Findmypast, one of Britain’s leading family history websites, is offering free access to a different set of its records each weekend for the next four weekends in the run-up to Remembrance Day on 11 November.
The campaign is running with the slogan ‘No Story Left Behind’ and is hoping to encourage more people to discover the men and women who served in their family.
To help people become more familiar with the records, Findmypast is inviting the public to take part in a family history challenge using their website. A series of clues will be provided to encourage people to explore the story of the Griffiths family, whose five sons – Hugh, Richard John, Nicholas, Ernest Evan Quinton and Reginald Stanley – all fought in the First World War.
Each weekend there will be a different collection made completely free to use, culminating in the final Remembrance weekend when all of their records will be freely available.
These are the weekends with the records that will be made free to researchers:
- 18-21 October: First World War records, the 1911 census, and birth, marriage and death records.
- 25-28 October: Findmypast’s newspaper archives.
- 1-4 November: The 1939 Register.
- 8-11 November: All Findmypast records, including the 1921 census.