Unlimited Free Access to Findmypast

This Remembrance Weekend, we want to help everyone find their First World War ancestors and learn more about their family history.

So we’re delighted to announce that this Remembrance Weekend, we’ll be opening up our archives and giving unlimited free access to billions of records and newspaper pages from all over the world. That means that between midday on Friday, November 7th and midday on Monday, November 10th (GMT), absolutely everyone will have access to all our historical records, including:

• Millions of birth, marriage and death records
• Census, land and substitute records from the US, UK, Ireland and Australia
• Millions of newspaper pages from all over the world
• Travel and migration records
• Military records from all over the world, including World War 1 records

as well as millions of other records that will give everyone the opportunity to explore their family history and bring their past to life.