FamilySearch new format

[Flemming]

If you click on the 'Birth' button, you get this. Not sure how this in any way helpful. If you've already selected Norfolk, why are you offered other countries as an option?

[Flemming]

I appreciate that the old functions are actually still there, but why do they have to be hidden behind multiple clicks away from the opening page? Think I may be taking up macrame as a hobby.

[Erato]

I've never heard of Lothingland but, as far as I can tell from Wikipedia, it is not a city, county, state, province or country so it doesn't work as a place.  I can't put "down east" or "northern New England" as a place either; I have to use Maine.

[Flemming]

In the previous format, you could be very granular with the specified place, down to a parish as place of birth/marriage/death or residence (for census data). The only limitation to this was where FS had a different spelling of the parish name, or included the specific parish under a broader town/city name.

Lothingland is an area in Norfolk (boundary of Suffolk) but the specifics wouldn't have mattered with the old FS format; it would have provided nearby locations (e.g. Lowestoft).

You're quoting US places. Perhaps it was different for the UK.

[Erato]

"Perhaps it was different for the UK."

Maybe so.  It was never possible to search for records in Maine but have it kick in New Hampshire and Vermont, too, just in case, or, at a pinch, New Brunswick.

[Gadget]

it would have provided nearby locations (e.g. Lowestoft).

A while back I did a search, using Suffolk, Lothingland and it showed some records for Lowestoft

Ancestry and FindMyPast seem to bring it up for more recent records as an RD in Suffolk.

PS - I've never heard of it before but I only have one person in my tree form Norfolk/Suffolk and he was a husband of a great x3 aunt

[bikermickau]

I can see how to get the results I prefer by clicking "collection", however it's not in the old one view format I'm used too and I have to use extra steps to get the results I'm after

[Lady Di]

I was under the (misguided) impression that a Camera icon meant one could view images.

Having done as recommended and used Gadget's link
https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/list/?fcs=region%3AUNITED_KINGDOM_IRELAND&ec=region%3AUNITED_KINGDOM_IRELAND

Super excited to see so many Camera icons ...

that was until I found the following message:

Images Available
To view these images do one of the following:
Access the site at a family history center.
Access the site at a FamilySearch affiliate library.

So no images 

Now that is just bad form - promise one thing and deliver nothing

[Erato]

There are two different kinds of camera icons.  The plain camera indicates that images are available at FamilySearch; the camera with a border around it indicates that images are available at a "partner site."  At partner sites, you have to pay.  The LDS struck a deal with the partner sites that gives free access to church members.  Frankly, joining the LDS would be too high a price for me to pay, but some might want to consider it.