Colin Re your last point about printing, I have designed a proforma or template in Word for census extracts from FreeCEN. Then I copy & paste the relevant sections of the record into the template. I reckon to be able to get up to five full familial households on one page which is far better for filing and referencing. I think you should easily be able to get all six members of your example household on a single page since much of the data will be common and not worth printing every time. Just my two-pennorth. Best wishes Ray Ray Hennessy www.whatsinaname.net On 2 April 2014 08:55, Colin Speed <colin@caspeed.co.uk> wrote: > You can still search by Birth Place and Birth County. > > 1. Select "Search Records" at the top of the page > 2. Select "Census, Land and Surveys" at the side under Category > 3. Click on "Show Filters" after Country > 4. Select your Country, i.e. Scotland > 5. Click on "Show Filters" after "Record Set" > 6. Select the Census Year(s) you want. You can select more than one > 7. You now have options to select Birth County and Birth Place > > My account was just moved to the 'new' FMP site last night so I haven't had > a proper play with this yet. It is cumbersome, but I like that you can > select more than one census year at a time, also you can specify > two additional household members in a search. There is also an 'Optional > Keywords' box which might allow you to specify occupations? On the down > side the new site now shows transcript details for each person in the > household on a seperate entry, rather than a single entry for the household > like the 'old' site did. Nor is there a 'printer friendly' view that I can > see, so you need to print off 2 pages per person. So instead of 1 page for > a household of 6 people, you now have to print off 12 pages :-( > > Time will tell if it's better than the old site or not, probably a bit of > both. > > Colin > > > On 2 April 2014 06:20, Brad and Jen <bradandjen@iinet.net.au> wrote: > > > Unfortunately FMP has launched a new site and a lot of the old > > functionality > > has been removed :( Trying to search for Census records is too hard now. > > They have removed the ability to search using place of birth and > > occupations. > > > > My advice - save your money until they have fixed all the problems! > > > > Jen. > > > > On: Wednesday, April 02, 2014 Colin wrote: > > Subject: Re: [ABERDEEN] AB - Re: Scotland's People > > > > > > > FMP only has census records for Scotland (1841-1901) and these are > > > transcripts with many mistakes in them. For example Cairnie, > > Aberdeenshire > > > appears on occasion as Carnie or Caimie. There are no images for > > Scotland. > > > It is useful however for checking Census records in order to narrow > your > > > search before going to ScotlandsPeople. > > > > > > There are many other records available on FMP e.g. overseas and > > newspapers > > > however, and they do a monthly membership which is useful. > > > > > > ------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > > ABERDEEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ABERDEEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Hi Ray I will probably do the same, but it should not be necessary. The FAQ's on the site say: "I used to be able to print a census on one sheet of paper ... Answer: We agree that the old view of household transcriptions made a lovely one page print out. We are now printing out the entire transcription, plus details of the family, which can go across several pages. We are, however, listening to customer feedback and our technical team are looking at ways of improving this print experience with the enhanced data. We are confident that we will find a better way so please bear with us." So hopefully it will be improved at some point. Colin