Mawgan in Menage, Cornwall - OPC Project

Now that the summer is over, I will hopefully be able to concentrate on adding more information to the website and updating this blog more often. I do have several different transcriptions on the go at the present time, but many need more checking for mistakes etc:

Anyway onto todays update to the website which consists of more transcriptions of the Baptisms Register for Mawgan in Meneage. The years 1721 to 1750 have been added to the relevant page on the website. Along with this have also been added to the same page the transcripts of surviving BT's covering covering the same years that have already been done from 1700 to 1750, with any variations from the Register being noted.

Coming soon for Mawgan will be transcripts of the Marriage Banns. These cover the years 1754 to 1812. I am presently about half way through them.

All the Best

Updates to Site

Have been a little quiet, having not updated this blog for awhile. I am not sure whether I will keep this blog going for the website, but will give it another 6 months or so, to see whether any use is made of the comments section.

Since my last post I have added transciptions of the 1841 Census for Charlton Horethorne, Rimpton and Sherborne Union Workhouse to there respective sections.

As part of the Cornwall OPC have added further transcriptions of the Mawgan in Meneage Baptisms Register covering the period from 1700 up to 1720

Roger

Spam Email

Don't we all hate spam emails! I have been fairly fortunate in that I have hardly had any now for over 4 years and this is mainly due to the fact that I hide all email addresses on the website in java script, so they are not easily found by the web crawlers that specifically harvest email addresses across the internet.

Well that all came to an end about 4 weeks ago when two of my email addresses started receiving spam mails, then suddenly it all turned into an absolute flood drawing in a third address in the process. This came about I believe as I found these addresses on someone Else's website with no protection to stop them from being harvested.

The end result - I have deleted all 3 addresses and introduced new addresses on my website. That bought an end to the spam mail, so things are now back to normal. The moral of this little story is that if you are going to supply email addresses to others for Family History research purposes and they do not hide email addresses on there website, then use a Gmail, Hotmail or Yahoo email address that you can close when the spam mail becomes too much to handle.

Have a Great Day
Roger

Horsington, Somerset

Did this update a few weeks ago and then forgot to post any updates about it. Another 1841 census transcript has now been finished and uploaded to the site, this time for Horsington in Somerset. Other 1841 Census transcripts on there way include North Cheriton, Templecombe, and Charlton Horethorne, with the last one most likely the first to be uploaded to the website.

Roger

Milborne Port, Somerset

The second update for the weekend was finally the completion of the second part of the 1841 census for this parish. You can get to the page by clicking the link above.

This particular transcription has proved to be a bit of a challenge. It has had everything in it, from bad handwriting to shocking spelling along with the usual faded writing in some parts. Just to finish off my frustration last night my web editor decided to crash and guest what? I had not saved my work for over an hour at that stage. Luckily I did not loose too much.

I am not too sure what is coming next as I do have several things on the go, but depending on work I shall try to keep to putting new transcriptions online every 7 to 10 days or so.

Roger

Gwinear, Cornwall - OPC Project

Those of you who have been involved with family history for awhile will know what the OPC Project is, but for those who are new to Family History, OPC stands for "Online Parish Clerk". The Cornwall project I think was the first one started off and this worthwhile Project has now spread to many other English County's. Basically we are volunteers who collect, collate and transcribe records for a chosen specific parish. Most volunteers have a website for there chosen parishes and there is also a central website which is well worth a visit (click here).

Anyway onto the first of two updates for this weekend. I had not done any work on the Gwinear page for quite sometime. I was having a look through it the other day and realised that I had never re-checked the burial records online that were done long before I got the new software I now use that makes it easier to read some of these very faded records. So I launched into a full check of the 1700+ burial Transcriptions online and corrected mistakes and added in the missing entries as I could now read them, so it is far more complete than it was. I also added another 20 years of transcripts from 1751 to 1770.

Roger

Updates, Queries & Work

Just two small updates to the webste today. They can be found in the Horsington & Milborne Port pages under the South East Somerset Section. Also to answer a couple of queries in regards to the research service that use to be linked from the main page of the website. I took this down a while ago, mainly to update the page. Then the new job came along which has demanded much of my time, which left me with too little time for research work, so left the main page down as I was not taking on any further assignments. I will put the research page back online when I have some additional time to take on extra work. My main work is also internet based and has taken a long time to set up. I won't say anything here as to what it is all about, as it is not related to Genealogy or Family History, but if you are curious then you can follow this link

Okay back to family history. The next update should be within the next week and will be the long awaited second part of the 1841 census transcription for Milborne Port.

All the Best

Mawgan in Meneage, Cornwall

Oh Well, so much for updating the blog last Friday, my apologies. Making transcripts of the Mawgan baptisms for the period from the start of the register up to 1640 is proving to be rather challenging, only surpassed by the burials for the same period. There is throughout the 1600's some large gaps in the records, which at the time, was bought about by civil strife. So sadly, that means, some of our brick walls in our research will remain. I have yet to check but there were Bishops Transcipts for this period too. If they still exist, then eventually I may be able to fill in some of the gaps.

In other news which covers the South East Somerset Section. I now have the second part of the 1841 Milborne Port Census finished. All that remains to be done is a re-check and resolving of some of the queries through cross checking other records and then they will go online, which hopefully will be sometime next week. Other work in progress or almost completed includes transcripts of the 1852 Slaters Directory for Henstridge, Milborne Port and Wincanton. Other 1841 census transcripts for Maperton, North Cheriton and Templecombe.

Roger

Blackford, South East Somerset

In a way it is appropiate that I start this blog just after the latest up date to the website itself. The 1841 census transcripts for Blackford were done by myself and the Marriage and burial transcripts were kindly provided by Richard Travell. If you have family history interests in this area then do have a look at the link lower down the page http://www.westcountrygenealogy.com/ses/blackford/ as that takes you to another website (This is the West Country) which also includes more of interest to family historians. Richard also has a website http://homepage.ntlworld.com/richardtravell/richardtravell/ which contains many more family history records especially in the North Dorset area.

Roger

Welcome

Hi Everyone and welcome. I have established this blog as a means to also encourage each one of you to also add your own comments or make any requests as to what you would like to see added to the website. Notification of updates to the website will still be posted on the "whats new" page of the website, but at times any additional information will appear here such as the following post which rounds out a bit more about the latest update to the website.

For regular visitors to the website, you will notice some changes to the site. Sadly the costs of buying records as well as maintaining the site online has meant seeking out ways of raising additional funds to help in this task in addition to the paid research that I do from time to time. Please be assured this will not change the purpose of making transcriptions freely available on the website.

One other thing, please do not post requests for lookups on this blog, this can still be done by email from the main page of the web site.

Have a great day
Roger