[Opengenalliance] Open Genealogy Alliance Wikipedia page

[Michael J McCormick]

Hello

The volunteers are mainly recruited via the Rootsweb mailing lists for
Cornwall.  Many of them worked on the Cornwall Online Census Project, a
semi-detached part of Free Census.  The raw material is provided by the LDS
with the agreement of the Cornish RO.  It comes on disc and in return the
OPC organiser provides a copy to the LDS which is used to index their
images, which they are currently uploading.  The volunteers transcribe into
spreadsheets using prescribed layouts.  These transcripts can be uploaded by
the volunteers as texts, on the OPC web site or their own site.  In addition
the data is uploaded to the C-PROP database.  The db was created by the
organiser's son-in-law.  The organiser is a web designer.

The project is a daughter of the Cornish OPC scheme, which was the original
OPC scheme.  As you will have seen, the C-PROP db is not just parish
registers.  The agreement with the LDS and CRO was master-minded by another
volunteer, who just happens to be a helper at a Cornish FHC of the LDS.
 When the Wiltshire OPC scheme approached them, they said no.

Rgds

Michael

On 1 August 2011 13:18, Javier Ruiz <javier at openrightsgroup.org> wrote:

> Michael
>
> that sounds very interesting, the site
>
> http://www.cornwall-opc-database.org/
>
> says that the transcriptions have been carried out by volunteers worldwide,
> do you know how this is organised and what software they use?
>
> best, Javier
>
>
> On 30 July 2011 16:58, Michael J McCormick <michaeljmcc at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello
>>
>> You might be interested to hear that the Cornish OPC scheme has just
>> uploaded its two millionth record to C-PROP, its online db.
>>
>> Rgds
>>
>> Michael
>>
>>
>> On 17 June 2011 14:02, Nick Barratt <nick.barratt at virgin.net> wrote:
>>
>>> **
>>> Full page coverage of OGA plus weblink in *Your Family History *magazine,
>>> Issue 16 (July 2011) p.74
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> *From:* Andrew Turvey <andrewrturvey at googlemail.com>
>>> *To:* Organising list for Open Genealogy Alliance<opengenalliance at lists.openrightsgroup.org>
>>> *Sent:* Friday, June 17, 2011 10:34 AM
>>> *Subject:* Re: [Opengenalliance] Open Genealogy Alliance Wikipedia page
>>>
>>> Looks good, but you're lucky it hasn't been deleted yet as there are no
>>> independent references cited. Has there been any press coverage you could
>>> include?
>>>
>>> Andrew Turvey
>>>
>>> This message was sent from my mobile
>>>
>>> On 16 May 2011 10:41, "Javier Ruiz" <javier at openrightsgroup.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> great
>>>
>>> i just quickly added our other 2 partners to avoid hurting sensitivities,
>>> i have put it in my todo list to expand it
>>>
>>> ta
>>>
>>>  On 15 May 2011 07:34, todd.d.robbins at gmail.com <
>>> todd.d.robbins at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> >
>>>> > Just thought I'd mention I put a Wikipedia page up tonight. Nothing to
>>>> write home about but I di...
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