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| Product Name | Discover Your Scottish Ancestry: Internet and Traditional Resources |
| Language | English |
| Category | Book / Magazine / Publication |
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| SKU | 2-0748639195 |
| Price New | 15.41 US Dollars (curriencies) |
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| Height | 5.4 inches (convert) |
| Length | 8.4 inches (convert) |
| Weight | 9.92 ounces (convert) |
| Author | Graham Holton, Jack Winch |
| Page Count | 224 |
| Binding | Paperback |
| Published | 11/04/2009 |
| Long Description | This illuminating guide to discovering your Scottish family history has been fully revised and updated to take account of changes to resources and methods for researching your Scottish ancestry over the last few years. Accessible in style and comprehensive in coverage, this new edition stresses the importance of traditional methods of family history research while also embracing the exciting possibilities afforded by new technologies, sources and developments in genetic science.Indispensable to both the fledgling researcher and the more experienced family history specialist in Scotland or elsewhere, this book provides a guide to the very latest resources available to assist with research. Covering Scottish primary and secondary sources in full detail, this book also provides illustrative case studies of family history research, lists of useful websites and archives, and family history organisations and societies.Highlights of this new edition:* An updated chapter dedicated to aspects of recording, scanning and storing information* New insight into accessing English, Irish, emigrant and immigrant records* An update on developments in DNA genetics of relevance to the genealogist* A substantial and broad-ranging bibliography essential for those who want to take their research further. |
| Similar Items | 9780752463728: Scottish Genealogy 9780007485901: Scotland of Old: Clans Map of Scotland Collins (Collins Pictorial Maps) 9780806317489: Tracing your Scottish Ancestry Third Edition |
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This is just a general comment to those that might be interested in some technical info about our site and how Google interacts with it.
Their programmers are very curtious when it comes to their spiders and how they interact with various web sites. Apparently, they are sensative to the load that their spiders place on a web server and do a darn good job when it comes to not overloading a server.
Another major search engine is not quite so nice. If you don't tell them to leave you alone, they will hammer the heck out of your site and potentially bring you to your knees.
Over the past vew days, we have been doing a massive system backup to a couple new off-site backup servers. Normally, this process is pretty quick but because these were new servers they required fully syncronization. Well, I forgot to take into account the drain this could place on our server and I let more than one backup run at a time.
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Google may be awesome, but it can be frustrating some times too.
This cool and wonderful feature that Google has in place to prevent overloading a server had an unexpected side affect. Because Google thought our site was super busy (which it was) it reduced the number of people it was referring to the site too. DOH!
As we noticed the visitor count slowly drop we got very confused because the system load was still very high. And we noticed Google wasn't visiting as often as usual and then we saw it... The backup process had overloaded the system. Not to the extreme but enough to make Google think there was a problem. We still actually had plenty of bandwidth for real users just not as much for the bots that visit (which we limit when bandwidth is limited).
Anyway, it was a good learning experience and we are now seeing the referrals climb back up and the Google spider is picking up its pace again too.
We had to force a couple other bots (including that othe big search engine) to play nice because they were trying to take more than their share of our data.
All in all, Google is AWESOME and very powerful. So THANKS GOOGLE for playing nice with others!