This project relies entirely on the generosity of the owners who fund the hosting of this site. They ask for no financial compensation for using the information produced by its volunteers and published on the various pages made available to all.

Volunteers donate their time in one or two cases almost as if it is a full time job - others volunteer when they have a few minutes to spare. No matter what the effort it is very much appreciated.

Maybe some of the users and visitors to our project could help a little. We have hundreds of items that need to be transcribed. We also have several parishes that require adoption

The following table is a list of parishes currently without OPC Cover. If anyone one would like to adopt a parish from the list then let Teresa Lewis (Administrator) know and she will send you further details. Larger parishes could be split if required.

Alderbury All Cannings Alderton Alvediston Ansty Ashley Ashton Keynes Avebury

Baverstock Baydon Beechingstoke Bemerton Berwick Bassett Berwick St. James Berwick St. John Berwick St. Leonard Biddestone Bishops Cannings Bishopstrow Blunsdon St. Andrew Box Boyton Bremilham Brixton Deverill Broad Blunsdon Broad Hinton Brokenborough Bromham Broughton Gifford Bulkington Burbage Buttermere

Castle Eaton Charlton (Malmesbury) Charlton St. Peter Chicklade Chippenham Chirton Chiseldon Chitterne Chittoe Chute Codford Compton Bassett Compton Chamberlayne Corsham Coulston Crudwell

Dauntsey Derry Hill Dinton Donhead St. Andrew Downton Draycot Cerne Durrington

East Kennett East Knoyle Easterton Easton Grey Edington Eisey Erlestoke Etchilhampton Everleigh

Figheldean Fittleton Fonthill Bishop Fonthill Gifford Foxley Froxfield Fugglestone St. Peter Fyfield

Garsdon Great Cheverell

Ham Hannington Hardenhuish Heddington Heytesbury Highway Hill Deverill Hilperton Hindon Huish Hullavington Hungerford

Imber Inglesham

Kemble Kingston Deverill Kingswood Kington Langley Kington St. Michael Knook

Lacock Langley Burrell Latton Lea & Cleverton Leigh Leigh Delamere Liddington Limpley Stoke Little Cheverell Little Somerford Littleton Drew Long Newnton Luckington Ludgershall Lydiard Millicent & Lydiard Tregoze Lyneham

Maddington Malmesbury Marden Marlborough Marston Meysey Martin Mildenhall Minety Monkton Deverill Monkton Farleigh

Nettleton Nomansland North Wraxall Norton Coleparle Norton Bavant Nunton & Bodenham

Oaksey Ogbourne St. Andrew Ogbourne St. George Orcheston St. George Orcheston St. Mary Overton

Patney Pertwood Pitton & Farley Plaitford Poole Keynes Poulshot Poulton Preshute Purton

Rodbourne Cheney Rolleston Rushall

Savernake Seagry Sedgehill Seend Semley Shalbourne Sherrington Sherston Magna Shorncote Shrewton Slaughterford Somerford Keynes Sopworth South Damerham South Newton South Wraxall Southbroom Stanton St. Bernard Stanton St. Quintin Stapleford Stert Stockton Stratford Tony Sutton Mandeville Swindon (Can be spilt into smaller parishes)

Tidcombe Tilshead Tockenham Tollard Royal Tytherton Kellaways Tytherton Lucas

Upavon Upton Lovell Upton Scudamore Urchfont

Wanborough West Dean West Kington West Knoyle West Wellow Westport St. Mary Whiteparish Whitsbury Wilcot Wingfield Winsley Winterbourne Bassett Winterbourne Dauntsey Winterbourne Earls Winterbourne Gunner Winterbourne Monkton Winterbourne Stoke Wootton Bassett Wylye

Yatesbury Yatton Keynell

There are Admin and other positions within the team available too.

 Census Co-Ordinator  Hall of Fame Co-ordinator  Soldiers Biographies Researcher(s)  Transcribers  Various miscellaneous tasks (Assistant Administrator)  Diary Manager

To volunteer you do not need to live in Wiltshire, or even in the UK. We have OPCs and Volunteers in Australia, Canada, Holland, England, New Zealand, India, Scotland and several in Wiltshire itself! Some OPC’s choose to adopt a particular parish because their ancestors hailed from that village or town or because they once lived there themselves; some just want to be part of a voluntary project to help family history researchers worldwide. Others choose their parish because of a subject interest. Once you adopt a parish then you become its custodian by researching and building on the resources on the parish page. Even if a parish is adopted then other contributors are still welcome to submit items for inclusion.

You may feel you don’t have the time to adopt a parish, but you can still support the Wiltshire OPC project by:-

 donating information you may have at home – school photographs, directories, village history booklets - in fact, any historical information on a Wiltshire parish  transcribing - we can email records to you to transcribe at home at your own pace. Also small projects are available for those who would like to help.  taking photographs in Wiltshire – war memorials, buildings, village scenes, plaques, etc.  photographing of cemeteries and churchyard headstone.  Photographing of memorial plaques etc. within churches and other buildings.

You do not need to spend hours at a time working on the project. A few minutes at a time can provide masses of information. For a list of items available for transcription please take a look at the list available published on the home page.

Our motto “What is or is not of interest to you will be of interest to someone”

To volunteer for any of the OPC Vacancies or the admin positions please contact Teresa Lewis via the website Wiltshire OPC Project