New census website

[Sinann]

That's no good if you don't know the townland in advance, there is a filter on the side with surnames but it just gives the number with each surname you don't get the simple list where you can see if a name is spelt differently or where the first name has been entered in the surname column.

I know I'll get used to the new one but I don't think I'm going to like it, like the map viewer, the old one was much better.

[aghadowey]

Like most of these sites I think it was designed by people who didn't think through transferring the old features over, hadn't used the old site/wouldn't need to use the new one ...

[CBGenealogy]

There must have been a lot of negative feedback for them to put the old site back online.

I emailed a large number of points to them this afternoon. I know the Irish pro genealogy circles were buzzing today. as far as I know, no one was asked to test it in advance.

[Wexflyer]

There must have been a lot of negative feedback for them to put the old site back online.

I emailed a large number of points to them this afternoon. I know the Irish pro genealogy circles were buzzing today. as far as I know, no one was asked to test it in advance.

The link on the NAI genealogy page leads to the old census search page, So how did you find the new one?

[CBGenealogy]

It's linked in my blog post.

https://nationalarchives.ie/collections/search-the-census/

[scotmum]

The new site, as well as requiring far more scrolling ( on my device at least), also needs far more testing/fixing.

Randomly testing the 1911 census just now, using a single surname without soundex on, with specific County, and ticking the exact matches only box.

The resulting offering is a complete mess.

It has random people, from a different County and different DEDs within that County, included on the list. When then clicking through to the household, those random people are still showing in the resulting  list. In this example, on a Londonderry household, the accompanying list has intermingled numerous people from County Down. Indeed there were more names below those that I managed to capture in the screenshot ( I have just shown the address section, as the Town land/Street column immediately demonstrates those people cannot be in the household showing at top of the page).

[scotmum]

The rest of the above list:

[scotmum]

I have now also tested a small, three person household in County Antrim.

That household isn't showing any random others, however, there is a different, major issue. For all three, it is showing random County/Country of Origin entries.

One has Belfast, one Belfast City and one has County of Cork, when all three on the actual image are Antrim. It correctly shows Antrim on original site.



In a nearby, related household, with 7 occupants, the results correctly have six showing as Co Antrim, but one incorrectly showing as Whitehouse,  Co Antrim. All seven are Co Antrim on image.

Methinks I should not bother running any more tests at present.

[aghadowey]

So it's even worse than we thought. Imagine some newbie trying to figure out where their family was living