Previous Updates
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Friday, 25th April
- Browse-only collections have been added
- Spacing of results has been improved to give around 20% more results on an average search results page
- Improvements have been made to printing from transcription pages
- Headings in search forms, results and transcription have been redesigned, making it easier for users to see more on the page
- Changes have been made to the image viewer - the controls do not fade out as before
- Various improvements for different versions of Internet Explorer
- Many performance improvements
- Improvements have been made to transcription error messaging
Changes to the family tree
- Redesign of the tree navigation
- Many improvements to performance
- Places list - ability to view, filter, sort places, to delete unused places, to edit the place title
- Fact types list - ability to view, filter, sort fact types, to edit and remove certain core fact types, edit or delete custom fact types
- Master sources list - ability to view, filter, sort master sources, to edit or remove unused master sources
- Source Repositories list - ability to view, filter, sort source repositories, to edit or remove unused source repositories
Friday, 18th April
- All record sets that include first and last names now display these search fields in a consistent order, that being First name, followed by Last name
- Improved compatibility with certain versions of Internet Explorer when accessing the site securely
Thursday, 17th April
- The ability to jump to a specific page of a record set using new navigation in the viewer has been added
- Improvements have been made to the layout when you print transcriptions, allowing you to print onto one page (more to come)
- The layout of the results view has been improved (the first steps in a bigger project)
- New 100 in 100 records published – see http://100in100.findmypast.co.uk/ for further details
- Numerous bug fixes and smaller changes
- Further site speed improvements
Friday, 11th April 2014
- Launched 100in100 homepage and campaign to release millions more records
- Improved performance of the site
Monday, 7th April 2014
- Improvements to British Nationals Armed Forces Marriages 1796-2005 record set, allowing for searching by spouse first and last name, improvements in results display, and additional reference information when viewing transcripts
- Added support for filtering search results by gender on all UK census record sets
- Improved site navigation to work better on mobile and tablet devices
- Continued work on performance improvements
Thursday, 3rd April 2014
- Improvements to performance when searching and browsing records
- Improved results and transcription display for Devon marriages record set
- Renamed 'Armed forces and conflict' to 'Military, armed forces and conflict'
- Renamed 'Newspapers, directories and social history' to 'Directories and social history'
- Changed labelling of 'United Kingdom' to 'Britain' to improve consistency
Tuesday, 1st April 2014
- A new way to browse every single record set available on the site, available here
- New search options across all our main categories and subcategories
- The ability to sort all the results for every type of search we offer
- Display record set rather than category information when performing broad searches
- Added support for searching by mother's maiden name within Birth and Baptism records
- Added support for searching by regiment and soldier number across Military and Armed Forces records
- Various additional improvements to search form fields
- Renamed Life Events to Birth, marriage, death and parish records
Tuesday, 25th March 2014
- Added age, gender, parish and registration district columns to individual UK census result lists
- Added folio, piece number and page to individual search forms (excluding 1911 census)
- Improvements to site performance
- Improved support for bookmarking findmypast on iOS devices