The Scottish Way of Birth and Death...

[MonicaL]

That would be such a shame if the link is permanently lost, Gordon 

I have just emailed the University's webteam to check what what happened and if it can be accessed elsewhere. Will update here on any response.

Monica

[GordonFindlay]

It's turned up, at a different URL:

https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/socialpolitical/research/economicsocialhistory/historymedicine/scottishwayofbirthanddeath/

Slainte
Gordon

[MonicaL]

Thanks for the update, Gordon  Great that there is a new link for it on Glasgow University's site.

Monica

[Gadget]

Very strange as I've just clicked on the original link and it comes up just as before.

Gadget

[DonM]

Magic

[MonicaL]

  Good magic, Don!

Monica

[MonicaL]

Nice message back from the email to the webteam at Glasgow Uni:

Thanks for getting in touch and sorry for the delay replying.  I got in touch with the people who manage this section of the website and they agreed that this resource should still be live.  As a result I have moved it to a new location at https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/socialpolitical/research/economicsocialhistory/projects/scottishwayofbirthanddeath/ and arranged for a re-write to be set up so that anyone visiting the old link will be redirected to the new one.

Hopefully this is the result you were looking for, thanks again for flagging this up to us.

Always great when people respond like this 

Monica

[Forfarian]

From the Records of the Registrar General for Scotland, 1855-1939, a fascinating insight into the history of civil registration in Scotland from its beginning in 1855 until the Second World War.

www.gla.ac.uk/departments/scottishwayofbirthanddeath/

Very much to my regret - I refer people to this all the time - it is no longer on-line at gla.ac.uk. The best I have so far managed to find is the Internet Archive Wayback Machine.

It had the advantages of authority, clarity and was most helpful in showing how Scotland is neither England nor America.

Does anyone know of a current mirror? If there isn't one I shall investigate the possibility of hosting one myself, but that positively "reeks of effort" as a friend says.

Slainte
Gordon

Just for the record, this useful resource is back up and running and accessible by clicking on the original link[/b], but it could have been there for some time as I haven't tried to look at it for a long time.