I might be going mad but I can't get into the header images for the census pages anymore.
I usually use the direct download option but if I want to view the header pages to the census book I change over temporarily to the daeja viewer.
When I did this today, there was no option for the header pages - has this function been removed? This is the first time tried to do this since the site was redesigned and I think the viewer is a little different? I looked in the talking scot archives and there were a few posts on problems with viewing the headers but I think they were all dated before the site was relaunched?
Can anyone confirm whether this is just my problem (then I would send a contact form!) or are these images no longer available
Joyce
Header Images for Census
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DavidWW
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Re: Header Images for Census
Joycejoycehender wrote:I might be going mad but I can't get into the header images for the census pages anymore.
I usually use the direct download option but if I want to view the header pages to the census book I change over temporarily to the daeja viewer.
When I did this today, there was no option for the header pages - has this function been removed? This is the first time tried to do this since the site was redesigned and I think the viewer is a little different? I looked in the talking scot archives and there were a few posts on problems with viewing the headers but I think they were all dated before the site was relaunched?
Can anyone confirm whether this is just my problem (then I would send a contact form!) or are these images no longer available
Joyce
Not just your problem.
The relaunched site of a few weeks ago apears to have dropped this option.
There's a User Group meeting coming up on the 8th August, and you can be reassured that this matter will be raised !, as it was long ago established that this option should be offered, particularly in the context of identifying an institution, i.e. prison, hospital, poorhouse, etc ..........
Davie
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joycehender
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Hi Davie
Thanks for letting me know. Based on previous experience I should have known that they had removed a useful function without telling anyone!
It's not just useful for institutions, it can be invaluable in working out where a long-disappeared or renamed street or place was. I'm sure a lot of people used it and even more would have if they'd ever bothered to tell us it was there!
Good luck getting them to restore it!
Regards
Joyce
Thanks for letting me know. Based on previous experience I should have known that they had removed a useful function without telling anyone!
It's not just useful for institutions, it can be invaluable in working out where a long-disappeared or renamed street or place was. I'm sure a lot of people used it and even more would have if they'd ever bothered to tell us it was there!
Good luck getting them to restore it!
Regards
Joyce
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DavidWW
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Nae prob!!joycehender wrote:Hi Davie
Thanks for letting me know.
Excellent point !!joycehender wrote:Based on previous experience I should have known that they had removed a useful function without telling anyone!
It's not just useful for institutions, it can be invaluable in working out where a long-disappeared or renamed street or place was. I'm sure a lot of people used it and even more would have if they'd ever bothered to tell us it was there!
For those not familiar with these "header" pages, there is a description of enumeration district (ED) ranging from only a few lines in 1841 through to a very detailed description in 1901, including, in towns and cities, the extent of the ED in terms of streets that extended across more than one ED.
Nae question of luck involved !!!joycehender wrote:Good luck getting them to restore it!
Having accepted long since that this was a perfectly reasonable option to offer, this facility will be restored
The only question is the when..........
Davie