Free access to various FindMyPast collections for the coming weekends
As it is the run-up to Remembrance Weekend, FindMyPast for the next few weekends are again making some of their records collections available to view for free, ending on Remembrance Weekend where all their collections will be free to view. This weekend (until Monday 21st), WWI records, the 1911 Census and BMD records on Findmypast are free to view! The next few weekends are: 25th - 28th October Newspapers on FindMyPast 1st - 4th November 1939 Register 8th - 11th November (Remembrance Weekend) All records on FindMyPast The WWI records (where they survive) are also fully indexed and searchable (with images) on Ancestry and well worth searching too. They can provide invaluable details about your serving ancestors. The 1939 Register, although very similar, and often refered to as a census, is not a census. It was taken at the start of WWII to provide an account of the British population, to aid logistics during the war. It doesn't state your ancestor's place of birth, but very usef