<<snipped>> Given current dissatisfaction with Ancestry (having just dropped their superb "Old Search") <<snipped>> Superb? That's a matter of opinion. Ancestry were paying to maintain 2 sets of software, working on 2 sets of indexes, with increased hardware. There was a clear financial case for it. As for FMP, from what little I saw of their "worldwide" collections, it seems to me that the same applied to them, as it looks as if the new UK screens are based on the previous worldwide screens. Though as I don't have a worldwide subs to FMP, I'm willing to be corrected. The issue for me with the FMP move is that there was a simple Requirement Number 1 for the move, i.e. "New system must do everything the Old one did". (The "how" would be different but the "what" must be the same). That Requirement has not been fulfilled with the loss of things like sorting on the output and the search on census by TNA reference. Don't blame the programmers - blame those who passed off the new stuff. As for switching, well, if anyone else can produce the WW1 Soldiers' Documents (Ancestry only), the pre-WW1 Soldiers' Document (FMP only), Cheshire PRs (FMP only), the (English) Probate calendar (Ancestry only???) .... Well, you get my drift. Adrian B

Adrian The WW1 records (WO363 and WO364) should be on FMP later this year - and at Olympia they were saying that they had found an indication of 600,000 more soldiers than those indexed on Ancestry. Also this year they should have AIR75 , RG4-8 (non-conformist), parish records for Staffordshire, Shropshire, North Devon and hopefully the Yorkshire Digital Archive Regards John Hanson -----Original Message----- From: sog-uk-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:sog-uk-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Adrian Bruce Sent: 28 March 2014 10:48 To: sog-uk@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [SOG-UK] New Find My Past website <<snipped>> Given current dissatisfaction with Ancestry (having just dropped their superb "Old Search") <<snipped>> Superb? That's a matter of opinion. Ancestry were paying to maintain 2 sets of software, working on 2 sets of indexes, with increased hardware. There was a clear financial case for it. As for FMP, from what little I saw of their "worldwide" collections, it seems to me that the same applied to them, as it looks as if the new UK screens are based on the previous worldwide screens. Though as I don't have a worldwide subs to FMP, I'm willing to be corrected. The issue for me with the FMP move is that there was a simple Requirement Number 1 for the move, i.e. "New system must do everything the Old one did". (The "how" would be different but the "what" must be the same). That Requirement has not been fulfilled with the loss of things like sorting on the output and the search on census by TNA reference. Don't blame the programmers - blame those who passed off the new stuff. As for switching, well, if anyone else can produce the WW1 Soldiers' Documents (Ancestry only), the pre-WW1 Soldiers' Document (FMP only), Cheshire PRs (FMP only), the (English) Probate calendar (Ancestry only???) .... Well, you get my drift. Adrian B ------------------------------- 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

<<snipped>> The WW1 records (WO363 and WO364) should be on FMP later this year - and at Olympia they were saying that they had found an indication of 600,000 more soldiers than those indexed on Ancestry. <<snipped>> Interesting - that's about another 10% of the British Army been found(?!).... I'll not hold them to precise numbers - any advance would be welcome. Staffordshire I knew of, Shropshire I'd not heard of until today but would like just in case my Cheshire mon came from over the border... Nice. North Devon would also be most welcome. But Devon registers and FMP don't seem to have had a very clear relationship in the past...... Thanks for that.... Adrian