Trashed by the site owners 04 July 2014 Reviewer: Mattarosa from London, UK
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I subscribed to Findmypast for years and would have said it was the best genealogical resource on the Internet. No more. Findmypast rolled out a new search problem that searches "in a whole new way". What's new is that it fails to find things, even things found before. The site is currently a total disaster. They obviously didn't check the use their customers were making of the data, so have rolled out something that many experienced genealogists wouldn't want ("lucky dip" searches), didn't test it properly and are now expecting subscribers to help them fix up the mess. I am no longer a subscriber, I got a refund. All you read about Findmypast on the Internet now is people complaining that the site has been trashed and isn't working properly. I won't subscribe again until I read on the Internet that things are working well again, which I think will be quite a long time. I would recommend anyone else not to subscribe either. If you really want to access their data, try a pay as you go first to see whether you can live with what has been done to a formerly-great resource.
In summary, I would not recommend FindMyPast.com to a friend.
