Findmypast

Findmypast connects people to their family stories. With a bank of billions of digitised records, and access to some of the world’s most renowned historical databases, it allows you to connect to people, both past and present, and visualise your family story in more detail than ever before.

Findmypast covers research for the UK, Ireland, Australia and North America’s records. 

Among the many records you can find:

• The 1911 Census for England and Wales
• British Army Service Records
• 1939 Register
• The largest online collection of the UK Parish Records
• The Catholic Heritage Archive
• Military, Armed Forces and conflicts records
• Travel and immigration records

Findmypast is available in our libraries and on your own device via the wi-fi within our sites.

Tutorial explaining how to use Find My Past

This resource requires you to be in the library to use it.