the changes, we were sometimes sanguine, at other times distraught.
There were, of course, the storms themselves, taking not just ferocious but sometimes freakish forms. Americans saw an unusually warm winter, spring tornadoes, summer drought, and a band of concentrated, hurricane-scale thunderstorms that taught millions the word "derecho."
Autumn brought Hurricane Sandy and a wintry nor'easter that disrupted millions of lives and killed hundreds, many swept from their homes in communities with safe-sounding names like New York's Breezy Point and the Rockaways that unexpectedly entered the lexicon of global disaster zones.
When the waters did recede, they revealed a country perhaps one step readier to confront difficult questions: Is our planet changing, and are we responsible? Even more abruptly, the Connecticut killing spree seemed in one terrible day to bring the long-dormant issue of gun control to the political forefront.
Sandy may also have boosted President Barack Obama in the last days of a close-run re-election campaign that was nothing if not a storm itself , a seemingly endless $6 billion typhoon of negativity that simply exhausted Americans, particularly in a handful of swing states on whose airwaves it made landfall.
But it ended at last, and if the outcome seemed to affirm the status quo, it also laid bare a political topography reshaped by changing demographics.
Just over half the country, disproportionately the young and minority, celebrated Obama's re-election, and three states became the first to approve gay marriage at the ballot box. Among those on the losing side, older and whiter as a group, some were genuinely shocked by the result, and expressed sadness in the conviction that an America that felt familiar to them was slipping away.
After nearly half a decade, rays of sunlight at last shone on the American economy. Unemployment, though still uncomfortably high, fell below 8 percent for the first time in more than three years. Housing began to rebound. Though political gridlock threatened to undermine it, recovery seemed at last at hand.
Yet the flickering revival also illuminated how much may have changed forever. Factories were hiring again, but often couldn't find workers with the needed qualifications. A college degree was the increasingly unforgiving divider between the haves and have-nots, fueling anxiety over its rising price.
One 2012 study reached the remarkable conclusion that even during the depths of the worst recession in the lifetimes of most Americans, the number of jobs available to people with a bachelor's degree never stopped increasing. And even when the economy picked up in 2012, the number of available jobs for those with only a high school diploma continued to decline. In other words, for those with a college degree, the Great Recession never happened. For those without one, it may never end.
Amid great sorrow, there was no shortage of wondrous human achievement in 2012.
Felix Baumgartner, a 42-year-old former car mechanic from Austria, rode a balloon-tugged capsule to the edge of space. Then, as millions watched breathlessly online, he opened the hatch, paused momentarily, and stepped into the void. He tumbled for nine minutes and 24 miles, breaking the sound barrier, before deploying a parachute and landing safely in the New Mexico desert.
No less thrillingly to some, scientists in Switzerland tied the final string of a knot that explains the most elementary workings of the universe: the "standard model" of physics. With the words, "I think we have it," they announced with virtual certainty they had found the so-called Higgs boson "God particle." It was an answer to one of the most basic but bedeviling questions imaginable: Where does mass come from?
At the London Olympics, Jamaican Usain Bolt proved himself the greatest sprinter of all-time, and Baltimore swimmer Michael Phelps became the most decorated Olympian. But for the Americans, victory in the medal table was driven by women ,a reward, on the 40th anniversary of Title IX, for a broad-based culture of sports participation. The defining image: 16-year-old gymnast Gabby Douglas, suspended with seemingly impossible fluidity and grace at the apex of her jump from a balance beam, en route to the all-around gold medal.
British athletes also exceeded expectations, and after years of grumbling over costs and inconvenience, the hosts seemed actually to enjoy themselves. The opening ceremonies touched all the right notes, celebrating a multicultural nation sufficiently confident in its virtues of cleverness, artistry and humor to resist trying to outdo the Beijing extravaganza four years ago. From Mary Poppins to Monty Python, from a sky-diving queen to Mr. Bean, it was a palpable hit.
There were, as always, those who let us down. Lance Armstrong, the supposedly superhuman cyclist stripped of seven Tour de France titles, humiliated by a meticulous official report that painted him a cheat and a bully. Revered general and CIA director David Petraeus, taken down by an affair with a fawning biographer. Former Penn State football coach Jerry Sandusky, carted off to prison for 30-to-60 years for child sex abuse.
