Unfortunately, this deal has expired 13 April 2020.
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Posted 10 April 2020
Ancestry Free Access to UK & Ireland Records Easter Weekend
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About this deal
This deal is expired. Here are some options that might interest you:
Here we go, another free weekend of access to UK & Ireland records on Ancestry; very timely too as most of us will be at home looking for interesting things to do. I can think of five reasons to do some research:
For newbies to Ancestry and family history research: you will need to create an account but you don't need to give any credit card details via this link; begin by adding yourself and your parents & grandparents etc. then 'hints' should start appearing on each record you create which link to potential official entries. On these free access weekends you will be able to look at the 1939 England & Wales register (although info of anyone deemed as still alive will be redacted) and each ten-yearly census from 1841 to 1911 as well as birth, death & marriage records and other info such as directories, wills, military, parish and emigration records. Be aware though, you can only access UK & Ireland records - it is very rare for Ancestry to offer free access to its World records collection. And you won't be able to view any birth, marriage & death certificates themselves - to do that you will need to take note of the GRO index reference and order them at gro.gov.uk/gro…asp - note that if you order copies through Ancestry it will cost more.
When this free weekend ends, you will still be able to access your account and family tree, add, remove & edit people whenever you want and see the indexes to records but not the records themselves. If you download any documents such as a census during the free access weekend, best to save a copy to your PC or mobile device as once the free access ends (or any paid subscription ends) you won't be able to view these documents you saved on Ancestry itself. Don't forget you can still get free access to Ancestry & Findmypast in English libraries (when they reopen of course) and there are a few free family history resources out there such as freebmd.org.uk/ and familysearch.org/sea…ch/ and some counties even have their own 'OPC' (online Parish clerk) for example sussex-opc.org/ or cornwall-opc-database.org/home/
If you are getting frustrated at hitting a brick wall, bear in mind you will require plenty of patience and will have to act as a detective - I love that kind of thing but appreciate its not everyones cup of tea; sometimes you will need to make assumptions and play around with dates and places until you find what you need. Names can be mis-spelled, information you regarded as fact may turn out to be false and in some cases, records may not have been transcribed yet, or were destroyed, especially the further back you go and during the war years. Who doesn't enjoy a fact hunt?? Good luck!
- To discover if you have an Irish grandparent you never knew about
- To discover if you're an heir to someone who was rich and famous
- To discover you're definitely not related to Katie Hopkins or Piers Morgan
- To discover you don't actually exist and are just part of someone elses imagination
- To experience the satisfaction of discovering more about who your ancestors were and what they did
For newbies to Ancestry and family history research: you will need to create an account but you don't need to give any credit card details via this link; begin by adding yourself and your parents & grandparents etc. then 'hints' should start appearing on each record you create which link to potential official entries. On these free access weekends you will be able to look at the 1939 England & Wales register (although info of anyone deemed as still alive will be redacted) and each ten-yearly census from 1841 to 1911 as well as birth, death & marriage records and other info such as directories, wills, military, parish and emigration records. Be aware though, you can only access UK & Ireland records - it is very rare for Ancestry to offer free access to its World records collection. And you won't be able to view any birth, marriage & death certificates themselves - to do that you will need to take note of the GRO index reference and order them at gro.gov.uk/gro…asp - note that if you order copies through Ancestry it will cost more.
When this free weekend ends, you will still be able to access your account and family tree, add, remove & edit people whenever you want and see the indexes to records but not the records themselves. If you download any documents such as a census during the free access weekend, best to save a copy to your PC or mobile device as once the free access ends (or any paid subscription ends) you won't be able to view these documents you saved on Ancestry itself. Don't forget you can still get free access to Ancestry & Findmypast in English libraries (when they reopen of course) and there are a few free family history resources out there such as freebmd.org.uk/ and familysearch.org/sea…ch/ and some counties even have their own 'OPC' (online Parish clerk) for example sussex-opc.org/ or cornwall-opc-database.org/home/
If you are getting frustrated at hitting a brick wall, bear in mind you will require plenty of patience and will have to act as a detective - I love that kind of thing but appreciate its not everyones cup of tea; sometimes you will need to make assumptions and play around with dates and places until you find what you need. Names can be mis-spelled, information you regarded as fact may turn out to be false and in some cases, records may not have been transcribed yet, or were destroyed, especially the further back you go and during the war years. Who doesn't enjoy a fact hunt?? Good luck!
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Edited by a community support team member, 10 April 2020
94 Comments
sorted byMany of them have subscribtions to ancestry library edition available in the library, which has been temporarily expanded to home access due to the virus.
If yours doesn't, you can register for an online account with Bedfordshire libraries, then access Ancestry here!
They subscribe to lots of different services including PressReader which has basically every magazine for free, which is worth a look. (edited)
I bet you've been aching to get that one in somewhere.
Also dont forget familysearch.org which is completly free and does have quite a lot of records.
If you dont already have an account with ancestry then you can follow this link for 50 percent off
ancestry.co.uk/cs/…e5g
My family is Irish - where should we look as we dont appear on this site which I know is incorrect??
A lot of the times its because the records were kept incorrectly. You need to put in work to find people, its not just point and click.
I've managd to go back to the 1740's which is better than many people but I do envy those who can trace their lineage back even further. New records are being added all the time so hopefully since your last searches you will discover something else to expand on your family history
1700 is as about far you get on ancestry, as when public records first collected centrally before that you relying on parish records or local records offices, you next step if you family all same sort of place is going to local records some will have records online and others not good luck with search
I have found it hard to cross reference when looking back at the early 1700's as many people had the same name and I'm wary of picking the wrong person with lack of data to Confirm.
It's still really interesting though. What I would like to know is causes of death too.
Heat added
I have no idea what this means.
2 good starting points
civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/chu…jsp
registers.nli.ie/
Thanks will try them, cant find my fathers family anywhere (from Cork)
Dont think so but slim chance maybe, need to find the agency that handled the adoption. Court records may also help. social services and think either Salvation Army or Red Cross have adoption tracing service.
Thanks for the info. Appreciate it.
You can probably get back a bit further but the interst for me having worked on my tree and a friends tree on and off for the past 2 years is delving into how my ancestors lived. I like newspaper archives, reading peoples wills, looking up where they lived to try and understand more.