The new FindMyPast (Part 5)

[rosie99]

Has anyone tried finding images on the 1851 census on FindMyPast recently?
Every transcription I have looked at in the last few weeks and pressed the . link has taken me to the wrong page.

I had not noticed this but have just tried out about 20 examples and every one has gone to the right page. I wonder if it is just relevant to certain areas.

 

[dawnsh]

This is getting a fun thread, once again has anybody found a way for a relative to be born Liverpool or Ireland 1851/1911 to be found effectively, without going through filter after filter!

Keyboard86

If the census form has been filled out with something other than exactly Liverpool or Ireland they may not be found.

Did you find them before the upgrade or is this new research?

[LizzieL]

Has anyone tried finding images on the 1851 census on FindMyPast recently?
Every transcription I have looked at in the last few weeks and pressed the . link has taken me to the wrong page.

I had not noticed this but have just tried out about 20 examples and every one has gone to the right page. I wonder if it is just relevant to certain areas.

The ones where it was one page out were all in the Wantage or Abingdon registration areas. The ones where it went to enumerators forms or pages in totally wrong street were in Preston Lancs. Have sent messages to FindMyPast with several specific examples.

[Parmesan]

;D This is getting a fun thread, once again has anybody found a way for a relative to be born Liverpool or Ireland 1851/1911 to be found effectively, without going through filter after filter!

Keyboard86

If the census form has been filled out with something other than exactly Liverpool or Ireland they may not be found.

Did you find them before the upgrade or is this new research?

Yes you could find easily before the 'improvements'

[keyboard86]

  Thank you Parmesan, a like minded spirit, just check yourselves by trying for any ancestor born in Liverpool/Ireland and see the absolute load of rubbish FindMyPast think/hope you mean, nobody put Everton ie EVER in my experience as a pob instead of Liverpool, Ireland just give up!

Keyboard86

[Parmesan]

Same for Manchester. Starts with Accrington Manchester hmmmm.  You then have to get clicking to get to more ridiculous options. I had a phone call a month or so ago with Annelies van den Belt and Paul Yates and mentioned this. Paul said he knew about the problem but have they done anything about it? Nope!

[LizzieL]

I was looking for someone on the 1851 census who was born in or near Dublin when her soldier father was posted there in the 1820/30s. I started to enter Dublin in the box and the drop down came up with its "helpful" suggestions. One of which was Dublin Airport!!!
Having failed to find my relative on the new search form (although I did using the old search), I deleted her details and just for a laugh tried the search to see if there was anyone born at Dublin Airport - and there was one! William Kenny born in 1823 living in Marylebone. On the image it just said Dublin, no word following at all, so don't know where the transcriber got Airport from!

[LizzieL]

I have a lot of images downloaded years ago in djvu format, which sometimes refuse to open and other days will, so I am going through the ones I want to keep and downloading them again but as jpgs.before my sub runs out. I have just noticed that although the image looks exactly the same quality, the equivalent jpg is much larger. E.g one I have just saved is 707kb, whereas the djvu was only 213kb. So I'm going to need more than three times as much storage space.
Does anyone know if there is a way to make the jpg smaller without losing quality?

[Parmesan]

Having failed to find my relative on the new search form (although I did using the old search), I deleted her details and just for a laugh tried the search to see if there was anyone born at Dublin Airport - and there was one! William Kenny born in 1823 living in Marylebone. On the image it just said Dublin, no word following at all, so don't know where the transcriber got Airport from!

Yes it will be there because, every 'place' that was ever transcribed, right or wrong, is in the data!