Internationally, there was no shortage of storms in 2012, though less in the way of resolution. Old enmities and grievances resurfaced in the Middle East, clouding the legacy of the 2011 Arab spring. The number of dead in the Syrian civil war passed 40,000. Israeli and Palestinian civilians suffered through another escalation of the conflict in Gaza.
In Libya, four Americans, including much-loved ambassador Chris Stevens, were killed in an attack on the Benghazi consulate that became yet another point of bitter political dispute in Washington.
The European Union accepted the Nobel Peace Prize, but its grand experiment with a single currency teetered. Greeks rioted against austerity, and anti-immigrant groups harking back to the continent's fascist past drew energy from the despair. Spain, Portugal and Italy struggled to right themselves and offer a way forward to an emerging generation that has never tasted opportunity.
Beneath the biggest headlines there were stories where one might spot distant clouds on the horizon , clouds with the potential, at least, to gather into storms.
In February, Congress set in motion planning to open U.S. civilian airspace to unmanned aircraft by 2015. Will domestic drones make possible heretofore unimaginable conveniences, transform our economy and make us safer? Or, as some fear, will they usher in a "surveillance society" where prying eyes above compromise the privacy of every home and back yard?
In September, China unveiled its first aircraft carrier. Will it herald an arms race and future conflict? Or does it merely highlight the wide military gap between the United States and any rival? And will China's slowing economy prove a manageable correction, or the first rumblings of an economic and political earthquake?
In November, in the magnificent but seemingly cursed Great Lakes region of East Africa, refugees again streamed past bodies of the dead, fleeing into the mountains. The city of Goma, Congo, fell to a few hundred rebels, allegedly supported by next-door Rwanda, as United Nations peacekeepers stood by. Would this prove merely another flare-up in a beautiful but crowded and long-suffering corner of the world? Or was it the re-ignition of a conflict that , unbeknownst to much of the world , was the deadliest on earth since World War II, claiming more than 5 million lives during the late 1990s and early 2000s?
Yes, some clouds did part in 2012. But there remained no dearth of the grieving and the suffering, on whom "the sky, it seems, would pour down stinking pitch", in the words of Shakespeare's famous take on tempests, and who anxiously awaited what the dawning light of 2013 would reveal.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI is investigating whether Donald Trump's associates coordinated with Russian officials in an effort to sway the 2016 presidential election, Director James Comey said Monday in an extraordinary public confirmation of a probe the president has refused to acknowledge, dismissed as fake news and blamed on Democrats.
In a bruising five-hour session, the FBI director also knocked down Trump's claim that his predecessor had wiretapped his New York skyscraper, an assertion that has distracted White House officials and frustrated fellow Republicans who acknowledge they've seen no evidence to support it.
The revelation of the investigation of possible collusion with Russians, and the first public confirmation of the wider probe that began last summer, came in a remarkable hearing by one branch of government examining serious allegations against another branch and the new president's election campaign.
Tight-lipped for the most part, Comey refused to offer details on the scope, targets or timeline for the FBI investigation, which could shadow the White House for months, if not years. The director would not say whether the probe has turned up evidence that Trump associates may have schemed with Russians during a campaign marked by email hacking that investigators believe was aimed at helping the Republican defeat Democrat Hillary Clinton.
"I can promise you," the FBI director vowed, "we will follow the facts wherever they lead."
Comey for the first time put himself publicly at odds with the president by contradicting a series of recent tweets from Trump that asserted his phones had been ordered tapped by President Barack Obama during the campaign.
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His confirmation of the Russia-links investigation was striking given the FBI's historic reluctance to discuss its work. But Comey said the intense public interest in the matter — and permission from the Justice Department — made it appropriate to do so.
Comey said the collusion inquiry began last July as part of a broader probe into Russian meddling in American politics, meaning Trump was elected president as associates remained under investigation for possible connections to Russia.
Clinton allies on Monday contrasted Comey's silence during the campaign with public comments he made last year when closing out an investigation into Clinton's email practices and then, shortly before Election Day, announcing that the probe would be revived following the discovery of additional emails. Many Democrats blame Comey's public updates with stoking worries about Clinton's trustworthiness and turning voters against her.
Comey acknowledged that "some folks may want to make comparisons to past instances" where he and other officials were more open, but he said those were about concluded investigations.
