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The new Find My Past is coming......

Discussion in 'Latest news' started by emjay, Jan 27, 2014.

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  1. ggc-k

    ggc-k New Member

    Specifically for Lost Cousins...the details needed to entry a new cousin seem to have vanished. All I get for a Scotland 1881 census is the Archive Reference of RG11, with dashes for Piece, Folio and Page. I can't enter any more cousins with that info!
     
    ggc-k, Apr 14, 2014
    #101
  2. Liberty

    Liberty LostCousins Megastar

    Sabotage!?! How is it for E&W?
     
    Liberty, Apr 14, 2014
    #102
  3. peter

    peter Administrator Staff Member

    Unfortunately if findmypast is your only source for Scotland 1881 you'll have to wait until they reinstate the references. Other sources are Ancestry, the FamilySearch CD ROM set, and Scotlandspeople.
     
    peter, Apr 14, 2014
    #103
  4. alanmack

    alanmack LostCousins Member

    . . . and the future of the FamilySearch CD-ROM is under some sort of cloud as it is reputed not to run on anything later than the doomed Windows XP. I have access to this CD from my local Library and they run XP Pro (having only recently upgraded from Win2K Pro) so what happens next is anyone's guess. They are extremely unlikely to step up to Win 7, and of course Win 8 is 64-bit only. Running anything in 'emulation' would not be simple to set up for the public, so perhaps they can be persuaded to keep an unconnected (from the Library's network and the Internet) standalone machine just for this and other reference CD-Roms in a similar position.

    Alan
     
    alanmack, Apr 15, 2014
    #104
    • Good tip Good tip x 1
  5. Tim

    Tim Megastar and Moderator Staff Member

    Why is it SO slow now? mad.gif
     
    Tim, Apr 22, 2014
    #105
  6. emjay

    emjay LostCousins Member

    Tim, perhaps it is so popular, that it is experiencing heavy traffic;)?
     
    emjay, Apr 22, 2014
    #106
  7. Liberty

    Liberty LostCousins Megastar

    Tim your little headbanger is causing me distress to look at - can you take him away? please?
     
    Liberty, Apr 22, 2014
    #107
  8. Tim

    Tim Megastar and Moderator Staff Member

    So when everybody leaves it will get faster? That's a good marketing ploy!!
     
    Tim, Apr 22, 2014
    #108
    • Misleading Misleading x 1
  9. Tim

    Tim Megastar and Moderator Staff Member

    It's how I felt while I'm watching the 2 green arrows chase each other round and round and round.......
     
    Tim, Apr 22, 2014
    #109
    • Agree Agree x 1
  10. Tim

    Tim Megastar and Moderator Staff Member

    Maybe the other reason that FMP is slower is because of it's involvement with the Lives of the 1st World War project?

    It looks like they're using FMP's data and search engine.
     
    Tim, Apr 24, 2014
    #110
    • Agree Agree x 1
  11. Britjan

    Britjan LostCousins Star

    I noticed the reference to DC Thomson Family History on the website but it took me a while to cotton on to who they were. It will be useful to remember this when I've used Ancestry information as the only source in my tree.
     
    Britjan, Apr 24, 2014
    #111
  12. peter

    peter Administrator Staff Member

    Can't say that I've noticed a particular problem with the speed of findmypast's site. An All Records search for my surname in British records took just over a second to find 36,000 results (all right, 35,994). Surprisingly Smith didn't take any longer, even though it found over 10m results.

    Maybe you're just doing the wrong searches, Tim?
     
    peter, Apr 24, 2014
    #112
  13. Tim

    Tim Megastar and Moderator Staff Member

    I feel like I'm always doing the wrong searches!! :)

    It does seem to be faster now.
     
    Tim, Apr 24, 2014
    #113
  14. peter

    peter Administrator Staff Member

    Perhaps you got upgraded to the VIP subscription?
     
    peter, Apr 24, 2014
    #114
  15. Tim

    Tim Megastar and Moderator Staff Member

    There's a VIP subscription? I'm sure that must be reserved for Lost Cousin founders' only? :)
     
    Tim, Apr 24, 2014
    #115
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