1. Interested in your family history?

This is a golden age for genealogy and there's never been a better time to start tracing your family history. The internet has made millions of records available to search from home, providing access to family historians around the world.

Findmypast.com was the first website to make the complete birth, marriage and death records for England and Wales available online, back in 2003. Since then countless other historical records have been published on the internet.

It is only possible to trace your family's passage through history due to the introduction of civil registration in England and Wales, in 1837. Since that time births, marriages and deaths have been registered centrally, and these indexes are available to search, in full, on findmypast.com.

Until civil registration it was local parishes that kept records of important events. These parish records of baptisms, marriages, and burials are becoming more readily available for genealogists. Findmypast.com, in partnership with the Federation of Family History Societies, is publishing local parish records online, helping genealogists to delve further back in time.

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