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Staffordshire FreeREG is now putting online Birth, Marriage, Death Certificate Information for Walsall, Dudley, West Bromwich & Wolverhampton Registration Districts (these cover larger areas than just the towns with these names). If you have any certificates dated 1837-1935 please be kind and donate the information recorded on these so that we can release this locked up information so that everyone can benefit from it including yourself - this project will only work if lots of people donate their information as it is not likely that the government will release it and if it does you will have pay to see it - this way it will be free to everyone so please support us by donating your information. Send the information to GARETH his email address has been removed from this comment but you can find it by going to FreeREG at http://www.freereg.org.uk/index.shtml clicking on Counties & Parishes then click on Staffordshire then click on W and look at comment under Walsall Civil Registration District.
Can you set out the info. for Birth & Death Certs. putting all that is written in columns 1-8
and typing it out as 1. ....  2. ....... etc. don't forget to mention which Registration District it is in - this is found directly at the top of every certificate - we don't need the Sub District or County.
For marriages put where the event took place it may not give a church name it may just say The Parish Church of Tipton in which case just put what it says. Then type out everything else like the example below:
Joseph Smith 25 Bach. Miner  of Green St. Oldbury F. John Smith - Labourer (deceased).
Mary Jones  27  Widow  -  of Providence St.  F. Thomas Jones - Miner
Wit. Sarah Ann Evans & John Hipkins
Staffordshire FreeREG will be covering the other districts within Staffordshire in the near future.
If you have ever been annoyed by not knowing which certificate to order or at the rising cost of buying certificates - then don't just sit back - the only way we will ever know what is contained in the certificates, is, if everyone is decent and contributes the information that they hold.

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Hi - I am Jonathan Maxfield the Co-ordinator for Staffordshire FreeREG as of August 2012 we have entered over 1,270,000 Parish Register Entries for Staffordshire (including Dudley) you can search these online for free at  http://www.freereg.org.uk/index.shtml to see which records we have covered instead of clicking on Search click on Counties & Parishes then click on Staffordshire then a letter of the alphabet that the Parish of your interest begins with e.g. A for Alton.
We are in need of volunteers to transcribe registers which we have images for and also volunteers who have access to the Record Office or any of the local archives who can transcribe records that we don't have or that they can photograph Registers for us to transcribe. To volunteer please send me an email. We are also underway transcribing some Cemeteries Records. My email address which has been removed from this comment can be found easily by going to the above mentioned web page and clicking on Counties & Parishes then click on Staffordshire and you will see it.

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Hi - I am Jonathan Maxfield and I am the coordinator for Staffordshire FreeREG we currently have over 800,000 records to search for free by going to http://www.freereg.org.uk/
You can search these records for free by clicking on Search Parish Registers or see which parishes and what time periods we have covered by clicking on Counties and Parishes then click Staffordshire then click on a letter of the alphabet that you are interested in e.g. B for Bilston, Barlaston, Blurton etc.

We are urgently looking for help. We need volunteers to transcribe registers - images will be given so it doesn't matter where you live in the world. We are also looking for people who live in Staffordshire or nearby who can undertake look-ups for us to improve our accuracy as many images we have are very faded. Also needed are transcribers who live locally who can transcribe registers which we don't have that are held at the Record Office (Stafford or Lichfield) or any of the other Archive Centres at Walsall, Smethwick, Dudley, Wolverhampton, Stoke, Burton or Local Library that holds microfiche of their local Parish Registers. All help will be appreciated and all transcriptions will be made available free of charge to anyone searching online.

You can contact me via email     freereg.sts.coordinator[AT]googlemail.com

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