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England (Counties as in 1851-1901) => Devon Lookup Requests => Devon => England => Devon Completed Lookup Requests => Topic started by: DSR on Tuesday 28 April 09 07:49 BST (UK)
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Does anyone know what has happened to the Devon Online Parish Clerk ?
I have emailed both the current one mentioned on the Online Parish Clerk website ( http://onlineparishclerks.org.uk/ ) and this one here ( http://www.geocities.com/opcdevon/ ).
All emails are bounced back as undeliverable.
Ideals on a postcard please to:
Wheres my Parish Clerk
Freepost
Devon.
:)
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There is no one OPC covering Devon (that would be too big a task for any one volunteer)- there are OPCs for some of the Devon parishes, your best place to look is at
http://genuki.cs.ncl.ac.uk/DEV/OPCproject.html.
of the two web sites you quote- the geocities one is for an OPC that covers parts of East Devon. the Online parish clerk web site only lists the co-ordinator for Devon (did you remove the spam guard part of the e-mail address?)
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There is no one OPC covering Devon (that would be too big a task for any one volunteer)- there are OPCs for some of the Devon parishes, your best place to look is at
http://genuki.cs.ncl.ac.uk/DEV/OPCproject.html.
of the two web sites you quote- the geocities one is for an OPC that covers parts of East Devon. the Online parish clerk web site only lists the co-ordinator for Devon (did you remove the spam guard part of the e-mail address?)
The Devon parish I require help with relates to the website ( http://www.geocities.com/opcdevon/ ), but emails are returned. I then contacted the co-ordinator of the Devon Online Parish Clerk scheme to establish who the OPC for that parish is, but their emails were also returned ( spam guard was removed ).
So both the OPC that relates to the parish Im interested in and the co-ordinator of the Devon project are both unobtainable.
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Hello,
I am the co-ordinator for the OPC project - Deborah O'Brien. I am receiving e-mails by the dozen, so there may be a problem with your ISP not being accepted by mine. Please re-try e-mailing me (with the spamguard removed) and make sure that your message contains no HTML - that shouldn't be the problem, but it may be. Alternativley, please place your request on this board and I'll answer you here. We have over 85 OPCs covering some 190 of the ancient 500 parishes.
As for Deborah Carmichael, former OPC for the parishes on the Dorset border, - she has not been available for over a year and her contact details have been removed from the Genuki/Devon OPC main page. Her website is still up and running, but unfortunately, we have no way of shutting that down - it was her website.
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Hello,
I am the co-ordinator for the OPC project - Deborah O'Brien. I am receiving e-mails by the dozen, so there may be a problem with your ISP not being accepted by mine. Please re-try e-mailing me (with the spamguard removed) and make sure that your message contains no HTML - that shouldn't be the problem, but it may be. Alternativley, please place your request on this board and I'll answer you here. We have over 85 OPCs covering some 190 of the ancient 500 parishes.
Sorry for the late reply, but I've been double checking all the headers on the emails returned, I sent the emails ( text only )to your email address via several servers ( including my own ), so there should be no issue with ISP servers rejecting the email.
However, I will send you another couple of test emails and see if these get through.
Bring back smoke signals and bottles :)
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On a wider issue, is there anything that we can do to put the OPCs on a firmer basis, I see that the Lincolnshire OPC was closed down some time ago?
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The Devon OPC project couldn't be stronger. We operate under the auspices of GenUKI Devon, and all pertinent information is housed on the University of Newcastle server. We do of course, lose individual OPCs from time to time - either the passage of life or personal commitments.
Devon is limited in that the PRs are not freely available, - our OPCs actually purchase the fiche of the original registers themselves, and make the appropriate transcriptions. Publication of these is severely restricted - we may not do so without express written consent from the incumbent minister for the parish, and this is not always given. (None of my own specific parish incumbents will grant a release for instance).
If permission is granted, the transcriptions are then housed on the GenUKI Devon webpage for the relevant Parish.
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Sorry for the late reply, but I've been double checking all the headers on the emails returned, I sent the emails ( text only )to your email address via several servers ( including my own ), so there should be no issue with ISP servers rejecting the email.
However, I will send you another couple of test emails and see if these get through.
I've now received 2 of Dave's test e-mails. Cannot imagine what the problem was.
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All system's go ;D
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DOB7, So do I understand you to say that in effect it is impossible to get information prior to 1837 from a Devon Parish without the consent of the local vicar? If so are they still living in the Feudal ages down there?
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that isn't what was said. What was said was that it is not possible to publish information without the permission of the incumbent, and they have the legal right to say no!
If you want information pre 1837 one excellent source is the Devon Family History Society- it has indexed all marriages(as far as is practicable given that some registers and BTs no longer exist) 1754 to 1837. there are also nearly complete indexes for baptisms 1813 to 1839, and burials 1813 to 1837.
Printouts are available from the Society, and given that there are nearly 500 parishes this can be the easiest way to locate a missing person.
When Deaneries are completed the information is placed on CD which are then offered for sale Have a look at the web site at www.devonfhs.org.uk or if you're in London this weekend then come and see the Society at the Family History Event at the Barbican.
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Thanks for clarifying what I said Terry.
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And thanks for further clarification.
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Many, many thanks for all your time, effort and help Deborah.
The info was fantastic ;D