April 2026 Journal
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January
Family History Federation - Really Useful Bulletin No 67
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WFHS WEBSITE NEWS FEBRUARY 2026
BIG NEWS
In 2025, our WFHS President Steve Hobbs found some unattributed sheets of
Bishops’ Transcripts at the Wiltshire & Swindon History Centre.
Our Publications Co-ordinator David Chilton has just completed adding these new
parish baptism and burial records to the relevant Parish Registers. He has also
added the new data to the appropriate CMB (baptisms, marriages and burials) files.
The parishes concerned are Biddlestone, Bradford on Avon, Calstone Wellington,
Little Bedwyn, Ogbourne St. George, Shalbourne, Wilsford cum Lake, Winterbourne
Bassett and Woodford. These additional records are available to view as a free
download from the Free Name Indexes page of our website. This will be of interest
to those who have bought one of the Parish Records or appropriate CMB in the past.
Go to the Publications section of our website then Free Surname Index then.
Look for Wiltshire Fragments.
David has also completed a wonderful new facility for those researching their
Wiltshire ancestry. He has now created a single county-wide surname index to over 2
million parish records that appear within our CMB series. This index is freely
available to download from the Publications Index Page on our website.
Look for the Free Wiltshire Surname Index page.
This index will tell you where your surname interests are in the CMB series. This will
be so much quicker than searching all 37 CMB files. You will need to then check the
appropriate CMB files name indexes to complete your search.
Wiltshire Addenda With so much material to transcribe, it has been inevitable that
there have been errors and omissions. The Wiltshire Addenda document will be
updated with any that are reported to us and confirmed. They will not be added to the
already published transcriptions. Do help by reporting and errors or omissions in our
transcripts by emailing This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Any of our publications and CMB files can be ordered via the GENFAIR link which is
on the first page of our website.
Good hunting!
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