Genealogy Chat

Received this message from Scotland's People to say they'd be unavailable foe a few days in Sept:

We are writing to let you know that the ScotlandsPeople website will be unavailable from Wednesday 7 September 2016 at 23.59 (BST). This is due to essential planned work which is taking place over this time. The work is expected to be completed and service resumed by Monday 12 September 2016. Please check Facebook or Twitter for updates.

Customers visiting The ScotlandsPeople Centre in Edinburgh or using one of the local family history centres will be able to access records as normal on Thursday 8 and Friday 9 September 2016.

We are sorry for any inconvenience this may cause you and thank you for your patience.


The team at ScotlandsPeople.

Oh, I can feel the withdrawal symptoms setting in already!

Just got the same e.mail,
maybe save some money that week.

Hopefully, the local Family History Centres will be working normally.

Their server has crashed 3 times in the last week.
Glasgow had to close last Tuesday, and Wednesday, and it happened again yesterday.

Postponed.

Service announcement for the ScotlandsPeople website

Last month we contacted you to let you know that our website would be unavailable from Wednesday 7 September 2016 until Monday 12 September 2016. We are writing to let you know that this site downtime has now been postponed to a future date. We will confirm the new dates as soon as possible.

We would like to thank you for your continued patience as we work towards launching a new ScotlandsPeople website. You will be pleased to note that once the new site is launched, all of your credits and saved images from our existing site will be available and accessible.

Service announcement for the ScotlandsPeople website


ScotlandsPeople will be offline from 23.59 (BST) on

Wednesday 21 September until Monday 26 September.

This downtime is essential as we work towards the launch of our new ScotlandsPeople website.

Customers visiting the ScotlandsPeople Centre in Edinburgh or using one of the local family history centres will be able to access records as usual on Thursday 22, Friday 23 and Monday 26 September 2016.

You will be pleased to note that once the new site is launched, all of your credits and saved images from our existing site will be available.

We are sorry for the inconvenience this may cause you and thank you for your patience.

Thank you.

The team at ScotlandsPeople.

2 days overdue and it's STILL not up and running

SP announcement this morning via FB

ScotlandsPeople
5 hrs ·
Morning everyone. We wanted to say that we really appreciate your patience while the team keeps working to bring you the new website. We’ll keep you updated and there will be more news on the new website this afternoon. Many thanks.

Crikey, I hope not Joan.
I have been using the sight for years and found it very easy to navigate.
I just hope all my records and images are still on there.

It's up again now.

Log in with existing username & password. It'll direct you to change your password.

Now to investigate what's the same or different on the site!

At least my previous searches are still there.

The credit charging system is different;

https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/our-charges

Now £7.50 for 30, or £10 for 40.
Still no subscription option, sadly.

Increase to 6 credits for each B, M, or D.

ArgyllGran,
Yes it's 6 credits to view the cert but the search results are free.

(No longer 1 credit for search results plus 5 to view)

Oh yes, that's true, GL.

I'd forgotten about the initial search credit.

Just logged on, changed my password, fine, had a quick look around the site, fine,
checked to see if my saved searches and images were still there,fine, then just started to do a quick search to see how that went and got the message Error 503, try again later, great.
Might try again in a couple of weeks, give it time to settle down.

Its suffering a few little blips of hit and miss,more modern and will be a much better easier site to use,,,,,,,plus a 2 year expiory on credits,,,,,as if. that will happen :-D

No Joan they havnt been whooshed but the old facility has been removed such as previous searches,

in place is------you enter a name in which records you need ,,,,,,and against that list of matching name will appear,

View Image(paid)


----------so any and all you have got results for at an earlier date you can view again,,,,,,it will just mean you re-capping on your list of names, :-0,,,,,,,hope its not in the 1000's :-D.
download and timeline is still there.

Amokavid -

no, the previous searches are still there, and pretty much where they used to be..

Once you've logged in, at the top of the page you'll see "Saved Searches".

EDIT:
Having said that, when I click on a lot of the saved searches, it says "Sorry, there are no results . . .", when I know there used to be.

EDIT again:

Beside the "Saved Searches" button, there's "Saved Images", which does show images already viewed and paid for.
However, I don't see how to filter them to see all the results for one surname, for instance.
It appears I have to trawl through the 52 pages of my saved images to find the one I want - unless I'm missing something?

Re Saved Images -

I see that if you click on "Year" it will put all the results into date order. Clicking on "Record Header" will put them into alphabetical surname order, and so on.

I'm sure we'll get used to it, but at the moment it doesn't seem intuitive.

Top right now has.

**View Saved Images**mine are all there from the past few years,,,,,,,,pages of them.. :-D

I'm loving the free search.

Found loads of extra births and deaths already as variant spellings are easy to spot

Also located records for previously unknown infants who were born and died between census years

If its free to see search results even if they aren't the images, more of us might acutally log in! Its something positive we can suggest look up requesters can do with out spending money.

But SP dont show a maiden name in births.,,, SR ,Marriages show spouses name..