[Opengenalliance] Update from Cornwall

[Ben Brumfield]

That's heartening news!

Something similar happened in June, when a historic migration researcher
from UCL presented about his work with the FreeCEN data at the Digital
Humanities 2012 conference.  His abstract and a video of his presentation
are online:

*The potential of using crowd-sourced data to re-explore the demography of
Victorian Britain*
Duke-Williams, Oliver William
--> Abstract<http://www.dh2012.uni-hamburg.de/conference/programme/abstracts/the-potential-of-using-crowd-sourced-data-to-re-explore-the-demography-of-victorian-britain/>
-->Lecture2go <http://lecture2go.uni-hamburg.de/konferenzen/-/k/13917>

Ben Brumfield
http://manuscripttranscription.blogspot.com/



On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 10:59 AM, Michael J McCormick <michaeljmcc at gmail.com
> wrote:

> Hello folks
>
> There doesn't seem to be much traffic on this list, so I thought you might
> like an update on things down here in Cornwall.  The Cornish Online Parish
> Clerk scheme has an online free-to-view database C-PROP.  Although
> primarily aimed at the Cornish parish registers, we are also collecting
> other data.  This is the current status:
>
> Total parish register entries uploaded just over 2 million.  There are
> about 85 thousand other records including newspaper BMDs from a sister
> project that is transcribing the main local paper.  We also have a facility
> that allows complete or partial uploading of the information on
> certificates people have purchased from the GRO.  Finally there are about
> 133 thousand records from other sources.  Currently we are photographing
> prison, workhouse and burial registers.  The last is working on the 2 dozen
> or so that are in the hands of parish or town councils, not the record
> office.
>
> Finally, the Cornwall Online Census Project has been contacted by the
> Institute of Cornish Studies at the University of Exeter, asking for
> permission to download the COCP data for research purposes.  We have told
> the student concerned to go ahead.  I remember that the originator of Free
> Census said that the project would serve other research rather than just
> family history.  This is the first time we have been asked.
>
> Rgds
>
> Michael
> OPC Baldhu & Cricklade
>
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