Is anyone else having problems with the 'new' IGI site. Having been unable to find some baptism events, I decided to check several that I had found (on the IGI) a year or two back. None of these could be found on the new site, even when I entered the Batch No. from my original find. The old site may have been a bit old-fashioned looking but at least it did work. I've tried all sorts of variants on what I enter in the search boxes, but records which I found previously appear to have disappeared now. Anyone else experienced this?
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andrewbraid
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Yes constantly.
If you know that parish of birth then the Hugh Wallis site still works (even though Ancestry have now taken it over because they realised that searches that used to produce results on IGI no longer work).
Take a look at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.anc ... #PageTitle
If you know that parish of birth then the Hugh Wallis site still works (even though Ancestry have now taken it over because they realised that searches that used to produce results on IGI no longer work).
Take a look at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.anc ... #PageTitle
Andrew Braid
IGI
Yes, I too keep losing parishes but have quite often found it is mispelled or differently named and therefore not appearing on the results.
After initially hating it I now really like the new familysearch. Mainly because now you can be much more flexible in searching. For example you can just search on a surname, which wasn't allowed previously. Also the results are the more reliable extracted entries with no suspect 'submissions'.
One of my big uses for the new look site is to find Lincolnshire events and then check them out with the fantastic Lincolnshire Archives 'Lincstothepast' website where one can view complete parish register books page by page. Wonderful! I have not yet found an incorrect entry on familysearch compared to the actual book image.
Anne
After initially hating it I now really like the new familysearch. Mainly because now you can be much more flexible in searching. For example you can just search on a surname, which wasn't allowed previously. Also the results are the more reliable extracted entries with no suspect 'submissions'.
One of my big uses for the new look site is to find Lincolnshire events and then check them out with the fantastic Lincolnshire Archives 'Lincstothepast' website where one can view complete parish register books page by page. Wonderful! I have not yet found an incorrect entry on familysearch compared to the actual book image.
Anne
IGI
Thanks Andrew, that looks like a very useful link.
Sadly there are a few instances from my earliest researches when I failed to record the Batch No., and even though I am certain the information came from the IGI (because I couldn't have found it anywhere else at that time) it has proved impossible to find the entry on the new site - despite much tweaking of spellings, and omitting too much data such as parents' names and specific placenames.
Thankfully the Online Parish Clerk project is rendering the IGI less relevant, and many of my ancestors lived in Lancashire which is one of the most comprehensively covered counties; just need the same coverage for Cumberland and I can probably forget all about the IGI.....
Again, thanks for your help.
Sadly there are a few instances from my earliest researches when I failed to record the Batch No., and even though I am certain the information came from the IGI (because I couldn't have found it anywhere else at that time) it has proved impossible to find the entry on the new site - despite much tweaking of spellings, and omitting too much data such as parents' names and specific placenames.
Thankfully the Online Parish Clerk project is rendering the IGI less relevant, and many of my ancestors lived in Lancashire which is one of the most comprehensively covered counties; just need the same coverage for Cumberland and I can probably forget all about the IGI.....
Again, thanks for your help.
Kind regards, Stuart