ScotlandsPeople (New website now live).

[jennywren001]

Hi Stuart,
I know it's not ideal but if you sort the results (I've found by place the best) then look for two reference numbers the same you can usually work out if you've got the correct person. Like I say not ideal but at least free!
Jen

[Gadget]

To date I've had many apologies and messages saying that they're planning to introduce a particular search facility and/or they will add it to the suggestions list. AND 20 + 18 credits added to my account.

I'd still prefer the old site back  than these free credits. My crits/queries to them were all about things that I could do before 

Gadget

[Stuart273]

Hi Stuart,
I know it's not ideal but if you sort the results (I've found by place the best) then look for two reference numbers the same you can usually work out if you've got the correct person. Like I say not ideal but at least free!
Jen

Jen, you are an absolute star - thank you very much! Mystery solved 

[janmaa]

hi rosie - new to this and don't know what to do but I saw while browsing that you were looking for information about George Howat and Margaret Creighton.  I am related to them too

[jaybelnz]

I'm not very happy with the new SP website set up either! It's just a bad as the "New" Ancestry tree set up, and it taken me months to come to terms with it.  Still not happy with it though, I much preferred the old layout of the tree profile pages!    . Not nearly as good! 

Still, it's there I suppose, so guess I shouldn't complain!  😜😜

[Forfarian]

I believe (on excellent authority) that SP are looking for ways to restore the search for deaths using year of birth. It has been carefully explained to me why it doesn't work, but I am insufficiently tech-literate to understand the explanation 

The thing to do is to contact SP with any specific suggestions or requests for improvement. I am pretty sure they have received lots of this already, but the more the merrier.

The one thing that won't achieve anything is posting concerns on forums like RC without following them up by contacting SP direct.

[Stuart P]

Add me to the "not impressed by the searches" list please.

Margaret Green - b. 11.05.1915, but other than her parents and siblings I know nothing about her. Ancestry (yes, I know) has a Margaret Green on record as marrying a George Imrie in 1845 so I thought it might be an idea to look for the death of a Margaret Imrie with Green as the other surname on SP. In the past that may have worked to my advantage, though it might have taken a few credits to find the correct death. Now? It's all speculation and probably a lot more expensive.
Obviously they didn't think about those of us who live nowhere near Scotland!

If you go to FamilySearch.org and plug in George Imrie and Margaret Green as parents, you see that they have their children at Crail in Fife. Search ScP for deaths of Margaret Imrie in Fife and the one that looks closest died in 1902 aged 86. Change the search - just Margaret [no surname] dying in Carnbee aged 86. Result - Margaret Imrie and Margaret Green both as the 3rd death of the year. Use this search technique in ScP to find the full list of surnames for any individual - the maximum I have seen is five separate surnames.

[Forfarian]

Whoopee! I have just noticed that the search for a death using the year of birth is now working properly again. Well done, SP

[ev]

The marriage search using both names seems to be working now as well 



ev