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Welcome to Family History UK |
Family History UK is the latest FREE UK family tree, genealogy and ancestry community portal website, connecting ancestors and living relatives all over the UK. You can search for your ancestors, Post your "Wanted Names"- You know those ancestors that just cannot be found - Brickwalls or Wanted Names! We are here to help you.
You can now build your own online free family tree - Family History Hosting are specialists in publishing genealogy / family history family trees. Get online now and build those links in your own tree - Have a look at our Family Tree to see how good its done. You can view all the "Wanted Names". There are well over 25,000 names - 100's being added daily! Add yours now!
You can get help with your family history to research Births, marriages and deaths in the UK (BMD), Census and other information, build your very own family tree and connect with living relations in the UK - all FREE!
So if you want to research your family, ancestry, ancestors, family history, genealogy, family tree or genes - you have reached the RIGHT place here at family History UK! It is all FREE! - Free Genealogy! Free UK Genealogy! free family history!
As we are a Community Portal, built to help YOU, we rely on you all out there to add your own "Wanted Names" or "Brick Walls" of your ancestors, to add your special genealogy web links and other family history and genealogical information. You can now join us all on the FHUK FH Community Forum - Come and have a chat, or someone may be able to help or give you advice! Help us to help you! More about us.
The main site is completely FREE, to search, view or add any family history or genealogical details! Free UK family history, free uk genealogy! Free Family History! On other parts of this site we will be offering special things for the genealogy enthusiast. |
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Indexes, Transcripts & Original Documents |
When we are setting out in our family history - genealogy research we need to be reminded about indexes, transcriptions and the original documentation.
Index:  An index is intended to help you find an item of research reasonably quickly, and as with indexes to books, some are better than others. But by and large, all are better than none at all. Indexes for example can be for Birth, Marriage and Deaths (BMD), or for census'. But just please remember it is just an index, used as a tool to aid research.
Transcription: A transcription is (usually) one person's interpretation of an original item, the accuracy clearly depends on the care taken and the interest the
transcriber has in the subject. However it is useful in that it is usually a fair representation of the original, and can help a researcher decide
whether it is worth seeking out the original document, or whether he is on a false trail.
Original Document:The ultimate aim of your research into your family history - genealogy is to prove your ancestry through an original document. So once you have searched the indexes and scanned the transcripts, please obtain a copy of the original document. It is essential to see a copy of the original document and to decide for themselves on its validity. |
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Family Search on the Road |
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A major free family history exhibition with over one billion names available for research is now operating throughout the United Kingdom and Ireland.(see next venue below). Called Family Search on the Road, the exhibition features displays, free to use computer terminals, and state of the art software linked via satellite to the world's largest genealogical database. Family Search on the Road will be popular with anyone interested in researching their own family tree. The LDS Church , famous for their familysearch site will be exhibiting around the UK.  Church spokesperson David Fewster said: "We are delighted to be bringing this wonderful exhibition to the UK. 2007 was the 170th anniversary year of the arrival of the first Mormons in the British Isles. During those 170 years countless members of the public have helped us in our quest to identify our ancestors. We now want to repay their kindness by helping others to use the database and build their family tree too. This exhibition is free for all to use and enjoy, particularly for those who have wanted to start their family history research but have not got around to it." |
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Search on for Culloden legacy - Was your ancestor there? |
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"Search for Culloden's legacy" competition.
All entries must be received by: Wednesday 19 March. The objective of the competition is to raise awareness of the importance of the Battle of Culloden and its impact on Scottish, British and World history, to reinforce that it was not a battle between England and Scotland and that in fact some families had members fighting on opposing sides, often against their will. Competition winners will help us to open the exciting new visitor centre at Culloden on Wednesday 16 April 2008. How to enter We are keen to trace some young people (under 18 years old) whose ancestors fought at the Battle of Culloden. Entrants should produce a family tree showing their family's involvement in the Battle - either on the Government or Jacobite side - or both. This can be hand written, presented in say a word document or provided as a print out from one of the genealogy website programmes or templates. |
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Get Them Whilst They Are Still Alive! |
If you are just starting your Genealogical Research it can be puzzling how to start!
These are questions which from working with members of our Genealogy Websites over the year we have discovered are an excellent starting point for your research. If there is one piece of advice that every genealogist should take to heart it is make sure that you talk to the living members of your family before they become your ancestors!
Here are a whole range of questions that the you can answer for yourself and may be able to use when “interviewing” family members. Part of the fascination of genealogy is not only finding out “where we have come from” but also “what it was like” when our ancestors were alive and the sort of lives they and their families lived.
What do you know about your family surname? Its origin?
What do you know about the meaning of your family names?
Did the family name undergo change over the years and are there stories about the change? Are there any traditional first names, middle names, or nicknames in your family?
Is there a tradition in naming children?
This might be always giving the firstborn son the name of his paternal grandfather or a traditional family name as one of their first names?
Can you determine if there are traditions in different branches of your family?
Does a specific ancestor’s name reappear in many branches of your family?
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Findmypast.com offers discount for FHUK members |
All members at family history.uk.com have been offered a great discount from findmypast.com.
The offer on any subscription or pay-per-view runs out by the end of December 2007 - please grab it while you can!
Visit www.findmypast.com
Discount on any subscription package:
- Promotion Code: FHUKSUB
- Discount Offered: 10% discount on any full price subscription package
Discount on any pay-per-view unit packages:
- Promotion Code: FHUKUNITS
- Discount Offered: 10% discount on any pay-per-view unit package purchased at normal rate
Offers are valid until Sunday 30 December 2007.
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Family trees online? They’re not even on paper |
by Fran Yeoman
It was supposed to be the project that would drag one of the nation’s favourite hobbies into the 21st century. More than 250 million records of births, marriages and deaths - a family history of Britain since 1837 - should have been freely available to search online by next May. However, the multimillion-pound scheme has suffered the same curse as many Government IT projects. It is now running over a year late, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS), and “mid to late 2009” is the new best guess for when the online index will be available. Meanwhile, the traditional method of finding the information is about to get harder as the longstanding paper versions are removed from public view - a move that has infuriated historians, genealogists and amateur sleuths trying to trace their family trees. This normally mild-mannered band, swollen in recent times by the many people inspired to trace their ancestors by Who Do You Think You Are?, the BBC TV programme, are unhappy. |
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