Findmypast is celebrating a monumental milestone this week. Its ever‑growing digital historical newspaper collection reaches 100 million fully searchable pages.
To celebrate the occasion, Findmypast is offering free access to its entire newspaper archive until February 16, 2026, giving researchers a full week to dive into centuries of headlines and discover the unexpected.
This milestone marks one of the world’s largest long-running digitization projects to enable broader access to these significant historical records.
Spanning 400 years and featuring more than 2,700 titles and 7 million issues from Britain, Ireland and beyond, Findmypast’s newspaper archive is one of the richest sources for building a vivid picture of your ancestors’ lives. Whether you’re chasing down an ancestor’s wartime heroics, tracking a long‑forgotten marriage announcement, or stumbling across a scandal that reshapes your family narrative, these pages offer a window into events as they happened.
Findmypast’s newspaper search tools are designed to help family historians uncover stories quickly and accurately. Researchers can draw on extracted details from birth, marriage, and death notices — instantly linkable to family trees — and refine broad searches with smart filtering to pinpoint the most relevant results. Clip and save articles to your tree, add them to your Workspace, or create a Collection around a family member or project.
Lee Wilkinson, Managing Director of DC Thomson History, which owns Findmypast, said: “Reaching 100 million published newspaper pages is a landmark moment for Findmypast, and a powerful reflection of what long-term partnership can achieve. Over 15 years, we have worked closely with major archives, cultural organizations, and publishers to preserve these fragile records and expand public access to them.
“Each page adds depth to our history and gives researchers, educators, local historians and families new ways to understand the lives and communities that came before us. I’d encourage everyone to go online and explore this rich resource for free.”
Explore the newspaper archive at www.findmypast.com/newspapers. Sign up for free to see your search results.








