Hello List Wendy has generously allowed this plea for volunteers. NNWFHS is running the North Warwickshire Marriages project (NoWMI). The Society is a relatively small one in membership, but works hard to bring data in affordable formats for family historians. Volunteers need a computer with a spreadsheet and access to a parish register (on film, fiche or whatever providing it is an impression of the original). The project is a full abstraction of all data into a spreadsheet. The ultimate aim is to produce data for the whole of north Warwickshire, but we accept there may be interim publications - unless we have many volunteers. You can live anywhere in the world and help. I am co-ordinating the project and have a template spreadsheet along with some short notes to help volunteers. If you have already extracted marriage data for any of the parishes and are willing to share it, I am happy to receive it convert into the format we are using. The initial thrust is on the 1813-1837 registers, but if you have a desire to work on an other period, that is fine, but we need to know who is doing what to save duplication. The more who help, the quicker we can produce data – and hopefully help to find not only those “lost” marriages, but also the additional information about witnesses, banns/licence, who signed or who “made their mark”; the critical extras that can make so much difference in identifying who belongs to which family. If you can help – or want to know more – please contact me off-list. I look forward to being inundated with offers <g> In broad outline, listed below are the parishes to be considered, although please do check with me firstly, because volunteers are already working on a few of them…. Carole Ansley Arley Astley Atherstone Attleborough Austrey Baddesley Ensor Baxterley Bedworth Bentley Bulkington Caldecote Chilvers Coton Coleshill Corley Curdworth Dordon (Polesworth) Fillongley Gt Packington Grendon Hartshill Kingsbury Lea Marston Lt Packington Mancetter Maxstoke Merevale Middleton Minworth (Curdworth) Nether Whitacre Newton Regis Nuneaton Over Whitacre Polesworth Seckington Shustoke Shuttington Stockingford Warton (Polesworth) Water Orton Weddington Wishaw Carole's outgoing mail has been scanned by AVG and is virus free. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.503 / Virus Database: 269.16.0/1135 - Release Date: 16/11/2007 22:58