I've just gone to http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~hughwallis (note that I've removed the colon from the end of the link) and it is now working again. Hooray! What would I do without this brilliant resource! Val ----- Original Message ----- From: "Les Horn" <leshorn@ythanonich.freeserve.co.uk> To: "Isle of Mull Rootsweb" <SCT-ISLEOFMULL@rootsweb.com>; "Argyll Rootsweb" <sct-argyll@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, October 13, 2008 6:41 PM Subject: Re: [ARGYLL] IGI batch numbers > Here is a message from Hugh Wallis about his IGI Batch number pages > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~hughwallis: > Site not available at present. Let’s hope it is operating again soon. > > > "It appears some people have reported getting virus warnings from the site > > but, unless it is in the stuff ancestry.com adds, there is no virus there, > > and certainly not one inserted by me. I suspect ancestry.com have taken > > it > > offline. I also suspect that the anti-virus software that is giving these > > warnings is over zealous and has applied a heuristic detection algorithm > > to > > produce the warnings - and those algorithms are well known for producing > > occasional "false positives". Most reputable anti-virus software like AVG > > and Norton report the site as clean (or did until it was taken down by > > ancestry.com) > > > > Unfortunately I have no control over it since ancestry.com do not even > > provide a means for me to change the password that is necessary to update > > the site. If some evil hacker has obtained that password somehow I can do > > nothing about it. > > > > Actually I have not even accessed nor updated the site myself for many > > months. > > > > Having no time to investigate further I shall be leaving it in the hands > > of > > ancestry.com - but they have not had the courtesy even to contact me so I > > don't know to what extent they intend to address the issue > > > > Thanks > > > > Hugh” > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to SCT-ARGYLL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com Version: 8.0.173 / Virus Database: 270.8.0/1721 - Release Date: 12/10/2008 12:00 PM

Val said > I've just gone to http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~hughwallis > (note > that I've removed the colon from the end of the link) and it is now > working > again. Hooray! What would I do without this brilliant resource! It looks like Ancestry.com do act on complaints they receive. Thank goodness we can access Hugh's very usefuil site again. Les

I have 2 questions. Does anyone know for sure that the spelling of the above names are accepted variables for each and other? As to the registration numbers on Scotland's People's certificates, are they relative only to Scotland's People or registration in public records? I wondered why one might find 2 of the same number, which are identical in christian in forename. I am using them in Citation in my GEDCOM and I was wondering if there is something better. Janet