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 networking pioneer, traditionally known for reuniting old school friends. Connecting over 24 million registered members over its 12-year history, the site has evolved to become the home of the nation’s memories. From heart-warming personal memories, to the national goose-bump moments we all experienced together, Friends Reunited now helps people remember every blast from the past....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 ›
findmypast.com
Findmypast.com is the new US addition to a global network of findmypast websites – it joins existing findmypast sites in the UK, Ireland and Australia...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 ›
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 ›
British Newspaper Archive
Launched in late November 2011, the British Newspaper Archive (BNA) is a 10-year partnership project between the British Library and brightsolid. The content for the website comes from the newspaper collection at Colindale Library, and the plan is to have 40 million, fully-searchable pages on the website by 2021, with at least 8,000 pages being added to the site every day. With leading-edge Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology powering the search tool on the site, the archive is proving to be an extremely valuable resource for family historians. In short, OCR software converts the words that appear in the digital image of the newspaper page into raw text, thereby allowing the web developers to build a website that is fully searchable. The archive also attracts history researchers across a wide range of subject areas. The site is funded through credit packages and subscriptions...read more ›
censusrecords.com
brightsolid broke into the US genealogy market with the ground-breaking censusrecords.com. It is the only site dedicated to the US census and was the first US site to have a pay-as-you-go option....read more ›