Genealogy Chat

Thank you Gai - had a quick look with the link you gave. The Welsh originals that were on Pilot Search a couple of weeks ago aren't on the beta site either at a quick glance.

I expect they're hovering in cyberspace somewhere - taunting me that I should have made the time to check the records there and then!!

This is from the latest newsletter.

"FamilySearch beta site

FamilySearch is by far the most popular free genealogy site, and probably the most useful - but it's also one of the least well understood sites. For the past couple of years there has been a pilot site, signposting the FamilySearch of the future - and incorporating many new databases. Now there's another new site, a beta site, with records that include 300 million names.

According to Dick Eastman's genealogy newsletter the beta site will soon become part of the main FamilySearch site. "

The address is http://fsbeta.familysearch.org/

Now Ninja Lady from my limited experience I'm lead to believe that the Pilot Search and the Beta site are meant to contain the same information but I have found information on the Beta site from Ohio USA which if its on PS then I haven't found it yet. I don't think the Beta site is easy to use but that is only my opinion.

Gai

Well, now I'm definitely confused.

Thought I'd check out what you said Anne-Marie regarding Northumberland and I'm with wisechild - gone into the Pilot Search exactly as you said, but no Northumberland records at all.

What is the beta Family Search site Gai? How do I access that? Perhaps the Welsh originals are there now??

The other day I was looking for an original image of a death certificate on the pilot site and couldn't find it anywhere. I was sure that was were I had found it first time round . So then I remember the beta family search site and there it was. But I couldn't access it from the pilot search site.

I have just checked again and I can now see the image on both sites. Talk about confusing. It would be nice if they could combine all 3 sites into one to help those of us who aren't as experienced as some in research.

After reading this thread, I checked and found nothing wrong with the pilot search for Northumberland.
After going in to the pilot search page I clicked on to browse or search our records collection, next screen clicked on Europe on the map and it takes you to a page that had all the records, which as far as I can see work okay.

Anne-Marie

I found it great before, now have to go about 56 pages in before i can find the format that they had on when it started, but have found rellies that i probably would never have found before with images of birth/baptismals.
Lily

I don't know why they changed it - as it was better before. Found lots of irish records before - but now they have gone!

Really fed up.

Any other info as to why they changed the records?

I found loads of ancesters in the northumberland records. Now can´t even find the records, let alone what I´m looking for.
Marion

I was well pleased when I went on a few weeks ago and found original images of parish records for Monmouthshire and Glamorganshire in Wales on the Pilot Search - made a note for future research when I have time to wade through all the records and then went back late last week to find that they've all disappeared.

They've put on Welsh marriages, baptisms, deaths for which you put in a name and year - great I thought, makes life a lot easier. But not a single marriage, baptism or death that I'm looking for is recognised!!!!

It's a shame that they've taken the Welsh originals off - the Norfolk images gave me a lovely little handritten note by the vicar against the baptism of my 2x gt grandmother - she was born in 1836, baptised in 1837 and the vicar noted that the father had been 'abroad' for the past four years. Read abroad as a euphemism for transported - and that means the guy she said was her father couldn't possibly have been .

I wouldn't have got that little nugget from a transcribed record!!

Since they have changed the pilot search (Ireland) - i find it difficult to find any records at all. Anyone else find this?