Pilot - Family Search

[Andrew C.]

Am I going a bit mad? I had found my great grandparents marriage on the family search pilot site along with some other events and I looked at them as recently as ten -fourteen days ago. I was deliberating though whether I should be applying to Rosscommon or GRONI, should I be trying to get the cheaper transcribed version etc. So I was dumbfounded when I went back to get the details from Family Search and I couldn't find any of them.

Is it me or is something happening at familysearch?

[SarahND]

Hi Andrew,
You're not going mad! I was just about to post that there appear to be many new records just arrived on that site. Try searching in the Beta area: http://fsbeta.familysearch.org/s/collection/list
I just found several records I have been looking for for years

All the best,
Sarah

[Andrew C.]

Thanks for that I found one of the records I was looking for however no trace of the others?

[SarahND]

They still seem to be shuffling things around on that site-- I hope it will all be back together soon. Maybe it means more records are being added to that database!

All the best,
Sarah (coincidentally, in Salt Lake City at the moment-- only with no time to go to the Family History Library )

[Russell]

Sarah it is just as well you have no time to visit an archive like that. You might never emerge from there

Russell

[SarahND]

Sarah it is just as well you have no time to visit an archive like that. You might never emerge from there

Sounds okay to me, Russell Is there some reason why I should emerge??
Well, too late now. I just spent all day driving across Nevada and am now in the California redwoods after driving nearly 2000 essentially treeless miles across South Dakota, Wyoming, Utah and Nevada. Whew! Glad to see a little greenery again

Back to the subject at hand... I have noticed that the Family Search Beta site given above is not doing the usual phonetic search and will come up empty unless you spell the names exactly as they are in the records. And no, I have not checked the "exact" boxes either. So it seems they haven't yet implemented their usual search function for these records. Don't despair, Andrew... just keep changing the spelling!

Regards,
Sarah

[joette]

That's one of the biggest regrets of my life.Living in Utah for a year and a couple of hours drive away from the FHL & only visiting it briefly once .
Just didn't realise at the time what a vast repository it was & that there would be so many records of interest to me there

[trish1]

That's one of the biggest regrets of my life.Living in Utah for a year and a couple of hours drive away from the FHL & only visiting it briefly once .
Just didn't realise at the time what a vast repository it was & that there would be so many records of interest to me there

How that one resonates - I lived in London for 10 months and had no interest at that time in tracing ancestors - not to mention a week in Edinburgh - I have to avoid thinking about that one - I lived a 10 minute walk from the National Archives (I think then known as the PRO) which I also visited briefly and only once.


Trish