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England (Counties as in 1851-1901) => Lancashire => England => Lancashire Lookup Requests => Topic started by: arkay on Thursday 06 August 09 18:48 BST (UK)
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This morning I tried to access the Lancashire Online Parish Clerks and got the following message:
"THIS ACCOUNT HAS BEEN SUSPENDED
Please contact the support department as soon as possible, and please have your site name ready."
Does anyone know anything about this? Is it a temporary thing? Hope so!
It's a wonderful site and has been so useful in tracing my pre-1837 Lancashire ancestors.
Arkay
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Just tried it and got the same message. I hope it'll be back and how can anyone contact the support department if no information is available?
I hope it's not been got at by a hacker, virus, etc.
Lizzie
Modified - I wonder if there is a problem with the server they use.
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Seems to be there now,
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Apparently it was a server problem as I have just read a message regarding it on Lancsgen.
Hopefully its all sorted now as I hadn`t realized just how much I consulted it.
Mo
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The website still seems to be having problems today. The website comes up okay but it will not do a search. There is an apology message saying the search function is currently unavailable.
Luzzu
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Hi,
Sent off an email to see what's happening with Lancs OPC and just received a reply to confirm that they are having problems with the search facility and whilst they hope to get it working again soon, they can't give a firm date.
Hope its sooner rather than later. You don't realise how much you miss something until its not there.
Luzzu
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Thanks for the update Luzzu.
Lizzie
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Hi,
Another update.
The search facility is still out of action but you can browse through the records in each parish and use the indexes to find individuals. I had no trouble in finding what I was looking for today :D.
Luzzu
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Luzzu
As most of my Lancashire ancestors came from one parish, I usually just search through the parish records. I did a general search recently (before the facility went down) and found a couple of interesting records, so hopefully it will be all up and working fully very soon.
Lizzie
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Site is suspended again. You don't realise how much you value a site such as Lan-Opc until this happens!
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Please see this note from one of the Lancs OPC co-ordinators:
Hi Folks
Recently we changed hosts. Its a long story, but this new host appears to be nothing but trouble.
We are working to resolve issues, but these things can take time.
I can give you no definite time, but we will be back just a soon as possible. And hopefully with our Search facility restored.
Thanks you all for your patience.
Regards, Paul Dixon
Carrollton, Texas
Co-ordinator, Lancashire OnLine Parish Clerks
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There is a temporary workaround, using the wayback machine (I've tried it and it works).
Enter the name you're searching for in Google, followed by site:web.archive.org/web/20080202152423/http://www.lan-opc.org.uk
When the results come up, instead of clicking the usual link, click on Cached.
Mary
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There is a temporary workaround, using the wayback machine (I've tried it and it works).
Doesn't work for me.
Lizzie
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Strange, it's working fine for me.
You need to copy site:web.archive.org/web/20080202152423/http://www.lan-opc.org.uk and paste it into your Google search along with the name you're searching for - don't put it in the address bar.
Mary
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Did exactly what you said Mary first time and got no results, but tried again and this time it works. Interestingly, I've just found another child of my 2 x g.grandparents. I think he must have died as a baby, so will search for that, as he was born in 1859 but is not on the 1861 census with his brother and sister.
Lizzie
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I have found it works both via Google search & directly pasting into browser however the cache seems to be from late 2007 so last 2 years updates are not available (nor are many of the added parishes).
Guess we will have to wait for the 'hosting' issue to be addressed.
Really miss the excellent search facility as it saves so much time, as for somewhere like Liverpool, there are too many parishes to trawl individually.
When it's working I'm finding a great deal of information which is not available without resorting to microfilm in local records office.
Hope they get the issues sorted as they have done such a great job so far
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That site: function on Google is very useful. I sometimes use it to search the whole Lancs OPC site when it is working.
Just enter your search term followed by site:www.lan-opc.org.uk
If you get too many results, add the name of the parish where you think the event took place, or the word baptism, marriage, burial, etc.
Mary
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the cache seems to be from late 2007 so last 2 years updates are not available (nor are many of the added parishes).
The link I gave searches the February 2008 version of the site, which is the latest one showing up on the Wayback Machine.
Mary