Monumental Inscriptions Project

The Society has for the last 20 years been transcribing and publishing the Monumental Inscriptions of Herefordshire.

The project is nowhere near finished, and there are many more parishes yet to be done.

Every effort is taken to produce an accurate record as possible, the stones are recorded and then checked by two different persons, preferably on the same day, a plan of the churchyard made, indicating types of monument, and location in the graveyard or inside of the Church.

Once completed, the data is typed up, printed out and re-checked against the original transcription. An index is then made of the Names and Places mentioned on the stones.

We are actively seeking more help locally, to actually record and check the transcription, also in the preparation of the site plans, which are published as part of the finding aids on the finished fiche. For anyone who might like to attend, the Herefordshire FHS will be recording MIs at the following graveyards:

The typing and indexing of the records tends to be done by those doing the actual recording and so we have a small team of volunteers who carry out this task.
The end result is then published on fiche and will in turn be compiled into another index similar to the recently released CD-ROM of Monumental Inscriptions.
For details of parishes already completed please see the Publications page.

If you would like to help with the transcribing, checking and typing of the data please contact Philip Bufton.

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Last revised: 10^th November 2009
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