This is a disgrace; and it doesn't surprise me that FindMyPast have completely botched this project. I signed up for FMP with the recent addition of records. I can't see how they could have got this so wrong, though I had no idea it is as bad as a few people have pointed out. I'm mainly looking in Montgomeryshire and Denbighshire. Though I also wanted to search for missing marriages across the border. However, I'm finding counties like Radnorshire have very little coverage. For unknown reasons, registers for some years are missing. e.g. registers for Mochdre, Montgomeryshire are missing from about 1750 to 1812. I know the originals exist, and based on what people are saying it is quite possible that they have been filled in the wrong place. Many registers don't go much further back than 1812, even though the originals exist going further back. Llansilin has gaps and has for some reason been split into Denbigh. and Mont., when none of the parish is in Mont. About half of Denbigh. parishes are not labelled pre-1813. With the lack of variety of "surnames" in Denbigh. this makes that county's records near useless. Further I don't have much hope that FMP will rectify this issue as I know those records have been like that since March and there are similar issues with the Cheshire collection, which I think has been online for more than a year. So, I have paid £100 for the membership, but due to their trademark botching I have only been able to break-down one of numerous brick walls I was hoping to work through. Quite tempted to ask for a refund due to them advertising something they don't have. I'd much prefer them to fix the issues, but based on past experience I can't see that coming. David. On Wed, 2012-07-11 at 09:41 +0000, Shirley W. Vinall wrote: > Nicola's advice is most helpful. I too have been sending a series of error reports, which have been accepted. Oddly enough, many of mine also relate to the Dolgellau/Llanbrynmair confusion, but from the other direction. When I looked at the images for many people who according to the transcriptions might have been my Dolgellau relatives, the page clearly referred to Llanbrynmair. I sent error reports for as many individual entries as I could, but, like Nicola, I do not know if the complete set of records will be changed, or whether the relevant Dolgellau records will surface. > > Two other comments which may be of more general use although I encountered them with Merioneth records: > > 1. A county-wide search sometimes produces names with no parish reference. On two occasions I found that the image clearly related to a parish which Findmypast did not list as within their current coverage - so they are worth looking at. > > 2. Patronymics are a problem, as with some other databases. With early records, if you can't find the person under the name under which they were generally known, try putting in the Christian name only, as the index refers to them as if the father's patronymic was a surname. > > Shirley > > ________________________________________ > From: powys-bounces@rootsweb.com [powys-bounces@rootsweb.com] on behalf of Nicola BJ [nicolabj@waitrose.com] > Sent: 11 July 2012 09:56 > To: powys@rootsweb.com > Subject: [POWYS] .Re: Findmypast Transcriptions > > Hello Listers > > I have been sending dozens of transcription error reports to Findmypast > where registers have been listed under the wrong parish. Most of these so > far Findmypast have accepted (though I don't know whether they have > corrected just the individual record or the whole register). However they > have refused to correct some of the entries for Llanbryn-mair, > Montgomeryshire, which are listed under Dolgellau, Merionethshire. I know > with 100% certainty that Findmypast are wrong in this instance (the > townships Rhiwsaeson, Tafolwern, Pennant, Dolgadfan and Tirymynach are given > on the relevant pages), but they haven't bothered to go back to the start of > the register to check. Therefore, any listers who are looking for > Llanbryn-mair events would do well also to check under Dolgellau. Perhaps > also if other FMP users were to send in similar error reports for the > Llanbryn-mair entries FMP might try a bit harder to check. > > > > On a related point, it seems that in some cases (Anglesey anyway) parishes > have slipped by one in alphabetical order. Thus Aberffraw given as Amlwch, > Llanbabo as Llanbadrig, Llanfaelog to Llanfaethlu - and so on for lots of > parishes. > > Nicola BJ > > > > ----------------------- > > Original message > > From: David < david@olyeo.co.uk> > Subject: Re: [POWYS] Findmypast Transcriptions > Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2012 02:22:41 +0100 > References: > <mailman.196.1341318262.16101.powys@rootsweb.com><002c01cd5923$1b2269e0$5167 > 3da0$@com><8EB84996B2919A4A96AD647F3C30415D4F5D4090@vime-mbx5.rdg.ac.uk><4FF > 3832F.2020703@tpg.com.au><201207032356.q63NuJIo029681@mail14.tpg.com.au> > In-Reply-To: <201207032356.q63NuJIo029681@mail14.tpg.com.au> > > > Some of the registers are not connected to a parish, which may be part > of the problem. Yet another issue is that some registers are in the > wrong country, e.g. Llansilin is in both Denbigh & Montgonery. > > FMP are particularly error prone and as a web developer I can > confidently say their development team are not up to the grade required > to deal with 100s of millions of records. Their search system is > antiquated and much slower than it could be with a few tweaks. > > David > > > > =================== > Visit the Powys Mailing List webpage at: www.jlb2011.co.uk/powyslist.htm > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to POWYS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > =================== > Visit the Powys Mailing List webpage at: www.jlb2011.co.uk/powyslist.htm > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to POWYS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message