There are two great opportunities coming up to meet the team and take your research further. The Yorkshire Family History Fair takes place on Saturday 25th June (10am – 4.30pm) in York. http://yorkshirefamilyhistoryfair.com/

If you’re based in the west, get down to Weston-super-Mare on 9th July http://www.swagfhs.org.uk/

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We are pleased to announce that the winner of the April newsletter competition prize, ‘Tracing Your Ancestors On The Internet’, is Rachel Andrews. We asked which registration district and county was film director Alfred Hitchcock born in. The answer is West Ham in Essex - well done for tracking him down, Rachel!

Do look out for our next competition which will appear in May’s newsletter.

A big thank you to everyone who entered our competition at the British Library family history day last month! We’re pleased to announce that the prizes have now been awarded to the following lucky winners: Read More »

We ask you to complete our customer feedback surveys because we really value your input. Your responses to our surveys provide us with precious feedback about how we can improve the service we offer you. As a thank you for taking part in these surveys, we have awarded a year’s Full subscription to the following people:

February 2011 - Lorna Simpson
March 2011 - Michelle Pursglove
April 2011 - Colin Jones

Many thanks to all of you who took the time to complete our surveys. We award our prizes quarterly so the next round of prizes will be awarded in August 2011.

We’ve picked the winners of our March newsletter competition in which we asked you this question:

‘We’ve found an at-sea birth record for John Montague Morris. Can you tell us in which year he was born? ‘

Congratulations go to Henry Burgess from London and Pat Holmes from Walsall who correctly answered ‘1867′.

Henry and Pat found out the answer by searching our births at sea records. They each win a copy of Jayne Shrimpton’s book, ‘How to get the most from family pictures’.

Many thanks to all of you who entered - look out for the next competition question in our newsletter this Friday.

Thanks to everyone who came to visit the findmypast.co.uk stand at the Pudsey Local & Family History Fair on Saturday, and especially to those of you who entered our competition. We can now reveal the names of our lucky winners…

Winner of a 12 month Full subscription: Madeleine Barrett

Winners of 6 month Full subscriptions: Richard Bowyer and Diane Lawton.

Congratulations to all of you and we hope you enjoy your subscriptions!

We’ve picked the winner of our February newsletter competition in which we asked you this question:

‘We’ve found a woman with the last name ‘Bank’ in the Bank of England Wills Index we recently published. What are her first names?’

Congratulations go to Heather Peacock from North Yorkshire who correctly answered ‘Rebecca Palmer’.

Heather searched our Bank of England Wills Extracts 1717-1845 to find the correct answer. She wins a 12 month subscription to Who Do You Think You Are? Magazine.

Many thanks to all of you who entered - look out for the next competition question in our newsletter this Friday.

A big thank you to everyone who entered our competition at the Who Do You Think You Are? LIVE exhibition at Kensington Olympia this year! The prize of a 12 month Full subscription was offered on each day of the show, along with two runner-up prizes of a 6 month Full subscription.

We’re pleased to announce that these prizes have now been awarded to the following lucky winners:

12 month Full subscriptions - Barbara Parsons, Pam Buckmaster and T Marshall

6 month Full subscriptions - Janet Evans, Darren Grosvenor, Robert Moore, Duncan Graham, Barbara Brooks and Janet Pegg.

We’ve picked the winner of our January newsletter competition in which we asked you this question:

‘31 January marks the anniversary of the death of English novelist and playwright John Galsworthy. We found the record of Galsworthy’s marriage to Ada Nemesis Pearson Cooper in 1905 – can you tell us in which London registration district they married?’

Congratulations go to Mike Simpson from Glasgow who correctly answered ‘St George Hanover Square, London’.

Mike searched our fully name indexed marriage records to find the correct answer. He wins a fantastic Panasonic 12.1 megapixel digital camera.

Many thanks to all of you who entered - look out for the next competition question in our newsletter this Friday.

Thanks to everyone who came to visit the findmypast.co.uk stand at the Bracknell Family History Fair last month, and especially to those of you who entered our competition. We can now reveal the names of our lucky winners (drum roll, please!)…

Winner of a 12 month Full subscription: Brenda Aldridge

Winners of 6 month Full subscriptions: Janet Jones and Bruce Kendall.

Congratulations to all of you and we hope you enjoy your subscriptions!