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Philatelic Foundation Certificate Search Down?

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Rhett
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Posted 10/15/2020   8:39 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Rhett to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
PF Cert Database Search has now been down for 2 full weeks. I called the PF yesterday and asked about it; they "are aware" of an outage and they "do not have any knowledge of when the outage will end". Sounds like my cable company - lol!
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Posted 10/15/2020   8:55 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add rogdcam to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
OK, that is just pathetic.
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PF Cert Database Search has now been down for 3 full weeks. I have to agree with you, Rogdcam!
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Posted 10/22/2020   9:24 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add jogil to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
How is it that their "Early Certificates" search works but their "Certificate Search" doesn't work?
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Rhett
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jogil, they are two totally different databases. The early cert database is literally just scans of their early cert worksheets with no particular order or search capability. The actual PF Search Database that is down now is a fairly robust searchable database yielding the actual certificate wording for their more recent certs. I think its scope is around 1984 to date.
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Can somebody please go over to the PF and plug their computer back in?

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"The early cert database is literally just scans of their early cert worksheets with no particular order or search capability."

They are actually scans of the record book pages. Each page is in approximate cert number order. It can be searched by catalog number, but not by certificate number or date.
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I wonder if the PF can look through their own internal certificates database?
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PF Cert Database Search is back up just now, after an outage length of one day short of 4 weeks. Hopefully it has been made less prone to outages now.
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