Free UK Genealogy (FreeBMD • FreeREG • FreeCEN) @freeukgenealogy.org.uk Free UK Genealogy is a charity providing free access to UK historical genealogy records for family historians worldwide.
Publishers of FreeBMD, FreeREG and FreeCEN.
Volunteer-powered | Open access | Genealogy for everyone.
Karen Lucas-Thompson 🇬🇧🇦🇺🦘 @kaz747.bsky.social Your Family Stories 🇬🇧 Liverpool lass who has lived in Perth, WA 🇦🇺 for nearly 60 years - £10 Poms - I love uncovering the secrets, skeletons and stories from my (and my husband’s) family tree. Researching 🏴🏴🏴🇮🇪🇮🇲🇦🇺 https://yourfamilystories.blog/
Cumbria @cumbriauk.bsky.social News and updates from the county of Cumbria, UK - we originally started this service on another app in 2012 and now here on Bluesky
Steve Zorn @cvfpartnerships.bsky.social Author, “Tracking the Franklin Expedition of 1845;” ex-union organizer, journalist, Papua New Guinea and UN gov’t official, lawyer and law prof, horse racing insider. Currently writing about Drogheda/Cromwell’s Irish campaign 1649-50. 🇵🇸🇵🇬🇮🇪🍉🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇺🇦🇨🇦🇲🇽
Miasma @itsthemiasma.eurosky.social Student of early modern Britain, folklorist, person of no rank. Reposting = commonplacing. Public Frenemy #1. Getter of mixed reviews. She.
Helen Brooks @hbrooks.bsky.social Amateur family historian, East Yorkshire, Lancashire, Norfolk, Somerset, WW1 and WW2, old photos.
Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social Poet. Speaker. Educator. Performer. Adult, YA, and Children's poetry. Occasionally picture books. Lots of posts about churches. Unapologetically trans (he/him) jayhulme.com
Jan Marc Morawe @janmarcmorawe.bsky.social Gender Scholar
Interests: (a)sexualities, health communication, masculinities, contraception/safer sex, repro health, climate crisis, IR, peace/conflict studies, utopias/dystopias, mental health, media, history, ...
https://orcid.org/0009-0009-7802-2721
Lynn Marriott @lynnmarriott.bsky.social A lover of all things interesting, historical and social. Midlands 4 Cities funded PhD student at University of Warwick. Enjoys studying religious nonconformity. Likes random facts and people! ✝️
Old Dutch Goat @old-dutch-goat.bsky.social Retired, progressive, gay grizzly-ish. I’m here to make friends, keep up with culture & opinions, experience new ideas. Weird sense of humor. Love boots, bears, books. Amateur genealogist. Actual native of Atlanta, Georgia, United States.
🧬🧸♎️🏳️🌈🍫🍕🙀
Procrastolyn @cmct.bsky.social Historical Storyteller, among other things. Best known for Gunpowder Gertie, Pirate Queen of the Kootenays
@tudorfarming.bsky.social @tudorfarming.bsky.social 
Colin Rose @crosehistorian.bsky.social early modernist | 16th and 17thC Italy | HGIS | history of violence and justice | assoc prof @ BrockU | will do peer review | loud Canadian
Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social English Language & Literature. Quondam Prof. PhD: Monstrosity. Queer history. Gothic. 𝔄𝔯𝔠𝔥𝔞𝔦𝔠 𝔈𝔫𝔤𝔩𝔦𝔰𝔥. Editor, Shakespeare: New Voices. https://linktr.ee/drianmccormick
The Secret Registrar @secretregistrar.bsky.social Births, Deaths, Marriages, Tears, Drama.
Repeat daily.
Society of Genealogists @sogorg.bsky.social 🌳 A charity with the unique purpose of helping people to discover their place in history.
📜 Preserving the records of everyday lives & promoting family histories.
📍 Explore more: sog.org.uk
#Genealogy #FamilyHistory #HistoryMatters
Fiona Campbell-Howes @fortrenn.bsky.social PhD student at the University of Glasgow, researching the early medieval Moray Firthlands in Scotland. Live in Penryn, Cornwall. FSAScot. Posts about early medieval Scottish history and archaeology. Blog: https://fortrenn.ghost.io
Christine Payne @ellentudor.bsky.social Retired academic programme manager from Brunel University. Passionate Family/Local historian.
