"The filmstrip is useful when searching through baptism register in finding all children of a family."
Guy - I know you have a wider and more technical expertise in searching than I do, so could you explain what you mean by the above? Does it apply when using registers with many entries, so you can skip a page or two to get to the next year? Most of my research is in registers with few entries.
Yes, if you have a family that stayed in one place and had multiple children, chances are they’re baptised in the same church. The film strip is quicker in that instance.
If like a lot of my husbands family that moved around, baptisms can be in different parishes. Making that filmstrip just a darn nuisance that obscures the image.
It is also useful on census images just click and change from record images to transcription and you can see what the think the image says whilst showing the image, on he 1939 this is also useful where additions cover part of the name or runs a little under a redaction.
The new style give plenty of options as noted earlier the brightness and contrast controls are good for the black and white census images including those faded pencil pages of the 1841 census. I have no problem changing brightness & contrast etc. in a similar way the zoom in out works fine. It could be because I use Windows 10 and Firefox on a desktop computer rather than other options but it all works fine.
Perhaps those who are having trouble because of what they use to view the pages rather than a problem in the coding. For instance some may have a problem with Internet Explorer, I don't know as I have not used it since the 1990s.
Yes it would be useful if the various options strips could be switched on and off but that may come if enough users request that option.
I am just pleased they are trying to improve what they offer specially as the 1921 is in the offing, the wider the range of records offered the more versatile the site needs to be.
Cheers
Guy
