In honor of Memorial Day on May 27, and in remembrance of all who died while serving our country, findmypast.com will offer its collection of US and International military records for free in the days leading up to national observance. With more than 26 million US and International military records available, findmypast.com is encouraging people [...]

I received this Mother’s Day infographic from FindMyPast.com. In the spirit of Mother’s Day, findmypast.com took a look at mothers from the past whose selfless acts of love made headlines within the collection of British, US and world newspapers and created this infographic. More than 15,700 individual articles recounted acts of heroism and sacrifice women [...]

The following news release is from FindMyPast.com: 400 Years of Baptism, Marriage, and Burial History Published Online Findmypast.com just added millions of new parish registers to its Westminster Collection. Family historians can now search for London ancestors on transcripts and scanned images of these parish records from the city of Westminster that date back more [...]

The following news release is from FindMyPast.com: Findmypast.com Launches UK Criminal Records dating 1770-1934 LOS ANGELES (Feb. 21, 2013) – Findmypast.com, an international leader in online family history, today announced the largest collection of historical criminal records from England and Wales is being published online for the first time in association with the National Archives [...]

The following News Release is from Elizabeth Zwerin: Collection includes more than 6 million pages with original images LOS ANGELES (Feb. 6, 2013) – Findmypast.com, an international leader in online family history, today announced the addition of more than 6 million pages from British newspapers, including original images, to its extensive historical records collection. The [...]

The following information is from Elizabeth Zwerin for findmypast.com: Find My Past, the hit UK television show, is now available to view via findmypast.com. Find My Past, now entering its second season, links living individuals to real historical events found in their family tree and now Findmypast.com is the only place in the US where [...]

The following news release is from FindMyPast.com: Release includes more than 40 million new records on findmypast.com LOS ANGELES (Dec. 17, 2012) – Findmypast.com, an international leader in online family history, has published more than 40 million new records to its already extensive collection of historical records, including military; life events; census land and surveys; [...]

Excerpt from L.A. Times article found on findmypast.com: TOAD SUCK, AR, VOTED AMERICA’S “MOST UNFORTUNATE” TOWN-NAME Beats Climax, GA, & Boring, OR in poll by findmypast.com Los Angeles, CA; Monday, August 7th, 2012: Toad Suck, Arkansas, has been voted America’s “most embarrassing or unfortunate” town-name, in a global poll. It beat Climax in Georgia, Boring [...]

The following news release was received from Brian Spekart, Marketing Manager of North America for brightsolid Online Publishing Inc.: “Pioneer Offer” Provides World Subscription at a 75 Percent Discount – $4.95 per Month Instead of $20.83 per Month LOS ANGELES, July 24, 2012 – Findmypast.com, a British-owned family history website, is marking its launch into [...]

The following news release was received from Beth Cook, Publicist for Findmypast.com • Findmypast.com launches into U.S. July 24; seeks to become go-to site for Americans of British and Irish ancestries • World’s second largest genealogy company takes on its biggest rival, with the help of 1,000 unique record collections and 75% annual growth San [...]

SALT LAKE CITY–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Online volunteers surpassed the previous one-day mark for indexing (transcribing) genealogical records, including the 1940 U.S. Census, as part of the “Five Million Record Challenge” issued by the 1940 U.S. Census Community Project. Aiming to propel volunteer contributions past the previous high of nearly 4.9 million records set April 30, the challenge [...]

The most exciting news from the National Genealogical Society Conference in Cincinnati is that volunteers have now indexed over 30% of the 1940 U.S. Federal Census of 3.8 million records in just 37 days. Six states have now gone through the finalizing process (which takes about a week) with Oregon and Virginia going online on [...]

FindMyPast.com is offering to find and notify us that they have located specific ancestors for us as soon as they have that ancestor’s state indexed. This sound like a good service for busy people (most of us!). Keep in mind that they will be notifying us once their index is produced for that state. There’s [...]