Scotsman Digital Archive

DavidWW · Post by **DavidWW** » Wed Nov 30, 2005 12:38 pm

http://archive.scotsman.com/

But note the following:

FREE access to the Digital Archive will start today at 12pm GMT, and will run until 7 December 12pm GMT. You will require a Scotsman.com login for access.

This means that you need first to go to the main http://www.scotsman.com/ page and register if you have not already done so.

David

CatrionaL · Post by **CatrionaL** » Wed Nov 30, 2005 12:40 pm

Hullo Legs

Scotsman address is

http://archive.scotsman.com/

Enjoy searching

Catriona

Legs11 · Post by **Legs11** » Wed Nov 30, 2005 12:49 pm

Thank you.

I'll go and register now.

Love
Legs
xxxx

Post by **Tracey** » Wed Nov 30, 2005 6:19 pm

As predicted - web site not responding

I have never found this to be the fastest site to use but i think its going to be impossible now

LesleyB · Post by **LesleyB** » Wed Nov 30, 2005 6:28 pm

Oh bother....
- been there, logged in, searched, went to download resulting picture and got error message:

Please contact Technical Support, quoting any error below.

Error Message: Failed to send email to user.

Filled in contact form.
Puh.

Post by **Tracey** » Wed Nov 30, 2005 6:34 pm

Well i am not going to stay up till all hours trying to get on this one ( i,ll do that on Sunday !). I suppose its to be expected as i for one refuse to pay that silly amount of money for access before and i bet a lot of others did to so are making the most of it now

Post by **AndrewP** » Wed Nov 30, 2005 6:44 pm

On trying a search at 17.43 GMT:

The Digital Archive is currently experiencing a huge volume of traffic, due to our free St Andrew's Day offer. Because of this high traffic, your search did not complete.
We would be grateful if you could possibly come back and try later.

All the best,

Andrew Paterson

DavidWW · Post by **DavidWW** » Wed Nov 30, 2005 7:29 pm

AndrewP wrote:On trying a search at 17.43 GMT:
The Digital Archive is currently experiencing a huge volume of traffic, due to our free St Andrew's Day offer. Because of this high traffic, your search did not complete.
We would be grateful if you could possibly come back and try later.
All the best,

Andrew Paterson

At least you got an error message.

I just got no hits after having had hits at 12:03

David

Post by **Tracey** » Wed Nov 30, 2005 7:32 pm

QUICK TRY IT NOW !!! EVERYONE MUST BE HAVING THEIR TEA - ITS WORKING FOR ME !!!

nelmit · Post by **nelmit** » Wed Nov 30, 2005 7:58 pm

Tracey wrote:QUICK TRY IT NOW !!! EVERYONE MUST BE HAVING THEIR TEA - ITS WORKING FOR ME !!!

And me although ah've no' many ancestors fae Edinburgh.

Annette M