Findmypast

Findmypast Ltd

About this app

When you get a few spare minutes, dip into your family history research with the free Findmypast app. You can manage your family tree, discover historical documents, find new ancestors, add photos and more.

While you have a little downtime, you can:

Search for records
We’ve got billions of family records. Do a quick search from your phone and piece your family history together.

Add new relatives
Have your phone ready at the next family gathering. Add a new ancestor as soon as you learn about them.

Share your findings
Show your discoveries to friends and relatives when it pops up in conversation, or text them. All it needs is a quick screenshot.

Get record hint notifications
We’ll send them the moment we find vital records like birth, marriage or death certificates, Census records and tree-to-tree hints.

Review your hints on the go
Quickly swipe through your hints and add them to your family tree. Or, reject them if they don’t look relevant.

Add photos to your family tree
Upload snaps or a selfie from your phone. They personalise your family tree and help familiarise you with your ancestors.

Upload records and more
As well as historical photos, you can add records, stories and more to your ancestors’ profiles.

See the family structure
Get an overview of each ancestors’ spouse, parents, siblings and children in a simple list.

Indulge your passion for family history anytime, anywhere. Download the Findmypast genealogy app to your device now.

Ratings and reviews

The app is lacking significantly compared to the website. Hints appear and disappear seemingly at will. The tree view has been in "beta" for way too long and continuously shows nothing but an "unknown" blank profile. There is no way to navigate to a known person. You can modify but the functionality is severely limited. Overall, it is not particularly useful as it is right now and pales compared to other genealogical storage apps and even to the FMP website! Please make this app useful!

Very limited app. Heavily dependent on browser. Useful to see hints and person count however no way to view tree or hide hints for later viewing. Hint list always goes back to the beginning so if you are halfway through 700 hints, you must scroll down the list repeatedly. No way to undo a merged hint. From Family, you can view limited relations but cannot go to them from this view. Glad the app is here, cannot wait for version 10 for the functionality that is useful.

It's a good site and app. I haven't done much as I work on Ascentry. It is not difficult to research if you know what you are after. I will return and do more work on "Find My Past".