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Title: Deal & Walmer site gone?
Post by: bearkat on Tuesday 30 September 08 18:09 BST (UK)
Does anyone know what has happened to the Deal & Walmer family history site?

http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/deal_kent_ancestry
Title: Re: Deal & Walmer site gone?
Post by: Zacktyr on Saturday 04 October 08 15:56 BST (UK)
Hello Bearkat,

The latest address I had for the website was:
http://ancestrydealkent.mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/  This URL now takes one to the 'orange' URL with new address.  But, the page was built in Flash Player and even though it appears to load there is nothing revealed even after a wait of 10 minutes.

Wanadoo was the former ISP arm of OrangeSA a french telecommunications company.  Since 1 June 2006 the Wanadoo divisions have been slowly replaced by the orange.--- URL and it may be that the holder of the Deal website opted out and discontinued the website. 

Try searching the cached pages at http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://ancestrydealkent.mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/

The latest one on Feb 10, 2008 indicates that the site was last updated 5th May 2006. But I could not see a contact name.

I hope this helps.

Title: Re: Deal & Walmer site gone?
Post by: bearkat on Saturday 04 October 08 16:35 BST (UK)
Just wondered if anyone knew of a new URL for the site.

Looks as if it has gone. :(
Title: re Bayly family
Post by: Scott1940 on Monday 06 October 08 19:27 BST (UK)
Hello Bearcat

I see you have Bayly family listed.

Perhaps you can let me know if the came from Deal or Folkestone.

Yvonne
Title: Re: Deal & Walmer site gone?
Post by: Lydart on Monday 06 October 08 20:13 BST (UK)
Bill749 might be able to help ?

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=24028

He knows a huge amount about that area of the Kent coast so may know what's happened to the site ?
Title: Re: Deal & Walmer site gone?
Post by: Bill749 on Thursday 09 October 08 05:33 BST (UK)
I have e-mailed the person whose site it is to find out what has happened, as I have it linked from my website.

I will let you know if I get a reply.

Regards
Bill
(currently driving down the Oregon Coast to the Redwood Forests of California)
Title: Re: Deal & Walmer site gone?
Post by: English Rose on Thursday 09 October 08 15:37 BST (UK)
Hi, I am the owner of the DealKentAncestry Website. It seems that Orange have pulled the plug on me! The original website was build using the Wanadoomysite setup, but Orange have changed all that and it appears that all my data was not transferred and is now lost.

If you're feeling miffed about the loss of the website, please try to imagine how I am feeing having spent many, many hours working on it  :'(
Lin.

Thank you ORANGE!! ... Mobile phone now in the dustbin!
Title: Re: Deal & Walmer site gone?
Post by: Siamese Girl on Thursday 09 October 08 20:22 BST (UK)
I'm sorry about that Lin - you must be furious  >:(

Nothing Orange do surprises me.

Carole

Another disgruntled Orange customer, who never asked to be an Orange customer.
Title: Re: Deal & Walmer site gone?
Post by: Zacktyr on Friday 10 October 08 09:19 BST (UK)
Dear English Rose,

I am sending you a PM concerning your data.

Sincerely,
Zacktyr
Title: Re: Deal & Walmer site gone?
Post by: Bill749 on Saturday 11 October 08 05:26 BST (UK)
I ran out of space on Freeserve, so when Dixons sold out Freeserve to the French I jumped ship and moved my site to Freeuk - I didn't hang around long enough to see it get sold on to Orange.

I have had no problem with Freeuk at all, and I have split my website into 3 to get more space, and I also have a 4th site on the same server for the Deal branch of the Kent FHS.

I hope you can sort something out to recover your site Linda - you certainly had put a lot of work into it.

Bill
(Back in Oregon City)
Title: Re: Deal & Walmer site gone?
Post by: Lydart on Saturday 11 October 08 10:09 BST (UK)
(I hope you are wearing that hat and carrying that gee-tarr with you Bill in the U S of A !!)
Title: Re: Deal & Walmer site gone?
Post by: bearkat on Sunday 12 October 08 14:04 BST (UK)
Hi EnglishRose,

My computer has been broken so I haven't been able to get in touch.

I'm really sorry to hear that Orange has given your site the boot.  I bet you're miffed. >:(
I and many other researchers appreciated all the hard work that had gone into creating your website and it is a sad loss to us as well as you.

If there any chance you can can your data back (via the Internet archive search engine perhaps) and get a site up and running again?
Title: Re: Deal & Walmer site gone?
Post by: Zacktyr on Friday 17 October 08 05:26 BST (UK)
Hello,

With tremendous thanks to English Rose for her generosity (and her permission to post the info here), the data from the Deal and Walmer website can now be found on the Kent OPC website. 

Here are the links to the main pages for the Deal and Walmer parishes, as well as the direct links into the various data groups:

Primary page for Deal:  http://www.kent-opc.org/Parishes/Deal.html

Primary Page for Walmer:  http://www.kent-opc.org/Parishes/Walmer.html

1841/51 census extracts:  http://www.kent-opc.org/Parishes/Census/1841%201851%20Deal.html

1792 Directory:  http://www.kent-opc.org/Parishes/Directories/Deal%201792.html

St. Leonard's Baptisms:  http://www.kent-opc.org/Parishes/PRTranscripts/Deal%20LeonardBapt.html

St. George's Baptisms:  http://www.kent-opc.org/Parishes/PRTranscripts/Deal%20GeorgeBapt.html

St. Andrew's Baptisms:  http://www.kent-opc.org/Parishes/PRTranscripts/Deal%20AndrewBapt.html

St. Leonard's Marriages:  http://www.kent-opc.org/Parishes/PRTranscripts/Deal%20LeonardMarr.html

St. Leonard's Burials:  http://www.kent-opc.org/Parishes/PRTranscripts/Deal%20LeonardBur.html

Military burial ground: http://www.kent-opc.org/Parishes/MIs/Walmer%20military.html

St. Mary's Marriages:  http://www.kent-opc.org/Parishes/PRTranscripts/Walmer%20MaryMarr.html

St. Mary's Burials:  http://www.kent-opc.org/Parishes/PRTranscripts/Walmer%20MaryBur.html

Petty Sessions:  http://www.kent-opc.org/Parishes/Court/Deal%20Walmer%20PettySess.html

Police Court:  http://www.kent-opc.org/Parishes/Court/Deal%20Walmer%20Police.html

Newspaper extracts:  http://www.kent-opc.org/Parishes/News/Deal%20Walmer%20News.html

News True Stories:  http://www.kent-opc.org/Parishes/News/Deal%20Walmer%20TrueStories.html


Wrecks and Rescues information: 

Wrecks & Rescues 1850s:  http://www.kent-opc.org/Parishes/News/Deal%20Wrecks%201850s.html

Wrecks & Rescues 1860s:  http://www.kent-opc.org/Parishes/News/Deal%20Wrecks%201860s.html

Wrecks & Rescues 1870s:  http://www.kent-opc.org/Parishes/News/Deal%20Wrecks%201870s.html

Wrecks & Rescues Stormy Weather:  http://www.kent-opc.org/Parishes/News/Deal%20Wrecks%20Weather.html

Wrecks & Rescues Lost in the Downs:  http://www.kent-opc.org/Parishes/News/Deal%20Wrecks%20Lost.html

Sincerely,
Zacktyr

Title: Re: Deal & Walmer site gone?
Post by: bearkat on Tuesday 21 October 08 10:09 BST (UK)
It's great to hear that this information has been made available again.

Thank you

 :)