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Ireland (Historical Counties) => Ireland => Topic started by: oldohiohome on Thursday 31 October 19 08:11 GMT (UK)
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Is there a way to find a civil record that is in the index at https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/, when the link does not go to the correct record?
Thank you,
Ed H.
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Contact them and ask them to fix the missing link.
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Contact them and ask them to fix the missing link.
I usually do, but I thought I read somewhere that you could track down the image somehow.
Do you know how fast they actually fix them? I haven't ever gone back to check.
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I have no idea. I have never reported any issues on that site.
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I have no idea. I have never reported any issues on that site.
ok.
thank you for replying,
Ed
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You can find the correct image sometimes quite easily sometimes it a real drag.
If it's linking to the correct Reg district the correct image might be on a nearby page.
By changing the last digit of the address you can move up and down the pages.
If it's linking to the wrong district than find a birth that's in the correct district and have a look through the pages.
There is a tool for looking through the pages but it doesn't get the second or third etc image on those results that have more than one image.
I just go see if I can find it.
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This explains how to use it and has a link to the tool
https://www.swilson.info/wp/?p=2105
Added I've had some problems using this tool on some browsers, rather than just opening the image it now sometimes wants to do the whole robot and sign in etc. but you should get there in the end.
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This explains how to use it and has a link to the tool
https://www.swilson.info/wp/?p=2105
Thank you very much. I think that is what I remember reading or finding a while ago. This time I will save it in my notes.
I have tried manually going through them as you also suggested, but was never successful, so I thought I might going at it the wrong way. Also, I did end up in another registration district one time, and just gave up on that one.
Thanks again,
Ed H.
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It can help to look it up on FamilySearch, you'll get the page number.
Don't think it's possible to tell what Vol your looking at on the images but sometimes you can see the page numbers, find the page and hopefully it's the right Vol as well.
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It can help to look it up on FamilySearch, you'll get the page number.
Don't think it's possible to tell what Vol your looking at on the images but sometimes you can see the page numbers, find the page and hopefully it's the right Vol as well.
I've got a couple I can try it out on, next time through the database, so I will do as you suggest, and also try the tool at https://www.swilson.info/wp/?p=2105.
So far, I've had the problem with a few non family members. I've been able to find my relatives ok.
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This doesn't always work, but if you look at the link or hover over it you should see the filename that it is not linking to. If the file exists on the server but isn't in the place specified by the link you might be able to find it as follows.
Type the URL followed immediately by a colon followed immediately by the filename that you are looking for. Sometimes this will search for the occurrence of that filename anywhere on the server and return a correct link.
civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie:xxxxxxx
In the above line, replace the sequence of letter x with the correct file name. For example on my own website, the following line will highlight all occurrences of the word Armitage.
martinhwatson.co.uk:armitage
Depending on the structure of the website it won't always work but it is very useful.
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Thanks. Nice having your own site, isn't it? and using Gramps as well :)
What I really need now is a mis-indexed record to practice on, but that will wait until I go back through the collateral families, neighbors, etc. that have accumulated in the database.