Old family search seems to have gone now

[MargP]

I had the old and the new site saved to my Desk Top, I went into the old site today and it sent me to the new site, so I think it as gone forever, it will be sorely missed

Margp

[Hampshire Lass]

On Family Search you used to be able to put in parents' names only and sometimes it would show you all the siblings. This was a very useful bit of advice given by someone on this site. 

Judy

That's what I mean by "hard to navigate"   

But..... if you scroll down, you can find "search by event"   or "search by relationship"
these are both very useful and work much like before......if the records are on that site 

and then there are the BTs for other areas, if you scroll down further and click on the country    (Durham records are great   

So you can filter a little for specific information but I also am not a fan of change  (which is pathetic really!)

Hope that helps you a little.   HL

[sunflower]

How do you tell if it's a submitted entry now.  On the old site it was easy, but I haven't been able to figure that one out yet with the new site.

Carol

[Hampshire Lass]

That does seem to be  the danger with the new site.

I have found some submitted trees entered at the very bottom of some of the pages (if there are any submitted trees). 
Perhaps this is the only place they'll be and the records available are transcribed ones?

[mshrmh]

How do you tell if it's a submitted entry now.  On the old site it was easy, but I haven't been able to figure that one out yet with the new site.

Carol

Carol - they come under user submitted family trees or a similar wording - after the other results I think. In general, against each result there is a source type - eg England, Cheshire Parish Registers, 1538-2000; United States Census, 1940

[Hampshire Lass]

So, in a way, that makes the new site more reliable?   

[jc26red]

Like anything new, we have to practice at it but yes its more reliable and has more content.
As always though, transcripts can and do have have errors, remember to mention this in your source details!

Search the burials!  I've been very lucky here, something that was lacking in the old search 

[mshrmh]

I've got used to the new site, which I appreciate takes a bit of time. I find it better than the IGI - greater content, both with extra records & extra detail (eg names of father on some of the marriages).

For anyone new to the later version I'd recommend a regular browse of the Collections page(s) for the areas that are of interest as there are Collections that are unindexed images (these say Browse Images) - eg of many parish registers from around the Manchester area. They show the date added or updated & there do seem to be frequent additions - this is a link to the worldwide level you can narrow it to a region or country from the options on the left:
https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/list

Good hunting!

[sunflower]

Thanks everyone


Carol