The Internet Archive

How to find and extract information from the Internet Archive (Wayback Machine).

There is a large measure of "chicken and egg" here. It is my belief that the pages on archive.org are purposely NOT indexed. As such they will not turn up when an Internet user makes a search for information contained in one of their archives. If a webmaster, such as myself, posts this content on their website it WILL be found as it will get indexed.

I have a few examples of this, impressions on my websites that find PDFs that I have posted on them. Some of these PDSs had been found on archive.org others are those that had been generated by the webmaster or associated editors. This page deals with those originally found by tempusfigit.me.uk on archive.org.

February 2024, I find that there are a couple of examples of information found on my website by visitors. These were evidenced by a communication from someone wondering why their family tree on Maurice Boddy's website was no longer availble. The second was an access to the Smythies Family Records [PDF] (preceeded by accesses to Harris, Stirnet and edwardIII pages).

• Maurice Boddy - Actually this was found by a reference from geni.com? Guy de Boutetourt ../guy_botetourt.html via many other references
• Records of the Smythies Family - ../images/recordsofsmythie00smyt.pdf ../smythies_records.html

Finding the archive

Actually it does not serve me to speculate where I originally found the reference to archive.org. Thos finding my pages are less likley to be interested in what I write than they are in the finding the source of where I found the information.

I was lucky that I made a search for Botetourt and Ellingham, Suffolk when Mauruce's website was still active. I now see that the research that Maurice must have done came from the National Archives and various other sources that I had found on the geni.com website.

Looking at my page on Guy de Botetourt I see references to:

• Chris Phillip (historian?) - can't seem to see a Chris Philip Historian when I make a search. actually, CP is more probably the Complete Peerage
• Royal Ancestry by Douglas Richardson
• Abstract No 215. 2.↑ 2.0 2.1 The Deputy Keeper of the Records, Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem
• Plus others

The statement or notion that John de Botetourt was the "Bastard son of Edward I seems to come from the Complete Peerage. The Foundation for Medieval Geneology (FMG) disputes this claim.

Relationship Trail according to source "Royal Ancestry" 2013 D. Richardson Vol. IV.

This was from a Wikitree question about Ida Longespee de Beauchamp.

Wikitree

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