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Re: Re: The new Findmypast (Part 3)
« Reply #144 on: Monday 07 April 14 16:20 BST (UK) »
The wonderful 'old search' on FindMyPast gives Brick Lane in Whitechapel Registration District in 1901 as numbers 
2 - 42 and 7 - 150.

Brick Lane Bethnal Green RD is numbered 199 to 324.
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Re: Re: The new Findmypast (Part 3)
« Reply #145 on: Monday 07 April 14 16:27 BST (UK) »
I don't know what they've done.  I looked through Whitechapel and Bethnal Green Districts for 1901 and although there were many address in Brick Lane, and I've now found them down to about 42, I couldn't find number 4.  It's not a satisfactory way to search for addresses though. That is something the old FindMyPast site was really good for, but I guess like everything else that was good on the site, it's gone for good.

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Re: Re: The new Findmypast (Part 3)
« Reply #146 on: Monday 07 April 14 16:30 BST (UK) »
I'm tearing my hair out.  I just cannot work out how to search the census by address.  I found their instructions in the FAQ but it doesn't work.  I just get 0 results.


The problem is that all you can do is enter the street name and Registration District, and then you are presented with a list of all the people living there. The old type of address search is no longer available.

Please add your comments about this deficiency here  ::)
http://feedback.findmypast.co.uk/forums/222583-ideas-and-improvements/suggestions/5723365-allow-dedicated-address-searches-and-results-for-c
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Re: Re: The new Findmypast (Part 3)
« Reply #147 on: Monday 07 April 14 16:35 BST (UK) »
I have found 4 Brick Lane Whitechapel? I'm assuming tenement flats there are many families listed under the one address
R

a) how did you find it - are you still on the old site?
b) please could you give Tsu the full reference so that she can use that to find the place?
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Re: Re: The new Findmypast (Part 3)
« Reply #149 on: Monday 07 April 14 17:54 BST (UK) »
I have found 4 Brick Lane Whitechapel? I'm assuming tenement flats there are many families listed under the one address
R

a) how did you find it - are you still on the old site?
b) please could you give Tsu the full reference so that she can use that to find the place?

I found it now I can't access the site again -  I took a note of one tenant earlier - hope it helps.

Israel Bimenfield b 1868

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Re: Re: The new Findmypast (Part 3)
« Reply #150 on: Monday 07 April 14 18:04 BST (UK) »
I've just discovered another anomaly on the census search pages  ::)

1841 - 1891 the 'Who' section is in the order 'First Name' then 'Last Name'.

On the 1901 and 1911 search pages they are in the order 'Last Name' then 'First Name'  ::)

No wonder I was getting no results for person I was searching for in 1901  ::)

Yet another email fired off in their direction.
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Re: Re: The new Findmypast (Part 3)
« Reply #151 on: Monday 07 April 14 18:10 BST (UK) »
I'm in mourning and this time it's not for a relative.

I always preferred FindMyPast to Ancestry for it's lack of clutter and unnecessary wordage on screen.  Now FindMyPast has 'improved' I ended up with 26,000 results for one marriage.  My own life is just too short for that kind of rubbish.

Woe, woe and thrice woe......

I have asked them if I can suspend my subscription until they sort this nonsense out.... hmmmm... do you think I'll get a response?

Yours despondently,

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Re: Re: The new Findmypast (Part 3)
« Reply #152 on: Monday 07 April 14 18:16 BST (UK) »
Just used FindMyPast for the first time today since it changed, very strange not half as informative as it used to be but I'll keep trying until my present subscription ends and then see how I feel.
 
I've just realised it reminds me of Family Search and looks a bit like it too, or is it just me !!!!

Patty

BRIGGS especially WILLIAM b. 1839 MY GREAT GRANDFATHER and MY BRICK WALL.

Richardson - Northumberland and Durham
Briggs - Durham and Sth Wales
Proud, Chapman - Durham and North Yorkshire
Hetherington - Cumberland/Northumberland and Durham
Eeles - Durham
Blair, Herd - Scotland
Murphy, McKenna, Connery - Ireland
also - Corps - Wear - Hutchinson & Fawell .