On 2015-01-22 12:42:53 +0000, eve via said: >> >> > > Specific search page for Hampshire Marriages, I entered the Surname: >> Paul and spouse first name: Hannah - and NOTHING else. (First name >> field - blank, Marriage Year field still says YYYY, place still says >> start typing a place and spouses last name - blank) >> >> I got 5 results ! >> CHARLES PAUL 1804 BOLDRE >> >> JAMES PAUL 1792 ROCKBOURNE >> >> JAMES PAUL 1830 ALVERSTOKE >> >> JOHN PAUL 1770 BOLDRE >> >> PETER PAUL 1797 ALVERSTOKE >> >> Really strange that for two identical searches one seems to need a date >> range and another doesn't? FMP seems to have a mind of its own since >> they 'upgraded' the site. >> > FMP has Suffered one of these 'imporovements' by computer nerds which > had wrecked the suite from the point of view of the paying customer (and > they don't seem to care) > If you go to the FREE Familyseach site, enter PAUL and Hampshire and > 'spouse name Hannah) yopu will receive in 5 seconds or less > > Peter Paul m 1 Oct 1797 ALVERSTOKE Hannah Ayling > James Paul m 8 Sep 1791 ROCKBOURNE Hannah MUSTLETHWAITE > James Paul m 6 Jan 1830 Alverstoke Hannah FOLGES > plus a whole lot of children baptised to the couples. > > The family would appear to be addicted to0 Hannahs - and what the > northern one was doing down south is an interesting speculation. > > Lesson, ditch FMP as a serious service company till they mend their ways. > EVE > Author of The McLaughlin Guides for Family Historians > Secretary, Bucks Genealogical Society Though I am disappointed that FMP have (or so it seems to me) made it a LOT more difficult to search without jumping through many un-necessary hoops, they do still have databases that I can't get online elsewhere. So I plod along, gritting my teeth and spend twice as long as should be needed. BUT when I get what I want such as the trade union records which helped me to confirm that my Granda did, as I suspected, nip off to Canada and so be missing from the UK 1911 census, then I am over the moon. I suppose I have to accept that the commercial online genealogy sites come into the 'stack 'em high and sell them (not so) cheap' category and have their drawbacks and limitations but that's balanced by the fact that at least I don't have to travel to look for what I want - which is a big plus for me. -- Tickettyboo