PRONI appeal - anyone agree

[Blackadder]

Anyone else think the new PRONI website is a horlicks?

[TheWhuttle]

BA,

I've passed by both factories, and sampled their products at home.  There is little resemblance ...

The old offering always confused/annoyed me no end.
[Surely (?) its gotta be good to embrace change.
However, I'll  reserve full critical judgement till later, after extensive usage trial ...]


Great to see a general Search box at the top of the page, at last.


While there may be a few mildly warm moments to come during the next few months, my feeling is that things will ultimately prove to be really "cool" ...

[Certainly, any organisation that is brave enough to plan to relocate itself to the front quarter of the Titanic must prepared take all that fate might dictate!]


Hopefully, the powers that be have set aside a wee wad from the £30M relocation budget to ...

   ... complete the rejig of the townland maps;
           [How can such a canker have lasted so long?!]

   ... incorporate the "Women's Studies" index;
           [Unique access to many repositories across Ulster.
             c.f. www.nationalarchives.ie ]
 
   ... reply to some of my three EMails from last October!


In a LEHRER vein ...

    Fish gotta swim, birds gotta fly,
    Some of us just gotta love PRONI until the day we die!


Capt. Jock

[Christopher]

Horlicks It's more like Cocoa. Er ... could one of you guys tell me who PRONI consulted on a regular basis over the past twelve months ... were any RootsChatters consulted?

Christopher

[scotmum]

The old offering always confused/annoyed me no end.
[Surely (?) its gotta be good to embrace change.
However, I'll  reserve full critical judgement till later, after extensive usage trial ...]

Tend to agree with above. Although not fully roadtested it yet, on initial dipping in of my toe, it does seem better in many aspects (although, as with life, there is always room for improvement).

Site does have a slightly more modern look/feel about it, albeit that would not be difficult given old site, and, in my opinion, could still be much enhanced.

[Christopher]

Have a look at the PRONI WebSites - Link. I wonder if these PRONI pages have been removed on a permanent or temporary basis.

I did a search for Privately deposited papers and didn't find much. Under the old system there was online information telling you what papers were available. Well at least if you have problems finding records in PRONI they now have an online page telling you about "Other things to do in the area." That's extremely thoughtful of someone.

It looks as though you now have to save some of the PRONI files to your computer.

Christopher

[stevenson]

Blackadder

More like a herbal tea at the moment...but early days...

[Surely (?) its gotta be good to embrace change.
However, I'll reserve full critical judgement till later, after extensive usage trial ...]

 ... incorporate the "Women's Studies" index;
 [Unique access to many repositories across Ulster.
 c.f. www.nationalarchives.ie ]


                               Fish gotta swim, birds gotta fly,
             Some of us just gotta love PRONI until the day we die!


Capt. Jock

Tend to agree with above. Although not fully roadtested it yet, on initial dipping in of my toe, it does seem better in many aspects (although, as with life, there is always room for improvement).

Privately deposited papers and didn't find much. Under the old system there was online information telling you what papers were available. Well at least if you have problems finding records in PRONI they now have an online page telling you about "Other things to do in the area." That's extremely thoughtful of someone.

It looks as though you now have to save some of the PRONI files to your computer.

Christopher

I agree with all of the above........I have not fully used the site yet.

But it does have a more modern " touchy feminine feel"  about it............but it is early days.

The will index is brilliant


I will always be a PRONI lover,
to the day I die
.........Steve

[scotmum]

The will index is brilliant

  - Great find, thanks. Found two relating to a couple I strongly believe may have been one of my sets of great great grandparents. If anyone will be in PRONI soon and wouldn't mind looking at the actual Wills for me, please PM me. Thanks, in hope.


Here is a link to the Will Index search page.

[OTTO]

Have not been to PRONI website for yunks.
Just found elusive date  of death of ancestor in wills -- excellent 

[Christopher]

I agree with all of the above........I have not fully used the site yet.

But it does have a more modern " touchy feminine feel"  about it............but it is early days.

The will index is brilliant


I will always be a PRONI lover,
to the day I die
.........Steve

Hi Steve,

I loved the PRONI lists of townlands but I can only find the Antrim one at the minute.

I've e-mailed PRONI asking if they'd kindly update links to the other counties.

Christopher