We’ve picked the winner of our June competition in which we asked you to tell us what year convict Michael Taylor arrived in New South Wales.
We’ve picked our winner at random - congratulations go to Clive Pace from Leeds who correctly answered 1822. Clive wins a six month subscription to Your Family History magazine. Congratulations Clive!
Thanks to all of you who entered - you’ll find July’s competition question in our newsletter this Friday.
Thanks to all of you who entered our World Cup competition. As the tournament is over, it’s time to let you know the correct answers to the questions and reveal our winner!
Question 1: What was the recorded occupation of William Matt, aged 36, living in Easthampstead, Berkshire in the 1911 census?
Answer: Snob! Lots of you correctly added that a snob was a bootmaker and repairer at the upper end of the trade.
Question 2: How many first names was Ann Pepper, born in West Derby in the Jan/Feb/Mar quarter of 1883, given?
Answer: A whopping 25 first names! Ann was given a first name for every letter of the alphabet except P: Ann, Bertha, Cecilia, Diana, Emily, Fanny, Gertrude, Hypatia, Inez, Jane, Kate, Louisa, Maud, Nora, Ophelia, Quince, Rebecca, Starkey, Teresa, Ulysis, Venus, Winifred, Xenophen, Yetty and Zeus. The mind boggles!
Question 3: Can you tell us what disability Chelsea Pensioner Bartholomew Murphy, born in Wexford in 1841, who served in the 36th Reg Of Foot, is reported to have?
Answer: Malformation of feet and overlapping toes. Poor chap!
Question 4: Which ship was Joseph Dugemin a passenger on?
Answer: The Titanic.
Our lucky winner is Rosemary Rowley from Macclesfield, Cheshire who wins a digital camera, vouchers for a year’s Full subscription to findmypast.co.uk, ‘Tracing Your Shipbuilding Ancestors’ a book by Anthony Burton, a family history starter pack, a 1911census.co.uk mouse mat and the all-important findmypast.co.uk pencil!
Congratulations Rosemary and thanks to all of you who entered. We hope we provided you with some amusement during the World Cup.
A big thank you to all of you who came to visit the findmypast stand at last Saturday’s Yorkshire Family History Fair and those of you who entered our competition. We’ve rummaged around in our competition box and randomly picked our winners - drum roll please!
Winner of a 12 month Full subscription: Jillian Cook
Winners of two 6 month Full subscriptions: Karen Bate and Michael Wardman
Congratulations to all of you and we hope you enjoy your subscriptions!
England are out of the World Cup (booo) which means that our World Cup widows offer has come to an end. We hope you all enjoyed it and found some useful information during your free access.
We set you four competition questions to answer during the offer for a chance to win a digital camera, vouchers for a 12 month Full subscription and other family history prizes. For a chance to win, email your answers to all four questions to casestudies@findmypast.co.uk with ‘World Cup competition’ in the subject line.
Here’s a reminder of the four questions you’ll need to answer:
The closing date of the competition is 12 July and there can only be one winner. We’ll pick the winner at random from the entries that contain all of the correct answers - the judge’s decision is final.
We’ll publish the winner on our blog on 13 July along with the answers to all the questions. Good luck!
This afternoon England play Germany which means you can enjoy 90 minutes of free access to findmypast.co.uk between 9am Sunday and 9am Monday (UK time).
Here’s the fourth World Cup widows competition question we’d like you to answer:
Which ship was Joseph Dugemin a passenger on?
Our passenger lists hold the answer.
The prize: a digital camera, vouchers for a year’s Full subscription plus more family history prizes.
When England get knocked out of the tournament we’ll let you know how to enter the competition. Remember that you need to answer all the competition questions correctly to be in with a chance of winning - there’s one question for each England match. You have until 12 July to send us your answers and there can only be one winner. We’ll pick the winner at random from the entries that contain all of the correct answers - the judge’s decision is final.
We’ll publish the winner on our blog on 13 July along with the answers to all the questions. Good luck!
We’ve picked the winner of our May competition in which we asked you to tell us how many William Shakespeares there are in our Chelsea Pensioners records. At the time we posed the question the correct answer was 3 but interestingly the total crept up to 4 after the release of our latest batch of Chelsea Pensioners records!
That means that any of you who answered with either 3 or 4 were technically correct, so as usual we’ve picked our winner at random from all of these entries. Congratulations go to Susan Wheeler from Loughborough who wins a copy of My Ancestor was in the British Army by Michael J Watts and Christopher T Watts. Happy reading!
