[Opengenalliance] Update from Cornwall

[Michael J McCormick]

Hello Andrew

I am not sure what an "OPR" is! 

We started off with a deal with the LDS.  They supplied us with their films on disc.  In return, we supplied them with our transcripts.  You can see them on Familysearch.  Nowadays, the images can usually be downloaded from Familysearch.  However, there are parish registers that the LDS  didn't film, so if possible, we photograph them ourselves.  We also photograph BTs, because even where the LDS have filmed them, modern cameras might do better.  By the way, I photograph prison registers and so on with my iPad.  An excellent machine - all family historians should have one!

To return to your question; we should end up with the same coverage as the LDS and better than the IGI.  I don't know about Ancestry, but its worth remembering that our transcripts are done by Cornish FH volunteers.  Not Brazilians.  

Rgds

Michael

On 2 Sep 2012, at 20:07, Andrew Turvey <andrewrturvey at googlemail.com> wrote:

> 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.
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>> 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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