Make sure you’ve registered on findmypast by midnight Saturday 26 June (UK time) for our next World Cup offer (if you’ve already registered there’s no need to do so again).

As soon as you sign in to the site between 9am Sunday (UK time) and 9am Monday your 90 free minutes will start - so be ready to begin your research then! All you need to know is here: http://www.findmypast.co.uk/world-cup.jsp

Look out for our fourth competition question coming your way on Sunday morning (UK time)!

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!

Make sure you’ve registered on findmypast by midnight Tuesday 22 June (UK time) for our next World Cup offer (if you’ve already registered there’s no need to do so again).

Remember that as soon as you sign in to the site between 9am Wednesday (UK time) and 9am Thursday your 90 free minutes will start - so be ready to begin your research then! All you need to know is here: http://www.findmypast.co.uk/world-cup.jsp

Look out for our third competition question coming your way on Wednesday morning (UK time)!

Thanks to all of you who visited the site on Friday/Saturday. We’re so glad that most of you managed to get lots out of your free 90 minutes. After the huge amount of visitors to the site during the first England match we made further provisions for the second match so that the site would run faster and give you a better service. We handled significantly more traffic this time around and we’re pleased that even more of you had a positive experience.

It is inevitable that there’s a limit to the amount of people who can access the site at one time and the evening is definitely the busiest time for the site. We would recommend that you take your 90 minutes at other times of day where possible - this should allow you to whizz around the site at full speed!

On free access days you’ll need to make sure that no-one else has already logged in on your computer - we have restricted the free 90 minutes to one session per computer. Your 90 minutes will start as soon as you log in so be ready to start your research straight away!

The amount of people who made useful and unexpected discoveries during their free access is inspiring - get ready for Wednesday’s offer to make sure you don’t miss out.

With the next England match just around the corner, we’re warming up to provide further entertainment for any non-football fans in the form of our second World Cup widows offer:

90 minutes free access to findmypast.co.uk at a time of your choice on the day that England play – when England play, you still don’t pay!*

How to get free access

• Make sure you are registered on the website before midnight (UK time) on the day before the match. If you have already registered, you do not need to do this again.
• Return to findmypast.co.uk at a time of your choosing between 9am (UK time) on the day of the match and 9am (UK time) the day afterwards.
• Once you have signed in, you will have 90 minutes to search and view the records for free.

The free 90 minutes are available as a continuous period and will begin the moment you sign into findmypast.co.uk between the times stated above. If you’re not in the UK, you can convert the UK times above into local time here. A listing of the scheduled England matches is available here.

Our World Cup Widows offer for the second England match is now much more flexible, particularly for those of you based outside of the UK. You are now able to use the records at findmypast.co.uk at a time that suits you. We’ve been working hard to improve the speed of the site after the overwhelming popularity of our first offer so that even more customers will be able to benefit from it.

Visit our World Cup page for more information. If you need a helping hand with your research, take a look at our video tutorials or our Getting Started page which provide advice and tips about using our records.

We’d love to hear about any discoveries you make while our records are free to view - post anything you’d like to share with us and our readers on our Facebook page.

*All records available using our Full subscription (including the 1911 Census) will be free: Living Relatives searches and Memorial scrolls are not included.

We’re giving all you World Cup widows (and widowers!) something to do during the World Cup: all the records* on findmypast.co.uk will be completely free to view whenever England play a match. 30 minutes before every England game kicks off, findmypast.co.uk will be free for 3 hours.

All you need to do to view all our family history records for free is register on the site as you’ll need to log in to view our records.

You’ll find a competition question to answer during each England match here on the blog. The prize is a goodie bag containing a digital camera, vouchers for a year’s Full subscription plus much more. England play their first match against the USA at 7.30pm on Saturday evening, so keep an eye on our blog on Saturday for the first competition question.

Visit our World Cup page for more information about this amazing offer.

*All records available using our Full subscription (including the 1911 Census) will be free: Living Relatives searches and Memorial scrolls are not included.

An amazing World Cup-themed offer is coming your way very soon…stay tuned for full details!