About five years ago I hired a person to erect a web page for me.
The web page address was www.ajslaw.com. After it was completed that
summer, about three or four months later,one day I watched as the web
site disappeared before my eyes on the internet. I later learned that
the host computer apparently was washed away somewhere in Texas during
a storm that flooded the buildings in the City where the host kept
their data. I put a lot of work into that web site and had to start
from scratch to build a new one. If it were possible for me to recover
the content of that web site now, through a search of internet
archives I suppose, I would be very happy. Can you help me locate
this?

Hi,


Well I tried this site for you:

http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.ajslaw.com/

However the bad news is that what archives it had where not saved.

Was it the same company that "washed" away, that constructed the pages
for you, if not, maybe the person who built it, may have an archive of
it?


CIOU

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Andy-

Here's the results for your site at <a
href="http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.ajslaw.com">the Wayback
Machine</a>.  It saw your URL from May of 2001 through January of
2002, but did not archive the content, alas.

Judging by <a href="http://www.us-canada-immigration.com/newsletter/newsletter_6.html">this
page</a>, your lost site was live as far back as February 2001.

It might be easier for folks to find your lost content if you were
able to post some titles or exact phrases from the material that was
important to you.  Parts of your site might have been copied elsewhere
on the net and still be recoverable.  As an example, your "Seven
Secrets of High-Impact Powerful Presnetations", which the above
newsletter mentions as being posted to www.ajslaw.com, is available as
a pdf <a href="http://www.us-canada-immigration.com/7secrets.pdf">here</a>
-- but you probably still have that.  :-)

-Matt Listener

With respect to people having content or specifics about content that
might have been copied elsewhere, sadly I must report that I was not
smart enough back then to consider the possibility that a web page
could go down completely.
Sadly, I don't have a content list nor a strong enough memory to
recall much about what we put on the site. Of course my current site
of www.us-canada-immigration.com contains some of the material from
the old site that I could recall and had copies of. But the people
involved are no longer around so I'm reduced to begging on the
internet for help in ressurecting this once-upon-a-time Camelot
site.... Sorry...it's the best I can do.

I was anticipating that assitance with this question would involve
more than going to one archive web site which I did before I posted
the question. My thought was that a researcher might be able to
recover at least parts of the web site if not the whole web site
copied somewhere on line. Any other suggestions?

Just a note to let you know that unless you see a name in hyperlink
blue, the information provided is not from a Researcher. :)  So far,
you've had helpful Google Answer customers comment only--for free.

I'm certain many Researchers have attempted to answer your question
and have probed various archives; I know I have. The fact that no one
has come up with anything so far suggests that, unfortunately, your
website probably isn't recoverable.

Hopefully, another Researcher will prove me wrong!

Regards,
Kriswrite

Bigandy,

I'm sorry you haven't received an answer yet. Please keep in mind that
your account is not charged for remarks that appear in the "Comments"
section. Until and unless an official Google Answers Researcher posts
an official Answer, all you owe is the mandatory fifty-cent listing
fee.

Several Researchers (myself among them) have taken a shot at this. It
may be a matter of not finding something because the something isn't
there to be found. Unless you have reason to believe that someone set
up a mirror site, the sad fact may be that your site's content is
irretrievably lost. Material that is posted on the Web is transitory.
Not everything is archived.

~pinkfreud, Google Answers Researcher

I am so grateful for the good will that people have shown me in trying
to answer this difficult question. I did not appreciate the protocol
involved but do now and would like to thank everyone for their
gentleness and for looking into this question for me. I too am hopeful
that there is someone out there that still might be able to locate
something.