Victoria Anne Pearson @vapearsonduffy.bsky.social PhD candidate, Ulster University
researching the life & work of Dr Francis Moylan, RC Bishop of Kerry & Cork, 1735-1815
https://pure.ulster.ac.uk/en/persons/victoria-anne-pearson/
Debra @kalaka58.bsky.social Wikitree ADDICT (it's FREE). Genealogy is my passion. 67yo, PNW was my home, now a Texan, RESISTER, adult children, cat & dog Mom, widowed, disabled. I follow followers.
My BLOCKED list is HUGE.
https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/37BH00FMQZAG4
Julie Muirhead - The Lineage Finder @thelineagefinder1.bsky.social Professional Genealogist, AGRA Associate, RQG Student Member.
www.thelineagefinder.co.uk.
Based Andover, Hampshire, UK.
Personal account @julzmuirhead.bsky.social
MAHSA Project @mahsa-project.bsky.social University of Cambridge: Mapping Archaeological Heritage in South Asia Project
Documenting the endangered archaeology and heritage of South Asia and publishing this information in an Open Access Arches geospatial database.
https://linktr.ee/mahsaproject 
Mainely Genealogy @mainelygenealogy.bsky.social Mainely Genealogy ~ with occasional cat and book sightings. Focused on New England and U.K./Ireland research but will to go wherever records lead.
Ruth Phair Mason @phairmason.bsky.social An American who is currently knuckles deep learning about her 18th-century family in the Lower Dales of Yorkshire.
@endeeekay.bsky.social @endeeekay.bsky.social 
Will Garrett-Petts @wfgp.bsky.social New to Bluesky! Professor of English, Rhetoric & Canadian Studies, interested in sharing and learning about community-engaged research, undergraduate research, & all forms of critical #cartography, especially #cultural #mapping. https://wgp.trubox.ca
Carolyn Ramsbottom @casfox.bsky.social Retired Medical Laboratory Scientist, Mother, grandmother and great grandmother, Family and local historian, gardener, reader of historical fiction especially medieval crime fiction, politician, graduate of OU
Emily @librarymet.bsky.social Public library worker wishing she were still a meteorologist. Science and book nerd. Family history researcher. Public school defender. Cavs. Guardians. Mom of teens & cats.
Molly @mollyscanopy.bsky.social Growing family trees one leaf at a time. Genealogist, family historian, blogger (mollyscanopy.com). #genealogy #familyhistory
Megan @meganfoodhistorian.bsky.social Food, Culinary, and Social Historian. Qualified Archaeologist (Archaeobotany, Experimental, Historical). Public Health Nutrition. www.myhistoricaltable.com
Vernacular Architecture Group @varchgroup.bsky.social The Vernacular Architecture Group was formed in 1952 to further the study of traditional buildings, originally those of the British Isles. Today the VAG also reflects a growing interest in buildings from other parts of the world. https://www.vag.org.uk
Emerson W. Baker @emersonwbaker.bsky.social History prof @Salem State, author of A Storm of Witchcraft & The Devil of Great Island, early American public history, 17th C. archaeology and material culture.
Annie Mac @anniemac8.bsky.social Researcher of the Past.✨ Amateur Social Historian. Genealogist. Writer. Irish. ☘️History Buff. Photographer. 📷 A Passion for talking. 😊 Lover of Books! 📚 (No endorsements, sales, or DM thank you
Society for the Study of Medieval Languages and Literatures @mediumaevum.bsky.social The Society for the Study of Medieval Languages and Literatures supports and promotes research into the cultures and intellectual life of the Middle Ages.
SHNH @sochistnathist.bsky.social The Society for the History of Natural History | https://shnh.org.uk/
Archives of Natural History published by Edinburgh University Press | https://www.euppublishing.com/loi/ANH
Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) @rgs.org We are the UK’s learned society and professional body for geography, supporting geography and geographers across the world.
Northamptonshire Family History Society @northantsfhs.bsky.social Northamptonshire Family History Society. Branches in Northampton and Kettering, plus monthly online meetings.
Ric Kuhlmey Dickinson @ricdickinson.bsky.social Taoist. Genealogist. Antiques/art collector. I have an odd fascination with foreign languages. I enjoy photography . I'm a Curator at Geni.com. Follow Geni here.👉 https://bsky.app/profile/geni.com
I still believe in Camelot.
Society for Renaissance Studies @srsrensoc.bsky.social SRS, the main academic organisation in UK & Ireland dedicated to the promotion of the study of the Renaissance. Hatched in 1967. 🐥 🔥 🐣 🐦🔥 https://rensoc.org.uk/
@kacey13.bsky.social @kacey13.bsky.social Family history, Local history, knitting, quilting
Julie Smart @juliesmart909.bsky.social Early retired project manager now with more time to explore the hobbies that I love - genealogy and history, reading, theatre, cooking and gardening, needlepoint and knitting, walking and narrowboating. 
