Genealogy Chat

I have been trying to get onto the IGI site to do a parent search but I keep getting the new beta familysearch.

Does anyone know if I can do a parents search on there please,

Thank you
jean

Go to advanced search (next to the search button)

Click on the Relationship 'select' drop down box.

Select parents.

Chris

Thanks very much Chris,

I will give it a go,

cheers
jean

I haven't been able to access familysearch.org *at all* for a week.


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This isn't happening to anybody else at all??

I got the new site too, it's awful I want the old one back!

I agree ... the old one was much better.

Old Original familysearch.

If you scroll down to the bottom of the "New" search page, there is an option to Use the previous version of FamilySearch.org, so glad because i can't get used to the newer version either, so slow for me.


http://www.familysearch.org/eng/default.asp

I do hope that the old familysearch doesn't disappear. I sometimes find searching the batch number brings up things that I can't find on the beta search.

Janey, I am not having any problems with the site.

I'm only having occasional problems.

As well as the 'old' family search which is much easier to read (surely they won't get rid of that with all its good lists of 1881 households and ancestral submissions and batch facility), I use the pilot site. The only times I have tried the beta site I get totally confused. Is it me or is it 's search engine not as good as the pilot site?

I must be one of the lucky ones.
This is from my favorites and works for me.

http://www.familysearch.org/eng/search/frameset_search.asp?PAGE=igi/search_IGI.asp&clear_form=true
Or
http://www.familysearch.org/eng/search/frameset_search.asp

That's my link too, SatNav, and all I get is "connection reset". :(

Like lancashireAnn, I use batch number searches all the time. What is to become of them?

pilot.familysearch has been doing a similar thing to me; I get the little clock face whizzing around and doing nothing, and have to leave the page and start over again.

As far as the beta, well, that url simply switches me back to the old familysearch.org url ... and tells me "connection reset" ...

Imagine my amusement.

I have just had a wander through the new home page and under "What's New" I found "Post a Comment".Well worth a read.
Sounds like some of you are confused. The new site design moved beta.familysearch.org to www.familysearch. New FamilySearch is different than www.familysearch. You can still go to that at http//new.familysearch.org

Well, colour me confused, I'd never heard of

http//new.familysearch.org

and I don't know how or where I was supposed to have!

Surely familysearch.org should redirect to new.familysearch.org, not just time out and die on me ...

... so I registered, got my confirmation email, signed in ... and was told I was no good, and as a member of the general public I should "Look for a future announcement when you will have access to new.familysearch.org". Maybe I should pretend to be a Mormon. I clicked on the "having trouble", and got some pdf about family trees. And an update notice from Adobe Acrobat ...

So I see it says "Click here to go to the FamilySearch Web site" ... and the url for the clickable link is

http://www.familysearch.org/

I wonder what will happen when I click there ... anybody want to place bets?



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I think Mormons just hate me for my freethinking.

just experimented by clicking on the option to go to new site from old site

then put in someone I know I have on 1881 census - guess what it could not find him. Found him in other census then to see results it sends you to findmypast!

Also v difficult to read when you say you want England and it says these are close matches - in Illinois!!! Difficult to read anyway.

I have no problem with the old familysearch. This is what I get with the Beta site:

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I can get on the Pilot site no problem. I can then use the link from there to the Beta site. Never heard of new.familysearch.

So are there four sites? Why?

I have just tried, having read this, and got the old site with no problem, through my bookmarked page. The link address at the top is:

http://www.familysearch.org/eng/Search/frameset_search.asp

Well, bizarro world.

The old familysearch.org URL works for me in IE (which I never use), but not in Firefox ...

http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/frameset_search.asp

working for me in Firefox (bookmarked page)

Stop taunting me. ;)

It just doesn't work for me.

Probably because I'm Canadian ...

(I hate IE, because I can't do all the graphic and script blocking I do in Firefox, and because I keep an IGI tab open in a Firefox window alongside my FreeBMD and FreeREG and various other tabs. But at least now I know I can get there.)

I received this email response from FS a month or so ago
Dear Irene
Thank you for your inquiry of when Record Search will be closing.

We do not have a specific date but We expect that the Record Search site will be completely closed by the end of 2010–-announcements about closure will be posted on the Record Search site.

We would like to encourage you to offer feedback in the beta site through the Get Satisfaction page. The brown feedback button appears on the upper right side next to the scroll bar. From the home page, after clicking on feedback, look for the box under the words, "ask a question." You can choose any of the options (share an idea, report a problem, etc.) and fill in your comments.

If you click on feedback from a search results page, your search criteria will be automatically captured, and you will see a box where you can make comments about the results received. This feedback is viewed by the engineers who are creating the search engine used in beta. This is your opportunity to help shape the way it is developed.

We would like to offer a few suggestions for improving your searches. We recommend searching one collection from the list of historical record collections at a time. From the home page, click on "All Record Collections." You can scroll down the entire list or type a location or key word into the search box on the left. Some of our collections are “browse only” and have not been indexed. They can only be reached from the Historical Record Collections list.

Or you can use the advanced search feature, fill in the county and country, click "exact" next to the location box and search for results only in that county for a particular event. Once you have a list of results, you can choose to narrow the results by using the filters found on the left hand side. If you choose, under the category list, birth, marriage and death, a menu will appear with a list of collections and the number of results that come from that collection in parentheses. If you click on one of the collections it will give the results from just that collection. If you click on a different collection, the results will change to the list from that collection.

The engineers are working hard over the next couple of months to improve the search engine. They know the problems you are experiencing and are trying to improve the results you receive when searching for an ancestor's records.

We wish you continued success in you genealogical research.
Sincerely,
FamilySearch
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