I joined findmypast.co.uk at the start of the year and walked straight into my baptism of fire: reindexing the birth, marriage and death records. As head of the data team, I am responsible for the quality of the data we receive from two separate transcription companies. I have to ensure that they meet their guara...Read More

We've had some exciting news from The National Archives this morning! They have just made the correspondence between a number of English and Welsh Poor Law Unions available online. If you've found any of your ancestors living in workhouses in our Read More

Read the following story we received from Jan Pearce from Grantham, Lincolnshire. Jan found vital information for her family tree in our fully indexed birth records and Read More

We have just published 131,052 indexed records from 65,526 Thames-side and Medway marriages on findmypast.co.uk These records cover Essex, Kent, Middlesex and Surrey for the period 1750 to 1984. These records are part of a collection licensed from local specialist Rob Cottrell and follow the recent publication of...Read More

Last night's episode of Who Do You Think You Are saw actor Rupert Penry-Jones eager to learn more about his Indian heritage. Rupert was born in 1970 and he is listed below in the fully indexed birth records on findmyp...Read More

Make sure you tune into Who Do You Think You Are? tonight at 9pm on BBC1. This week actor Rupert Penry-Jones find out about his past. Rupert's mother was born in Karachi and Rupert embarks on a journey to discover more about his Indian roots. Rupert learns about his maternal grandfather, Bill, who was a doctor in In...Read More

We've been looking into the records of the legendary Florence Nightingale to mark the centenary of her death today. Nightingale was a visionary health reformer who led the nurses during the Crimean War (1853-1856), which is mainly remembered for three things: the Charge of the Light Brigade, mismanagement in the Bri...Read More

We have just added 8,368 new Dorset marriage records to findmypast.co.uk which cover the years 1560 to 1839. We've done some digging around and have found some unusual names in our Dorset paris...Read More

Almost 70,000 new Dorset and Wiltshire parish records now on findmypast.co.uk

We have just published 69,545 new parish records for Dorset and Wiltshire on findmypast.co.uk These records were provided by the Read More

Last night, Monty Don became the latest celebrity to get the Who Do You Think You Are? treatment. [caption id="attachment_4236" align="alignright" width="130" caption="Monty Don (copyright jo-h)"]Read More