The 1837 Online site was featured on BBC Breakfast this morning concerning the addition of the 1861 Census transcriptions. Guess what - the site is currently down! Home page shows - "1837online.com is currently undergoing maintenance and is temporarily unavailable. The site will be live again shortly. We apologise for any inconvenience caused." David Tappin d.tappin@ntlworld.com Family Personal Web Pages www.tappin.org.uk <http://www.tappin.org.uk/> Family Genealogy Web Pages http://homepage.ntlworld.com/d.tappin

In message <000a01c51f3e$a5e440c0$0201a8c0@your6r7do13ox4>, David Tappin <d.tappin@ntlworld.com> writes >The 1837 Online site was featured on BBC Breakfast this morning >concerning the addition of the 1861 Census transcriptions. > >Guess what - the site is currently down! > >Home page shows - "1837online.com is currently undergoing maintenance >and is temporarily unavailable. The site will be live again shortly. We >apologise for any inconvenience caused." Actually, it was down for just 17 minutes, and has been OK ever since. 17 minutes was how long it took for them to add extra server capacity and re-boot the servers. (That's from the horse's mouth). Pretty impressive. That's a bit better than the PRO's 1901 census ;-) Cheers Rod -- Rod Neep