Alan's Northamptonshire Website

[Lola5]

Alan's Northamptonshire site was a wonderful resource as was Pickards pink pages.
The links to much of Alan's site no longer work.
It is a great loss to those who are just starting up in genealogy and we oldies who regarded it as a old friend.
I woul be glad to make a small contibution to keep it going.
Sandy,
Thank you for all your help to me in the past.

[seahall]

Hi Lola5.

Sadly it is no more.

Luckily I managed to download as much as I could as I am sure others did too.

We all help each other here and are privileged to have a forum to do so. 

Sandy

[TravelDog]

Most of you know Alan Clarke's website at http://www.familyhistorynorthants.co.uk/index.html

Because of the cost of maintaining it, in the beginning of February it will be no more.
Any suggestions of where to host some of the content (free) are welcome.

I think

https://sites.google.com/ 

Is free - as long as you don’t use your own domain name.

[BushInn1746]

Go to Wayback Machine run by Internet Archive
https://archive.org/web/

Type in, or copy and paste in the box the original site's URL "Enter a URL or words relating to a site's home page"
http://www.familyhistorynorthants.co.uk/index.html

Click browse history (or press return key after entering URL in the box)

Next the annual bar chart appears across the page indicating this site has been crawled and saved 52 times by the Wayback Machine between 2012 and 2019 (the year before Alan said he was closing it in 2020).

Scroll down the page to the 2019 annual calendar and click on a highlighted day of 29 December and you should get what is known as a snapshot "December 29, 2019" "1 snapshot" and highlighted in blue is a link "15:55:08"  ... click the numbers and you get a new Internet Archive address to the website saved on that date.

https://web.archive.org/web/20191004233746/http://www.familyhistorynorthants.co.uk/

I don't make purchases from a saved website.

Mark

Thanks Boo, sorry I missed your direct link to webarchive. Hopefully the instructions might be useful for others to find other now defunct websites.

I went to the British Library  https://www.bl.uk/collection-guides/uk-web-archive, and then to the UK web archive website of old websites, but couldn't get a return for the site.

[Tickettyboo]

Go to Wayback Machine run by Internet Archive
https://archive.org/web/

Type in, or copy and paste in the box the original site's URL "Enter a URL or words relating to a site's home page"
http://www.familyhistorynorthants.co.uk/index.html

Click browse history (or press return key after entering URL in the box)

Next the annual bar chart appears across the page indicating this site has been crawled and saved 52 times by the Wayback Machine between 2012 and 2019 (the year before Alan said he was closing it in 2020).

Scroll down the page to the 2019 annual calendar and click on a highlighted day of 29 December and you should get what is known as a snapshot "December 29, 2019" "1 snapshot" and highlighted in blue is a link "15:55:08"  ... click the numbers and you get a new Internet Archive address to the website saved on that date.

https://web.archive.org/web/20191004233746/http://www.familyhistorynorthants.co.uk/

The website

see also reply 10 and reply 14 in this thread.

I struggle to understand why people ignore the internet archive as a good resource to defunct websites

Boo

[Newfloridian]

I don't know if it is relevant or even still available for purchase, but several years ago Alan Clarke and Marilyn Ponting had the whole collection of their indexes transcribed onto a number of CDs. Now that his online website is no more I feel very fortunate in that I bought the set which remains a most valuable source of information.

Whether this source is still available I'm afraid I don't know

Alan 

[mgeneas]

Alan's email is

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He likely still has the indexes for sale