The new FindMyPast (Part 4)

[rayard]

I asked for an extension and finally got an extra 2 months. 
They still haven't said when it will be possible to delete all the unwanted records, (I can't find the one I wanted to keep!) or when it will be possible to print newspapers. Also burial records for Warstone Lane Cemetery and Key Hill seem to have been changed as now they are just classed as Warwickshire burials with the number in the grave and burial reference, instead of which graveyard? I am sure that before they changed the graveyard was stated, can anyone clarify please in case I'm mistaken?
Don't forget to untick the box to cancel the automatic renewal!
rayard.

[mike175]

I was as annoyed as anyone about some of the problems with the new FindMyPast, but by going back to basics and treating it as a new site, forgetting all the old searches etc, I have managed to find quite a lot of new information.

I'm sure there are going to be teething troubles for a while yet but I would think they must have got the message by now that many people are not happy 

Mike.

[smudwhisk]

I have to agree with Mike, if you ignore the way you researched previously on the site and work out how they've set the site up, it is possible to search successfully as I've been doing so for several weeks.  It's not really any different to the situation with ancestry new search, and in fact there are quite a lot of similarities in the way to approach it.

I'll just be happier if they would hurry up and upload the remainder of the Hertfordshire parish registers as it's over 14 months since the original batch and still no sign of them.   And for that matter put the Lincolnshire registers back.

I suspect they will eventually sort out all the issues, hopefully putting back the parish name in the parish transcript results list, but I agree I think they have definitely go the message they have many unhappy customers.  Have to admit some of the new features are useful, such as being able to just put a parish name rather than having to include a name as well.  Makes it more like ancestry search and combats problems with serious misspellings in either the original or the transcript/index entry.  Hate to say it but I actually prefer the new Census address search results list, as I used to get frustrated having to view many, many entries where no house number was included until I found the one I was looking for.   Now I just look down the name list but I appreciate that hasn't suited everyone.  It would be useful if they provided the option to display in either format as that would make everyone happy.

[rosie99]

 
They still haven't said when it will be possible to delete all the unwanted records,

I have just done mine        

ADDED  I have completely cleared the 100's of records in 'my records' and saved to my computer the ones I had marked.  I feel ready to start afresh 

[groom]

Did you have to do them all "manually" one by one?

[Alan b]

If looks like you can do 20 at a time which is one page, so if like me you have 80 pages of records it is going to take some time to go through them all !

[groom]

Just discovered you can set it to delete 80 at a time, so I'm working through mine.
200 pages to go. 

[rosie99]

Just discovered you can set it to delete 80 at a time, so I'm working through mine.
200 pages to go. 

I did mine 80 at a time though I did deselect anything I had previously 'highlighted' to look at when I finished.  I have now made sure all I want is on my computer and 'My records' will be cleared regularly.

[rosie99]

I might be behind the times as I haven't been on FindMyPast much recently but the census transcripts appear to have been adjusted to put the household in order. They are still like those on Ancestry & that is one of the reasons I preferred FindMyPast.