Lizzy W @llwoowoo.bsky.social Doctoral Researcher of early modern women in rural north-east Wales (Institute for the Study of Welsh Estates, Bangor University, Gwynedd)
Kenzie Scott @kccasper.bsky.social She/Her | 25 | Adaptation, Self-Ideation, and Reception in Renaissance Literature | Friends with Too Many Medievalists | Durham University PhD Candidate | Oxford MSt Graduate | Fire Truck O’Toys Founder | Computer Science Minor
Merv Scott @bordersboy.bsky.social Canadian having fun researching ancestry in Border country of Scotland for excuse to visit there. Love volunteering for nonprofit @victoriags.org because of all the assistance #genealogy helpers have given me over the years and I am a terrible gardener!
Anna Matthews @relativelyhistoric.bsky.social Family historian, anti-fascist, pet-lover. Canadian-American. 🇨🇦 Elbows up!
Bob Sismilich @bobsis24.bsky.social Catholic husband, father, & grandfather. Retired engineer & attorney. Family historian. Lifelong Yankee fan. Trying to navigate the 4th quarter with kindness, compassion, & decency, with 1 eye on those who came before, & the other on the goal line.
Who Do You Think You Are? Magazine @wdytyamagazine.bsky.social Who Do You Think You Are? Magazine is Britain's best selling family history magazine. Follow for the latest family history news and advice.
www.whodoyouthinkyouaremagazine.com
Susan Shaped @susanshaped.bsky.social Northern. Generalised wandering, nature, botany, birds. May also bang on about Castlefield Corridor without warning.
Phil Wilkins @entomologistphil.bsky.social Fascinated by everything to do with the natural world, though insects are my main focus. Paint a little.
Deep in rural South Norfolk, UK
https://www.youtube.com/@philipwilkins
https://www.peregrineproductions.co.uk
Katie Nappi @katienappi.bsky.social Genealogist. Retired from corporate America and living my best life! Proud Army veteran, sailing enthusiast, and mom.
Karen Packard Rhodes @kprhodes.bsky.social Retired historian and genealogist. Six college degrees! I love learning. I also love genealogy: New England, Canada (Stanstead Co., Que.), Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and California. Books, cats & dogs.
Genealogy Guy @genealogyguy.co.uk Audio Genealogist, Presenter Armchair Genealogy Podcast, 5th Independent UK Podcaster in the UK (2005), Media Exponent, Polymath, Social Entrepreneur, Advanced practitioner
Angry Algonquin @angryalgonquin.bsky.social Book reviewer at angryalgonquin.com. Lover and supporter of independent bookstores; Starter Packs have 200+ indies! Nordic/Scandi Noir, Iceland, polar history & exploration. Libraries. Cats. Fan of #uglydogs. Sworn enemy of AI.
Donna A. Seger @daseger7.bsky.social History professor also dabbling in the realms of public history and preservation in Salem, Massachusetts. Streetsofsalem.com.
Northern Early Modern Network @nemn-network.bsky.social Early Modern History network based in Scotland & the North of England, but expanding worldwide - Bringing together Postgraduate and Early Career Researchers interested in all things Early Modern.
Join us here: https://earlymodernnetwork.wordpress.com
Purple Triangles @purpletriangles.bsky.social Memorializing victims of religious persecution
and connecting them to the global tree on @wikitree.bsky.social 
Tomi @therealtomirb.bsky.social Mom. Wife, happily married. No DM’s. Preschool teacher. Cat herder. Love to read, crochet, felt, dad jokes, puns, D&D, board games, my family genealogy. No longer “vote blue no matter who” we need progressives and to stand up and fight
Mark Flaherty @flah4nt.bsky.social Partially retired nuclear power executive who enjoys genealogy, using my Big Green Egg, and travel
Harry Spillane @harryspillane.bsky.social Early modern historian, University of Cambridge | Bye Fellow (Downing College) & Senior Member (Newnham College) | Former Munby Fellow, Cam. University Library | PhD on the Bishops' Bible | General book lover
www.hist.cam.ac.uk/people/dr-harry-spillane
Friends of Lister Lane Cemetery (KAVS) @listerlanecem.bsky.social In collaboration with Calderdale Metropolitan Borough Council, the Friends maintain this Grade II listed, significant cemetery; the final resting place of some 20,000 individuals. Location: Halifax, England.
