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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