This We’ll Defend – Semper Paratus – Non Sibi Sed Patriae – Semper Fidelis – Aim High…Fly, Fight, Win – The Only Easy Day Was Yesterday – So Others May Live, Always Read, Always There, Sua Sponte – That Others May Live Continue reading »
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A break from the pedigree / Australian/New Zealand records / Family history community / findmypast / Military Records / This day in history
Anzac Day: Honoring the armed forces of Australia and New Zealand
Happy Anzac Day! Anzac Day is a national day of remembrance in Australia and New Zealand, held on the anniversary of the Gallipoli landing on the 25th April each year. It is a day to honour those that sacrificed their lives, those that came home and all the families affected by wars all around the … Continue reading »
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Family History Twitter Q&A
We had a great turn out to our Twitter Q&A on April 15 with many great questions. Here is a recap of the live chat our followers had with our resident expert, D. Joshua Taylor: Continue reading »
NEW RECORDS: Massachusetts Vital Records, 1600s to 1850
We’ve just added Massachusetts vital records to 1850 on findmypast.com! Since its settlement in 1620, many areas of Massachusetts have carefully recorded births, marriages, and deaths in their respective towns. This collection, compiled by the New England Historic Genealogical Society, offers more than 2 million records of births, deaths, and marriages from the 1600s to 1850. … Continue reading »
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NEW RECORDS: More than Two Million UK Records Reveal East Kent’s Fascinating Past
NEW UK RECORDS AVAILABLE TO SEARCH ONLINE STATE OF THE ART LOCAL ARCHIVE CENTRE REOPENS AFTER REFURBISHMENT For the first time today, records covering baptisms, marriages and burials from Canterbury’s past have been made fully searchable online by leading family history site findmypast.com The Canterbury Collection of parish records dating back to 1538 has been … Continue reading »
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FGS Conference 2013 Registration is now open
We spend so much of our time looking to the past, let’s take a moment for the future – FGS 2013 Conference in August! For those of you not familiar, this is a fantastic event for the US genealogy community. The findmypast team even held the conference’s first karaoke party in 2012 and the attendees … Continue reading »
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Rootstech 2013 and why you should go – findmypast podcast
FMP US resident expert, Joshua Taylor, chats about the upcoming conference, Rootstech. Listen in on what you can expect this year in Salt Lake City and why family history conferences are great for everybody, not just pros and tech developers! Continue reading »
Top 10 Strangest Headlines from British Newspaper History
Ever participate in – or even hear about – ‘A Pigeon Eating Wager’? Odds are, most likely not, but that is just one of the strange headlines you can read about in the collection of British newspapers on findmypast.com. Through an exclusive partnership with the British Library, brightsolid is digitizing 50 million pages of British newspapers, from … Continue reading »
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NEW RECORDS: 2.5 Million UK Criminal Records, Online for the First Time
Today we launched our ‘Bad Boys’ collection – the largest collection of historical criminal records from England and Wales to be published online, in association with the National Archives (U.K.). Use the promotional code ‘criminal‘ for 20 free credits to test this amazing collection out. Over 2.5 million records dating from 1770-1934 will be easily searchable and … Continue reading »
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The latest Find My Past TV episodes from season 2
‘Battle of Trafalgar’, ‘Scott of the Antarctic’ & ‘Abdication Crisis’ Continue reading »