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Regardless of the outcome, the investigation is unquestionably an unwelcome distraction for an administration that has struggled to move past questions about ties to Russia. The White House tried anew Monday to distance itself from two former senior members of Trump's team, Paul Manafort and Michael Flynn, who have been under scrutiny for foreign contacts.
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Comey testified along with National Security Agency Director Michael Rogers, who also disputed allegations that British intelligence services could have been involved in such wiretapping. The White House last week pointed to a report of British involvement in an attempt to bolster the president's claim. The move only angered an ally.
Trump took to Twitter before Monday's hearing began, accusing Democrats of making up allegations about his campaign associates. He said Congress and the FBI should be going after media leaks and maybe even Clinton instead.
"The real story that Congress, the FBI and others should be looking into is the leaking of Classified information. Must find leaker now!" Trump tweeted early Monday as news coverage on the Russia allegations dominated the morning's cable news.
The president continued to tweet throughout the hearing, creating a unusual public conversation between the embattled president and his FBI director.
After Trump tweeted that the FBI and NSA had told Congress that Russia did not influence the electoral process, Comey disputed that description. The FBI has offered no opinion and has no view and no information on the potential impact on the election because that's not something the bureau has looked at, he said.
The president also claimed that Comey had said there was no evidence of collusion between his aides and Russia, though Comey said no such thing.
Trump also suggested, without evidence, that Clinton's campaign was in contact with Russia and had possibly thwarted a federal investigation. U.S. intelligence officials have not publicly raised the possibility of contacts between the Clintons and Moscow. Officials have said they believe Moscow had hacked into Democrats' computers in a bid to help Trump's election bid.
The panel's ranking Democrat, Rep. Adam Schiff of California, outlined a chronology that he said suggested frequent and troubling contacts between Trump associates and Russian intermediaries.
"Is it possible that all of these events and reports are completely unrelated and nothing more than a entirely unhappy coincidence?" he asked rhetorically. "Yes, it is possible. But it is also possible, maybe more than possible, that they are not coincidental, not disconnected and not unrelated."
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* [http://elsasserwurtzle.wordpress.com/boite-a-outils-du-genealogiste/telechargement/ Alsace/USA] with [https://elsasserwurtzle.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/emigrants-du-68-aux-usa-entre-1837-1870.pdf list of emigration from Alsace to USA] or [https://elsasserwurtzle.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/demandes-de-passeport-1793-1818.pdf passports from 1793 to 1818].
* [http://elsasserwurtzle.wordpress.com/boite-a-outils-du-genealogiste/telechargement/ Alsace/USA] with [https://elsasserwurtzle.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/emigrants-du-68-aux-usa-entre-1837-1870.pdf list of emigration from Alsace to USA] or [https://elsasserwurtzle.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/demandes-de-passeport-1793-1818.pdf passports from 1793 to 1818].
See also the [http://aad.archives.gov/aad/series-list.jsp?cat=GP44 US National Archives].
See also the [http://aad.archives.gov/aad/series-list.jsp?cat=GP44 US National Archives].
* [http://gallica.bnf.fr/dossiers/html/dossiers/FranceAmerique/en/D1/Fr1.htm America/France] is a bilingual digital library made available by the ''Bibliothèque nationale de France'' in partnership with the Library of Congress ''the great library of Washington''. It explores the history of the French presence in North America from the first decades of the 16th Century to the end of the 19th Century.
* [http://gallica.bnf.fr/dossiers/html/dossiers/FranceAmerique/en/D1/Fr1.htm America/France] is a bilingual digital library made available by the ''Bibliothèque nationale de France'' in partnership with the Library of Congress ''the great library of Washington''. It explores the history of the French presence in North America from the first decades of the 16th Century to the end of the 19th Century.
* [http://www.ancestramil.fr/ Ancestramil] provides useful informations about ancestors who were soldiers during their lifetime.
* [http://www.ancestramil.fr/ Ancestramil] provides useful informations about ancestors who were soldiers during their lifetime.
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This page contains resources and internet sites that may be of interest to genealogy enthusiasts. If you have a site you would like to add, please do so.
- 1 Genealogy organizations
- 2 Family information sites
- 3 General information sites
- 4 US resources
- 5 Australian sources
- 6 French resources
- 7 German information sites
Genealogy organizations
- Campbelltown District Family History Society Inc (NSW, Australia). We are a community organisation born out of the need to help others in our area learn how to do their genealogical research. We also raise money to help provide more resources in the local library's Family History Room.
