Resource website no longer live

[Chris Doran]

This useful site remains live (but maybe not for much longer) - https://public.fotki.com/rhemusaig/burial_grounds/

The fabulous photo archive formerly hosted at fotki is now inaccessible.

Anyone have any suggestions on recovering the thousands of formerly accessible burial ground posts that were so useful?

[wr]

Clicking on that link gives a message that says access is blocked, not that the site has been deleted, so I guess it's just a matter of raising the money for Christine to revive it.

[wilros]

This useful site remains live (but maybe not for much longer) - https://public.fotki.com/rhemusaig/burial_grounds/

The fabulous photo archive formerly hosted at fotki is now inaccessible.

Anyone have any suggestions on recovering the thousands of formerly accessible burial ground posts that were so useful?

[wr]

Clicking on that link gives a message that says access is blocked, not that the site has been deleted, so I guess it's just a matter of raising the money for Christine to revive it.

Chris,

True!

I sent Chris an email on 31 March and said I was interested in helping to get the archive back on line. But there was no reply.

The email address that Angi gave me for Chris in 2019 was rhemusaig-at-gmail-dot-com.

I'm still interested in rescuing the entire archive, then backing it up offline, then migrating it to another location. Perhaps archive.org? Or maybe the content can be transformed into raw material for a genweb project? Or serialized on a free blogging site like Google's blogspot.com.

The monument transcriptions are very useful.

With best regards,

[wr]

[meanno]

I sent Chris an email on 31 March and said I was interested in helping to get the archive back on line. But there was no reply.

Perhaps try contacting her through her Facebook group "County Sutherland Scotland, Family History"
https://www.facebook.com/groups/180221098349/

[wilros]

I sent Chris an email on 31 March and said I was interested in helping to get the archive back on line. But there was no reply.

Perhaps try contacting her through her Facebook group "County Sutherland Scotland, Family History"
https://www.facebook.com/groups/180221098349/

meanno,

as usual you are like an artesian well of good ideas, they just flow out like a force of nature...

thanks, i just "applied" to join their fb group.

:-)

[wr]

[wilros]

To recap, Chris Stokes did not reply to the email I sent to her gmail address on 31 March, or to the later private message I sent to her on Facebook regarding the rhemusaig user account at fotki.com.

Today the Rogart Heritage Society published an announcement in the County Sutherland Scotland Family History group on Facebook titled: "CHRISTINE FINLAYSON MURRAY STOKES, 1943-2021" It is a beautifully written tribute by the Rogart Heritage Society, though not a formal obituary.

I fear the Rhemusaig Burial Grounds archive of 6,000 tombstone transcriptions and photos may be beyond reach.

[wr]

[djct59]

Sad to hear that both Christine and Angi have left this world. The photo archive was not only invaluable, it is genuinely irreplaceable, as every year the effects of wind, rain, lichens and frost further damage the sandstone graves, some of which are now utterly beyond legible.

Perhaps someone on Facebook could ask via the Sutherland Heritage group whether the family/families would be willing to provide the images (perhaps for a fee) to a new permanent website set up in their memory?

[wilros]

Perhaps someone on Facebook could ask via the Sutherland Heritage group whether the family/families would be willing to provide the images (perhaps for a fee) to a new permanent website set up in their memory?

djct59 - I asked the new Admin of the Sutherland group on FB. She said (paraphrasing) they are aware the burial ground site is offline and planning to address it, and noted that the rich blog history by Chris Stokes is available on blogspot.com (i.e., free hosting from Google) - https://cosuthfamhistory.blogspot.com/

[Guy Etchells]

The resource is available on the Wayback Machine part of the Internet Archive, https://archive.org/web/ but is password protected. If users have the password they should be able to access and open the site.
Cheers
Guy

[cuffie81]

The resource is available on the Wayback Machine part of the Internet Archive, https://archive.org/web/ but is password protected. If users have the password they should be able to access and open the site.

I'm fairly sure the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine simply copies public resources (eg HTML, images, stylesheets) from websites to it's own servers. In which case it doesn't have access to any website passwords, nor even any password protected resources. So any passwords would not work on the Wayback Machine site.