Very good info Leslie. I was JUST on there this morning..cussing. Its very frustrating when you get results that say records found...and then they don't dispaly them. Thats if you can even get the site to work. -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [PAGRE] West Virginia Vital Records site From: "Leslie Nelson" <myancestry@rogers.com> Date: Thu, May 14, 2009 10:45 am To: "PAWASHIN" <PAWASHIN@rootsweb.com>, "PAGREENE-L" <PAGREENE@rootsweb.com> This is just FYI, in case others are having problems accessing BMD certificates at [1]www.wvculture.org/vrr/ (the West Virginia vital records site) for our southwestern PA ancestors who wandered over the state line. The site is very slow, and the results page indicates records are found but won't display them. I've been experiencing this for a few weeks now, on different computers and internet connections. I emailed the site staff about this problem. They told me that my searches are timing out because their aging servers are having trouble handling the large volume of requests. Until they can get the servers replaced they suggested I try searching at off-peak hours, such as early morning. Another workaround is to use the WV databases at the Family Search pilot site ([2]http://search.labs.familysearch.org). The records there don't contain as much detail as the certificates, but it's a lot better than nothing - and the Family Search site has a better search engine. Leslie ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to PAGREENE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message References 1. http://www.wvculture.org/vrr/ 2. http://search.labs.familysearch.org/