Well enough is enough. Luckily for me my subscription was up for renewal - I won't be resubscribing, not until the 'new' site is at least as good as the old. I know I am lucky because this is a hobby for me and not my livelihood. A major frustration for me was the disappearance of the parish name in many of the record sets. A search for a family name in Kent Baptisms helpfully gave the 'place' as Kent - I KNOW THAT! I don't want to search on just one parish as my family moved between neighbouring parishes. Even the Westminster records which do show the parish names seems to have lost the ability to sort them alphabetically which enabled a quick scroll down before. The site can't have been tested properly with genealogists before being released. FMP's handling of the whole affair has been disastrous from a PR point of view - apart from a brief message on Facebook on the 4th April there has been no real communication from FMP - just vague promises on their forum that certain things are being looked at. Not good enough - we are (were) paying for this rubbish! People should be aware that the 'new' site has everybody down to auto-renew by default so unless you are happy for this to happen make sure you untick that particular box! Rae Knight

With some reluctance I renewed in January but I have regretted it ever since the 'new' FMP site was introduced. I find it so time wasting trawling through records that I don't need. It seems to me that the new system is designed to quickly use up credits of those who pay as they go! Thanks for the auto-renew tip Rae; I've unticked that box! John Haggerstone -----Original Message----- From: sog-uk-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:sog-uk-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Rae Knight Sent: 17 April 2014 15:39 To: SOG-UK@rootsweb.com Subject: [SOG-UK] 'New' FindMyPast Well enough is enough. Luckily for me my subscription was up for renewal - I won't be resubscribing, not until the 'new' site is at least as good as the old. I know I am lucky because this is a hobby for me and not my livelihood. A major frustration for me was the disappearance of the parish name in many of the record sets. A search for a family name in Kent Baptisms helpfully gave the 'place' as Kent - I KNOW THAT! I don't want to search on just one parish as my family moved between neighbouring parishes. Even the Westminster records which do show the parish names seems to have lost the ability to sort them alphabetically which enabled a quick scroll down before. The site can't have been tested properly with genealogists before being released. FMP's handling of the whole affair has been disastrous from a PR point of view - apart from a brief message on Facebook on the 4th April there has been no real communication from FMP - just vague promises on their forum that certain things are being looked at. Not good enough - we are (were) paying for this rubbish! People should be aware that the 'new' site has everybody down to auto-renew by default so unless you are happy for this to happen make sure you untick that particular box! Rae Knight ------------------------------- 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