Family Search BMDs - problem

[shanew147]

just to update...

I've been in touch with Familysearch tech support and they were not  aware of a specific problem with the Irish Civil records Index after their recent  update.  They have asked for some specific examples of missing records to test with, which I have just provided.


Shane

[genseacher]

Hi Shane
All of the records are missing from 1900's
e.g. Edward rooney my grandfather
Regards
genseacher

[genseacher]

Shane here is one that could be tested

Name: Edward Rooney
Registration District: Dublin North
Quarter and Year : July - Sept 1932

Married Margaret Gorman

And I think the references are

Volume 2 - Page 312

Regards
Genseacher

[shanew147]

thanks... I gave them quite a list of missing marriages that I have details of from 1847 to 1927, but I didn't have full references for all of them. I'll add that one to the test list to send them if they need more details.



Shane

[shanew147]

I've had a response from familysearch support and include some quotes :

"....thank you for your reply and for the details provided. We are passing your feedback to our engineers for their consideration as there is further work to do on the collection."

They go on to state that the have found all the example marriages by

"..conduct[ed] marriage searches by opening 2 tabs in our browser and searching in exact close  and partial in the collection for names only. We then apply filters for the event year range  and select the event 'residence' in the case of marriage searches to narrow results. We await at present further work to enable filter by registration district."

It looks like the search method for marriages has changed slightly and requires an search on all locations and events first, then filtering on the residence, rather than marriage as before  - which was mentioned by aghadowey earlier. Including the the county in the search seems to cause the 'no results' error for many of the recent (19202/30s) births.... as leaving this out returns many of them for me.

I haven't checked other marriages using this method yet.

They also mention they the plan to changing the familysearch website and adding improved search capabilities.


Shane

[aghadowey]

Shane- Did a search last night for 'Andrew Torrens" and several possibilities came up. However, there was no 'place' option to narrow down the search results.
Also I noticed that after doing a search on the main page (for all records) and then trying to narrow down the place some strange results come up (Irish counties in Irish and English, Canadian provinces in French and English but not same ones for each).

[shanew147]

Shane- Did a search last night for 'Andrew Torrens" and several possibilities came up. However, there was no 'place' option to narrow down the search results.....

I tried a search for Andrew and did get 'place' as a filter option - even though I'm in the Irish Civil Records collections it includes some unusual places as well a a few Irish counties..

I think a difficulty with the term 'location' in their revised database might be the key to the problem... At the moment it's difficult to understand what's going wrong with the searches unless they decide to let me look at the data structure...and that's not going to happen.


Shane

[shanew147]

ignore me.... I did that last search in a browser that had all collections selected by mistake...


S.

[aghadowey]

Searched again for 'Andrew Torrens' on all records page and places now come up but searching for same name in Civil registration index there is still no place option!