- Cornwall Online Parish Clerks. This is an informal group of Genealogists who voluntarily assist others by doing look ups of U.K. records we have collected over the years. They call themselves "online parish clerks" because the major resources they use are the (ecclesiastical) parish records of births, deaths and marriages. The group concentrates on Cornwall.
- The WorldGenWeb Project is a non-profit, volunteer based organization dedicated to providing genealogical and historical records and resources for world-wide access.
Family information sites
- Ann Forbes (First Fleet Convict) and Descendants. This site is for Ann Forbes' descendants. Ann was a First Fleet Convict who arrived in Australia on the 'Prince of Wales' in 1788. There are now many thousands of descendants and quite a lot of us are very interested in her life, times and family.
General information sites
- FamilySearch.org is one of the main international sites for genealogy. It is operated by the CJCLDS. (beta form)
- GENUKI presents a large collection of genealogical information pages for England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, the Channel Islands, and the Isle of Man.
- RootsWeb is the Internet's oldest and largest FREE genealogical community.
- Wikipedia is a useful resource for sourcing place names and their histories. Text, maps and related images are available under the GNU Free Documentation License or a similar, freely distributable licence.
- Cyndi's List Over a quarter of a million genealogy related links.
- Rodovid.org is a MediaWiki-based genealogy site.
- WeRelate.org is a free wiki-based genealogy site covering people, families, places, sources, etc.
- Genealogy Wikia or "Familypedia" is a free wiki-based genealogy site covering individuals, families, places, sources, etc; includes substantial copying of Wikipedia material about genealogy and places and people, then enhancing it.
- Internet Archive purposes include offering permanent access for researchers, historians, scholars, people with disabilities, and the general public to historical collections that exist in digital format.
- ftp genealogy is an old repository with softwares and other files related to genealogy.
- Hathi Trust Digital Library is a very large-scale collaborative repository of digital content from research libraries including content digitized via the Google Books project and Internet Archive digitization initiatives, as well as content digitized locally by libraries.
- WikiSource is an online library of free content publications, collected and maintained by a community. Collaborative transcriptions are welcome.
- Family Tree Forum is a free genealogy forum; also contains extensive Reference Library with research guides & external links, as well as Surname Database, Timeline, online magazine, Costume Gallery, plus much more!
US resources
- The National US Archives and Archival databases.
- Online libraries and archives that focus mainly on localized, regional, and U.S. history, but it also includes larger collections, eText and eBook repositories, and a short list of directories to help you continue your research efforts.
- The Global Gateway - part of the Library of US Congress - is a multimedia digital library, built with partners from around the world.
- The Library of US Congress has one of the world's premier collections of U.S. and foreign genealogical and local historical publications. The Library's genealogy collection began as early as 1815 with the purchase of Thomas Jefferson's library. See also the National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections (NUCMC)
- CastleGarden is a free site offers access to an extraordinary database of information on 11 million immigrants from 1820 through 1892, the year Ellis Island opened.
- Ellis Island: more than 22 million passengers and members of ships' crews entered the United States through Ellis Island and the Port of New York between 1892 and 1924. See also this form and the advanced one.
- Mocavo aims to index the above resources and provides a search form.
- Stephen Morse provides an index of goof links to accesible ressources.
Australian sources
- Public Record Office Victoria: this site provides a wide range of services to enable researchers to access the public records of Victoria. Links to immigration and emmigration records such as the Index to Registers of Assisted British Immigrants 1839-1871 and Index of Inward Passenger Lists for British, Foreign and New Zealand Ports 1852-1923
- Cameron genealogies: this website celebrates those who descend from the Clan of the name of Cameron, in Australia.
- Cemeteries of S.W. Victoria: a useful collection of cemetery records. Keep in mind that before 1851, Victoria did not exist and the area was known as New South Wales.
- Commonwealth War Graves Commission: the Debt of Honour Register is the Commission's database listing the 1.7 million men and women of the Commonwealth forces who died during the two world wars... The register can also be searched for details of the 67,000 Commonwealth civilians who died as a result of enemy action in the Second World War.
- First Fleet is a searchable database from the University of Wollongong. A text listing of the first three fleets is also available.
- Australian Cemetery Geolocations A list of more than 3000 Australian cemeteries, with co-ordinates and a map to help locate each one.
