The new FindMyPast (Part 4)

[keyboard86]

Hi all, working round it gradually but it's those blessed filters with all their misspellings for ie birth town/place of birth, which? How do you just put Liverpool in?!

Keyboard86

[smudwhisk]

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.

There's an update on the site to say that this has just been implemented.

Hi all, working round it gradually but it's those blessed filters with all their misspellings for ie birth town/place of birth, which? How do you just put Liverpool in?!

Keyboard86

I'd put it in the optional keyword box personally, as with ancestry new search.  Granted you'll get results for people born there and/or who live there, but more likely to get the result you want.

[groom]

That's all my records gone - took hours to do. All I need to do now is remember to delete them every week or so. There were a lot there that I had no recollection of looking at.

[keyboard86]

Hi all, working round it gradually but it's those blessed filters with all their misspellings for ie birth town/place of birth, which? How do you just put Liverpool in?!

Keyboard86

Thanks for reply, but can you point me in the direction of where the "Optional Keyword box" is?

Keyboard86

[california dreamin]

Hi

Just read this - which may be of interest to others

http://genealogy.about.com/b/2014/04/29/findmypast-customers-continue-to-respond.htm

CD

[LizzieW]

So things are still not getting any better.  Oh well, I won't be renewing my sub - although it doesn't run out until October and I suspect there are 1000s more like me.  At least they can't stop people making comments on other sites, such as this one.

[smudwhisk]

Hi all, working round it gradually but it's those blessed filters with all their misspellings for ie birth town/place of birth, which? How do you just put Liverpool in?!

Keyboard86

Thanks for reply, but can you point me in the direction of where the "Optional Keyword box" is?

Keyboard86

When you select Census, Land & Surveys, there's a section above the title that says "All Collections", if you click the drop down arrow it gives you the option for Census, if you select that you get the optional keyword box.

[andrewalston]

There's a new blog entry on FindMyPast from their CEO today. Amongst other things it states:

"unfortunately during this process we met some challenges and some mistakes were made. This resulted in a less than perfect experience, especially for our expert users. I sincerely apologise if we let you down."

Better late than never.

All we need now is for the site to work properly again.

[chesters]

I'm probably misremembering this, as I haven't used them for a while, but didn't Montgomeryshire parish records used to have images?

Chesters.