New features on ScotlandsPeople

[AndrewP]

The following new features are now available on ScotlandsPeople.

• Census search - Second Person Forename
  
  
• Statutory Deaths - 'include unrecorded' in Mothers Maiden Surname field.
  
  
• Image compression can be changed in 'My Details'.
  
  
• 'Image description' can be switched on and off in 'My Details'.
  
  
• 'View free header' added to OPR images.
  
  
• Day and month information removed from statutory images.
  
  
• 'Previous Searches' and 'Viewed Images' can be exported and viewed as reports
  
  
• Focus on Search site button

A description of these can be found at http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/conte ... .aspx?1263

All the best,

AndrewP

[Billmalc]

I tried transferring the previously viewed searches and images to excel, and it works pretty well

I just love seeing all that info on spreadsheets Unfortunately, it immediately makes me realise just how much I have spent over the past two years Quite frightening really

Bill

[emanday]

The Excel downloads are great, as it is so much faster to scroll through them than having to go from page to page.

I'd actually stopped using the Timeline, but now that this also can be downloaded I think I will bring it up to date.

[annie1]

I have just used the new, Second Person Forename, feature, and bingo , instead of 159 over 5 pages for my Brown ancestor I got only a few hits, low and behold there he was, in another county, from there I got his death.

Fantastic Scotlandspeople

Ann

[Lizzie]

In reading this I would ask one thing. I spent yesterday looking for the death of John Rankin from 1883 (Death of wife 1883 to 1959) entering his birth year range. Tried his mother's m.s. (did not work) although, I have his marriage image which clearly states (Mother Jane Rankin (m.s McDade) Neither of these worked. Does this mean I could have entered another surname if I did it today? I downloaded 8 of the 12 likely suspects which none had a "Wife Elizabeth Rankin" deceased 1883 or the information previously mentioned?

Lizzie

[emanday]

Hi Lizzie,

The problem with mother's surnames in DC's is that it all depended on what the informant knew (or thought they knew).

I have a few DC's where even close relatives got that wrong, while another where a neighbour was the informant was absolute accurate!

[kathyc]

Thanks for the heads up, Andrew. I just tried the spreadsheet option and it's great! Just last week, I was wishing there was an easy way to see all that information on one page, and now there is.

Kathy