Findmypast gives you a unique way to search for your family history online, wherever you are. With it, you can discover documents and photos that can help you piece your family history together.

How does Findmypast work?

Get documents

With Findmypast, you can easily search millions of records like death certificates, marriage certificates and more.

You can search across billions of documents. 

Discover documents

We’ve hand-picked the best records that are relevant to your family. And, if you have documents on your mobile or tablet, you can get a copy of them, as long as they’re public and relevant.

Upload documents

If you’re still looking for documents, you can easily upload them to Findmypast. You can upload your documents, photos, and stories, or you can create a new one.

Add your ancestors

Create an ancestor profile and add your ancestors. You can add photos, documents, stories and more. You can also add people who are related to you.

Review your hints

You can review your hints and decide which ones are relevant and which aren’t. If you’re not sure, you can ask us for help.

Get record hint notifications

We’ll send them the moment we find vital records like birth, marriage or death certificates, Census records and tree-to-tree hints.