Help for my academic study on family history researchers

[j4ckmchugh]

Thanks again for all your responses!

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[louisa maud]

I am in the main happy with all sites I subscribe to online, if it isn't in one then usually it is in another.

Good luck

Louisa Maud

[Rosinish]

I haven't done your survey yet but I don't understand how anyone could compare SP with Ancestry?

Can you elaborate please on what your comparisons of those 2 sites consist of?

Although context is important UX design is not primarily concerned with content but with design of the web furniture such as menus, search, navigation etc. Therefore although ScotlandsPeople is specialist and Ancestry huge and multinational the actual act of searching for records has many design similarities. Plus contrasts are also interesting, raising questions such as: does Ancestry's family tree feature make the research experience nicer there? Does the lack of Ancestry's swarms of American records make searching on ScotlandsPeople a bit simpler and more pleasant? Do credits or subscriptions make for a better research experience?

Hi Jack,

Thanks for the explanation!

I was rather confused to begin with as SP is nothing like Ancestry in terms of Scottish Records as what Ancestry do hold are only transcriptions i.e. no genuine documents & of course the fact that SP only have Scottish documents.

I would think SP is more like Freebmd/Freecen except they don't have docs but they only provide for England/Wales BMDs & England/Wales/Scotland Census' transcriptions (nothing outside) whereas Ancestry are a Worldwide Commercial site which is a different thing altogether.

I prefer the navigation system on Ancestry to FindMyPast which has limited boxes to input info. to narrow down searches which becomes an effort more than enjoyment if you have a good idea of what exactly you're looking for & where i.e. too time consuming.

SP as I have noticed recently seems very slow (or maybe it's my comp)? but I've been bringing up blanks to things I know to be correct only to find that after ticking a box I have clicked on 'search' but the box I'd ticked although showing my choice had not actually activated (if that's the correct word) i.e. my new search has actually been for the search previously.
I also find the navigation on SP quite time consuming.
The initial search indicator has 'Search our records' i.e. click which shows 3 different boxes to choose from which is fine but when you then click on 'Search for people' you have numerous boxes to click on whereas a 'Drop down' menu would be so much quicker for the numerous other choices therein.

I did the survey a few days ago, good luck in the future!

Annie

[j4ckmchugh]

Thanks so much to everyone who took the survey!
I got a really great response to it and most came via this forum.

THE SURVEY IS NOW CLOSED

[louisa maud]

Thank you for letting I know , good luck

Louisa Maud

[LizzieL]

Thanks so much to everyone who took the survey!
I got a really great response to it and most came via this forum.

THE SURVEY IS NOW CLOSED

just seen this thread, but found I'm too late for the survey. I use Ancestry at the moment. was a FindMyPast subscriber for many years back to when they were 1837online, but stopped my sub abt 8 months ago when they doubled it. also have annual sub to SEAX because OH has lots of essex ancestors. Last year had a one year sub to Jersey archives, but exhausted my Jersey ancestors so did not renew.