Changes to FIND MY PAST "My Records"

[Ruskie]

Is there a way to sort through "My Records" to only show the documents you have viewed rather than all of the searches? This might at least give people the chance to copy those (possibly) more important records first. 

'My records'  are the documents you have viewed.  It does indicate whether you have just looked at the transcript or the actual document.  I think they have modified that too as you could see if you had looked at both the image and the transcript .

I had a quick look at some of My Records the other day. Some are transcripts and some are images. I'm not sure if there is a difference in icon to show that. I will check again.

[coombs]

I haven't had a paying sub for a long time since I don't like the site and I find that they exaggerate what records they have available..
Bev

I feel they do exaggerate as well as lots of their records are merely indexes or transcriptions, and even some of the post 1754 marriages (where the originals should give 2 witnesses) are transcripts from Bishops Transcripts instead of the original register. Many BT's of 1754-onwards marriages just are a list of the marriages that year with name and date, all other info is omitted. Witness names for marriages 1754 onwards in original PR's are to me very, very vital and crucial.

FindMyPast Fridays also say "exciting new records" for a certain county but many of them are just a fraction of what is out there. And a lot of them are American, Australian or Canadian records instead of UK records.

[Ruskie]

That has been my experience too Coombs. Some of their data sets are available elsewhere free too.

Still, many people seem to find FindMyPast very good. I suppose I just have not persevered enough.

[coombs]

That has been my experience too Coombs. Some of their data sets are available elsewhere free too.

Still, many people seem to find FindMyPast very good. I suppose I just have not persevered enough.

I admit it does have many good things does FindMyPast. I guess it is a mixed bag, some good records and some not so good. I do like their North Yorkshire records which are original PR's so very helpful. They do have good London records, especially Westminster, and Oxfordshire wills, but i think when British Origins closed, their records was transferred to FindMyPast including Phillimores Marriages.

[rosie99]

Is there a way to sort through "My Records" to only show the documents you have viewed rather than all of the searches? This might at least give people the chance to copy those (possibly) more important records first. 

'My records'  are the documents you have viewed.  It does indicate whether you have just looked at the transcript or the actual document.  I think they have modified that too as you could see if you had looked at both the image and the transcript .

I had a quick look at some of My Records the other day. Some are transcripts and some are images. I'm not sure if there is a difference in icon to show that. I will check again.

I have posted an image on my earlier post , the camera is the image and the one to the right is the transcript.  The one to the left of the camera is where you can indicate whether it is relevant to you.

As for comparing Ancestry with FindMyPast I think they are as bad as each other for implying what is on their databases.  If you believe all that Ancestry says in its advertising you would not need any other databases than theirs to complete your tree.     I have a sub with both and don't keep any copies of documents that I find relevant to my research on either site, I always download them.

[Sloe Gin]

Anything I want to keep, such as parish register entries, I use the Windows snipping tool.  Outline the extract I want and save it as a jpg image - it's very quick and useful.

If it's a larger image, like a will, I download it, but the snip is good for short extracts.

[bevj]

I haven't had a paying sub for a long time since I don't like the site and I find that they exaggerate what records they have available..
Bev

I feel they do exaggerate as well as lots of their records are merely indexes or transcriptions, and even some of the post 1754 marriages (where the originals should give 2 witnesses) are transcripts from Bishops Transcripts instead of the original register. Many BT's of 1754-onwards marriages just are a list of the marriages that year with name and date, all other info is omitted. Witness names for marriages 1754 onwards in original PR's are to me very, very vital and crucial.

FindMyPast Fridays also say "exciting new records" for a certain county but many of them are just a fraction of what is out there. And a lot of them are American, Australian or Canadian records instead of UK records.

I went to FindMyPast because they said they had the Worcestershire parish records, which at the time I couldn't find anywhere else.
Actually they only have four parishes' worth of baptisms and marriages and three of burials.
Luckily FreeReg is increasing its Worcestershire coverage all the time now
Bev

[a chesters]

I was aware of "my records" but never really trusted it when I had a sub with FindMyPast. I always saved everything to my PC. I now use Ancestry and FindMyPast in the library saving anything interesting on a flash drive. I have a library folder on my PC where I put the records from each visit to the library. Each folder in "Library" has a date so I can look at each day's records. Each individual record is named so I can use search to find whatever I'm looking for.


Blue

With Ancestry you can email yourself the information, and when you get home, you can get all the information you looked at, at the library. That way, there is no chance of loosing the flash drive, as I have done

[Speedwell]

I've have paid FindMyPast for several lots of 300 points worth of views since April this year (because I don't like regular subscriptions that I might not use) so I only have 10 pages of records.  I've just spent 6.5 hours downloading and naming the files and I will be downloading everything I view from now on.

What's fascinated me though is the large number of you who have swapped from FindMyPast to Ancestry. I know this is off-topic but I'd really like to know why.