Tracing Ancestors In The UK

Ancestry research has become one of the most popular hobbies in the UK.  As more records have become more available online, there has been a sharp increase in interest in the last five years.  TV programmes, such as Who Do You Think You Are, have generated even more interest.

There are many websites that you can use to trace your UK family history, but one that makes it easy to search different kinds of records, including the census, births, marriages and deaths, and military records, is Find My Past.

Find My Past is based in London and carries more than half a billion family history records. They have an extremely good reputation for accuracy and excellent customer support.

They were the first to allow public access to birth, marriage and death records online, and were originally known as 1837online.com (because this was the year that these records began).

Find My Past offers a very good payment system for viewing records. If you do not want to pay an ongoing subscription (as some other sites only offer) you can Pay as You Go, paying for just a few viewing credits at a time. This is very useful if you only want to look at one record, or you don’t have time to use the site regularly.

However, if you do want to subscribe, their monthly rate is extremely reasonable, currently at £7.50 per month.

If you are carrying out UK ancestry research, I highly recommend that you use Find My Past to get you started.

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