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…
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)…
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…
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…
We're pleased to host another guest post by author and FreeREG transcriber Helen Barrell, who will feature on BBC One's Murder, Mystery and My Family this Wednesday (3rd April) at 09.15am. Here, Helen…
Here, FreeREG volunteer Ian Slater gives some background to a notable marriage record he transcribed; that of American composer Arthur H. Bird. Arthur Homer Bird was an American composer, for many years resident in…
As part of our work to overhaul all of the Free UK Genealogy websites we're very pleased to announce that we are able to give people access to our new…
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…
Last month, Frank Rogers described some of the work he does as a Free UK Genealogy Volunteer. Here, FreeREG transcriber Cathy Jury exemplifies the need for patience and tenacity when…
Helen Barrell - FreeREG transcriber and writer of historical crime fiction and non-fiction describes how she uncovered records pertaining to the 'Witchfinder General' in the parish registers of Essex and Suffolk.…
