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Sources from West Virginia Archives using outdated URL, resulting in Error instead of Image Display

ToddMillett
ToddMillett ✭
October 12, 2021 edited January 27 in Search

Much of my wife's family records come from West Virginia. We rely heavily on the West Virginia Vital Records archive, which has an extensive collection of Birth, Death, and Marriage records.

FamilySearch has been linking to their site for images, using the URL http://wvculture.org/vrr However, they have recently changed their URL to http://archive.wvculture.org/vrr/

The result is that when I try to view a Marriage Certificate, for example, that has been attached to a FamilySearch record, the link displays an error, rather than the image of the Marriage Certificate. For example, look at PID LCX2-LQ3 and look at the source for William Floyd Boggess, "West Virginia Marriages, 1780-1970". Clicking on "View Source", and then "www.wvculture.org" under the Images Available section displays a webpage "403 Forbidden". However, if the first part of the URL is modified to include "archive" prior to the "wvculture" part of the URL, the image displays correctly.

Is there any possibility of updating these URL's within FamilySearch so that images can be displayed, or work with the West Virginia Archives to do a redirect?

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