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As we cannot reply to the post above, I have opened a new post.
I have just sent this feedback to GR about the latest changes, and it would be useful to get other members feedback in one place for easy reference, and perhaps some answers as to when problems or new "features" are fixed or enhanced.
My feedback:
Your new release of software will take some getting used to. I can't say that there is anything I particularly like about the latest release, but here are a few negatives:
The search page keeps crashing and IE has to recover the webpage - this has happened more than 10 times in an hour, which is frustrating. Once, the session completely locked-up all windows on an instance of IE. (considering I have 12 tabs open most of the time, that is extremely frustrating!).
The Census search is considerably different; there does not appear to be a sort option, and the results of an all-census search has the census years in what appears to be a random order - which is frustrating!.
I liked the ability to sort the data on any column that I wished, by clicking the column header. This is not possible in the new version.
The Census information for the different years is not in a common format, for example after 1841, the following are added: Division of Country, Ecclesiastical District, Hamlet, Parliamentary Borough, Municipal Ward, Category, and House Name & Number are in the reversed order from the 1841 Census.
The 1841 & 51 Census records begin with Street, Parish, City, County which is changed to Street, County, Parish, City, Town in the 1861 Census, and Street Parish, Town City, County, Country in 1871 - can you decide on a common sequence and implement it please?
You have only ever had collections from Great Britain, and now this information is repeated on every single Census result.
This is just a starter, but I am sure you will receive lots of other comments.
Did you consult the members before making these significant changed?
I was certainly not aware of these changes taking place until I found them today.
I am thinking twice about recommending GR in the future.
I have just had another three crashes, trying to submit this feeback :-(((
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Beaubear
I was just wondering if this would have been better on Genealogy Chat?
I don't usually use the records on this site - but having read your post I thought I'd have a go.
Why when using the census records would you want to give a date of death? If the person was dead they wouldn't be on the census - or would they!!!!!
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Good point Nameslessone - I had not looked at the drop-down list for Event Type.
Another "feature" of the "new look". I also wonder what "Other event" could relate to on a census. I just tried Other event for Smith and got no results.
I added this post to this forum, because this is where the announcement of changes on Monday 10/6 was added, but I could not reply to it, as it is locked down.
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