Resource website no longer live

[KerryF]

http://www.countysutherland.co.uk/

[Rosinish]

Not sure if this is connected but may be worth a look?

https://cosuthfamhistory.blogspot.com/


Annie

[Flattybasher9]

Try

https://www.facebook.com/groups/180221098349/

Malky

[stanmapstone]

You can access it on the Internet Wayback Machine
https://archive.org/web/web.php

Put http://www.countysutherland.co.uk/ in the box
Stan

[djct59]

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

[KerryF]

Thanks everyone

[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]

[djct59]

The photographs were taken nearly twenty years ago ago by Angi Lamb, who was on here briefly as "rupparti" about eight years back.

I'm sad to report that Angi died last July aged only 63.

She made a set of the images available to Christine Stokes, and it was she who set up the fotki site. Christine stopped paying her fotki subscription in 2018 and it was a surprise that the images remained online for so long afterwards. It looks like the archive may therefore be lost forever.

To make matters worse, weathering on some of the older sandstone grave markers has resulted in significant additional deterioration. Some that were legible in 2003 are wholly unreadable now.

[wilros]

I'm sad to report that Angi died last July aged only 63.

oh my, i am so sorry to hear that she has passed on. in 2019 i was fortunate to correspond with angi at her gmail address.

yes the photos were old and some were low resolution. but it was more than just photos, i used to copy and paste from her transcriptions as well. lol, can't do that from the cowper and ross coded text! angi published a translation of the alexander mackay + hughina macleod inscription at balnakeil from scots gaelic into english, a memorial that is at the foot of the table stone for my 4x great grandparents (because they were also hughina's maternal grandparents). and angi published an errata for hew morrison. these were not trivial accomplishments.

i reference her three published indices often in the durness genealogy profiles that i curate. and although she is gone these three documents angi created still resolve correctly for downloading from google.

https://tinyurl.com/pwp6zse8 - Index of Sutherland Durness Baptisms and Births 1764-1874

https://tinyurl.com/5rn3thyw - Index of Sutherland Durness Marriages 1765-1875

https://tinyurl.com/a5zxk7ds - Errata in published records of Durness baptisms and marriages from 1764-1875

thanks very much for details, djct59.

[wr]

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