Why does thhe Wiki link provided by FamilySearch not work?
Why does entering http://maps.familysearch.org/ in the browser or clicking on it from the FamilySearch Wiki take me to https://www.familysearch.org/mapp/ ? The new address doesn’t work when the England parish name is selected from the list of possible parishes (derived from the entry I made in the search box.) It displays an “error 500 undefined” message. This occurs no matter what parish I put in the search box and select from the resulting list. This site was extremely helpful in past English research. Has the original one been discontinued?
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The URL's, http://maps.familysearch.org/ and https://www.familysearch.org/mapp/ are equivalent, and either will take you to the England Jurisdictions 1851 map. At one time the first URL was used in FamilySearch; however, for some reason, the URL was later changed to the latter. I notice that the Wiki still refers to the old URL, and should be changed
This map, currently, does not work - as you've indicated. Clicking on the map, for any selection, will generate an error message. On the map one will seeing "Loading...." which will continue until the map is reset. This problem has been reported. Because of a significant backlog of issues that are being addressed, I am not able to suggest when the problem will be fixed.
I hope that this answers some of your questions.
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