The new Findmypast (Part 2)

[JenB]

She didn't snip the ship but it's on my posting 

Ah yes. I missed that. Too much information 

[LizzieW]

smudwhisk - do you remember a few weeks ago when there was a bit of a problem with Ancestry's new site and a few of us tried to help and calm things down ?......................

 

I don't think anyone can calm us down this time.  I've read every single comment on their Facebook page - and responded to quite a few and I've found ONE person who thinks the new site is good.  He must be an employee. 

[smudwhisk]

smudwhisk - do you remember a few weeks ago when there was a bit of a problem with Ancestry's new site and a few of us tried to help and calm things down ?......................

 

I think FindMyPast's problems are way above the complaint level ancestry got when they closed down old search.   It's been going on for far longer and there are far more problems with the site which should have been resolved prior to launch, as everyone has said numerous times.  It's actually well above an ancestry c***up which says a lot.

I do feel sorry for anyone who was a beta tester and whose feedback was completely ignored.  I'm sure most are keeping their heads down so as not to be blamed.

[LizzieW]

I don't even get the message about the site being down when I go to FindMyPast, but I thought I'd try a "Search All Record" and suddenly up popped the original search page - I was just thinking they'd listened to us, when it reverted to the new one again.  The search is working again - if you can call their new searches working.   

[Gadget]

Well, at least they found the death entries for Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde 

Tis back up now - no ship - maybe it's sunk.

[smudwhisk]

Well, at least they found the death entries for Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde 

Tis back up now - no ship - maybe it's sunk.

I bet management weren't too thrilled with the site down message.   Probably why it's back now.  I bet we don't see that message again.

Yes I was wondering whether Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde was their April Fools Day joke but as it's still there, the joke would be on them.

[LizzieW]

I'm going to have to tick "Unnotify" for this thread, my inbox is getting full.     That's not to say I won't read every post though.

[LizzieW]

Well I've tried FindMyPast again and the old Search all record pages is back so I did a search for my g.grandfather but instead of listing so many occurrences on each census, so many BMDs etc.  it now actually lists every occurrence of his name - in this case 2058    So I'm supposed to trawl through them all - how ridiculous.

[Flattybasher9]

Since all the comments re FindMyPast, I just went into it for the first time in about a year. Did a census search for the first name that came to mind from my tree from Aberdeenshire, and it came up no problem.
I will watch this with some interest.

Regards

Malky
I do go into "Internet options" and clean my "Browsing history" twice per week resetting every link.