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Just want to thank you for your excellent new death records. Within three minutes I had found a death I'd been looking for for over a year and was able to order the correct certificate from the General Register Office. The fact that your site is clever enough to take the year of birth and give you only the records of relevant ages is outstanding and did the trick in my case as my elusive relative has a very common last name. 
August 2011 
I noticed your announcement of the improved overseas, at-sea and army birth and marriage records search. For 10 years I have been unable to find a marriage for my great grandfather who was a mariner. Without even referring to my records, I immediately entered his name, and there he was: a consular marriage in Hamburg. I was about to crosscheck with his wife's name, when I saw her name below. What a find for me, and it only took a few seconds.Thank you so much. March 2011 
I have now found 28 marriages in just 90 minutes over two days and I'm well chuffed! These would have taken me hours and hours to find but your new system has saved me so much time, I can move on a lot quicker than before. The marriage matching facility is great and means I don't have to search for the other half of the marriage, saving me even more time. An added bonus is with the digitised births: you can also find children born to the wedded parents in just a few seconds. December 2010 
Tracing ancestors can be difficult at the best of times, but when faced with difficulties, findmypast.co.uk really does help. Could I take this opportunity to thank findmypast.co.uk for all the work they do to enable people like myself to more easily research their family history. October 2010 
Since discovering findmypast.co.uk a short time ago it has added enormously to my knowledge of my great-grandfather of whom little was known before his marriage in 1859 in Cork, Ireland. Records of the church in which he was married, along with many other historical archives, were destroyed by fire. The addition of Chelsea Pensioners records to your site enabled me to view his 1857 records which as well as giving his military record also placed him as being born in Cork also. September 2010 
I am just writing to say a huge thank you to all the staff who worked on the mammoth births name indexing project.
It's certainly a job well done and has been a real help to my research. It has made life much easier.
Do keep up the good work. Genealogy has been crying out for this type of search to be available on these indexes.
Thank you so much from a very happy researcher! September 2010 
I am delighted to say that I found my grandmother's stepbrother in the latest batch of Chelsea Pensioners records. He had joined the 29th Regt. of Foot and was in Ireland at The Curragh up to his discharge through ill-health in 1893. I discovered his next of kin and his home address at the time. Marvellous! Findmypast.co.uk has also been brilliant in giving me the births of my great grandmother's siblings. I have now made contact with another owner of a family tree with her younger sister as a direct descendant in their tree. It is all very worthwhile. May 2010 
In January 2010 I noticed the 1911 census link on findmypast.co.uk. At this stage not knowing that this was a new and amazing addition to genealogy, I found Ethel Smith, my great grandmother, with a nice little surprise: my great grandfather Thomas Williams was boarding with the Smith family at the time. They married three years later. I love the 1911 census: easy to use, great quality images and so informative. From this one document I have now been able to research back another four generations of Smiths and Fawkes. September 2009