Volunteer

Free UK Genealogy is a volunteer-led community; we have around 6500 active volunteers working across our three projects. They are managed by ateam of volunteers (we also have volunteer trustees), just under 3 full-time equivalent paid staff, and a small number of contractors

Volunteer Positions

Project-specific opportunities range from transcribing records to coordinating teams and overall management

Transcriber Opportunities

Your experience as a family historian or researcher will help us make more genealogical records available to everyone, for free

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Management Opportunities

Each of our projects are run by a team of volunteers and we also have volunteer trustees and advisers

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Foundation Opportunities

Free UK Genealogy foundation volunteer roles offer exciting opportunities to those wishing to make a significant impact and contribution

Grow with us

Tech Opportunities

Do you have Ruby on Rails, MongoDB, MySQL, or HTML experience? You could join our team of volunteer software developers who are working on a number of projects

Get Coding

Our Commitment.

We recognise that volunteers contribute in many ways, that your contribution is unique and that volunteering can benefit users, staff, communities, and yourself.

We value the contribution made by volunteers and are committed to involving you in appropriate positions and in ways which are encouraging, supportive and develop personal and organisational growth.

We acknowledge our responsibility to arrange our volunteering efficiently and sensitively so that the valuable gift of your time is best used to the mutual advantage of all concerned.

Help us keep your history free