How To Interpret Parish Registers

How do I interpret Parish Registers?

Always write down the entries as they appear in the parish registers, including the spelling of names because that adds to the family interest because there might be local phonetic spellings of surnames over time. And also the dating systems, particularly when the calendar started on the 25th of March each year before 1752, you need to make sure you got the dating system correct, and then interpret it later, altering the dating to the modern calendar.