Free access FindMyPast, & British Newspapers, this weekend (General)

by Jefff , West London, Middlesex, Friday, March 06, 2015, 02:14 (3544 days ago)

The Find My Past website are offering free access this weekend, starting noon today, Friday 6th March, until noon on Monday 9th. This offer will even benefit those who are already subscribers to this site. This will include free access to the British Newspaper Archives. It appears the only registration required is simply name and email, no need to give credit card details etc, so sounds well worth trying. By registering I assume one will also receive occasional Newsletter emails, from my experience these are interesting and not spam, it was thro such an email that I became aware of this offer.

Indeed, I have only recently completed full membership of the FMP site for a month for just £1, another offer I gained via their newsletters. I therefore strongly recommend registering with this site AND the BNA site too, thro which I have also just been offered another month's access for just £1. Subscribers to the regualr email newsletters from "Who Do You Think You Are magazine's website also received notice of this FMP offer.

A word of caution with this and all similar offers from any subscription companies eg Ancestry, BNA, GenesRenuited etc. To enable payment you must provide credit card info. PLEASE ensure as soon as the subscription starts you find the "My Account" page, and untick the box which permits automatic renewal. Failure to do so will mean the website will automatically take payment for a full subscription as soon as the free trial expires. To be fair, these companies will always refund any such payment if you report it soon enough, and you haven't used the site at all, but it's easier to tick the box and maybe make a calendar note to monitor the situation near the trial's expiry date.

access here http://www.findmypast.co.uk/freeweekend

"Free access lasts from 12:00pm midday (GMT) on Friday 6th March 2015 until 11:59am (GMT) on Monday 9th March 2015. To access the records you will need to be signed in at Findmypast: you can register for free using your name, email address and country of residence. The free access excludes the UK Electoral Registers (2002-2013) and the UK Companies House Directors (2002-2013) record sets. Current Findmypast Local subscribers (whilst they have an active Britain, Ireland, US & Canada or Australia & New Zealand subscription) will be able to access all World records (except those listed above) while the free access is live. Current Findmypast World subscribers (with active World subscriptions expiring after 11:59pm (GMT) on Friday 6th March 2015, excluding Findmypast Library accounts) will have an additional three days added on to their subscription. Free access is subject to our fair usage policy: each account may view up to a maximum of 1,000 records per day."

Happy Hunting !