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Family Tree Magazine named Free UK Genealogy among the 101 Best websites for British & Irish Genealogy in 2016. [16] In June 2017, Free BMD was selected as one of UK Family Tree magazine's 50 best websites for family history. [17] Free UK Genealogy's projects are often recommended as a good place to begin researching family history. [18] [19]
GENUKI is a genealogy web portal, run as a charitable trust. It "provides a virtual reference library of genealogical information of particular relevance to the UK and Ireland". [1] It gives access to a large collection of information, with the emphasis on primary sources, or means to access them, rather than on existing genealogical research.
Findmypast is a UK-based online genealogy service owned, since 2007, by British company DC Thomson. The website hosts billions of searchable records of census, directory and historical record information. [4] It originated in 1965 when a group of genealogists formed a group named "Title Research". The first internet website went live in 2003.
The FamilySearch Research Wiki (formerly also known as the FamilySearch Wiki or the Family History Research Wiki) is a website containing reference information and educational articles to help locate and interpret genealogical records. [1] [2] The wiki is part of the FamilySearch website and was launched in 2007.
The site uses a wiki markup language (powered by a fork of the MediaWiki software) that enable users to create and edit personal profiles, categories and "free space" pages to document family history. The user interface is only available in English, while most of the help pages have been translated to Dutch, French and German.
FreeBMD is a website which coordinates and provides free transcriptions of the indexes to births, marriages and deaths (BMD) registrations held by the General Register Office for England and Wales (GRO). It also provides a free search function and online access to images of the pages of the BMD indexes. The website was founded in 1998.