Newsletter No. 5
OPC News
As the last posting was some time ago, there have been many changes to our list of OPCs. In fact there have been changes to our website, too (one of my excuses for the tardiness of this epistle). The new list is at http://www.cornwall-opc.org/Par_new/parishes.php
Apologies for missing out some earlier volunteers, but recent newcomers include Chrissy Parker for St Breward, Dallas Manicom for Week St Mary and Hazel Persson for the central Truro parishes. Current OPCs have also added parishes to their 'clusters' of responsibility, where it makes sense for them to be combined.
We have lost the services of long-time OPCs such as Marg Chapple-Rosen and Michael McCormick (although he threatens to return one day). We're very grateful for all the contributions made by retiring OPCs.
We have volunteers waiting to go public for Boconnoc, St Columb Minor, Fowey, St Issey, St Juliot, Launcells, Looe, Mabe, St Martin-by-Looe, North Tamerton, Padstow, St Teath and Whitstone. In fact, the list of vacancies is diminishing rapidly - thanks to all of you who have volunteered over the years.
This raises the question of what to do when other people volunteer to be OPCs. It would be such a pity to turn away people with Cornish ancestry who'd like to help us. Suggestions would be welcome.
Parish Pages on the Central Website
These are available for OPCs to add details of any subject concerning their parishes. Photographs and information about parish registers etc would be more than welcome. It's also possible to add links to 'as is' transcriptions, for OPCs without websites of their own. (See Ken Oates' Gunwalloe page at http://www.cornwall-opc.org/Par_new/e_g/gunwalloe.php for an example.) These are made available, so that researchers can view records in register order, as well as in the order resulting from a search.
Julia Mosman maintains the central website but, in the short term, I'd be grateful if you could send details of changes to the parish pages to me. Having completely changed the system for the website's pages (and lacking self-confidence in my own products - grin), I'd like to be sure that all is in working order. This is often the first point-of-contact with us, so it's important that up-to-date and correct information is displayed.
C-PROP
Donations are still coming in at a steady rate. We've added the facility to upload details of BMD certificates (see http://www.cornwall-opc-database.org/contributions.php) and many thanks to those of you who have already used this. (Please note that, for the sake of accuracy, the place of residence has to be somewhere in Cornwall. Most other records about second and third generation migrants are likely to be accurate, too, especially if they come from OPCs. However, the upload facility is available to anyone who wishes to use it - and we all know about mistakes in records submitted to the IGI - so the line has to be drawn somewhere.)
We have also started adding parish register transcriptions for strays (again where the abode/place of residence is given as somewhere in Cornwall) so, if anyone cares to donate such records, then please send to Bill O'Reilly (bill.or@btopenworld.com) or me (myra@minebydesign.co.uk).
Future plans include the upload of Banns records and several other items, so watch this space!
The current record total is over 511,000, so we're gradually reaching our goal.
Other OPC Schemes
Since I last wrote about this subject, the scheme for Wiltshire seems to have become inactive, as has that for Leicestershire, which had barely got off the ground. The updated list can be found on our website at http://www.cornwall-opc.org/Structure/resources2.php.
Cheers
Myra
As the last posting was some time ago, there have been many changes to our list of OPCs. In fact there have been changes to our website, too (one of my excuses for the tardiness of this epistle). The new list is at http://www.cornwall-opc.org/Par_new/parishes.php
Apologies for missing out some earlier volunteers, but recent newcomers include Chrissy Parker for St Breward, Dallas Manicom for Week St Mary and Hazel Persson for the central Truro parishes. Current OPCs have also added parishes to their 'clusters' of responsibility, where it makes sense for them to be combined.
We have lost the services of long-time OPCs such as Marg Chapple-Rosen and Michael McCormick (although he threatens to return one day). We're very grateful for all the contributions made by retiring OPCs.
We have volunteers waiting to go public for Boconnoc, St Columb Minor, Fowey, St Issey, St Juliot, Launcells, Looe, Mabe, St Martin-by-Looe, North Tamerton, Padstow, St Teath and Whitstone. In fact, the list of vacancies is diminishing rapidly - thanks to all of you who have volunteered over the years.
This raises the question of what to do when other people volunteer to be OPCs. It would be such a pity to turn away people with Cornish ancestry who'd like to help us. Suggestions would be welcome.
Parish Pages on the Central Website
These are available for OPCs to add details of any subject concerning their parishes. Photographs and information about parish registers etc would be more than welcome. It's also possible to add links to 'as is' transcriptions, for OPCs without websites of their own. (See Ken Oates' Gunwalloe page at http://www.cornwall-opc.org/Par_new/e_g/gunwalloe.php for an example.) These are made available, so that researchers can view records in register order, as well as in the order resulting from a search.
Julia Mosman maintains the central website but, in the short term, I'd be grateful if you could send details of changes to the parish pages to me. Having completely changed the system for the website's pages (and lacking self-confidence in my own products - grin), I'd like to be sure that all is in working order. This is often the first point-of-contact with us, so it's important that up-to-date and correct information is displayed.
C-PROP
Donations are still coming in at a steady rate. We've added the facility to upload details of BMD certificates (see http://www.cornwall-opc-database.org/contributions.php) and many thanks to those of you who have already used this. (Please note that, for the sake of accuracy, the place of residence has to be somewhere in Cornwall. Most other records about second and third generation migrants are likely to be accurate, too, especially if they come from OPCs. However, the upload facility is available to anyone who wishes to use it - and we all know about mistakes in records submitted to the IGI - so the line has to be drawn somewhere.)
We have also started adding parish register transcriptions for strays (again where the abode/place of residence is given as somewhere in Cornwall) so, if anyone cares to donate such records, then please send to Bill O'Reilly (bill.or@btopenworld.com) or me (myra@minebydesign.co.uk).
Future plans include the upload of Banns records and several other items, so watch this space!
The current record total is over 511,000, so we're gradually reaching our goal.
Other OPC Schemes
Since I last wrote about this subject, the scheme for Wiltshire seems to have become inactive, as has that for Leicestershire, which had barely got off the ground. The updated list can be found on our website at http://www.cornwall-opc.org/Structure/resources2.php.
Cheers
Myra
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