Thanks to all of you who entered - look out for June’s competition on our Facebook page this Friday.
England play Slovenia this afternoon which means it’s time for another World Cup widows competition question!
Can you tell us what disability Chelsea Pensioner Bartholomew Murphy, born in Wexford in 1841, who served in the 36th Reg Of Foot, is reported to have? Search our Chelsea Pensioners records for the answer - Murphy’s medical report holds the key.
The prize: a digital camera, vouchers for a year’s Full subscription plus more family history prizes.
We hope that England make it through to the next stage of the tournament so we can extend our competition, but if they’re kicked out today this will be the last question we pose and the competition will close.
If this happens (fingers crossed it doesn’t!) we’ll let you know how to enter the competition. Remember that you need to answer all the competition questions correctly to be in with a chance of winning. You have until 12 July to send us your answers and there can only be one winner. We’ll pick the winner at random from the entries that contain all of the correct answers - the judge’s decision is final.
We’ll publish the winner on our blog on 13 July along with the answers to all the questions. Good luck!
As you may have already heard, we’ve tweaked our World Cup offer slightly to ensure that all of you receive the best possible service: whenever England play a match you will be able to access findmypast.co.uk for free for 90 minutes.
All you have to do is make sure you’ve registered on the site (unless you’re already registered in which case there’s no need to do so again) and choose your 90 minutes between 9am Friday 18th June and 9am Saturday 19th June (UK time).
England will play Algeria this evening at 7.30pm - it’s up to you whether you choose to take your 90 minutes of free browsing when England play!
Here’s the competition question we’d like you to answer for the second part of the competition. Search our birth records to find the answer:
How many first names was Ann Pepper, born in West Derby in the Jan/Feb/Mar quarter of 1883, given?
The prize: a digital camera, vouchers for a year’s Full subscription plus more family history prizes.
Keep your eye on the blog for a competition question to answer each time England play. For a chance to win the prize, send us your answers to all the competition questions when England get knocked out of the competition - we’ll give you details of how to enter then. Remember to make a note of your answer to each part of the competition - you’ll need to send us your answers in one bundle after England get knocked out.
You have until 12 July to send us your answers and there can only be one winner. We’ll pick the winner at random from the entries that contain all of the correct answers - the judge’s decision is final. We’ll publish the winner on our blog on 13 July along with the answers to the questions.
Good luck!
*All records available using our Full subscription (including the 1911 Census) will be free: Living Relatives searches and Memorial scrolls are not included.
First of all, apologies to all of of you who experienced a slow site during Saturday’s first England match: we were slightly overwhelmed by the response. But like the England team, we are now in hard training to make the second part a much more satisfying experience!
Although it’s great to hear that many of you found some nuggets during the free period, we’re working on a plan to make sure that everybody (especially our subscribers) get the normal, fast findmypast experience for the second match this Friday evening. And we’re also plotting ways to make sure that those based overseas don’t have to set their alarm clocks for strange hours to take part.
Keep an eye on this blog for more news, but if you haven’t registered yet, please do so now!
Throughout the World Cup, all the records* on findmypast.co.uk will be completely free to view whenever England play a match. England will play the USA this evening at 7.30pm so from 7pm to 10pm tonight findmypast.co.uk will be completely free.
Here’s the competition question we’d like you to answer for the first part of the competition. Our census records will help you:
What was the recorded occupation of William Matt, aged 36, living in Easthampstead, Berkshire in the 1911 census?
This next bit won’t get you any extra points, but if you can tell us the meaning of William’s occupation we’ll be very impressed!
The prize: a digital camera, vouchers for a year’s Full subscription plus much more.
Keep your eye on the blog for a competition question to answer each time England play. For a chance to win the prize, send us your answers to all the competition questions when England get knocked out of the competition - we’ll give you details of how to enter then. Remember to make a note of your answer to each part of the competition – you’ll need to send us your answers in one bundle after England get knocked out.
You have until 12 July to send us your answers and there can only be one winner. We’ll pick the winner at random from the entries that contain all of the correct answers - the judge’s decision is final. We’ll publish the winner on our blog on 13 July along with the answers to the questions.
Good luck!
*All records available using our Full subscription (including the 1911 Census) will be free: Living Relatives searches and Memorial scrolls are not included.