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