The new Findmypast (Part 2)

[locksmith]

Searches on places of birth seems to have gone . Subject of one of my many messages to FindMyPast yesterday.
I wonder what FMPs response will be to that one.

Lizzie,

Do you mean for Census Searches? If you do, then select 'search all records' from the Search Records Tab, you can then get to each individual Census Search Form after selecting census. You can then search on anything including Birth Town/City/Place. It's not very user friendly though.

Simon

[ankerdine]

I think FindMyPast has finally ground to a halt! That little circle is just going round and round and round and round.........

Judy

[LizzieL]

Tried that - hangs for ten minutes then gives me an error message. Using wildcards because the place is West (aka Little) Challow, but sometimes written Challow alone and in one case (but I forget which rellie and which census) transcribed as Charla - it did look like that on scan so some indication of his accent when pronouncing the place to whoever filled out his form.

I think FindMyPast has finally ground to a halt! That little circle is just going round and round and round and round.........

Get that too now

We killed it!

[Treetotal]

So pleased to learn it's the same for others and not just me...I predict a melt down!!! I am tipping it will go down for maintenance soon....all the bad publicity won't help their cause.
Carol

[Gadget]

It's working for me - just tried Denbighshire marriages/particular name and place and it deliverd 15 for me - all my rellies.

*Now it's stopped 
*Now it's delivered 
*Now a black screen of death (spinning circle)   

[avm228]

In the last half hour I have tried the same search about a dozen times -

Cue spinning green arrows followed (eventually) by "sorry, an error occurred" message.

Back to (blank again) search form and re-enter the search terms.

Repeat 11 times.

Then bingo - spinning green arrows take me to a list of results.

Click on one to see the image - spin, spin, spin...error message.

Sigh

[LizzieW]

At least they've now corrected the +/- problem, now there's a real choice, +/-  0, 1, 2, 5, 10, 20, and 40 years, but as the others have said it's not working now, just the green circle going round and round and now a Yahoo Error Handler message

The requested URL "http://search.new.findmypast.co.uk/search/united-kingdom-records?hsimp=yhse-001" cannot be found or is not available. Please check the spelling or try again later.

Hope it's gone for good and they give us back the old site. 

[lesleyhannah]

Have now downloaded Google chrome browser and works OK.



Why should we have to change browsers to suit FindMyPast?  In any case, I've tried Google chrome twice now and each time my laptop froze, so I'm not about to try again.

I am SO glad to hear other people are having the same problem. I'm old, and find anything to do with technology a bit scary, so I really don't want to change browsers - life is too short!

The first thing that warned me something was wrong was when I accessed the site via my Favourites bar and was asked to sign in again - already a problem trying to remember which password I used. It used to remember my details and log me in automatically. However. I couldn't get beyond the home page and my laptop froze when I tried the password I thought I remembered.

I don't know what to do now, if findmypast blames my browser. Absolutely I won't ever renew my subscription, and would strongly urge other people not to use this site until these problems are sorted. As it is, I could lose 3 to 4 months' subscription if I can't access the site again.

Maybe if everyone who is having problems adds to this string they will have to take notice?

[JenB]

Sorry, an error occurred while processing your request.

Our support team have been notified of this error and will correct it as soon as possible.

Over and over and over again