ScotlandsPeople (New website now live).

[Finley 1]

Yep used today ---- hated it !!!  but have to use and get used --- 

It really really is helpful reading other peoples experiences.. stops me shaking when I see whats happened..

I will be off line for about 17 days ..(aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh)  soon as we are moving house,.. I may buy a dongle thingy... to cope in the meantime.. Cant use the library..

anyway still have a week left b4 that.

Xin

[Annette7]

I also wrote to SP re. the 'filter' to find things in Saved Images.   Whilst all my saved images have transferred to the new site okay the 'filter' didn't appear to work.   

Had a nice reply - however, the filter only works on the description field and so you have now got to go through your saved images and give them a description or else the filter won't work.    The writer says they've asked Technical Support to look at making the filter work on the image header as well as the description.

Annette

[rosie17]

Maybe with all the complaints and queries they might issue us with some free credits for all the inconvenience
Rosie

[carol8353]

I too emailed them as I had to change my log in details,and all my saved searches have vanished.

Waiting with baited breath for a reply.

Carol

[Gadget]

Just had my best bargain from SP - 30 double pages of a will, all for 10 credits.

 

[barryd]

I hate to see genealogy becoming a profit centre for government. All records should be released to the public (at no charge to government) at a certain time to an organization that would offer them free to the public. i.e. famillysearch.org.

All fines from overparking your Morris Minor or Ford Popular or whatever should remain in the court system.

All fines from dropping your chewing gum wrapper likewise should  remain in the court system.

Money is not the root of all evil. The love of money IS the root of all evil. 

[Forfarian]

I hate to see genealogy becoming a profit centre for government. All records should be released to the public (at no charge to government) at a certain time to an organization that would offer them free to the public. i.e. famillysearch.org.

I disagree. I do not expect taxpayers to subsidise my hobbies. Nor do I approve of records collected by the government in this country being exploited for the profit of foreign-owned commercial corporations like Ancestry and MyHeritage.

There is a cost involved in maintaining records, and I much prefer to have Scottish records made available at a comparatively very reasonable cost, and to encourage the National Records of Scotland to invest in the preservation of records and making them available. I think what SP does, by and large, is an excellent example to other governments and I wish more of them would do similar things.

[Rosinish]

Getting page 404 has the site gone down again

Hi Bruce,

I have that on screen when I log on too but just bypass it & log in as usual.

I assume you need to delete from your favourites then save when you open new site but I'm still using old saved one & logging in as usual with no problems even though it says "404 Sorry this page seems to be missing"!!!

Annie

[carolineasb]

Annette, I can't believe that they gave you that reply! There's no way I can go back through all my saved images and put a description on them! It would take me hours and hours and hours if not weeks! Why on earth did they remove that search feature?? Sorry for the rant but it just seems totally illogical!