On Saturday, July 2, 2016 at 11:13:23 AM UTC-6, John Higgins wrote: > It appears that the FHL’s Welsh Medieval Genealogy database is no longer available online. I just checked. The Welsh Medieval Genealogy database is still online at FamilySearch in the "Genealogies" section. Here's a link to Welsh-American Edward Foulke: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/2:2:3W49-7N8 Nathan

On Sat, 2 Jul 2016 21:39:40 -0700 (PDT), nathanwmurphy@gmail.com wrote: >On Saturday, July 2, 2016 at 11:13:23 AM UTC-6, John Higgins wrote: >> It appears that the FHL’s Welsh Medieval Genealogy database is no longer available online. > >I just checked. The Welsh Medieval Genealogy database is still online at FamilySearch in the "Genealogies" section. Here's a link to Welsh-American Edward Foulke: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/2:2:3W49-7N8 > >Nathan John is partially correct, some of it is available, but a whole swag of it has been removed or is unavailable. Individuals that appeared with wives, children and ancestry back to the beginnings, now have ancestry that peters out after 3 or 4 generations, exactly as John has experienced. If one tries to follow the Foulke male line, Ieuan ap Thomas is as far as I get. The following is what you see ... "We are unable to display page content due to technical difficulties. Please try again in a few minutes." Also note that for sources it has "No Source Title Provided". sources which were available not too long ago. Also note that the sentence "For information in the FamilySearch wiki about this project, click here. " doesn't have a URL attached to it. All very strange. Cheers, Henry Soszynski

> John is partially correct, some of it is available, but a whole swag > of it has been removed or is unavailable. Individuals that appeared > with wives, children and ancestry back to the beginnings, now have > ancestry that peters out after 3 or 4 generations, exactly as John has > experienced. If one tries to follow the Foulke male line, Ieuan ap > Thomas is as far as I get. The following is what you see ... > "We are unable to display page content due to technical difficulties. > Please try again in a few minutes." > Also note that for sources it has "No Source Title Provided". sources > which were available not too long ago. Also note that the sentence > "For information in the FamilySearch wiki about this project, click > here. " doesn't have a URL attached to it. All very strange. > > Cheers, > Henry Soszynski So I've heard four specific problems now: (1) missing individuals, (2) technical difficulties, (3) missing source titles, and (4) missing link to FamilySearch Wiki. Has anyone experienced any additional problems? Do we think this all began last week (Monday, 27 June 2016) when FamilySearch upgraded the website? Or has it been going on longer? I'll try my best to get these reported to the correct person at FamilySearch next week. Nathan

On Sunday, July 3, 2016 at 7:37:14 PM UTC-7, nathan...@gmail.com wrote: > > John is partially correct, some of it is available, but a whole swag > > of it has been removed or is unavailable. Individuals that appeared > > with wives, children and ancestry back to the beginnings, now have > > ancestry that peters out after 3 or 4 generations, exactly as John has > > experienced. If one tries to follow the Foulke male line, Ieuan ap > > Thomas is as far as I get. The following is what you see ... > > "We are unable to display page content due to technical difficulties. > > Please try again in a few minutes." > > Also note that for sources it has "No Source Title Provided". sources > > which were available not too long ago. Also note that the sentence > > "For information in the FamilySearch wiki about this project, click > > here. " doesn't have a URL attached to it. All very strange. > > > > Cheers, > > Henry Soszynski > > So I've heard four specific problems now: (1) missing individuals, (2) technical difficulties, (3) missing source titles, and (4) missing link to FamilySearch Wiki. > > Has anyone experienced any additional problems? > > Do we think this all began last week (Monday, 27 June 2016) when FamilySearch upgraded the website? Or has it been going on longer? > > I'll try my best to get these reported to the correct person at FamilySearch next week. > > Nathan I'd add a 5th problem - missing pedigrees. Even if the people are in the database, they are not connected to others in the database, either their ancestors or their descendants - and thus they don't show up in a pedigree. See the examples that I posted earlier in this thread. I can't be certain that it began just last week at the time of the website upgrade. As it happened, I had taken a break from my Welsh research for a week or so before the June 27th upgrade - and came back to find it essentially non-functional. But it definitely was working without problems until at least mid-June. I've been accessing the Welsh database nearly every day for several months now. Note that these comments apply specifically to the Community Trees functionality - not necessarily the other databases like AF, Pedigree Resource File, and IGI. I certainly hope that the data has not been lost - but I'm getting worried!! If others in this group have similar concerns, it would be useful to voice them here and now, so that Nathan can carry them back to the Family Search group.

On Sun, 3 Jul 2016 19:37:13 -0700 (PDT), nathanwmurphy@gmail.com wrote: >> John is partially correct, some of it is available, but a whole swag >> of it has been removed or is unavailable. Individuals that appeared >> with wives, children and ancestry back to the beginnings, now have >> ancestry that peters out after 3 or 4 generations, exactly as John has >> experienced. If one tries to follow the Foulke male line, Ieuan ap >> Thomas is as far as I get. The following is what you see ... >> "We are unable to display page content due to technical difficulties. >> Please try again in a few minutes." >> Also note that for sources it has "No Source Title Provided". sources >> which were available not too long ago. Also note that the sentence >> "For information in the FamilySearch wiki about this project, click >> here. " doesn't have a URL attached to it. All very strange. >> >> Cheers, >> Henry Soszynski > >So I've heard four specific problems now: (1) missing individuals, (2) technical difficulties, (3) missing source titles, and (4) missing link to FamilySearch Wiki. > >Has anyone experienced any additional problems? > >Do we think this all began last week (Monday, 27 June 2016) when FamilySearch upgraded the website? Or has it been going on longer? > >I'll try my best to get these reported to the correct person at FamilySearch next week. > >Nathan It's only recent so 27th June sounds about right. I suspect the data is there just not connected as John has mentioned. Some records have information which clearly refer to other records that aren't visible. Cheers, Henry Soszynski

On 7/3/2016 9:37 PM, nathanwmurphy via wrote: > So I've heard four specific problems now: (1) missing individuals, (2) > technical difficulties, (3) missing source titles, and (4) missing > link to FamilySearch Wiki. > Has anyone experienced any additional problems? While we are on the topic of Family Search, there is one question I have about a "feature" which I have found very annoying. For example, if I do a search of all marriages involving a specific surname at a specific location during a specific time range, the "hits" usually appear in what seems to be no logical order. Why is this, and is there any way to have the hits delivered in a chosen order (e.g., chronological or alphabetical)? Stewart Baldwin