The National Index of Parish Registers evolved from the plan of Mr. J. S. W. Gibson to prepare a new edition of the pre-War Index of Parish Register Copies. His idea was to produce the work, not as previously with the parishes arranged alphabetically throughout the volume, but under counties and with each parish listed whether or not copies of the register had been made.
The starting date of the original registers was also to be included. This in itself was an ambitious project and without initiative this Index would have never come into being. It includes Parish Registers from South Midlands and Welsh Border, comprising the counties of Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Oxfordshire, Shropshire, Warwickshire and Worcestershire
Comiled by D J Steel Assisted by Mrs A E F Stell and C W Field
Published by Society of Genealogists 1966
Paperback Good condition