Thanks for this information, Adrian, the use of birthplace to delimit a search was always a joke on FMP, they will insist on using what they think the enumerator put rather than a real geographic place, but at least some of the time it helped to narrow the results, if only by county.   I have Cornish ancestors who dispersed all over the country in the 19th century to work in mines and quarries and the Cornish also tend to have patronymic surnames like Thomas and James so trying to locate someone who suddenly disappears from Cornwall is a nightmare.   Unfortunately, enumerators also seemed to be unable to cope with the Cornish accents so the birthplace is invariably gobblydygook.   I pointed out that FreeCEN has the ability to use a real corected location in birthplace whilst displaying the original version in another column and it was also possible to view the original on FMP if you needed to check it had been transcribed properly but to no avail.  I had one classic case where I sent them a correction and they rejected it as not being what the enumerator had put but notified me that when checking it they had realised it was wrong so they were going to change it.  So they corrected it from one non-existent location to another non-existent location! Joy ________________________________ From: Adrian Bruce <abruce@madasafish.com> To: 'Cheshire List' <cheshire@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, 7 April 2014, 11:29 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