Free UK Genealogy is pleased to introduce our new Executive Director – Pat Reynolds. We welcome her and look forward to working closely with her.

Some of you may know Pat from her previous role as Surrey's Heritage Manager, and her work at Surrey History Centre and on 'Exploring Surrey's Past' – the first website to integrate and co-present data from museums, archives, libraries and a historic environment
record. She can be contacted at pat.reynolds@freeukgen.org.uk.

Camilla von Massenbach,
Trustee

We are really pleased to announce that Richard Light will be joining the Board of Trustees for Free UK Genealogy. We have been seeking to increase the number of Trustees in order to develop the range of skills and experience that manage the organisation. We feel that Richard will complement the other Trustees.

Richard brings with him many years of experience working within the fields of management consultancy and software development particularly in the area of managing historical collections. He is interested in how he can support us to better link the datasets that we have together and achieve the maximum value from the work that our volunteers have contributed.

As a Board of Trustees we look forward to working with Richard and using his experience to ensure that Free UK Genealogy is sustainable over the coming years.

Camilla Gemmingen von Massenbach
(Chair of Trustees)

Welcome to the Free UK Genealogy site. This site has been put together to keep people informed about the activity of the Free UK Genealogy charity and to provide an easy way to keep people updated on progress with FreeBMD, FreeREG and FreeCEN.

We will use this site to provide you with information about how the charity works, new projects we have coming up and more general information about genealogy and the issues related to improving access to family history records. We hope over the coming months to get some of our volunteers involved with producing posts for the site to talk about their experience of transcribing for all of our projects.