Wythall, Worcestershire
A One-Place Genealogical Study
In 1992 a group of Wythall residents formed the
Wythall Local History Society. In the same year at a BMSGH Birmingham meeting I
heard a talk in which a couple had been collecting records of people in their
parish and had decided to try and reconstruct families from them. I decided that
would be my project for the parish of Wythall. I then got the other members
involved in transcribing church and census records and whatever records they
could find that gave names,date & place information. I then entered each
individual and their data into a versatile family history database & gradually
the families began to appear. We concentrated on the period from the start of
separate parish registers in 1760 to 1918. This covers the period before the
great building explosion in Wythall. The civil parish of Wythall cover a
different footprint to the ecclesiastical parish, the former totally in
Worcestershire and the later extending into Shirley and Forshaw Heath in
Warwickshire.
The Wythall Local History Society dropped the Local to become the Wythall
History Society to reflect the growing membership who where interested in
history in general and had not born or had family connections with Wythall.
A cut down version of the Wythall Index One-Place Genealogical Index was made
available on a website and is periodically updated. Further detail of
people/families is available on request by email or post.
The Index contains nearly 20,000 individuals and 5000 "marriages".
Technical note.
The data was originally input into the DOS family history program "Pedigree"
although it is now input into it's windows version "PediTree." A GEDCOM file of
all data is produced and this is processed by a separate Pedigree Utility which
enables me to remove all the data I do not wish to go into the final GEDCOM.
This GEDCOM is then imported into a new PAF5 database and PAF then produces a
website(about 10 meg) ready for uploading using "Terrapin" a FTP(file transfer
program) to a website provided free to anyone on Rootsweb.
Mike Fisher
Wythall,WOR One-Place Genealogical Study
http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~wythallindex/index.htm
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