Changes to FIND MY PAST "My Records"

[hurworth]

For quite a while I only had an iPad, which you cannot download records to, hence why I haven't downloaded everything.

I will be able to still access many of the records at our local library, but not newspapers (BNA)

[coombs]

I received the email and am not happy about it either. I feel it is a money making scheme on their part.

[ABradley]

Reply from Find My Past

Find my past
Email from the Findmypast Team
Karen Alla   
Karen Allan (Findmypast )
Aug 30, 12:18 PM BST

Dear Andrew,

Thank you for your e mail.

The records that you have viewed in your Findmypast account previously

These changes are in line with standard practices within most subscription businesses and with other family history websites.

We are telling you about the changes now so you have time to download and keep any records you want to.

The changes will come in to effect later in September (at a date to communicated), and from that point you will only be able to view records that are included within an active subscription

Thank you again for your feedback. This has been shared with the relevant personnel within Findmypast.

Regards
Karen
Findmypast Support Team

[Ruskie]

So in other words, they are saying:

"Tough ... everyone else does it so we're going to do it too. At least we are giving you some notice."

 

[Deirdre784]

I'm a current FindMyPast member and haven't had an email. But I have to admit that I rarely remember to use the 'my records' section anyway 

[rosie99]

I received the email and am not happy about it either. I feel it is a money making scheme on their part.

I have not received the email, probably because I have a subscription.  Are you saying that you are not able to get into F M P and save these records before the end of September unless you pay for a 'sub'   

[ABradley]

Hi Rosie,

As I understand it the records are still available to download until a date in September yet to be announced. As pointed out earlier any relevant records would probably have been already downloaded by researchers as a precaution. But it was good to have previous searches should further information come to light.

[rosie99]

But it was good to have previous searches should further information come to light.

At least they are giving people a chance to save them then 

The trouble with F M P is that every record you look at goes into 'My records' so you need to be  methodical and remove those that are not relevant on a regular basis.   I have just looked at mine and there are over 500 records 'saved' automatically, I will never use that as a storage source as it would take forever to find anything 

[tillypeg]

The trouble with F M P is that every record you look at goes into 'My records' so you need to be  methodical and remove those that are not relevant on a regular basis.   I have just looked at mine and there are over 500 records 'saved' automatically, I will never use that as a storage source as it would take forever to find anything 

Just looked at mine - I have 1407 pages with 20 records on each, going back to January 2011.  Don't think I've ever referred back to any of them in all that time.  I've always saved images etc as I've gone along.