Findmypast has made the 1939 Register available for the first time as part of a monthly subscription, after restructuring its range of packages.
The site’s new tiered subscriptions are: Starter (£8.95 a month/£72 a year), Plus (£12.95/£120) and Pro (£15.95/£156). Starter gives access to UK BMD and UK census returns; Plus provides access to all British and Irish records except newspapers; Pro gives access to all records in all territories, including newspapers. Plus and Pro also include unlimited monthly access to the 1939 Register, where you may find your family, home and town at the outbreak of the Second World War.
Findmypast spokesperson Alex Cox said the restructuring was a ‘positive move’ with the website aiming to tailor packages to users’ needs. Existing subscribers will not automatically be moved to the new packages; instead, Alex said, ‘as subs expire, people will have the opportunity to take up one of the new package options, but if they would prefer to keep the access they already have, that’s also fine’. Find out more at http://familytr.ee/fmppackages • The Trinity Mirror Newspaper Archive is being digitised by Findmypast and sister site the British Newspaper Archive, nearly doubling their newspaper holdings over two years. Trinity Mirror, the UK’s largest national and regional news publisher, was founded in 1903 as The Daily Mirror. Find more details on the Findmypast blog at http://familytr.ee/fmptrinitymirrorarchive