Anne: I hold no brief for FMP and for the most part share the views expressed as to the bad implementation of the new site. However, experience over the last few days has shown that the search screen option boxes depend markedly on the route one chooses to get there. I was confronted yesterday with the same issue as you. It is certainly true that if you get to BoE wills screen via the "List of all records" button on top right you only get a YoB option (you also get county). However if you get there from the generic Birth, Marriage, Death & Parish Records screen by starting to type Bank of England in the Record set box towards the bottom of the screen you also get a year of death option (but no county option). This in many cases will be within a year or so of probate. Pending any tweaks from FMP, I hope this helps. Yet another instance of inconsistent implementation I fear. There are other instances which also depend on the route chosen in narrowing search strategy, marriages and census searching to name but two. So for specific datasets for which other sites are not an option, it is worth experimenting to see whether the "straight to the dataset" or the "drill-down from generic screen" options gives the better search options. Even better, in my humble view, would be to give us all the option to continue with the old screen while they get the new screen sorted. I've put this to them but I don't hold my breath. Derek -----Original Message----- From: Anne Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2014 9:40 AM To: sog-uk@rootsweb.com Subject: [SOG-UK] New FMP I have been transcribing some of the Bank of England will extracts for Devon FHS, and until now, from the spreadsheet provided by the coordinator, have found it easy to locate the individual. The old search had the facility to search for the year of probate/admin etc....... that has disappeared. There is only the dob of the person to narrow it down (other than the name). I have reported the fact to FMP and to give them some praise Paul Dunlop has acknowledged this and is going to point this out to the "search team to make tweaks".....I will await with bated breath. My sub expires in the summer so I will wait and see for a while Anne