Problem with thepeerage.com site

[bx...@yahoo.com]

The site is working, but there is a problem with one of the most important features, which has gone on for at least a couple of days.

A researcher used to be able to  directly access information about a peer (Duke, Marquess, Earl, etc.) but just clicking on the Custom Index, going to that rank, and then finding the title, and clicking on the person you are looking for.  

Now, when you go to the Custom Index and click on the rank, a complete blank comes up.  (You can find the person you are looking for by searching the surname, but the other way is much faster.)

Does anyone know what's going on?

Thanks.

Brooke

[colinp]

This useful feature has now been restored...

[bx...@yahoo.com]

Wonderful news!  Thanks so much, colinp, for letting us know.

Brooke

[Eleanor Doughty]

Is anyone else finding that the website is down a lot, lately? Not just with this feature but in general. I am getting a lot of 'this site can't be reached' messages.

[nwkin...@gmail.com]

Yes, it has happened to me a couple of times.

 

Nick Kingsley

--
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Peerage News" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to peerage-news...@googlegroups.com.
To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/peerage-news/2c91a883-b8b6-4a0b-b0a5-3b2db05fa302n%40googlegroups.com.

[Richard R]

The site regularly has problems but seems to 'right' itself later in the day (not yet, today!). My guess is this site is now so large and frequently used that managing it (including generating income from ads) must be a major task. It's a very useful resource which is free (so far), so I hope it doesn't disappear altogether. The owner ?Darryll Lundy is to be applauded for his Herculean efforts in producing such a website. I use it in the same way I use Wikipedia, ie useful to go to as a starter, but try to verify it's dates etc from other sources. This doesn't take away from the creator's work: how can one person defiinitively check all the info appearing on it? 

[Richard R]

Now back online

[bx...@yahoo.com]

With Paul's site no longer online, thepeerage.com and genealogics.org have become more important than ever for our research.

Brooke

On Thursday, 9 April 2026 at 08:22:54 UTC-4 Richard R wrote:

Now back online

[nwkin...@gmail.com]

I find errors of omission on the Peerage site much more commonly than errors of commission. Much of the data is copied across from pedigrees in Burke’s volumes, which as we know are often incomplete.

 

Nick Kingsley

 

From: peerag...@googlegroups.com <peerag...@googlegroups.com> On Behalf Of Richard R
Sent: 09 April 2026 10:51
To: Peerage News <peerag...@googlegroups.com>
Subject: Re: Problem with thepeerage.com site

 

The site regularly has problems but seems to 'right' itself later in the day (not yet, today!). My guess is this site is now so large and frequently used that managing it (including generating income from ads) must be a major task. It's a very useful resource which is free (so far), so I hope it doesn't disappear altogether. The owner ?Darryll Lundy is to be applauded for his Herculean efforts in producing such a website. I use it in the same way I use Wikipedia, ie useful to go to as a starter, but try to verify it's dates etc from other sources. This doesn't take away from the creator's work: how can one person defiinitively check all the info appearing on it? 

--

You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Peerage News" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to peerage-news...@googlegroups.com.

To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/peerage-news/61b7080e-20d3-496e-a763-5eff0af8a41cn%40googlegroups.com.

[bx...@yahoo.com]

Nick, I agree with you.

There are usually footnotes with each piece of information, so you can see where it comes from, and then make your evaluation whether it's from a credible source.  (I have found most of the sources are extremely credible.)

Brooke

[Nick MacGregor-Sadolin]

Hi Brooke, 

On Wayback Machine, I can find can Paul Theroff's Gotha's main page here:

https://web.archive.org/web/20250911172444/https://www.angelfire.com/realm/gotha/gotha/gotha.htm 

If some pages under this site on Wayback Machine does not exist or work, then try to select a different page date.

Also, according to his page was made and / or it then was stored on Wayback Machine, it sometimes takes a little time for it to load.

If nothing happens or it comes with an error, then you could try to reload the page. Sometimes that works and the page then loads up.

😀

Best regards, Nick

Nick MacGregor Sadolin

https://gw.geneanet.org/sadolinsnet_w

My two last names, a dot in between them, and @ gmail.com

--

You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Peerage News" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to peerage-news...@googlegroups.com.

To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/peerage-news/2d5ce1be-1223-4ec7-9fc7-3ff039912a35n%40googlegroups.com.

[bx...@yahoo.com]

Hi Nick.

Thanks so much for this link!  Very helpful!

Regards.

Brooke