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The Common Room / Re: FindMyPast renewal
« on: Thursday 27 October 22 15:28 BST (UK)  »
Yes, my mistake, the loyalty discount is 15%.

I just got a reply from Findmypast which says "I am sorry for the confusion this email was sent in error, it was not intended for Premium subscribers I am afraid.
 
You will renew as normal with the 15% loyalty discount."

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The Common Room / FindMyPast renewal
« on: Thursday 27 October 22 12:07 BST (UK)  »
I've been a Findmypast subscriber for years, and it always renews on the expiry date (28 Nov) with the 20% loyalty discount.  Today (27 Oct) I received an email from them which says "Come back to Findmypast with 20% off when you resubscribe. You’ll need to be quick, this short-lived offer ends on Saturday 29 October."  I have written to them for clarification.

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The Common Room / 3 features that I would like Ancestry to implement.
« on: Sunday 25 September 22 12:25 BST (UK)  »
1. Provide the option to sort on the columns. If you display the births registered for the name of Brown, there are an awful lot of entries.  It would be nice to get them presented in forename order, or place of birth, etc.

2. An indicator to say that we had previously viewed the page.

Find My Past already has both these options.

3. The ability to only show entries that have been added or amended in a specific time period, such as "All entries", "last 3 months", "last year" so that we can instantly see only the entries that have been added since our last check.

I sometimes get an e-mail from Ancestry to send them my ideas for improving the site, and I always reply, but it makes no difference.

I'm sure you all have your own "wish list" for Ancestry, and also Find My Past.

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The Common Room / Re: Find My Past-British Newspapers
« on: Thursday 09 December 21 12:17 GMT (UK)  »
My original post now seems to work perfectly, so maybe Find My Past has updated something.  I might add that this is not something that I found for the first time today, it has been bothering me for months, so it's not just a temporary mistake.

However it only seems to be fixed for the Weekly Dispatch.  If you try searching for "Slate-Club" on Reynold's Newspaper for 14th December 1930, the link shown doesn't work, but by using the method provided by cuffie81, the article can be found on Page 8, even though they say there are only 3 pages.  How can you have a newspaper with 3 pages anyway.

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The Common Room / Re: Find My Past-British Newspapers
« on: Thursday 09 December 21 11:44 GMT (UK)  »
Thank you cuffie81.  I tried your method and it works perfectly, but by adapting that method slightly produces a better result.

By still searching for "Cropper", but adding the filter to only search for the Weekly Dispatch for that date, displays the correct link that takes you directly to the article.

It's not ideal, but it seems to work, thanks for putting me on the right track.

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The Common Room / Re: Find My Past-British Newspapers
« on: Thursday 09 December 21 11:23 GMT (UK)  »
Quote from: Gadget on Thursday 09 December 21 10:23 GMT (UK)
Ive jut put in all the filters that you've listed and only 2 refs came up.

Was this what you were wanting:

https://search.findmypast.co.uk/bna/viewarticle?id=bl%2f0003359%2f19301207%2f021&stringtohighlight=cropper

That is the same page that I get, but there is no mention of the required article on this page.

I do have an update to report.  After posting on this forum, I tried contacting Find My Past again, and this time I got a reply which states:

Good Morning

Thank you for your email

I have checked and can see a problem with this record

I have raised this with our technical teams and will let you know once we have an update!

Kind Regards

I'll report if I get any progress.

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The Common Room / Find My Past-British Newspapers
« on: Thursday 09 December 21 08:16 GMT (UK)  »
I'm having problems with accessing articles in the Weekly Dispatch and Reynolds News newspapers.  An example: search for "Cropper" in the Weekly Dispatch for 7th December 1930.  You should only get one link.  Clicking on that link takes you to Page 1 of 2 Pages, neither of which contain the article in question.  This happens on many editions of these newspapers.  I understand that not all pages in a newspaper may be available, or may not be suitable for display, but why give links to non-existent pages ?  I have written to Find My Past, but have yet to get any reply from them.

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The Common Room / Re: 1939 census again and finding people in villages
« on: Friday 09 November 18 13:06 GMT (UK)  »
Quote from: dawnsh on Tuesday 10 November 15 22:33 GMT (UK)


http://www.ukbmd.org.uk/genuki/places/regindex2-1.pdf

Then I looked for Vera Nobes, his daughter, (mistranscribed at Noibes) but recorded as Chandler as that was her later married surname

http://search.findmypast.co.uk/record/locked?id=tna%2fr39%2f2156%2f2156e%2f002%2f03

the issue here is that the image has been cropped so you can’t see the header, Vera is at Old Lands Cottage in the village of Whaddon but the cottage doesn’t have a street name and Whaddon (in the Winslow RD) doesn’t show anywhere just as Steventon above.



I can't get the link to ukbmd to work.  I just get an Internal Server error.

The header on the Vera Nobes hasn't been cropped.  It's Find My Past's bad way of displaying the page.  If you zoom in on the page a few times, and then scroll to the top you can read the header which gives a registration district of 147/3

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The Common Room / Re: grant only - find a will advice
« on: Monday 26 June 17 17:20 BST (UK)  »
I applied for a copy of a "grant only" last week for a death that occurred in 2016.  It contained

The name and address of the deceased, and date of death.
The name and address of the Administrator of the estate.
The gross and net value of the estate.

I assume the net value to be after the deduction of burial expenses and any outstanding debts.

For older estates most of this information is shown in the calendar entry, but not for later ones.

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