It seems to have lost the ability to search in specific record sets or filter by this, or even to put results from a chosen set first. To add insult to injury, there are buttons labeled (eg) "search Boyds marriage index" that simply do no such thing. That is even worse than useless, it is misleading, especially after all the blurb describing the collections. Even the search that was available for Westminster records (the ones labelled as belonging to Westminster archives) now has a rather desperate hint to select "Middlesex" as the county. There were when i last looked more places than Westminster in Middlesex, and more records that relate to Westminster than are in the Westminster archives collection, so even selecting a place as Westminster does not restrict it to the Westminster archives collection. If you cannot tick off sources one by one, (even if you begin with a scattergun approach), you cannot know what you have searched. Btw, to add insult to injury, the site has seemingly not been checked on tablets, and i find I cannot use the feedback, as this creates a popup, that floats off screen when the soft keyboard appears and dragging moves the main window, not the popup. Browser choice does not affect this. Firefox or chrome. Also feedback seems to need new registration even if arrived at from a logged in screen. My sub expires in the autumn and i hope they have improved by then! Dave Beakhust On 2 April 2014 20:44:18 "Larraine Williams" <rain@ihug.co.nz> wrote: > I don't know what everyone is moaning about. I haven't used the new FMP > site very much yet, but so far I think it is much improved. > > Larraine > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to SOG-UK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

> From: David Beakhust > Sent: 03 April 2014 00:18 > > It seems to have lost the ability to search in specific record sets or > filter by this, or even to put results from a chosen set first. My experience is just the opposite. In the old site the only way to get to a specific record set like the Westminster PRs was to search all the PRs and with county set to Middlesex and then pick through the output to find the relevant records. In the new set up I go to the Search Records menu, Birth Marriage Death & Parish Records, type Westminster in the Record Set box and select so my search is only of the baptisms, marriages or burials from Westminster. Some of the transcript output formats are awkward but the precision of searching is an enormous improvement in my eyes. Best wishes Andrew -- Andrew Millard - A.R.Millard@durham.ac.uk Chair, Trustees of Genuki: www.genuki.org.uk Maintainer, Genuki Middx + London: homepages.gold.ac.uk/genuki/MDX/ + ../LND/ Academic Co-ordinator, Guild of One-Name Studies: www.one-name.org Bodimeade one-name study: community.dur.ac.uk/a.r.millard/genealogy/Bodimeade/ My genealogy: community.dur.ac.uk/a.r.millard/genealogy/