Migrating News Articles
I'm new to FreeUKGenealogy. As an experienced software engineer I was looking for a new challenge, to learn something, a way to use my skills and a bit of a…
Research your Family Tree whilst Physically Distancing (Part Two)
Following activities 1-5 of this post, here are the last 5 things you can do to research your family tree at this time of being physically distant. We hope…
Research your Family Tree whilst Physically Distant (Part One)
As many of us around the world are in quarantine, self-isolating, or reducing our social contacts due to Covid-19, it seems a good time to research your family tree as…
Break ‘brick walls’ as a Volunteer Genealogy Researcher
We have been inundated with responses from potential Volunteer Genealogy Researchers for Open Data Day this year. Discover our other volunteering opportunities here. ___________________________________________________ Can you spend some time on…
Brick Wall Challenge: Open Data Day 2020
We have been inundated with responses for Open Data Day 2020 so have closed for this year. ___________________________________________________ We're holding a 'Genealo-thon' on Saturday the 7th March,using our records to…
Married couple transcribe more than a million records as FreeREG Volunteers
Volunteers' Week 2018It's Volunteers' Week 2018, and we're celebrating the fantastic achievement of our dedicated transcribers and FreeREG Volunteers! Married couple Maureen and Stuart Tokely, who live in Australia, have been transcribing for…
The GRO Permits Sharing FreeBMD Screenshots
Good news for those who want to share their family history discoveries online. The GRO has permitted sharing FreeBMD so that users can take screenshots of entries and share them…
Free UK Genealogy Accessibility Improvements
In the summer of 2016, Free UK Genealogy began a journey to make all of our websites accessible to a minimum AA standard of W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)…
Update on the ‘New’ FreeCEN Website
The new FreeCEN website went live in July 2017 and has recently undergone an accessibility-driven aesthetic revamp. The release of the new colour suite across FreeCEN (pictured below), FreeREG, and the new FreeBMD website (FreeBMD2) currently…
Found in a Marriage Record: A Fashionable Marriage
123 years ago today, on Wednesday 22 July 1896 at St Marks church in Lincoln Road, Peterborough, Northamptonshire there was a marriage between Hamlet De Wet and Mabel Langton. Their…
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