the position on Monmouthshire is this:- the registers are at Gwent Record Office and have been filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah http://upsrev622.blogspot.com/2006/10/history-is-being-made.html The film is being processed, digitized and catalogued at the Family History library in Salt Lake City when it is available it will be in the catalogue - make a place search http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Library/FHLC/frameset_fhlc.asp AND IT IS EG Title Parish registers of Blaenavon, 1804-1936 Authors Church of England. Chapelry of Blaenavon (Monmouthshire) (Main Author) Notes Microfilm of original records in possession of Gwent Record Office, Cwm-brân, Wales. The chapelry includes the village of Blaenavon and comprises parts of the parishes of Llanover, Llanfoist, and Llanwenarth. Since 1864 it has included the chapelry of Capel-Newydd. Gwent Record Office no.: D/Pa 74.1-74.6, 74.9-74.13, 74.17-74.27. Subjects England, Monmouth, Blaenavon - Church records England, Monmouth, Llanfoist - Church records England, Monmouth, Llanwenarth - Church records England, Monmouth, Llanover - Church records Format Manuscript (On Film) Language English Publication Salt Lake City, Utah : Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 2006 Physical on 3 microfilm reels ; 35 mm. Film Notes Note - Location [Film] Baptisms, 1804-1812, 1817; burials, 1805-1819 - VAULT BRITISH Film [ 2411577 Item 24 ] Baptisms, 1814-1837 - VAULT BRITISH Film [ 2411577 Item 25 ] Baptisms, 1813-1906 - FHL BRITISH Film [ 2411578 Items 1 - 4 ] Marriage banns, 1805-1840 - FHL BRITISH Film [ 2411578 Item 5 ] Marriages, 1813-1921 - FHL BRITISH Film [ 2411578 Items 6 - 9 ] Burials, 1813-1870 - FHL BRITISH Film [ 2411578 Items 10 - 13 ] Burials, 1871-1936 - FHL BRITISH Film [ 2411579 Items 1 - 7 ] =============================== note the cut off dates !!! these were agreed by NLW with the help a privacy law consultant ========================== the copyright issues are with agreement of the Church in Wales and the National Library of Wales GSU are prepared to loan microfilm to transcribers for use at home if certain conditions are fulfilled (see "Terms of Loan"). Microfilm is ideal for transcribing, can be read on a microfiche reader but has more resolution than microfiche. Their representative for Wales is coordinating the whole NLW GSU project of putting all these images on line and indexing them Name: Keith Withington Telephone: +44 (0) 121 384 9921 Email: withingtonk@ldschurch.org Address: Genealogical Society of Utah, 185 Penns Lane, Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands, United Kingdom, B76 1JU http://www.gensocietyofutah.org/country.asp?countryid=537 which means any of you need to contact Keith directly I do not know which format was used and how powerful magnification is needed existing transcriptions may mean we should concentrate on the transcribing for FreeReg from the newest dates working backwards in time to fill the gaps before beginning double keying sincerely Hugh W