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Staffordshire / Staffordshire FreeREG
« on: Tuesday 24 August 10 15:23 BST (UK)  »
Hi everyone

Just to let you know that Staffordshire county of FreeREG now has over 1/2 million transcribed parish records online and free to search.

We are getting more each day, but our problem is obtaining material! Especially NC records. (And unlike many counties in the UK STS ROs are very loathe indeed to allow registers to be transcribed onto FreeREG).

So if anyone knows of any fiches, or transcriptions or of any parish church or NC church, chapel etc that would be willing to allow their records to be transcribed onto FreeREg then please let me know! Doesnt matter if its in book or fiche form

FreeREG aims to get every parish register online and searchable for free. Staffordshire FreeREG has the 4th largest collection of records online in the UK, but there are thousands and thousands of records still out there!

Lesley
Coordinator Staffordshire FreeREG


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Staffordshire Resources & Offers / Staffordshire FreeREG
« on: Saturday 17 July 10 14:07 BST (UK)  »
Hello everyone

I'm the coordinator for the Straffordshire county in FreeREG - the free search engine which contains over 12 million parish records online nationally for free searches of parish registers. Staffordshire alone now has nearly 1/2 million entries from parish registers and thats growing all the time!

This is entirely due to volunteer transcribers who spend time transcribing original fiches, registers and uploading them onto the site. I coordinate this, training the volunteers and supporting them. I also find new parish registers for transcribing - a difficult task at times!

I'm enclosing the link for those of you who aren't aware of FreeREG

http://www.freereg.org.uk/parishes/index.shtml

Once a month I'll put an update here of the records we have and those which are being transcribed.

If anyone knows of or has in their possession any Staffordshire registers we can have or loan - fiche, cd etc, or any already online which we can ask permission to add to the growing number we already have, then please let me know. It would be wonderful to have every parish register online for everyone to access for free from anywhere in the world!

Happy searching!

Lesley Hampton, Staffordshire coordinator, FreeREG

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