About us - Online Publishing
Whether it’s staying in touch with old friends, finding new friends or a partner, building a family tree together, exploring the history of your house or tracing your ancestors, our sites bring large communities of people together and provide the tools to do it. Our experience in social networking, large-scale technology, designing engaging websites and digitising historical records combine to help people connect with their present, their future and their past. We have between three and four million users of our services every month.
Friends Reunited
Friends Reunited is the original British social network. Connecting over 24 million registered members over its 10-year history, the site helps members find and contact old friends and share the bigger things in life with the people that really matter. Using its unique listings (schools, universities, teams, streets and clubs), the site allows people to reunite around shared places and meet new friends with shared interests....read more ›
Genes Reunited
Genes Reunited is one of the UK’s leading family history brands with 12 million members and over 780 million names listed. A key strength is its strong membership community driven by members keen to help each other trace their ancestry. Increasingly aspects of social networking and genealogy are naturally overlapping and Genes Reunited is ideally placed to drive these developments. The site is funded through subscriptions and pay-per-view....read more ›
findmypast.co.uk
findmypast.co.uk offers access to over 750 million records, dating as far back as 875AD and was the first company to digitise and publish online the complete indexes of births, marriages and deaths for England and Wales. The company has been instrumental in fuelling the recent growth in family history interest....read more ›
findmypast.com.au
findmypast.com.au launched in Australasia in May 2010 and currently has a collection of over 55 million records covering Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea and the Pacific Islands....read more ›
findmypast.ie
Findmypast.ie is the world’s most comprehensive Irish family history website, providing easy-to-search, online access to some of the most significant Irish records available....read more ›
Friends Reunited Dating
Friends Reunited Dating is one of the largest paid-for dating sites in the UK with over 1.6 million registered members. It is recognised as an easy-to-use website, with a friendly user community....read more ›
swoon.co.uk
Swoon.co.uk is a genuinely unique service that uses tried and tested psychotherapy techniques to help users learn about themselves and prospective dates....read more ›
1911census.co.uk
In April 2007 brightsolid was awarded the contract by The National Archives to scan and digitise the 1911 census for England and Wales. Comprising 36 million records, this is one of the largest online family history projects undertaken by The National Archives and a commercial partner....read more ›
1901censusonline.com
The official 1901 census website run by Genes Reunited in partnership with The National Archives....read more ›
ancestorsonboard.com
ancestorsonboard.com is a microsite co-branded with The National Archives to showcase international market passenger records digitised from The National Archives’ Outbound Passenger Lists 1890-1960. Full colour scans of handwritten and printed lists for 24 million passengers have been fully transcribed, enabling customers to search the records with ease....read more ›
ScotlandsPeople.gov.uk
ScotlandsPeople is one of the world leading websites for family history, and has one of the most comprehensive sets of family history records available online....read more ›