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Dorset Lookup Requests / Re: Dorset Lunatic Asylum Patient - Phoebe Senneck
« on: Sunday 06 September 15 19:05 BST (UK)  »
I found this thread today (3 years too late I know) while looking for something else. Apologies that the last 3 pages of the 1871 Census for the Asylum were missing on the Dorset OPC site. This has now been corrected, with 52 additional records added, including Phoebe Sennick, of course. The page has also been re-formatted.

http://www.opcdorset.org/CharminsterFiles/1871CharminsterAsylum.htm

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Dorset / Re: Dorset OPC
« on: Sunday 28 November 10 17:00 GMT (UK)  »
In case anyone follows up this thread, the Dorset OPC is now at www.opcdorset.org

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The Common Room / Re: Online Parish Clerks - OPC
« on: Friday 11 December 09 19:22 GMT (UK)  »
Update for the Dorset OPC. We have a new address, www.opcdorset.org. The old address is currently still working, but due to circumstances beyond my control may not be for much longer (end Feb 2010). Please bookmark the new address.

Jon
Dorset OPC Co-ordinator

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Census and Resource Discussion / Re: Dorset OPC site gone again?
« on: Monday 07 December 09 20:04 GMT (UK)  »
Just an update. Today I found that someone (the hosting company I assume) had changed the .com site, and all the updates that had been made over the last week had disappeared. I suspect that they have realised that the site is being transferred to the www.opcdorset.org address, and are in the process of shutting down, or restricting the old site - of course no communication with me. It may just be a glitch, but I strongly advise everyone to use the www.opcdorset.org site from now on. It is fully functioinal and does include all of the updates of course, with the possible exception of the search facility that will still take you to the com site, I was hoping to get crawled by Google before I switch the search facility to the .org site, but maybe my hand will be forced.

Thanks for all of your messages of support, at least I am confident now that the Dorset OPC project has a secure future.

Regards

Jon

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Census and Resource Discussion / Re: Dorset OPC site gone again?
« on: Monday 30 November 09 23:19 GMT (UK)  »
Quote from: lara.j on Monday 30 November 09 22:59 GMT (UK)
Still not working for me :(
Clearly the problem is your end in that case if you cannot access either site. You should contact your ISP Help Desk and get them to figure out why they are preventing your access to either site  :(

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Census and Resource Discussion / Re: Dorset OPC site gone again?
« on: Monday 30 November 09 19:24 GMT (UK)  »
Hi everyone. I spent much of the weekend creating a "mirror" site for the Dorset OPC. It is now up and running, but there may be some glitches for a while, I have to ensure that there are no broken links, but generally it looks OK. This is part of the process of securing the project for the future, ensuring that when the existing site falls over or diappears (as is likely at end Feb 2010) nothing will be lost. For the next month I will run both sites in parallel, no difference, over the Christmas holiday break I will set up a redirectioin from old to new and if the worst happens in Feb then all should be well. I have not generally announced this change yet, wanted to try out a few more things first, and also get it updated in Google (does anyone know a reliable sitemap creator that can deal with hundreds of urls and is free?)

Anyway, for anyone who cannot access the usual site (www.opcdorset.com) try www.opcdorset.org instead. There is no connection, they are on completely different hosts (the new one is on iPage). As before there is also absolutely no link to any other OPC site. The good thing about the new host company is that if there are issues I should be able to work tickets with the help desk, unlike the present scheme

Enjoy  :)

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Census and Resource Discussion / Re: Dorset OPC site gone again?
« on: Wednesday 25 November 09 21:18 GMT (UK)  »
Hi, I was alerted to this thread by Spiderboy. My name is Jon and I am currently the acting OPC Co-ordinator for the Dorset OPC. Apologies to anyone who is having problems accessing the site, I have had a very small number of contacts alerting me to this problem. The issue is related to the user's ISP and not browser or version related. There are also no sites that have been blocked by me, and the list of blocked sites is very small as far as I can tell (with my very limited knowledge in this area)

The first time I was alerted to this it was from a couple of folks in Australia both turned out to be with a particular ISP (TPG). The same thing happened with a couple of Metronet/Plusnet users and eventually Plusnet Techies resolved the problem by getting the user to configure an alternative DNS server address for their TCP/IP installation on their PC. I don't have a clue personally how this is done, but the only way I can help to resolve the issue in the short term is to recommend that you work with your help desk at Plusnet to see if they can work through this with you - they should be able to do so and should know about this problem. You can view the thread about this in the archives of the Dorset rootseb mailing list, starting 30th October:
http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index/DORSET/2009-10
and the resolution at:
http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index/DORSET/2009-11

I would love to be able to help more, but as I've explained to Spiderboy, support for the opcdorset site's hosting organisation is non-existent. My predecessor moved the site to this organisation and since she is no longer involved with the project and is now completely out of communication I am resolving this by moving host in the next couple of months (has to complete before end February when the domain name expires - the domain is registered with the hosting org.) So, its now in hand and the project is moving towards being on a firm footing again.

In the meantime, there are a lot of updates being added to the site, it is vey busy again. Although of no comfort to any Plusnet users who are unable to access the site, the fact is that the site is experiencing very heavy traffic from a large number of visitors. I sincerely hope that any users who are having issues do get this resolved with the help of their ISPs.

Jon

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Hampshire & Isle of Wight / Re: * New Village * Isle of Wight
« on: Sunday 18 January 09 14:34 GMT (UK)  »
I am new to this forum, but this thread was very useful to me, I was never 100% sure where New Village was, I may have confused it with Pan Estate. But, given where New Village was actually situated, I would assume someone that was buried in New Village, Carisbrooke, would actually have been buried in Mount Joy Cemetery. As far as I can remember there is no other cemetery in the area. Do you think I am correct?

Thanks

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