https://www.listerlanecemetery.co.uk
Frances Lee (Peasley) Robinson @franceslee37.bsky.social Blog: https://familywhispersfrompast.blogspot.com/
Raton Genealogy @ratongenealogy.bsky.social https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Raton,_New_Mexico_One_Place_Study
One Place Study for Raton, New Mexico
Rosemary Noble @chirose.bsky.social Retired librarian. Author of historical novels set in England and Australia, living the simple life, loves history, gardening, genealogy. Longing for common sense to come back to politics. https://www.amazon.co.uk/stores/Rosemary-Noble/author/B00J7TLMKC
Dawn Piercy🧬ANEW Dawn ⚜️ @qdee.bsky.social Singer | songwriter| composer | Podcast Host, producer, genealogy/family historian (37 yrs + experience), Rev. Dr.,(accredited PhD/Dr. of Philosophy, O.M.), serial blogger, graphics, 2nd gen Agent Orange
https://thundersreign.com
One streamlined place
Lene D. Kottal @kottalgenealogy.com Danish professional genealogist. Check out my blog if you want free tips for finding your ancestors from Denmark - the latest post includes a photo of tiny me at my baptism!
https://www.genealogistkottal.com/blog/
Victoria J Miller @victoriajmiller.bsky.social Texas Democrat to my bones! Historian, Genealogy, Cat Lady, Ret’d Nonprofit Exec: Trisomy 18 Foundation, Rare Diseases Research, Maternal-Child Health and NonProfit Tech
J. Paul Hawthorne @jphawthorne.bsky.social Genealogist, desert trekker, world traveler, music lover, book reader, classic movies.
Genealogy Blog: https://www.geneaspy.com/
Social sites: https://jpaulhawthorne.carrd.co/
@familytreegirl.bsky.social @familytreegirl.bsky.social Avid genealogist with over 40 yrs specializing in methods and strategies to aid with research! Work with UVA’s memorial to enslaved. Professor in Business Management, Averett U.
Lisa Constanti - Chronicology @chronicology.bsky.social Professional Genealogist. Family History and Heraldic enthusiast. Cyprus Research and Cemeteries project. UK and European family histories.
thefruitsofhistory @fruitsofhistory.bsky.social https://fruitsofhistory.substack.com/
Grady’s & Madison’s Mom @madisongrady.bsky.social Genealogical researcher. Animal lover. Gentle soul just looking for peace in a crazy world. #genealogysky #genealogy #familyhistory
Claretsmad @claretsmad.bsky.social Burnley fan, confounded by people often
The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social Wears a black cape and fights crime. Not Batman.
Sunday Times No.1 Bestselling author•The Secret Barrister•#FakeLaw•Nothing But The Truth•
Also writes thrillers. The Cut Throat Trial out now at all good bookshops.
Kill All The Lawyers coming July 2027…
Autumn Reinhardt-Simpson @earlymodernaf.bsky.social #EarlyModern England, gender, religion, and childbirth, lecturer @MacEwan U, Cofounder of Bodies and Being
Current: a chapter for A Hist of Pregnancy and Childbirth in the Early Modern Age (Bloomsbury, 2026)
Dr Xinyi Wen @drxinyiwen.bsky.social 👩🏻💻 Frances Yates Long-Term Fellow @warburginstitute.bsky.social
🎓 PhD @CambridgeHPS @WellcomeTrust
🖋️ Writing a reversed history of the doctrine of signatures, 1885-1584
warburg.sas.ac.uk/people/xinyi-wen
She/her
Cover image aislingjelinski.com
Robbie Tree @rdtree.bsky.social Historian of early modern Scotland primarily interested in politics, government & coal mining.
Pete Langman @elegantfowl.bsky.social Writer, editor, historian, cricketer and Parkinsonian. YOPD, OED, PhD. Co-author of Spycraft. petelangman.com
Hanna de Lange @hanna1.bsky.social Historian. Early Modern Books, News, Print & Manuscript.
Research fellow WidowsPrint, Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen
Man who cooks everything on gas mark 7 @lownesandtheifis.bsky.social Deaf social historian, EM Scotland, marginality, crime, poverty, vagrancy.
Random posts on darker side of life in early modern Edinburgh and Canongate
Juliette Desportes @juliettedesportes.bsky.social Historian of 18th century Scotland. Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of the Highlands and Islands. PhD from University of Glasgow.
Joey Crozier @joeycrozier.bsky.social Historian and musician. Research interests: politics and intelligence in the reign of William III. Project Director: Communication and Exchange in the Early Modern c.1500 - 1850.
