Free UK Genealogy

[3] Current projects include transcribing the England and Wales index of Births, Marriages and Deaths, historic Parish Registers and 19th Century Censuses.

[5][6] FreeBMD was founded in 1998 by Ben Laurie, Graham Hart, and Camilla Gemmingen von Massenbach after they realised the potential that the online genealogy community had to make records accessible to support research.

Volunteers came together online to transcribe the General Register Office (GRO) indexes of Births, Marriages and Deaths for England and Wales.

[13] Free UK Genealogy work is generally licensed under the Creative Commons CC0 Public Domain Dedication, as described in the footer of the website.

[17] Free UK Genealogy's projects are often recommended as a good place to begin researching family history.