Newsletter No.2

Mailing List Archive

Chris Hutton (OPC, St Winnow) has been quietly saving all the mailing list digests since Vol 2. Anyone is welcome to request a copy of a particular digest from chris@hutton.fsnet.co.uk

OPC Status

Since the first newsletter was published, volunteers have agreed to take on the following parishes:-

St Erme - Gill Hart Gill_Hart@btconnect.com

Penwerris and Bolventor - Hilary Watson Hilton@watsonh31.fsnet.co.uk

Crantock - Claire Sinclair Paterson cleopat@clear.net.nz

Perranuthnoe - Diane Donohue chyreen@btopenworld.com

St Gluvias, Penryn – Graham Warmington gwarmington@blueyonder.co.uk

Online Database

Efforts are continuing behind the scenes and there should a draft online by the 1 June.

Publicity

As well as Julia’s Internet-Genealogy magazine (mentioned elsewhere and available on our website), we have also had publicity from these:-

Rick Parsons’ website has been used by the County Council Archaeological Unit as a source for their latest study (http://www.historic-cornwall.org.uk)

A brief mention of the OPC website and my Calstock one in this month’s Family Tree magazine

A talk given by Gillian Kempster to the DFHS.

LDS CDs

No progress to report, but Lancashire OPCs are having the same problem.

Bouquets

No doubt we’ve all had researchers who show no gratitude or who think we’re available to do their look-ups 24/7, but many others are very grateful.

Gillian Kempster writes that “I have just received a little package of gifts from New Zealand by way of thanks for something I did (which actually gave me as much pleasure and interest as perhaps it did them)”

I received an email from a US researcher which began “Wow – wow - after having employed two different people to do genealogy for me a few years ago and not getting this far!!”

Last but not least!

Welcome back, Susan Old. We’re very glad you are on the road to recovery.

Cheers

Myra