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.

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.

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.

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.

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

‘Can you tell us how many houses in Mistletoe Road, Northumberland appear in our 1911 census records?’

Congratulations go to Michael Plaister from Cornwall who correctly answered that there are 13 houses.

Michael used our 1911 census address search to find the correct answer. He wins a year’s subscription to Your Family Tree magazine.

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

Thanks to all of you who entered our Start Your Family Tree Week competition over Christmas! We hope you enjoyed answering the questions - here are the correct answers:

26 December:
Q: According to findmypast’s handy family history interview guide, when is the perfect time to start your family tree?
A: Boxing Day

27 December:
Q: How many people with the surname Partridge were born in Anglesey between 1837 and 2006?
A: One

28 December:
Q: How many people called Mary Christmas are listed in the 1911 census at findmypast.co.uk?
A: 63

29 December:
Q: In what year did Florence Turtle marry Charles Dove?
A: 1936

30 December:
Q: How many people called Ida Snowball are listed in the 1901 census at findmypast.co.uk?
A: Three

31 December:
Q: According to Scotlandspeople.gov.uk’s occupations guide, what is a Pikman?
A: Miner who uses a pickaxe

1 January:
Q: What six letter name is given to the universally accepted file format for family tree software that allows you to save your tree and transfer it from one website to another?
A: GEDCOM

We’ve picked the lucky winners of our competition:

First prize: Karen Leonard
Second prize: Catherine Heath
Third prize: Joy Stocks
Runners up: Margaret Kelly, Ian Thompson, Sarah Doig, Nigel Thomas, Anne Thompson, Andrew Ross, Phil Howe, Joanna Tolhurst, Rosemary Kershaw and Grant Feltham

See our blog for details of the fantastic prizes our winners will receive.

Congratulations to all our winners and thanks to all of you who entered.

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

‘We found a baptism record for ‘Mary Christmas’, born in Cambridgeshire in 1725. Can you tell us in which place she was born?’

Congratulations go to Sue James from Swansea who correctly answered ‘Waterbeach, Cambridgeshire’.

Sue searched our parish baptism records to find the correct answer. Sue 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 Thursday.

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

‘We’ve found a ‘Guy Fawkes’ in our Chelsea Pensioners British Army Service Records. Can you tell us his place of birth?’

Congratulations go to Diane Lyddon from Devon who correctly answered ‘Accoo, Africa’.

Diane searched our Chelsea Pensioners British Army Service Records to find the correct answer. She wins a six issue subscription to Your Family History magazine.

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

When you subscribe to findmypast.co.uk we send you a series of emails to help with your research. One of them involves finding all 16 of your great great grandparents; when you email us with the details we enter you into a prize draw to win a year’s Full subscription to findmypast.co.uk

We have just completed our quarterly prize roundup. Unfortunately for August and September we didn’t receive any complete entries, so we are unable to award prizes for these months. Remember that all 16 of your great great grandparents must be entered into our Family Tree Explorer for you to qualify.

October’s winner is Maralyn Bevilaqua - congratulations Maralyn and we hope you enjoy your prize of a year’s Full subscription.

Keep emailing us your great great grandparents and you could be one of the next winners.

This is a quarterly competition so the next round of winners will be announced in February 2011.

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

‘Author Herbert George Wells was born in September 1866 in Kent. Can you tell us in which registration district he was born?’

Congratulations go to John Taylor from Cornwall who correctly answered ‘Bromley’.

John searched our fully indexed birth records to find the correct answer. He’s the lucky winner of an amazing 12 mega pixel Panasonic digital camera.

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