Who Do You Think You Are?

Find your ancestors in historic newspapers

Findmypast (findmypast.co.uk) has revamped its newspaper search tool, and the results are impressive. With more than 72 million British and Irish historical newspaper pages in its collection, any mention of your relations in the national or local press is now much easier to track down.

The revamped tool offers much smarter search functions, and has both simple and advanced options to steer you towards possible mentions of family

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