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Topic: Online Parish Clerks - OPC (Read 9026 times)
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the happy granny
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Brain addled?..........mine too!
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I wonder how many people there are, like me.who have been helped tremendously by On-line Parish Clerks?
One I gave a small piece of information to and she took me back several generations by looking at census and old church records......all unsolicited!
They should all take a bouquet!!
Sue
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Gourlay,Peat,Porter,Smith,Kirk, from Ceres,Cupar,Kennoway,Fife
Coley,from Barcombe,Sussex
Cozens from Kingston Russel,Symonds from Symondsbury,Dorset
Catchpole,from Norfolk,London (Fulham)
Lock/e,from Somerset and London (Pimlico) Everett from Portsmouth and Alvechurch,Worcester
Carr/Wandes....Hampshire
Spicer,Fry,Fosher,Coulter,Burridge,Brewster,Hancock, Lotter from Kent and London Borders
Holloway from Sussex
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Wendi
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Posts: 2927
Peeking into the past
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What is the best means of making use of them? I have not even heard of a Parish Clerk !
But every little helps!
Wendi
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"Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it! No matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and with your own common sense" ~ Buddha SCOTT ~ Monmouthshire & Glamorgan BUCKLEY ~ Cork & Manchester FRANKLIN ~ Clerkenwell, London BRADY ~ Kildare & Manchester DERICK ~ France FRIEND ~ Kent & Portsmouth TYLDESLEY ~ Lancashire http://www.themanchesters.org________________________________________ Census information posted here is Crown Copyright, from www.nati |
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Berlin-Bob
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by: My Daughter. Chatting to find her Roots !
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Hi Wendi,
for you and everybody else who doesn't know this excellent resource,
here is a description which appears on almost every Online Parish Clerk (OPC) site:
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.
Some OPC sites have on-line databases, which you can search,
others tend to concentrate on offering look-ups.
Coincidently, just yesterday, I entered a description of the Dorset OPC site on RootsChat at
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,46534.0.html
For other sites, enter OPC in the RootsChat search engine,
you will also find RootsChatters opinions of these sites.
Offhand I can think of Dorset, Cornwall, Devon, Lancashire, Kent, Wiltshire and Sussex,
who are part of the OPC Project.
Several RootsChatters are OPCs or are actively engaged in this project.
Hope this gives an idea of the possibilities,
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. All Census Data included in this post is Crown Copyright (see: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk) |
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Wendi
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Peeking into the past
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Fantastic!
No Bob I mean the information, not the speed of your responce 
I really continue to be overwhelmed by the generosity of people interested in this kind of work!...I never knew...Look out Monmouth here I come......
:)Wendi
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"Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it! No matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and with your own common sense" ~ Buddha SCOTT ~ Monmouthshire & Glamorgan BUCKLEY ~ Cork & Manchester FRANKLIN ~ Clerkenwell, London BRADY ~ Kildare & Manchester DERICK ~ France FRIEND ~ Kent & Portsmouth TYLDESLEY ~ Lancashire http://www.themanchesters.org________________________________________ Census information posted here is Crown Copyright, from www.nati |
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Berlin-Bob
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For all those interested, here is a list of OPC sites:
Cornwall: http://west-penwith.org.uk/opc.htm:
Devon: http://www http://www.cs.ncl.ac.uk/genuki/DEV/OPCproject.html
Dorset: http://www.opcdorset.com/
Kent: http://www.kent-opc.org.uk/
Kent: http://www.kent-opc.org/
Lancashire: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~lancsopc/Index_OPC%20Main.htm
Lancashire has moved, it's now http://www.pioneerinfo.com/LAN-OPC/
Lancashire has moved again, it's now http://www.lan-opc.org.uk/
Sussex: http://www.sussex-opc.org/
Wiltshire: http://homepage.ntlworld.com/david.brown6666/wiltsopc/about.htm
Wiltshire: http://www.wiltshire-opc.org.uk/ (updated: 26.02.2009)
On the Cornwall OPC site:
"There are signs of similar schemes being started in Cambridgeshire, Cheshire, Derbyshire, Hampshire, Surrey and North and West Ridings of Yorkshire but I can't find any county coordinators or web sites."
A quick Google search for Derbyshire ("Derbyshire opc online parish") found
Stapenhill, Derbyshire: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb(.)com/~blanchec/StapOPC.htm
Try a Google search "[your county] opc online parish" to see if you can find any more !
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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. All Census Data included in this post is Crown Copyright (see: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk) |
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the happy granny
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Brain addled?..........mine too!
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Su
It was probably the same Dorset OPC that helped me too!!
Sue
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Gourlay,Peat,Porter,Smith,Kirk, from Ceres,Cupar,Kennoway,Fife
Coley,from Barcombe,Sussex
Cozens from Kingston Russel,Symonds from Symondsbury,Dorset
Catchpole,from Norfolk,London (Fulham)
Lock/e,from Somerset and London (Pimlico) Everett from Portsmouth and Alvechurch,Worcester
Carr/Wandes....Hampshire
Spicer,Fry,Fosher,Coulter,Burridge,Brewster,Hancock, Lotter from Kent and London Borders
Holloway from Sussex
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newbie
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Bob, the link to the Wiltshire doesn't seem to work? 
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newbie
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Bob can't seem to get the link to Lancashire OPC to work either.
Newbie
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Berlin-Bob
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Sorry Newbie, my fault 
I've modified the post and Wiltshire and Lancashire now work,
(but Lancashire re-directs you to a new address anyway, so I have included the new address too !)
Again, sorry, hope they help, now they can be reached !
Bob
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Berlin-Bob
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According to the Dorset OPC page: http://www.opcdorset.com/
there are now also OPC sites or transcription projects for
Monmouth: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~monfamilies/monmouthshire-opc.htm
and Essex: http://essex-opc.org.uk/
Not mentioned on the Dorset OPC site is another transcription project which, although not officially an OPC site, has some similarities:
The Norfolk Transcription Archive has been dormant for a while,
but has now re-opened ("New website launched - Feb 9, 2009")
http://www.doun.org/transcriptions/index.php
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jo1962
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Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
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Thanks for this thread. I didn't know about the opc and I've just spent a lot of time looking at Lancashire and found out so much information  It really is a valuable resource
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