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Offline arkay

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Lancs OPC Suspended???
« on: Thursday 06 August 09 18:48 BST (UK) »
This morning I tried to access the Lancashire Online Parish Clerks and got the following message:

"THIS ACCOUNT HAS BEEN SUSPENDED
Please contact the support department as soon as possible, and please have your site name ready."

Does anyone know anything about this?  Is it a temporary thing?  Hope so!

It's a wonderful site and has been so useful in tracing my pre-1837 Lancashire ancestors.

Arkay
Travis, Earnshaw, Wild, Hibbert, Warren, Leech - Ashton-under-Lyne
Mills, Fallows - Middleton
Pryce, Evans - Welshpool, Mgy, Wales
Davies - Criggion, Shropshire
Whittaker, Evans, Benussi - Liverpool
Price, Whittaker - Great Crosby
Atherton - Frodsham, Cheshire
Riley - Huddersfield area, Yorkshire

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Re: Lancs OPC Suspended???
« Reply #1 on: Thursday 06 August 09 19:39 BST (UK) »
Just tried it and got the same message.  I hope it'll be back and how can anyone contact the support department if no information is available?

I hope it's not been got at by a hacker, virus, etc.

Lizzie

Modified - I wonder if there is a problem with the server they use.

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Re: Lancs OPC Suspended???
« Reply #2 on: Thursday 06 August 09 22:28 BST (UK) »
Seems to be there now,
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Re: Lancs OPC Suspended???
« Reply #3 on: Thursday 06 August 09 22:39 BST (UK) »
Apparently it was a server problem as I have just read a message regarding it on Lancsgen. 

Hopefully its all sorted now as I hadn`t realized just how much I consulted it.

Mo
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Lancs: Harrison, Entwistle, Devine, Grundy, Ashworth, Freeman, Jackson, Rushton
Cornwall: Rich, Binney, Peak(e)
Devon: Martin, Walter(s)

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Re: Lancs OPC Suspended???
« Reply #4 on: Friday 07 August 09 15:15 BST (UK) »
The website still seems to be having problems today.  The website comes up okay but it will not do a search. There is an apology message saying the search function is currently unavailable.

Luzzu
Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk

Armitage, Slaithwaite; Buck, Staffs & Hampshire; Buckley, Bolton & Manchester; Temple, London & Hampshire; Crummett, Norfolk & Burnley; Osborne, Cornwall & Burnley; Haigh, Manchester & Todmorden; Gralton/Grant, Manchester & Ireland; France, Manchester & Slaithwaite; Shackleton, Burnley & Yorkshire; Dicks, Nottingham & Wiltshire; Sowter, Derbyshire

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Re: Lancs OPC Suspended???
« Reply #5 on: Monday 10 August 09 13:37 BST (UK) »
Hi,

Sent off an email to see what's happening with Lancs OPC and just received a reply to confirm that they are having problems with the search facility and whilst they hope to get it working again soon, they can't give a firm date.

Hope its sooner rather than later.  You don't realise how much you miss something until its not there.

Luzzu
Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk

Armitage, Slaithwaite; Buck, Staffs & Hampshire; Buckley, Bolton & Manchester; Temple, London & Hampshire; Crummett, Norfolk & Burnley; Osborne, Cornwall & Burnley; Haigh, Manchester & Todmorden; Gralton/Grant, Manchester & Ireland; France, Manchester & Slaithwaite; Shackleton, Burnley & Yorkshire; Dicks, Nottingham & Wiltshire; Sowter, Derbyshire

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Re: Lancs OPC Suspended???
« Reply #6 on: Monday 10 August 09 14:10 BST (UK) »
Thanks for the update Luzzu.

Lizzie

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Re: Lancs OPC Suspended???
« Reply #7 on: Friday 14 August 09 23:45 BST (UK) »
Hi,

Another update.

The search facility is still out of action but you can browse through the records in each parish and use the indexes to find individuals.  I had no trouble in finding what I was looking for today  :D.

Luzzu

Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk

Armitage, Slaithwaite; Buck, Staffs & Hampshire; Buckley, Bolton & Manchester; Temple, London & Hampshire; Crummett, Norfolk & Burnley; Osborne, Cornwall & Burnley; Haigh, Manchester & Todmorden; Gralton/Grant, Manchester & Ireland; France, Manchester & Slaithwaite; Shackleton, Burnley & Yorkshire; Dicks, Nottingham & Wiltshire; Sowter, Derbyshire

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Re: Lancs OPC Suspended???
« Reply #8 on: Friday 14 August 09 23:51 BST (UK) »
Luzzu

As most of my Lancashire ancestors came from one parish, I usually just search through the parish records.  I did a general search recently (before the facility went down) and found a couple of interesting records, so hopefully it will be all up and working fully very soon.

Lizzie
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