The new FindMyPast (Part 4)

[lisalisa]

apparently there's an email from FindMyPast doing the rounds offering a months' sub for a £1

"This weekend only, get a one month Britain subscription for just £1.

Get 1 month for £1

Your discount will be applied automatically, but should you have any trouble, simply type the code MAYOFFER into the promotional code box at the bottom of the payment page and click 'apply'.
Don't miss out - this offer expires at midnight on Sunday, 11 May 2014. Get unlimited access to our UK records and start the journey into your family's past."

Do you think they're panicking at the number of regular subscribers leaving them?

the offer shows a disregard (again) for their existing subscribers who have already paid in full . . .

[Ibbo2000]

Re Lincolnshire parish records
I have tried typing Lincolnshire into the A to Z, but unless I'm doing something wrong I still cannot see the parish records, I can find all sorts of other records for Lincolnshire (marriage index, bonds & allegations, apprentice records etc.) but no parish records with the images of the registers that I have used before. Where are they?

Another annoyance (again I could well be doing something wrong) for the newspapers section, when applying filters, the original search term dissapears each time a new filter is applied. Any suggestions?

Thanks
Kev.

[Jomot]

Another annoyance (again I could well be doing something wrong) for the newspapers section, when applying filters, the original search term dissapears each time a new filter is applied. Any suggestions?

Glad its not just me that happens to... well not that Im glad its happening to you, but you know what I mean !   I complained & they ignored me......

[dawnsh]

According to the site, The Lincolnshire records are currently off-line as they are being worked on

http://www.findmypast.co.uk/articles/world-records/search-all-uk-records/special-collections/the-lincolnshire-collection

Here's what is online

[Treetotal]

Re Lincolnshire parish records
I have tried typing Lincolnshire into the A to Z, but unless I'm doing something wrong I still cannot see the parish records, I can find all sorts of other records for Lincolnshire (marriage index, bonds & allegations, apprentice records etc.) but no parish records with the images of the registers that I have used before. Where are they?

Another annoyance (again I could well be doing something wrong) for the newspapers section, when applying filters, the original search term dissapears each time a new filter is applied. Any suggestions?

Thanks   
Kev.

When you do a newspaper search....I use all the filters without putting in the search field and then you get plenty of results tailored  what you are looking for...i.e...Place...Decade...search field...result....Either a name...or subject in the search field...if you use both...it often results in  a zero match.
Carol

[Ibbo2000]

Thanks for that Carol, will give it a go, although don't have long left until my subscription expires. Can't see me renewing just yet, unless of course the Lincs parish records reappear.

Kev.

[Parmesan]

What a lot people seem to forget is that with the old platform it was all so intuitive. No scurrying off to forums where folk say, I did it this way, have you tried that, its works for me, that doesnt work for me. Its a bloomin travesty. AND, and yours subs are running out whilst you're wading through the treacle to find the Promised Land. Ive no doubt you'll find it ... In about six months time. Plus features you bought and paid for, downloading newspapers, still isnt available. I can't even search for someone in Liverpool or Dublin but I can search for someone in A\? England.

Lincolnshire parish records? There's a guy on FB been after them for weeks, he's been told, soon, shortly, any day, keep your eyes peeled but he's still drumming his fingers.

Sure you can find records but not in the simple, concise, accurate way you did before.  I dont trust the results I'm getting, that's a problem.

[locksmith]

They provide a number of different ways of searching for their records. The all encompassing filter system (yuk), the search all records method where you can select specific forms (BMDs and parish records here are still jumbled up under many headings and in some cases the search form doesn't appear) and the A to Z of record sets (for some reason not shown on the home search page). Using any of these three methods you should be able to get the same concise results, but you don't. FMPs answer is to direct you to the filter system where you will hopefully be able to find a suitable filter, which often gives you zero results or hundreds of results.

And how infuriating is it when a search comes up with "Your search returned 1 results" (I have also had other number of results) but nothing is listed. You are left wondering whether there are vital records for your research hidden away that you can't access. It also gives you no confidence that any search has bought up all expected results.

Simon

[Parmesan]

Using any of these three methods you should be able to get the same concise results, but you don't.

Simon

I made this point directly to Annelies vdBelt and Paul Yates, they agreed but nowt's been done about it.