This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/TeC.2ACE/1407 Message Board Post: This is just to let you know that the search engine for the Old Parish Registers at www.freereg.org.uk is being Beta tested at the moment and should be online soon. FreeREG is a sister project to FreeCEN, but aims to put all the OPRs online – eventually. As you can imagine, it is a huge project and will take a long time to do. We have County Co-ordinators in place for Moray, Fife, Angus, Banff, East Lothian, Orkney, Aberdeen, Caithness, Sutherland and Nairn but I would be delighted to hear from anyone who would like to take on a county. I can also arrange for transcribing to be done by parish. All you need is to have, or have access to, a microfiche reader (the film is cut up into strips) - we use a small program called Speedreg to enter the data into. Unfortunately we cannot have cds for this project. This transcription will have far more information in it than is available at present on the IGI. If you are at all interested you can contact us via the above website or write to me, Anne Fish, (Scotland Co-ordinator) at annef1@tiscali.co.uk for more information.