Full training is provided: your experience as a family historian or researcher will help us make more genealogical records available to everyone, for free.

Because we:

• Ensure our transcriptions are high quality,
• Are an Open Data organisation, and thus your transcriptions reach the widest possible audience, in the most innovative ways,
• Are among the oldest, most respected, crowd-sourced transcription organisations/projects in the world,
• Have such a range of materials – from medieval Latin to modern print, from the free-form of early Church Registers to the consistent format of the BMD indexes – this means that whatever your skill level, and however much your skill increases, we have documents to transcribe that fit your level, or can stretch you,
• Are a charity,
• Are volunteer-led,
• And we are increasingly enabling volunteering online.