Welcome to the Wiltshire OPC Project

Please read these registration notes before completing the registration form.   If you have any problems with registration, contact our Administrator who is always happy to help please note that using your first name as a login may mean the registration not being accepted as someone else may already be using that name......  Why Register?  Simple - to access all the little jewels the OPC's have worked hard to provide for your information.  When registering it is important that you do not fill in too much personal detail so please read the notes on registration before hand.  Thank you.

Of the 360 parishes in Wiltshire, many are still waiting patiently for someone to adopt them - every parish looks forward to having their very own OPC!    You don't have to live in Wiltshire to adopt a parish, or even in the UK.  We have OPC's in Australia, Canada, Holland, New Zealand, India, Scotland, England and yes, we do have a couple in Wiltshire!  Some chose a particular parish because their ancestors hailed from that village or town many years ago, some because they once lived in Wiltshire themselves; others just want to be part of a voluntary project to help family history researchers worldwide.  Whatever the reason, if you would like to join us, drop a line to Teresa Lewis.

OPC's work at their own pace and in their own time to add information to their pages, but if you feel you don't have the spare time to take on a parish, you can still support this project by donating resources you may have tucked away at home, such as baptism, marriage and burial registers (whole or part, transcribed or not, on cd or paper), school or parish photographs, sale or auction particulars for historic buildings, trade directories, unwanted cd's from family history magazines, in fact, any historical information on a Wiltshire parish that might be of interest to family history researchers.  It's always worth remembering that something not of particular interest to you, may be of great interest to others.   If you would like to share information on a parish, contact the OPC if there is one, or our Administrator if the parish is vacant.

Last month, our OPC's placed a magnificent 229 items on parish pages.  Items added as we go through May will be published here.