Off Topic - Monmouthshire Parish records (General)

by Ralph Cook, Saturday, July 24, 2010, 09:44 (5242 days ago) @ DebAmbury

I have been watching the difficulties experienced by Mike John's site with interest and not a little alarm. So glad its back up and running as its been a friend almost every day for four or five years.

I gather the problem related to a person complaining that a living relative was listed on the site so that's something we all have to be aware of but really Ancestry gives birth registrations up to 2005 and the majority of those people are alive I'm sure.

The reorganisation is a massive undertaking but may provide an opportunity to get everything in one place an iron out or reactivate the dead links on the site.

Finally, so correct about people moving about, the existence of Mike's Monmouthshire site and this one is the only reason I've been able to do a quarter of my family tree. One other quarter originated in Scotland, plenty of data on the Scotlandspeople website (but its expensive) the other two quarters I lack access to sites like this and have not made much progress.

Ralph