Family historians have the chance to win a free Premium membership to family history website Findmypast in a new competition.
Findmypast announced the competition as it unveiled a new set of tools in its old newspaper collection.
Findmypast’s ‘Pro’ subscription package offers access to the British Newspaper Archive, with nearly 72 million pages of historic newspapers.
In addition, Findmypast offers free access to 28 million articles in the collection to non-subscribers.
Findmypast has now added a clipping tool which allows users to add a newspaper article with their relative’s name in it to their family tree.
In addition, Findmypast added a smarter search function, with features including allowing users to search for full or partial names, search multiple titles at once, sort titles by relevance or date, try combinations of keywords.
Jen Baldwin, Research Specialist at Findmypast, said: “With these new and improved features on Findmypast, it’s easier than ever to start searching – I can guarantee some surprises await as you uncover things you won’t find in other records.”
To celebrate the launch, Findmypast is inviting family historians to share the “life-changing, heartbreaking, or just downright jaw-dropping” discoveries about their family history they’ve made in the Findmypast newspaper collection, for a chance to win a free Findmypast ‘Premium’ subscription.
The Premium subscription is the only way of accessing the 1921 census for England and Wales online.
To enter your family history discoveries in the competition, simply email them to discoveries@findmypast.com by 30 November 2023.
