On Saturday, July 2, 2016 at 1:13:23 PM UTC-4, John Higgins wrote: > The Welsh Medieval Genealogy database has been a very useful research tool and finding aid for unraveling the complexities of Welsh genealogy. After the considerable effort that was invested by the FHL in organizing this data, it would be quite a loss if it were no longer available. Agreed, keeping the pile of 1980s user submitted gedcoms but discarding this seems like a priority inversion issue indeed

On Saturday, July 2, 2016 at 12:34:03 PM UTC-7, joe...@gmail.com wrote: > On Saturday, July 2, 2016 at 1:13:23 PM UTC-4, John Higgins wrote: > > The Welsh Medieval Genealogy database has been a very useful research tool and finding aid for unraveling the complexities of Welsh genealogy. After the considerable effort that was invested by the FHL in organizing this data, it would be quite a loss if it were no longer available. > > Agreed, keeping the pile of 1980s user submitted gedcoms but discarding this seems like a priority inversion issue indeed I've been exchanging emails with the customer-service staff at Family Search on this issue of the Welsh database - with disappointing results so far. Although the staff no doubt are well-meaning, they don't seem to be sufficiently informed to answer more detailed technical questions. They just refer me to websites that are now outdated. I recall that someone from the FHL staff has been posting here occasionally in the past few weeks - Nathan, maybe? Perhaps you could cut through the bureaucracy and determine if Family Search really did intend to make the Welsh database unavailable, along the rest of Community Trees. As Joe suggests, this would be a strange and unfortunate ordering of priorities - to keep the Ancestral File and the Pedigree Resource File while discarding all the effort that's been expended on the Welsh database.