ScotlandsPeople (New website now live).

[groom]

My user name has now been changed to my email address too
Annie

So has mine.

I still can't find my great grandfather or his father though. He says he came from Aberdeen and his father was a gamekeeper, but no sign of anyone remotely like him.

[Rosinish]

Groom,

What surname?

Also, his family may have moved there when he was young & he assumed that was where he was born?

What era?

Annie

[groom]

Hi - just sent you a PM with all his details. Thanks

[Rosinish]

not a good site if you don't know the names of the folks you are searching for 

I doubt ANY site would help if you don't know who you're looking for?

Annie

[Rosinish]

No No.s down left side of index now as there was previously, pain when you're copying & pasting trying to remember if you copied it or not 

It's those little things which help but obviously the folk who change the formats are not into genealogy enough to know how significant these things are to us.

Annie

[sugarbakers]

not a good site if you don't know the names of the folks you are searching for 

I doubt ANY site would help if you don't know who you're looking for?

Annie

Annie, I don't know the names of the folk I add to my website until I find them, and I find them by their occupation.
So Ancestry, Seax, etc, that allow us to browse original records, eg. parish registers and censuses, are fine, but SP does not.

[Ruskie]

The new site looks quite nice. I haven't tried searching for anyone yet, but it seems OK so far. I think it will be those little things we discover later that might niggle.

My previous searches are all there it seems and glancing through I noticed that the surnames are in capitals (as expected) but the forenames are as well. This looks odd, and is not the standard way to write names - can anyone remember how they were written on the old site?

So far so good - though I am only an occasional user of the site, and only use the basics.

[Rosinish]

Found 1 I was looking for.

Went to buy more credits, it's not the same, it's a palaver too (will get used to it though).

However, the image downloads different from what it did & I can't yet find how/where to have it download in the usual way I had it.

On the upside, the 1 I downloaded had a note for RCE which is now FREE too!

Annie

[lanercost]

I thought the new site might make it easier to find elusive deaths but it now only has options for year range and age range. The old way let you set the year range along with a birth date range which determined the age at death for you, but now you're stuck with two options that are basically the same if you don't know when someone died.