The new FindMyPast (Part 4)

[Ibbo2000]

Partly good news, appears the newspaper glitch were the search term is lost every time a filter is applied has been fixed - well was working for me a few minutes ago.

Still cannot print out easily though.

Kev.

[Isabel H]

I wouldn't get too excited. That glitch comes and goes.

[smudwhisk]

Response on Facebook to where the missing Hertfordshire parish registers claims they've uploaded all they received but are aware that some are missing and will make contact with the Records Office to find out.  Trouble is I'm not convinced they uploaded any of the remaining records after the initial upload in February.  There seem to be as many gaps now as there were then.   Interesting they're passing the blame on the Records Office as I'm surprised if it wasn't FindMyPast who digitised them, not the RO.

So far I've managed to work out the best way of using the new site and to date had found what I'd been looking for and/or expected.  Just wish I lived closer to Hertford.

[dawnsh]

I know Pirton isn't there, in that case I'm assuming it's because the village/parish have put the records online themselves.

[Treetotal]

Partly good news, appears the newspaper glitch were the search term is lost every time a filter is applied has been fixed - well was working for me a few minutes ago.

Still cannot print out easily though.

Kev.

I don't add anything in either of the search fields until I have applied the filters for Place and decade...the results are more precise...but still not downloadable...using the snipping tool will get you small articles okay that can be read...but anything like a large column can't be read.

Carol

[dawnsh]

I'm chuffed re this

Among other record sets, this week our 100in100 campaign launched all surviving British Army service and pension records from World War 1. These crucial records are a key resource for anyone with ancestors who served in the war, and our new indexing means that 600,000 new names have been revealed for the first time. You can find out more about these exciting records here.

My grandfather's uncle lost an arm in wwI, and his name hasn't appeared in the personnel records (apart from medal roll) until today. I now know all about it!

[smudwhisk]

I know Pirton isn't there, in that case I'm assuming it's because the village/parish have put the records online themselves.

There are massive gaps in Rickmansworth and Watford St Mary in the 1800s which is what I find rather frustrating but I know Kings Langley is missing completely and there are also gaps in the early 1800s in Redbourn too.  I don't think this is the extent of the gaps either but would have to go back over what I was looking for last year to be certain.

[smudwhisk]

I'm chuffed re this

Among other record sets, this week our 100in100 campaign launched all surviving British Army service and pension records from World War 1. These crucial records are a key resource for anyone with ancestors who served in the war, and our new indexing means that 600,000 new names have been revealed for the first time. You can find out more about these exciting records here.

My grandfather's uncle lost an arm in wwI, and his name hasn't appeared in the personnel records (apart from medal roll) until today. I now know all about it!

They're better quality scans than those on ancestry too.  I had a copy of my grandfather's pension records that somebody printed off for me at the National Archives which was quite feint.  The copy on ancestry isn't that good either but I looked at it on FindMyPast last night and it's much better.  I don't think they can be scans of the microfilms.

[Maddie]

I know Pirton isn't there, in that case I'm assuming it's because the village/parish have put the records online themselves.

There are massive gaps in Rickmansworth and Watford St Mary in the 1800s which is what I find rather frustrating but I know Kings Langley is missing completely and there are also gaps in the early 1800s in Redbourn too.  I don't think this is the extent of the gaps either but would have to go back over what I was looking for last year to be certain.

In my own research I have also found huge gaps in the Ricky & Watford BMD's from about 1820 to roughly 1850 & yet they are included on the Family Search indexes & always have been. Saying that I have found more recent records have been added including my fathers baptism record.

Has any one else noticed that they have records for Rickmansworth East Hyde indexed although there is no such place, there is a West Hyde that is part of Ricky. It would appear that the East Hyde ones are actually for a part of Bedfordshire which is totally the other side of Herts & in no way any where near to being in the Rickmansworth district.

Maddie