Bríd McGrath @bridmcgrath.bsky.social Historian of #earlyModern #Irish #parliaments and towns & palaeography. #Gaeilge agus fáilte. #Cyclist. Fellow Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.bsky.social
ORCID ID 0000-0003-0636-0499
Dr Mark Shearwood @markshearwood.bsky.social Early Modern Historian, looking at loyalty, Identity, and Religion in the late 17th century. Glorious Revolution, Monmouth Rebellion tour guide, Golden Retriever owner,
Liv Marit Haakenstad, AG®, AGL™ @livmarit.bsky.social Norwegian Genealogist| Author| Presenter| Teacher. Master in nonfiction writing
https://www.studygenealogy.com
Ruth _W @ruth-w.bsky.social Family historian of many years standing, very amateur photographer, interested in local history (Wirral & Liverpool), walking, running, gardening.
Happily retired 😄 with time to dabble in all sorts.
Jackie Depelle @jackiedepelle.bsky.social Family and Local History enthusiast, ex-WEA. Member many Family History Societies, MC Guild One Name Studies, etc! Based in Yorkshire, God's Own County.
Graveyard Snoop @graveyardsnoop.bsky.social Deep-dive research into the people under the headstones. Interested in hidden & obscured histories. #genealogyforall #inclusivegenealogy 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Cambridge Workshop for the Early Modern Period @emgscam.bsky.social Postgraduate workshop for all studies into the early modern world (c. 1450-1800) at the Faculty of History, University of Cambridge.
Dr Leona Watson (formerly Skelton) @infrastructuregeek.bsky.social Associate Prof in Environmental History, Northumbria Uni. Editor in Chief, Environment and History. Environmental, social and cultural impact of British water and transport infrastructure, 1500-2000. Authored Tyne after Tyne and Sanitation in Urban Britain
Hannah Sparwasser Soroka @hannah-historian.bsky.social PhD Candidate working 17th century intellectual history at McGill | I want to talk on your podcast/write for your publication | she/they
Stephanie @cemeterysteph.bsky.social Amateur genealogist & family historian focused on PA, NY, OH, MA, RI, VT in the U.S; #Scotland, #Ireland, #England, #Finland, #Netherlands, #Belgium. I break for #cemeteries and thrift/antique stores and I love a good landowner map. #Genealogy #FamilyTree
Jess Ayres @drjessayres.bsky.social 📚Historian of early modern London
📜 Apprentice Archivist at The London Archives
🖋️Research interests in women, the City of London, and record keeping in C17th
🎓 PhD on women in the Court of Orphans
👩💻 https://jessica-ayres.co.uk
Daniel Johnson @danjohnsonhymns.bsky.social Theology and Worship Studies programme leader at London School of Theology. Researching evangelical hymns, slavery, and abolition. Infrequent guitarist. Views mine
History Cafe ☕ Ottoman Heritage @ottomanhistory.bsky.social ➥ Old Photos, Pics, Docs, Maps
➥ Ottoman Empire Archives
➥ Historical Letters, Notes, Poems, Memoirs.
➥ medium.com/@HistoricalMemoirs
Nicki Jones @nicki-jones.bsky.social Lover of genealogy, family history, local history, archaeology, geology, metal detecting, allotmenting and crafting.
Studying a BSc with the Open University.
Studying Higher Certificate in Genealogy with the IHGS.
Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland (BSBI) @bsbibotany.bsky.social Studying, appreciating, recording and conserving our wild plants, and supporting the botanists who care about them.
bsbi.org
#PlantAtlas2020
#100Plants2026
#WildFlowerHour
Direct messages are not checked.
Story Yeller @georgekirktales.bsky.social Teller of Tales
Maker of Make Believe
Player of Ukuleles.
Lender of Books.
#Autistic
#ADHD
rep'd @agentalicewilliams
Bessie's Bees out 3rd July 25 with Templar Books
St. Louis Genealogical Society @stlgs.bsky.social Promoting family history research through education, community services, and records preservation. The largest local genealogical society in the nation.
Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org The Royal Historical Society is the UK's foremost society promoting the scholarly and professional study of the past. Our membership is an international community of 7000+ historians - please join us: https://royalhistsoc.org/
🌳Donna Sim 🧬 @donnasim-genes.bsky.social Very keen amateur family historian/genealogist. Based in rural Aberdeenshire, Scotland, where most of my relatives came from. Working through my DNA 🧬 matches, but it’s going to take a while! 😂