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    1. [SOG-UK] New FMP
    2. Anne
    3. 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 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

    04/03/2014 03:40:34