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Today (11 April) I received an email offering me 50% discount so I have now renewed for a year's "Everything" for £99.99 rather than the standard cost of £199.99.

I got this offer too, via a British Newspaper Archive email.

"Use code VEDAY30 to save 30% on 1, 3 or 6-month subscriptions, or VEDAY50 to save 50% on a 12-month Everything subscription."

"Terms & Conditions: Offer applies to Findmypast subscriptions only. Get 50% off a 12-month Everything subscription with code VEDAY50, or 30% off 1, 3, or 6-month subscriptions with code VEDAY30. Valid until 23:59 BST on 22 April. The discount is only valid for customers who received this email, can be used once per user, and requires a valid payment method. Subscriptions renew automatically unless auto-renewal is turned off in your account settings. Not valid for subscriptions purchased via the Findmypast app."

Worth a try.

There's also the option to add a middle name at Confirmation, at least Anglican ones. I was offered (but declined) this in the 60s.

I didn't know this!  I wasn't invited to add a name.  If it had been offered, I would have seized it with both hands.  I hate my name and was only given one.

I am sceptical as I have searched for 1942 births with the two possible surnames and discounted all. That is why I am questioning 1942.

If widening the search beyond 1942 doesn't produce a result, is it possible that the person was born in Scotland, Ireland or elsewhere? 

You just never know with people. I found a cousin on GR - actually my mother's cousin but we are similar age.  We hadn't met since childhood.  He rang me at once and was very effusive about how great it was to be in touch again. We had a long chat and he promised to send me some photos.

Since then - nothing. He has ghosted me.  I sent a Christmas card and much later messaged him on Ancestry when I added my tree.  Nothing.  He hasn't died or anything because he has visited another cousin of mine.

Sometimes Thrulines is right sometimes way off.

One I saw the other day had parents for an ancestor born in Scotland c1788, so I was quite hopeful as lots of trees had them. The source was an Army record dated 1807 on the front, and since the recruit's age was 18 y 11 m, that looked good for our man. 

Something nagged at me though, and I realised there were references to "Her Majesty".  Of course in 1807 it would have been His Majesty. 

Looking through the pages of the record, it soon became clear that most of the dates in it were 20th century. He had signed on and done his 7 years plus 5 in the reserve. There was a second record where he'd gone back in 1919 and signed up to serve a year in the Labour Corps, presumably clearing the WWI battlefields.

I looked at the front again and saw that although the date looked like 1807, it was actually 1897 and part of the 9 had disappeared.  I've put in a correction so the indexed document date can be amended, but an awful lot of people have gone wrong already.