French resources
Online search
- AssoGeneaSen provides a form for surname search on existing bases.
- Bigenet lists available certificates provided by some genealogical societies/associations.
- French Nationales Archives.
- French Public Online archives and ressources. Also access by type of search and Provinces/Counties or cities.
- The Fichier Origine and BMS2000 databases for search in Quebec.
- GeneaBank is a data sharing system between genealogical societies: in addition to a secured access to data records, GeneaBank offers an exchange system of points that allows any member of any participating society to browse anyone of the records that are provided by any society. This exchange system is only dedicated to manage possible discreapancies between consummating societies and providing societies.
- Library and Archives Canada facilitates the discovery of our roots and family histories as a basic part of our Canadian heritage.
Others databases
- Aube's Archives (10) provides collaborative indexes.
- Didier OTT database with more than 200 000 individuals on East France.
- Favrejhas is a genealogical database with more than 600 000 individuals on North France.
- Roglo is a database with around 4 000 000 individuals.
- Exchange Lists
- Association des Releveurs Bénévoles pour la Recherche et l'Entraide (A.R.B.R.E):
Marne County (51) and related Meuse (55), Haute-Marne (52), Réunion (974), Aisne (02), Ardennes (08), Jura (39).
- Aveyron County (12)
- CousAin is an index for Ain's Archives (01).
- Lecture et Informatisation des Sources Archivistiques: Lisa (90).
- Registres18 with records on Cher (18).
- Noms de Vendée provides a surnames index for Vendée (85).
General repositories
- Arbre généalogique is a directory for web sites related to genealogy.
- The Centre d'Entraide Généalogique de France (C.E.G.F) is a Portail which provides some genealogical resources.
- The Departmental Center of History of the Families has a vast genealogical library dealing with the families of France. It holds important funds of files concerning the whole of the French territory. (See the databases)
- France Cyndi's List of genealogy sites on internet.
- FranceGenWeb is a portal for genealogy.
- Some locales and nationales bases.
- France Genealogy Links lists sites that have online genealogy resources, many of them free.
- Portal from the French Ministry of Culture and Communication with some informations and 9 databases.
- Genealogie.org provides some ressources for french related searches in America.
- Geneawiki is a wiki related to genealogy.
- Geneasoft lists most up-to-date genealogical information and programs.
- WikiGenWeb the wiki of FranceGenWeb.
See also the US National Archives and Emigration from North of Alsace to USA.
- America/France is a bilingual digital library made available by the Bibliothèque nationale de France in partnership with the Library of Congress the great library of Washington. It explores the history of the French presence in North America from the first decades of the 16th Century to the end of the 19th Century.
- Ancestramil provides useful informations about ancestors who were soldiers during their lifetime.
- APEnet (Archives Portal Europe) aims to build an Internet Gateway for Documents and Archives in Europe where fourteen European National Archives in close cooperation with the Europeana initiative will create a common access point to European archival descriptions and digital collections.
- Archives d'outre-mer is a repository with most documents related to olds colonies. Every country where French government was present (all continent) are listed. You may find some maps, images, data for your genealogical search.
- Archives of Québec (BAnQ) offers its services throughout Québec via a network of nine regional centres. This regional presence enables researchers from everywhere in Québec, or from beyond its borders, to discover and, in turn, present to others, the manifold pieces of our historical tapestry. The archival fonds and collections at the centres are accessible to the public, except for certain confidential documents.
- Archives Portal Europe provides access to information on archival material from different European countries as well as information on archival institutions throughout the continent. Related to APEnet (Archives Portal Europe)
- Canada/France is a collaboration between Canada and France Archives.
- Europeana is more what could be an european library using OCR and open source engine Lucene. Hungary, Portugal and France were active. Curently, seems to be a real European project. See also europeana's open projects.
- Gallica is the French numerical librarie with open specifications. Sounds, pictures, text are free of charges. Like Europeana, Gallica use OCR (optical character recognition) for search.
- Louisiana/France.
- Mémoire des hommes gives the public access to databases created from the digitalization and indexation of biographical records preserved in the services of the ministry of defence. It also aims to honour the memory of those who took part in contemporary wars and sometimes gave their lives for their country.
- PRDH (Programme de Recherche en Démographie Historique : The Research Program in Historical Demography) at the Université de Montréal undertook the exhaustive reconstruction of the population of Quebec from the beginnings of French colonization in the seventeenth century.
