An example of a Worcestershire parish register

With the support of the Worcestershire Archive this project was started in 2007. The Society photographed all the Worcestershire Parish Registers. These are currently being transcribed. This includes the Parishes which were transferred with the changes of the boundaries in the 1900s to Gloucestershire and Herefordshire.

The Society has been transcribing the Baptism Parish Records and this project has been divided into 3 phases:

• Phase 1 covers entries from 1813 – 1839
• Phase 2 covers entries from 1754 – 1812
• Phase 3 covers entries from 1539 – 1754

Currently 20 volunteers are working on transcribing or auditing the parishes. Completed parishes are added to the S&N website.

If you would like to help, please contact us.

Work comprises:

• Photographing the registers, which is now complete.
• Transcribing register entries into a formatted spreadsheet.
• Auditing the transcriptions.

Phase 1 parishes is complete and online

Phase 2 parishes is complete and online

Phase 3 parishes is well under way

Additionally S&N are transcribing the marriage and burial records from our photographs of the registers. All these records are available on the website.

Access is available at http://www.fhs-online.co.uk/  This is a subscription site with an annual charge of £14.95 for access to the baptism transcriptions and £29.95 for baptisms, marriages and burials. The site is available free to members using a dedicated password. It is also available free to researchers visiting the Worcestershire County Archive at The Hive, Worcester.

You can check the status of the parish transcriptions

Below is a table showing the status of every parish register. Complete registers are available via FHSOnline. You can search the table to find the parishes that you are interested in.