Project Team

Trustees and Executive

Graham Hart

Co-Founder and Trustee of Free UK Genealogy, Graham provides consultancy on Genealogy issues. Graham has been in IT for 25 years and a genealogist for the same amount of time. He is based in Bucks, UK and can be contacted at

Ben Laurie

Co-Founder and Trustee of Free UK Genealogy, Ben acts as technical consultant for the operational system. Ben is a member of the Apache Group, author of Apache: The Definitive Guide and on the security team at Google. He is based in London, UK and can be contacted at

Camilla von Massenbach

Co-Founder and Trustee of Free UK Genealogy, Camilla has been a keen genealogist for many years. She is based in London, UK and can be contacted at

Dave Mayall

Co-Founder and Trustee of Free UK Genealogy, Dave provides database support expertise. He is based in Manchester, UK and can be contacted at

Richard Light

Trustee of Free UK Genealogy, Richard has a background in cultural heritage information systems (primarily museums), markup languages and Linked Data. He is based on West Sussex, UK and can be contacted at

Jim Killock

Trustee of Free UK Genealogy, Jim is executive director of Open Rights Group and can be contacted at

Pat Reynolds

Executive Director of Free UK Genealogy, Pat can be contacted at .

Coordinators, etc.

Syndicate Co-ordinator: Allan Raymond

Allan acts as team leader for the Syndicate Co-ordinator community. Allan was a Quality and Project Manager in a large company and considered the lure of early retirement too tempting an offer to pass over. Not one to miss an opportunity, he thought rightly or wrongly that some of his dormant skills could be put to good use in helping the FreeBMD Project. He is based in Pontypridd, UK and can be contacted at
Allan is also the Co-ordinator for Volunteers in which role he can be contacted at .

List Administrator: Jeff Coleman

Administrator of the FreeBMD mailing lists. Based in Swansea,UK. Jeff can be contacted here :

District Alias Team Co-ordinator: Martin Cope

Coordinates a team who create aliases for the alternative (mis)spellings of the standard districts.
The other members of the district aliasing team are: Linda Bailey and Anne Sutherland.
The District Aliasing Team can be contacted at

Corrections Co-ordinator: TBA

Records and reviews submitted corrections, before forwarding validated corrections/changes to transcribers for action. The email address for the corrections co-ordinator is

Web Editor: Barrie Archer

Provides Web page Design and Change skills to the the core team with special emphasis on Perl page changes.

Web Proof Reader: Vacancy

To be appointed

Quality Assurance Co-ordinator: Barrie Archer

Provides a focus for assuring the quality of the service delivered by FreeBMD to users searching for information. Can be contacted at this email address: .

Transcription Software Developers

SpeedBMD Designer: Peter Cox

Programmer and designer of the SpeedBMD software. Peter is based in NZ and can be contacted here.

WinBMD Designer: Ian Brooke

Programmer and designer of the WinBMD software. Ian also runs a syndicate and writes software for the District Aliasing Team. Ian was an IT specialist here in the UK before taking early retirement and moving to Canada. Ian can be contacted here.

MacBMD Designer: Ben Hines

Programmer and designer of the MAC BMD software. Ben can be contacted here.

linBMD Designer: Andrew Higgs

Programmer and designer of the linBMD software. Andrew is based in South Africa and can be contacted here

BMDVerify Designer: David Lang

Programmer and designer of BMDVerify software. David can be contacted here

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