New Developments to the LDS site

[Mitch in Notts]

Hi Geoffers,

The Weasenham marriage `appeared` to be from an `index` of Marriages at Weasenham - there are no surviving Banns for that year. So who knows where the original `error` was made!

What I will say is that the Norfolk IMAGES on the familysearch are true Gold. Without them I would still be in Weasenham instead of Wendling!

Mitch

PS for reference there is an INDEX to baptisms 1678-1787 (about image page 27onwards) and a A-H index to Baptisms for 1788-1812 (on image page 2) within the Wendling registers.
Most useful to confirm my couple didn`t have any children baptised their. And that the bride, Mary Hovell, who died in 1848 aged 96, was baptised in Wendling in 1752!

[sandiep]

I guess I am alone in preferring the old Familysearch site..........I liked the facility to click on batch number and find other family members..........still I will persivere and keep trying new one just takes me a bit longer to get used to new things these days, cant undestand why!!................Trouble is you just get used to things and they go and change it.

sandie

[LittleSpark]

I guess I am alone in preferring the old Familysearch site..........I liked the facility to click on batch number and find other family members..........still I will persivere and keep trying new one just takes me a bit longer to get used to new things these days, cant undestand why!!................Trouble is you just get used to things and they go and change it.

sandie

I'm with you Sandie - much prefer the old site, as you say clicking on batch numbers to help find siblings was a good thing.
The new beta site has helped me in some ways but get annoyed when I ask for somewhere in the UK and all other countries come up too! Takes longer to search too.

Sheila

[grisel]

At the moment if you click on 'What's New' on the new site and then scroll down the page it takes you to, there is an option 'Go to Prior version of FamilySearch.org' and there is the old IGI and the pilot site too.

[v.wells]

I have to admit I much like the old site better too! This new beta site is a pain and not as good as the pilot project - But then I haven't tried to use it for a week or so, so maybe it has been tweaked better

[AnjaliUK]

Go to the home page, then Search Records, Record Search Pilot; this takes you to a search page. You can either search by your ancestor's name, or if you click on Browse our Record Collections, you can choose an area of the world that you're interested in and follow the links to narrow down the area.

Oh brilliant, some things I've found when using search said there was no image available but when you browse through the sources the parish registers are on there. Fantastic stuff!

[AnjaliUK]

I guess I am alone in preferring the old Familysearch site..........I liked the facility to click on batch number and find other family members..........still I will persivere and keep trying new one just takes me a bit longer to get used to new things these days, cant undestand why!!................Trouble is you just get used to things and they go and change it.

There are some problems with the search, I agree, but they've improved it a lot recently and they ask for feedback so send suggestions for improvement and I'm sure they'll be considered.