Press
For members of the press, we can provide a range of resources to support your story:
- Contact details of spokespeople and family history experts available for comment or live or pre-recorded interviews
- Free access to the records on the website for your researchers
- Press releases and fact sheets
- High resolution images of family history records with copyright statements that you may reproduce in your publication
- Royalty free historical photographs
- Case studies with contact details
- Examples of stories from the records
- Regional examples and case studies
- Logos and boilerplates
Members of the press should contact Lansons, our PR agency:
Lauren Hunt-Morgan
Lansons Communications
0207 566 9729
laurenhm@lansons.com
Susanna Walker-Robson
Lansons Communications
020 7294 3665
susannawr@lansons.com
Useful information about findmypast.co.uk for the press
Leading UK family history website findmypast.co.uk (formerly 1837online.com) was the first company to make the complete birth, marriage and death indexes for England and Wales available online in April 2003.
Following the transcription, scanning and indexing of over two million images, the company launched the first website to allow the public easy and fast access to the complete indexes, which until then had only been available on microfiche film in specialist archives and libraries. The launch was instrumental in creating the widespread and growing interest in genealogy seen in the UK today.
Findmypast.co.uk has subsequently digitised many more family history records and now offers access to around 750 million records dating as far back as 1538. This allows family historians and novice genealogists to search for their ancestors among comprehensive collections of parish records, military records, census records and migration records, as well as the original comprehensive birth, marriage and death records.
In November 2006 findmypast.co.uk launched the ancestorsonboard.com microsite in association with The National Archives to publish outbound passenger lists for long-distance voyages departing all British ports between 1890 and 1960.
In April 2007, findmypast.co.uk's then parent company Title Research Group received the prestigious Queen's Award for Enterprise: Innovation 2007 in recognition of their achievement.
Findmypast.co.uk was acquired in December 2007 by brightsolid, the company who were awarded The National Archives' contract to publish online the 1911 census, which it launched in January 2009. In 2010 and again working in association with The National Archives, over 16 million colour images of Chelsea Pensioners British Army Service Records went live.
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