We're very pleased to announce the lucky winners of our Start Your Family Tree Week competition. Our winners are: Claire Stafford, Grant Feltham, Andrea Heath, Rachel Willis, Mary Napper, Katherine Walsh, Maureen Bowler, John Lock, Joanne Collins, Richard Wilson, Jill Marquis, Anne Brown, Christine Hughes, Diane ...Read More

Search 3,749 new Cheshire parish burial records on findmypast.co.uk These records could provide essential new information for those of you with Cheshire ancestors. Further details are as follows: Type of records: Burials Number of records: 3,749 Date range: 1800-2002 Parish / place: Appleton The Cheshire...Read More

We have just published the 1881 Scottish census on findmypast.co.uk The census recorded the population of Scotland at over 3.7 million in 1881 and we've freshly transcribed these records to ensure your ancestors' details are accurately recorded. We've already published the 1841-1871 Scottish cens...Read More

Maureen Selley, chairman of Devon Family History Society, got in touch with us about this intriguing discovery in a 1911 census return. Is there a simple explanation, or does the record tell a more scandalous tale? Read on for Maureen's story... News of th...Read More

We've just published the 'infirmity' column of the 1911 census on findmypast.co.uk. If your ancestors completed this part of their census return, you'll be able to see fresh information about your family's illnesses and conditions in 1911. Under data protection regulations, this potentially sensitiv...Read More

We have just published the 1871 census for Scotland on findmypast.co.uk This means more than 3.3 million new records for you to search. We have freshly transcribed the records so that your search results are the most accurate possible. The high quality of our transcriptions makes discovering the crucial details a...Read More

Our resident military expert Paul Nixon, pictured below, answers your queries. From Anthony Mathers: 'I would like to know how to get information on the Indian Navy. On the 1881 census, my great-grandfather, Richard Moore, was a pensioner of the Late Indian Navy. His age was 45. In 1862, the year...Read More

Our resident expert Stephen Rigden, pictured below, answers your queries. From Jacky Leach: 'I am trying to find out more about my granddad, Bernard Seaman. He was in the navy for most of his life and he lived in Wells next the sea, Norfolk, at 48 Mill Road. He was married to my grandmother, Barb...Read More

We're pleased to announce the winner of our November newsletter competition. We asked you this question: 'How much does a three month findmypast.co.uk voucher cost?' Congratulations go to Nora Martin from Suffolk who found the correct answer on our gi...Read More

To celebrate yesterday's release of Guy Ritchie's 'Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows', we've put on our deerstalker hat to uncover the mystery of Britain's real Sherlock Holmes. Our detective work has revealed that since the publication of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's first Holmes novel 'A Study in Scarlet' in 1887, ni...Read More