Hi David I think there is a difference between the recent claim that Breconshire, etc. parish records have been added to findmypast's database and the existing, say, census records. In respect of census records I can definitely say that I've found entries through the findmypast transcriptions, which have not shown up via Ancestry or (in the case of the 1881 Census) the FamilySearch website. So, findmypast has a valuable part to play in family history research. I'm wondering whether there is some technical error at present which has resulted with anticipated entries, that are known to exist in parish records, not currently showing up? You can search for individuals without putting in any county or parish/place information and, certainly as far as my own research goes, this still doesn't produce the anticipated results. Best regards Clive Gardener www.secret-bottletop.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "David" <david@olyeo.co.uk> To: <powys@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, July 04, 2012 2:22 AM Subject: Re: [POWYS] Findmypast Transcriptions > 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 > > On Wed, 2012-07-04 at 09:56 +1000, Graham Price wrote: >> It's rather sad, really. In years past I have located relatives on >> OPRs filmed by the LDS people - I have date, page and number - yet >> when checking certain FMP copies which state for instance, baptisms >> 1726-1915 for the parish, they are not to be found. It would seem >> that certain pages were missed during scanning or were not supplied. >> Of course, it is a delight when one find a few who previously could >> not be found due to lack of resources. So, suppose one can't grumble. >> Mind you, I wouldn't want to be trying that without a subscription - >> could get very expensive. The other day I went through quite a number >> of possibles without find the correct one. >> Cheers >> Graham >> Melbourne >> Oz >> >> =================== >> 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