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…
Free UK Genealogy is proud to announce two new features to assist our users to search FreeREG and FreeCEN. FreeCEN (with free access to high quality transcriptions of nineteenth century…
Idly flipping through the pages of a golf collectables book at Gloucester antiques centre recently, I paused and looked again. There in black and white was the signature of my great-great-uncle George Sargent…
A few people have contacted us, concerned that the free availability of indexes to births compromises their identity security. The widespread use of mothers’ maiden names and dates of birth…
Archives Unlocked, the vision for Archives in England Archives Unlocked was launched by the National Archives yesterday, 29th March. This is a compact, but important document: “IN SHORT: ARCHIVES MATTER.…
We're celebrating datasharing on Open Data Day! Check out our tips on using Death Data hidden in free available censuses to uncover secrets in your family tree. Open Data Day…
A One Name Study looks at the origins of a surname rather than a person or a family. Here, Alisdair Neish explains how getting involved with the study led to…
Free UK Genealogy software is Open Source and we rely on Volunteer Developers. If you want to participate in a Summer of Code programme, add some volunteering to your CV,…
A few months ago, we asked in our newsletter for suggestions to replace the hyperlinked word 'TRANSCRIPTIONS' on our website. This is because we feel that the word doesn't fully…
Over the last ten years, the power and use of data for transparency, accountability and research has become a central feature of the way that government and academia are doing…
