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Ireland (Historical Counties) => Ireland => Down => Topic started by: RosemaryJoan on Wednesday 25 April 18 11:52 BST (UK)
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Has anyone any news of Roz's site coming back online? It is such a wonderful source of inforation and I really miss it.
RosemaryJoan
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Looks like latest update is 6th March- http://home.rootsweb.ancestry.com/
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Yes, I see that , just hoping for some insider knowledge.
Rosemary
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Available on Archives
https://web.archive.org/web/20170312145901/http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~rosdavies/
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Thank you so much! Rosemary
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Yes, I see that , just hoping for some insider knowledge.
Rosemary
I was in touch with Ros recently and she is sitting patiently like everyone else waiting for her live website to go back online. In the meantime we have to make do with the link to her archived pages that was posted by Cwellan CoDown.
Available on Archives
https://web.archive.org/web/20170312145901/http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~rosdavies/
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Good news. I was worried that she would be disheartened. Please pass on our best wishes and thanks to her.
Rosemary
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Good news. I was worried that she would be disheartened. Please pass on our best wishes and thanks to her.
Rosemary
Alas, but she is indeed disheartened.
This is not the first time that we've lost access to Ros' Co. Down website (and likely not the last). While it is great to have a service like Rootsweb that offers to host web pages for free, users are left completely in the dark when outages such as the recent one occur. Then there is the question of the long-term viability of the service. Will Rootsweb suddenly stop hosting services for free, or just shutdown forever?
The data on Ros' website, built up over many years of meticulous and time-consuming work, is an invaluable resource for us Co. Down researchers that has no equal. It would be a real shame to lose it.