[Opengenalliance] Update from Cornwall

[Andrew Turvey]

Thanks for the update - very interesting!

Out of interest, how much coverage of OPRs are you managing to get and how
does it compare to IGI and ancestry's coverage of Cornwall?

Thanks

Andrew Turvey

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On 30 Aug 2012 17:00, "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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