Uncover your family tree for free with Findmypast

Ever watched Who Do You Think You Are and thought you would love to know more about your ancestors? Now’s your chance with Findmypast.

The hit show returns this month with a new batch of celebs taking a deep dive into their family history. As great as it is to find out Danny Dyer is related to Edward III, wouldn’t it be nice to know more about your distant relatives? Do you have a distant cousin who lives around the corner, a family in the Maldives or always thought deep down that you were related to royalty?

We’ve got you a free trial that means you don’t have to go on the telly to find out your family tree. Just click here and start your free trial today and who knows what you’ll uncover...

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

With a free trial, Findmypast's Pro subscription lets you look at census, crime and migration records and even lets you build your own family tree. New records are added every Friday, so the information at your fingertips is ever expanding. See for yourself here.

You can also share your family tree with family and friends, and you can reach out to other Findmypast members with common ancestors to help find family members you’ve been searching for or never even knew about.

We found when we tried it out, that being able to sit down with our parents and grandparents and talk through what you find can be so wholesome and a real bonding experience.

Were your family in the paper? With a Pro subscription, you’ll also be able to read newspaper archives spanning three centuries. So those questions of “what we would be famous for?” might really come to light. With over 67 million newspaper pages, there really is so much to explore.

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So, if you are tuning in to see who Andrew Lloyd Webber’s great great great grandfather was or to see if there are any shocking crime, prison, and punishment records in Claire Foy’s family history, why not travel back in time yourself for free with this trial?