- Medals of Saint-Hélèna aims to create a database that will be of interest both to genealogists and historians. This work is especially important as the archives held by the Grand Chancellery of the Legion of Honour was destroyed in Paris in 1871. The Saint Helena medal, created in 1857 by Napoleon III, was awarded to the 405,000 soldiers still living in 1857, who had fought with Napoleon I during the 1792-1815 wars.
- OurOntario for search about Ontario province (Canada).
German information sites
- Denkmäler is to memorialize the names of the dead and to collect, archive and make publicly available, particularly for use by genealogists, inscriptions from war memorials of the German and Austrian armies.
- Genealogienetz.de is a portal for genealogy in Germany. There you can find German genealogy-wiki, local online heritage books, online databases, address books and many more.
- Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge is registering the German war dead abroad and to ensuring that it is updated and monitored.
- Die Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek (beta) offers everyone unrestricted access to Germany's cultural and scientific heritage, that is, access to millions of books, archived items, images, sculptures, pieces of music and other sound documents, as well as films and scores, from all over Germany.


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In fact, in a 2009 paper in Discourse & Society, Judith Baxter and Kieran Wallace describe a particular use of it as:
the typically British idiom 'I'm not being funny' [used] to downplay the effect of a sensitive or non-politically correct commentThe phrase I'm not being funny but occurs five times in the 100-million-word British National Corpus (BNC) and zero times in the 425-million-word Corpus of Contemporary American English (both at corpus.byu.edu). The material in the BNC is 20+ years old, and since the phrase seems to be on the rise, I would expect it to occur more often these days. In 2008, it made a BBC list of 20 most hated clichés. There, a 'Rosie Spectacle' comments that it's "usually followed by a highly irritating and officious remark." Let's see if that's true.
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- Giles won't tell me but he definitely knows the two people that've laid her. Oh aren't they lucky gits. And I think that I 'm not being funny but I think that Jim did one.
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This relates to various things that Kate Fox discusses in Watching the English. There are the "modesty rules"--i.e. cultural rules that enforce the appearance (but not necessarily the reality) of modesty and the importance of not seeming earnest, but instead always being ready to keep things light with humo(u)r. So, you have an opinion, but the need to appear modest means that you have to avoid sounding self-important. The avoidance of earnestness means that people are always ready to assume that you're joking if you seem het up* about something. So, what do you do if you want to state an opinion? You try to disguise it as a small fact ("she can't stick up for herself"), preface it with I'm not being funny but to signal that something controversial is coming, then let the listener fill in a lot of the opinion (e.g. 'she is weak and probably deserves what she gets if she won't stick up for herself'), so that you don't have to earnestly or controversially say it.
I should say, one doesn't absolutely need the but in the phrase, but it's very often there. And we can say I'm not being funny to sincerely mean just that--for instance, as a protest when someone starts laughing after you've told them something sad. That's not the pre-emptive use--the 'let me put this negative opinion here' use--that one hears so much in the UK. That said, I think that in AmE, at least, one would be more likely in those more literal cases to say I'm being serious rather than the negated I'm not being funny.
Blogger is acting very strange these days...I hope you'll be able to post comments below!
Postscript, the next morning:
I blogged in a rush last night, which isn't the best thing for working on something pragmatic. Let me just add--the funny in I'm not being funny but can indeed (as some people have written to say) be read as the 'queer, peculiar' sense of the word. But that meaning is not unrelated to the 'humorous' meaning. It's best translated, I think, as 'I'm not trying to be difficult, but...'. But I do believe that the choice of funny in this phrase plays on this ambiguity--it's saying both 'I'm not making a joke' and 'I'm not being eccentric'. (Glad to see some comments are getting through--I know some others haven't. What's up with Blogger, eh**?)
† I belatedly found where I'd written down what BH said, so I've replaced my earlier 'the coffee is really disgusting' with the much more British understatement 'has gone downhill'. 'Has become disgusting to me' is what he meant though. This means I've also changed some further references to his statement. And, for the record, I like Costa's coffee and BH has been complaining about everyone's coffee lately...
* orig. BrE dialectal & AmE, now more common in BrE
** The eh is prevalent in Canadian English but also in my not-so-far-from-Canada AmE dialect.