Find My Past at the library

[BionicEar]

Have seen a few people mention you use “Find My Past” site at your local library.

How does that work? Do you still have to sign up, or can you just search for details?

I think that it probably varies from area to area.

For example, where I am there is a shortcut on most of the computers in the different libraries so that you can use Ancestry just by clicking on the link. There is a separate "library" edition of Ancestry that libraries make available to the public.

You can research and find anything that you can do with the normal paid-for version of Ancestry. The only thing is that you don't have access to your own tree (if you have one).

Our library doesn't have Find My Past but I'm aware that libraries in other areas do and I would guess that it works in the same way as the library edition of Ancestry.

Thank you. That’s useful to know.

I will go and enquire in my local library.

Was thinking might be helpful to look up documents that I can’t access on Ancestry.

Basically it means the library service have a paid institutional subscription so you can search, and hopefully you can take copies.