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Topic: Link: Dorset Online Parish Clerks OPC (Read 1741 times)
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Berlin-Bob
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The Dorset Online Parish Clerks site: http://www.dorset-opc.com/
They have a massive database of parish register entries, census entries, and also descriptions and photos of many parishes in Dorset.
If I see a query here, or on any other board for Dorset info., I automatically look in here first !
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« Last Edit: Thursday 08 December 05 22:34 GMT (UK) by sarah »
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Searching for Coleman, Moore, Kallnung in London; Margulies, Remenyi in E. Europe; Ancestors of Hessie Stevenson-Coleman-Baxter (Ireland, 1861) and, of course, any other ancestors for my web-site http://boco.rootschat.net All Census Data included in this post is Crown Copyright (see: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk) |
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Berlin-Bob
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As I think that this such a great site for Dorset researches, I thought I would add some more info. about it for new users ......
Dorset Online Parish Clerks / Dorset OPC
An Online Parish Clerk (OPC) researches all the available historical data they can find on a parish, records are transcribed, and in order to promote further private research, are made FREELY available to any researcher. This will include census, parish transcripts, bishop's transcripts and churchwardens accounts, overseers accounts, land tax records, postal directory extracts, church & village histories, etc. An OPC is a volunteer and should not be confused with the civil Parish Clerk appointed by a Parish Council.
There are about 275 parishes in Dorset and so far we have some data online for 269 of them, with OPC's covering 145 of these parishes. If you would be interested in volunteering to help make these national records available to all, please click here for more information.
For Newcomers: Here are some tips for using this site
1) Search by Parish
If you know which parish you are researching, then scroll down the home-page to the list of parishes. Parishes with OPCs are links to a Parish-Page. Most Parish-Pages have a short description of the parish and a list of available resources. Resources may be parish registers, directories, census returns, etc. Online resources are displayed as links.
2) OPC Look-ups
If the resource you need are available but not on-line, then check the parish page for the OPC's e-mail address. Most OPCs will do Look-ups for you.
3) Monumental Inscriptions
There is also a large database of Monumental Inscriptions (MI) on this site.
On the Home-Page, click on "SEARCH THIS SITE"
Scroll down for a list of parishes with MIs or enter details in the (separate) MI search box
4) Site-Search
On the Home-Page, click on "SEARCH THIS SITE"
enter your name(s) or place(s), and ........ away you go !
Good Hunting !! Good Luck !!
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« Last Edit: Tuesday 28 March 06 07:41 BST (UK) by Berlin-Bob »
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Searching for Coleman, Moore, Kallnung in London; Margulies, Remenyi in E. Europe; Ancestors of Hessie Stevenson-Coleman-Baxter (Ireland, 1861) and, of course, any other ancestors for my web-site http://boco.rootschat.net All Census Data included in this post is Crown Copyright (see: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk) |
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Paul Caswell
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Hi Bob,
Just thought others may find this useful.
Dorset OPC have had to disable their search system for some reason. While this is non-functional you can search using google by requesting a search only on their site.
Example:
Mary Masters site:opcdorset.com
Paul
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