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Useful information about findmypast.co.uk for the press
Leading UK family history website findmypast.co.uk was the first company to make the complete birth, marriage and death indexes for England & Wales available online in April 2003, winning the Queen's Award for Innovation.
Findmypast.co.uk has subsequently digitised many more family history records and now offers access to over 1.5 billion records dating as far back as 875 AD. This allows family historians to search for their ancestors among comprehensive collections of military, census, migration, parish, education and work records, as well as the original comprehensive birth, marriage and death records. The company runs the official 1911 census website for England & Wales in association with The National Archives and has digitised several other record sets from the national collection.
Past press releases
Findmypast.co.uk publishes East Kent parish records from Canterbury Cathedral Archives (PDF) – 27 March 2013
Findmypast.co.uk publishes more parish records from City of Westminster Archives Centre (PDF) – 6 March 2013
Findmypast.co.uk announces contract to digitise Yorkshire archives' parish records (PDF) – 22 February 2013
Findmypast.co.uk publishes crime, prisons and punishment records from The National Archives (PDF) – 20 February 2013
Findmypast.co.uk backs campaign to award Victoria Cross to Britain's first black army officer (PDF) – 10 November 2012
Pioneering plastic surgery records go online at findmypast.co.uk (PDF) – 13 July 2012
Titanic superstitions in the records on findmypast.co.uk (PDF) – 10 April 2012
Findmypast.co.uk publishes Westminster parish records (PDF) – 29 March 2012
Findmypast.co.uk publishes Welsh parish registers (PDF) – 1 March 2012
Findmypast.co.uk to publish Hertfordshire parish records (PDF) – 24 February 2012
Merchant Navy Seamen 19th century records launched on findmypast.co.uk (PDF) – 22 February 2012
Findmypast.co.uk to publish Canterbury parish records (PDF) – 24 January 2012
Findmypast.co.uk publishes the infirmity column of the 1911 census (PDF) – 6 January 2012
Real-life panto names in findmypast.co.uk's records (PDF) – 27 December 2011
Cheshire Collection launched on findmypast.co.uk (PDF) – 9 November 2011
AA Milne in findmypast.co.uk's records on Winnie the Pooh's 85th birthday (PDF) – 12 October 2011
Findmypast.co.uk launches the Manchester Collection (PDF) – 22 September 2011
Merchant Navy Seamen 20th century records launched on findmypast.co.uk (PDF) – 2 September 2011
Merchant Navy Seamen records factsheet (PDF) – 2 September 2011
Findmypast.co.uk improves deaths records search (PDF) – 31 August 2011
New Business Index records published on findmypast.co.uk (PDF) – 15 July 2011
Findmypast.co.uk publishes records for the British Militia (PDF) – 24 June 2011
Findmypast.co.uk publishes more than one million Cambridgeshire parish records (PDF) – 13 May 2011
Findmypast.co.uk to work with British Library to publish India Office records and electoral registers (PDF) – 2 March 2011
Start Your Family Tree Week a huge success (PDF) – 7 January 2011
Findmypast.co.uk launches Start Your Family Tree Week (PDF) – 24 December 2010
Findmypast.co.uk improves marriage records search (PDF) – 5 December 2010
Findmypast.co.uk publishes WWII prisoner of war records (PDF) – 11 November 2010
Findmypast.co.uk publishes 2nd Boer War records (PDF) – 29 October 2010
Findmypast.co.uk improves births records search (PDF) – 15 July 2010
WAGS past and present amidst World Cup fever (PDF) – 11 June 2010
Great Western Railway Shareholder Index now complete (PDF) – 30 April 2010
Political party leaders' family history revealed (PDF) – 23 April 2010
Findmypast.co.uk to publish Chelsea Pensioners British Army service records (PDF) – 16 March 2010
Findmypast.co.uk launches the London Collection (PDF) – 18 February 2010
Findmypast.co.uk publishes passenger lists and records of convicts leaving the UK for Australia (PDF) – 26 January 2010
Findmypast.co.uk launches 14-day free trial (PDF) – 2 January 2010
Winter weddings back in fashion after 110 years (PDF) – 23 December 2009
One in six know their ancestors suffered an untimely death (PDF) – 28 October 2009
One fifth of Brits have researched the history of their house (PDF) – 19 September 2009
Jack the Ripper in the 1881 census records on findmypast.co.uk (PDF) – 15 September 2009
Complete 1911 census now available on 1911census.co.uk (PDF) – 18 June 2009
1911 census for Wales published on 1911census.co.uk (PDF) – 9 June 2009
Welsh celebrities' ancestors in the 1911 census (PDF) – 9 June 2009
Interesting Welsh 1911 census facts (PDF) – 9 June 2009
1911 census first day results (PDF) – 14 January 2009
1911 census published on 1911census.co.uk (PDF) – 13 January 2009
Interesting 1911 census facts (PDF) – 13 January 2009
Passenger lists published on ancestorsonboard.com (PDF) – 10 January 2007
Passenger lists online for the first time (PDF) – 10 January 2007