you can't find anything on there now. trace ----- Original Message ----- From: "Adrian Bruce" <abruce@madasafish.com> To: "'Cheshire List'" <cheshire@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, April 07, 2014 11:29 AM Subject: [CHS] Detailed search forms on FMP > The Feedback Forum for FindMyPast contains lots of requests for things > like > searching censuses by birthplace. In fact, this is now possible - though > FMP > have not updated those feedback items I was looking at to say so. The > problem is - you have to be looking in the right place. So... In case > you've > not twigged where it is... > > If you use menu item Search Records / Census land & surveys you get a > BASIC > search form that doesn't include birthplace. Even if you filter it by > census, the form doesn't change. (It does claim to include a search by > address) > > If you use menu item Search Records / Search All Records, then go to the > Census link, then to the link to the specific census, you get a DETAILED > search form that includes birth details, census ref., etc. > > Menu item Search Records / List all UK records seems to be the same as the > above menu item Search Records / Search All Records. > > The 1911 and 1841 census reference systems are different from the 1851 > thru > 1901, of course(?), so they either don't work or don't work well on the > FMP > forms which use the same referencing system from 1841 thru 1911. > > So - the Search All Records or List all UK records menu sub-options give > access to detailed forms for censuses at least. I wonder how many people > realise this? In fairness to FMP, the existence of this detailed census > form > was blogged about but as I have said, if you need a manual to use one > form, > it's not working. > > I have also suggested that FMP update the menu options to make it clear > where the detailed options are and / or provide links from the basic forms > to the detailed forms. Even Ancestry makes it obvious how to get the > detailed form! > > Adrian B > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > CHESHIRE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >