Connectivity issues (General)

by Jefff , West London, Middlesex, Saturday, March 16, 2013, 15:53 (4275 days ago) @ peteressex

Hi all,
Slowhands, as you know I do sympathise with their problems, particularly NHS wise - I wasn't complaining about the library/ISP situation here at all. I'm well aware of the often poor internet situation throughout rural areas all over the UK, similarly lack of many other infrastructures such as public transport, health services, public libraries, schools, etc etc. I'm sure much of this is due to our Governments' reluctance to support industry & technology since the 60s compared say to our near neighbours in Europe (for example I visit France regularly, seemingly a huge sparsely populated agricultural country of lovely scenery - yet they took the internet aboard long before we did). In the UK the power & money is most certainly & unfairly kept within the supposedly affluent South East - affluent if you work or live deep in the City/Westminster where the net's needed to help the money literally talks....our Government seems more interested in trying to still be a World player than sort its own backyard out I feel. But hey thats more than enough of my politics on this forum, never to return !.

I don't know what "city" Rookancestry lives in, or his/her knowledge of what affects ISP connectivity, that's why I stated my own situation to try and illustrate that even with my generally good local foundations the service will still vary from time to time for good reasons, some of which we can work to our own advantage. Hopefully my experience will help their query, but surely others know more than I to answer the queries abt Ancestry etc, please ???.., come on guys...

Please Peter don't be envious ;-) yes there are a few bonuses to living here but sadly I cannot think of too many others at all and there are many much more serious & unpleasant reasons not to live here and I would move back to the Forest or any other of UK's rural areas today if job & schooling circumstances permitted....

Re the LDS resources. When I started this great hobby as with everything I do I researched as much as I could, all the text books say to treat the Mormon resources with care as they are prone to errors. Imagine my genuine surprise when I saw that the huge Ancestry site openly admits to using LDS resources albeit only in the small print !. This was a surprise, since then I've seen their transcriptions can ocasionally be so very "interesting" compared to the likes of FindMyPast (which our library also has, thank goodness); whether this is a factor of their LDS resources I do not know.
I genuinely think the LDS website is a God-send (no pun intended!) especially to cheapskates like me but like everything in life you rarely get something for nothing. Unfortunately as we know there are many people in this world who genuinely believe "if it's in black & white it must be right"# and that includes all sorts of websites and therefore public family trees.

Which is what makes this FoD website such an absolute, genuine, bargain of course !!!

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PS: I type this while listening to the online commentary of "my" Hereford United FC, losing after our goalie just gifted an easy away goal in our "homely" non-league stadium that we still love - mentally if not physically I'm light-years away from the Chelsealike "prawn-sarny" mentallity that many football fans would associate with my ISP address: not sure whether that scoreline is a good advert for local internet services but I'll take an embarrassing defeat that I genuinely feel a part of to watching the local big boys on TV or even in person !!. What I'm trying to say is that the internet has helped my life in so many ways, particularly socially such as this great hobby of Family History; I guess internet connectivity is like the M25 - we may moan when it's not working well but it was far more difficult without it !
# This saying does, of course, apply to the above mentioned football club.... ;-)