Anyone working on Manitoba (or other prairie province) genealogy recently has probably come across those pesky Glenbow links in their tree. Links that once led to some kind of pdf with useful information (I believe they may have been the Sinclair genealogies?), now only lead to a lovely "Page not found" screen on the Glenbow institute website. Anyways I accidentally stumbled across a way to fix these broken links.
How to fix the links:
1) start off with a broken link, that'll look something like this:
http://www.glenbow.org/collections/search/findingAids/archhtm/extras/sinclair/m-8736-68.pdf
2) copy the last part of the link (after the last slash), the "m-####-##.pdf" (bolded in the example below)
3) paste that onto the end of this link:
https://glenbow.ucalgary.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/
which with our example will give you
https://glenbow.ucalgary.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/m-8736-177.pdf
Et voila! You have the pdf back again.
I've tried this out with a few dead links that I've found on my own tree and they all seem to work (and I've discovered that the information on them is flawed but that's a conversation for another post)
