E: 25/12 ADVENT Find My Past (FB app)

libra10

Day 12 No prize again

Our festive treat this Friday: Thousands of new newspaper pages for you to explore!

http://blog.findmypast.co.uk/christmas/

libra10

Day 14 £50 John Lewis voucher

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If you could invite anyone from throughout history to join you at the Christmas dinner table this year, who would you choose? Take a look at our shortlist and vote on who you’d send an invite to – and submit your own suggestions of who you’d rather share your festive feast with. Vote and submit to be in with a chance to win a £50 John Lewis Voucher!

Pomdren

Day 15. No prize.

On day 15 of our Christmas Countdown, we're compiling our Christmas playlist. Share your favourite Christmas tunes here on Facebook or on our blog to get into the Findmypast Festive Top Ten! http://blog.findmypast.co.uk/christmas/?FB

cagsd

Day 16. No prize today either.
We've put together 20 questions to ask your relatives this Christmas on day 16 of our Countdown. We hope they'll help you break down some family history brick walls. Let us know what you think! http://blog.findmypast.co.uk/christmas/?FB

carol2712

Day 17 No prize
He sees you when you’re sleeping. Whether you like it or not. ›



What do you call a man who stalks your every move, deciding whether your behaviour matches up to his unrealistic standards? An omnipresent, non-peer reviewed Christmas judge, jury and gift distributor?
You call him Santa Claus, and he is terrifying.
We’ve scoured the British Newspaper Archive for evidence of Santa’s creepiness in history. Visit our blog for more.

cornishpasty1

Santa baby, slip a cake of rubber under the tree, for me ›

Children in many parts of the world have been hanging their stockings in eager anticipation of Santa’s arrival since the 1860’s.
Exploring our collection of historic British Newspapers has revealed that in the 1920’s an 30’s , “letters to Father Christmas” were frequently published by local papers during the festive season.


http://blog.findmypast.co.uk/christmas/

carol2712

19
Pull the other one! Some ho-ho-hard to believe cracker jokes from the archives ›



The Christmas cracker is a seasonal fixture that sits somewhere between overeating and busy shops in terms of Christmas traditions. Around in one form or another since the 1840s, the standard cracker contains a hat, a gift and a joke.
Hats and gifts have remained relatively consistent over the years, there’s only so much you can fit inside a small, cardboard cylinder. Jokes, however, have evolved and mutated almost beyond recognition since the cracker’s creation. What we find hilarious on Christmas Day in 2014 would be met by blank stares in 1914

cagsd

Day 20 - No competition today: Your very own Christmas soundtrack ›

Got some chestnuts roasting on your open fire? Jack Frost nipping on your nose? Excellent, you’re in prime condition to enjoy our Findmypast Festive playlist! Sit back, and let the magic of Christmas wash over you…


http://blog.findmypast.co.uk/christmas/

cornishpasty1

Dickens’ creation Ebenezer Scrooge was the pinnacle of miserliness, a man who drew pleasure only from money and the misery of others.
Could a real person ever have been as tight as Scrooge?
Introducing John Elwes, the possible inspiration for the character. Elwes was known for wearing clothes he found, fighting rats for food and making his servants ill by refusing to heat his home.
To read more about the real life Scrooge, visit our blog today!


http://blog.findmypast.co.uk/christmas/

claire21

23rd
Can't see a prize