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? John. -- Please reply to john at yclept dot wanadoo dot co dot uk.

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. -- Tim Powys-Lybbe tim@powys.org for a miscellany of bygones: http://powys.org/