Year ago someone was compiling a name index for Shropshire, I've seen the marriage index which then was almost complete, the birth index was underway, I wonder if anyone knows if this is now complete and if so where can the index be found, I know it was done privately , I'm sure it was through the Shropshire family history assosiation.
Thanks David, shame there is not a birth index, i think it was Oxforshire name index i was thinking of,
For a start, the name of our host body is the Shropshire Family History Society, not association - as the name of the website makes clear.
Next, the SFHS Marriage index was never "almost complete". Far from it. Priority is being given to parishes that are not in the series of printed registers which were published in the late 19th and earlier half of the 20th centuries. And to marriages berween 1837 and 1837 (start of civil registration) which period generally was not attempted in the printed series.
The SFHS Burials Index has made great strides.
As regards "births" I assume that baptisms are meant. From 1st July 1837 civil registration of births began - to be found in the website FreeBMD.
I doubt if anyone would wish to compile an index of baptisms, given the vast work that the Mormon Church (the IGI) put into creating the International Genealogical Index with the aid of thousands of volunteers. In comparison family history societies get only handfuls of volunteers for their transcribing and indexing work. (My jottings on this site are my limited and humble substitute).
If our poster wishes to join SFHS and volunteer he or she would be very welcome.
We do all tend expect all on a plate these days - but at the end of the day its OBE - other blighters efforts.
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I believe this may be what you are looking for. I've not heard of a birth index.
http://www.sfhs.org.uk/node/8274