On 03/12/2015 19:36, Tim Powys-Lybbe via wrote: > On 03/12/2015 4:45 p.m., John Hill wrote: >> Wendy Archer via <genbrit@rootsweb.com> wrote: >> >>> Various archive collections put out advent calendars at this time of >>> year. Not all the windows relate to family history, but they're fun, and >>> maybe give ideas about types of collections worth exploring. Both >>> Aberystwyth and Sheffield have some good calendars this year. >>> >>> http://www.aber.ac.uk/�/collect�/special-collections/advent/ >>> >>> http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/libra�/special/adventcalendar2015 >>> >>> Wendy >> >> Both of these come up with nothing :-( >> >> The first says 404, Page not found and the second, This page cannot be >> displayed. >> >> I see <a-circumflex><Euro symbol><?></> in each; these are probably >> codings for a character that does not decode properly on my iMac. In the >> Aberstwyth one it comes immediately after aber.ac.uk/ >> >> What should it be? > > I had the same experience and identified the same funny constructs as > the probable causes. > > What I did was to go to the university home page in each case (the bit > between '//' and the first '/') and use their search facilities for the > word 'advent'. This brought up these URLs: > > Aberystwyth: > <https://www.aber.ac.uk/en/is/collections/special-collections/advent/> > > Sheffield: > <http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/library/special/adventcalendar2015> > > Curiously there are none of the funny expressions in either of these > URLs. And they work here at least. Thank you, Tim. How mysterious! May you enjoy the remaining windows! Wendy