Friday, 17 April 2020

TheGenealogist expands its Free First Steps package

From TheGenealogist (www.thegenealogist.co.uk):

Extra Resources Now Added to TheGenealogist’s Free First Steps Package

TheGenealogist’s FREE “First Steps” package to encourage beginners to Stay at Home and research their Family Tree has been expanded with new records and images

TheGenealogist’s Free First Steps offer has proved incredibly popular among those looking to start a new hobby while staying at home in the pandemic.

Mark Bayley, Head of Content says: “We have been overwhelmed by such a positive response to our Free First Steps package and it has encouraged us to do even more. We have decided to help users trace back even further, adding yet more free resources”

Now you can extend your research as TheGenealogist has added a further two years of census for England and Wales, along with the original images! *

Also included is the Complete Birth, Marriage & Death records index for England and Wales 1837-2005, access to TheGenealogist’s image archive and a really practical subscription to Discover Your Ancestors digital magazines to use for 3 months. No card details, no subscription, just completely free.

People on social media are already talking about TheGenealogist’s First Steps:

“This will be a life saver for many people” - Gwyneth, Wales
“You are helping my lockdown (be) so much better and productive.” - Rachel, Coventry
“What a very generous offer” @Book_magpie
“Thank you. I can now do more family research” - Lorraine, New Zealand
“Thank you for this kind offer. I am finding it really helpful for researching my family.” J Tafe

Researchers can begin their discovery now at https://www.thegenealogist.co.uk/first-steps/

The Free First Steps access will now include:
  • Complete Birth, Marriage & Death records index for England and Wales 1837-2005
  • English & Welsh Census Records to see where ancestors were living in 1891, 1901 and in 1911, now with images *
  • TreeView the online family tree builder
  • Image Archive of churches, places and people from the past
  • A high quality monthly digital magazine packed full of stories, case studies, social history articles and research advice

TheGenealogist’s First Steps package will give those people beginning their journey on the compelling road to discovering their ancestors some free and very useful family history resources.

Find out more about this package at https://www.thegenealogist.co.uk/first-steps/

Read the article: How to start your family history
https://www.thegenealogist.co.uk/featuredarticles/2020/how-to-start-your-family-history-1245/

*Images courtesy of The National Archives


(With thanks to Nick Thorne)

Chris

You can pre-order my new book, Tracing Your Scottish Family History on the Internet, at http://bit.ly/ChrisPaton-Scottish2 (out April). Also available, Tracing Your Irish Family History on the Internet (2nd ed) at http://bit.ly/ChrisPaton-Irish1 and Tracing Your Scottish Ancestry Through Church and State Records at http://bit.ly/ChrisPaton-Scotland1. Further news published daily on The Scottish GENES Facebook page, and on Twitter @genesblog.

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