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 Saturday March 7th, and in the run-up, to help researchers break down their brick walls with our records?

Do you love donning your detective hat to help people push their family trees back a generation? We’re holding a ‘Genealo-thon’ on Saturday the 7th March, for Open Data Day 2020 (link opens in new tab). To do this, we are looking for a team of ‘Brick-Wall-Bashers.’ We want these expert volunteer Genealogy Researchers to use the records in FreeBMD, FreeCEN and FreeREG to help break down some of our users’ brick walls.

If you want to get involved you should note the following:

• You do not have to be a Free UK Genealogy volunteer to join the Brick Wall SWAT Team.
• We will attempt a manageable number of cases.
• Help is provided on a voluntary basis and dependent upon the records we have available in our databases.
• While we will do our best, success cannot be guaranteed. We reserve the right not to progress any question which has insufficient information.

If you have the time, family history experience, and knowledge of how to use our websites, please register to become a volunteer genealogy researcher using the form below.

There’s more information about the challenge here:  https://www.freeukgenealogy.or… If you have any questions on being a volunteer genealogy researcher, send them to info@freeukgenealogy.org.uk