Cultrans suspended
Petra Mitchinson
I just tried to follow a link to Cultrans, the Cumberland newspaper transcriptions website, only to land on a page that says that the account has been suspended, and "Please contact the billing/support department as soon as possible."
Does anybody know what has happened? This must be a recent thing as I accessed the website within the last few months without problems.
Who is actually responsible for maintaining this site? Is it possible that this site has to be paid for, and the payments have lapsed?
I have a vague memory that the site was set up by someone called Jim – perhaps he is no longer able to pay, for whatever reason?
Does Barb know? She was quite heavily involved in uploading transcriptions to the site.
Petra
sarahre...@gmail.com
“Jim Patterson who runs www.cultrans.com has extracts from a number of local newspapers.”
https://cumbriafhs.com/cgi-bin/cumbria/cfhs_main.pl?action=cfhs_newspapers
Try webm...@cultrans.com .
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Cumberland & Westmorland Newspaper transcriptions are archived here;
http://www.cultrans.com/index.php
See also the related site for historic document transcriptions;
https://sites.google.com/a/cumberland-document.com/cumberland-document-transcriptions/home
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Petra Mitchinson
Thanks, Sarah.
I have sent an email, and also one to the other email address you sent me.
Incidentally, the document transcriptions website also no longer exists...
Petra
Barbara Baker
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Cumberland & Westmorland Newspaper transcriptions are archived here;
http://www.cultrans.com/index.php
See also the related site for historic document transcriptions;
https://sites.google.com/a/cumberland-document.com/cumberland-document-transcriptions/home
Geo.
I've checked the Cultrans.com domain registration which confirms Jim as the registered administrator. The (current) registration expiry date is 23 May 2031. The 'cultran.com' URL name is safe until then. The issue seems to be that the hosting period has lapsed. The host appears to be thermalthree.footholds.net.
Most, and perhaps all of the site has been archived here with the most recent snapshot being 24 July this year:
https://web.archive.org/web/20230325193738/http://www.cultrans.com/
Jim is shown as Site Administrator on the archived 'Contact Us' page. An email can be sent to him via the form on the page but if the site is suspended it may not work.
Geo.
On 21/10/2023 23:48, Barbara Baker wrote:
Petra Mitchinson
Thanks, George. That is really helpful.
I have tried emailing Jim on two email addresses, both linked to his websites which are now suspended/defunct. Obviously I did not get an answer, but there was a bounce-back from his personal website which said his inbox was full.
I am in contact with David Huddart, the new webmaster of Cumbria FHS, to see whether there is something Cumbria FHS can do to save the site (or at least the contents).
I also found a phone number for Jim on the internet (but not sure whether still current) and will try to phone him (or his wife) to see what the state of affairs is.
Will keep you posted.
Petra
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Cumberland & Westmorland Newspaper transcriptions are archived here;
http://www.cultrans.com/index.php
See also the related site for historic document transcriptions;
https://sites.google.com/a/cumberland-document.com/cumberland-document-transcriptions/home
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sarahre...@gmail.com
Maybe Jim has run off to Australia after having a torrid online affair with Dorothy. 😉
Those things happen these days. Some of us have old flames all over the English-speaking globe thanks to merry England mailing lists.
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sarahre...@gmail.com
OOPS I did mean New Zealand. Senior moment.
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Petra Mitchinson
The cultrans website now no longer can be found at all – not even as suspended. (it is still in the Wayback Machine though.)
David Huddart and I have been trying various means of contacting Jim Patterson without success.
If anybody knows anything about Jim (even if it is out of date), can they please email me directly.
Even snippets like where he lived – which country? Where in the country? could be useful.
Does anybody have a postal address for him? Or a phone number? Or even knows which surnames he was interested in from a family history point of view? Does he have an Ancestry account? (There are 50 Ancestry members called Jim Patterson, and 500 called James Patterson...)
Again: Please don't send any information about Jim to the list – please send to me personally. petra.mi...@doctors.org.uk
Many thanks,
Petra
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It is indeed Jim Patterson, Barb.