Congratulations Alistair and Dale on your volunteerism. This is indeed a huge undertaking which will eventually make possible searchable databases on many subjects all over cyber space. Don Kelly, coordinator of BerwicshireGenWeb. Ancestors Rutledge, Graham and Armstrong. http://www.rootsweb.com/~sctbew/ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alistair Cameron" <acameron@hinet.net.au> To: <border@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, January 15, 2007 2:39 AM Subject: Re: [BORDER] BORDER Digest, Vol 2, Issue 10 > Dale wrote here: > >> FreeREG is a sister project to FreeCEN & FreeBMD, but aims to put all the >> OPRs online - eventually. As you can imagine, it is a huge project and >> will take a long time to do. I am the County Coordinator for Berwickshire >> and have all of the films available for distribution to interested >> volunteers to transcribe. >> >> If your Family History research is in one particular area or parish, then >> why not volunteer to transcribe that area for FreeREG and get the FULL >> details for your family from the original registers. All you need is to >> have, or have access to, a microfiche reader (the film is cut up into >> strips) - and we use a Windows program called WinREG to enter the data >> into. Unfortunately we cannot have cds for this project. > > When searching my wife's origins in BEWshire I soon found > that the OPR Index lacked very many of the events, which > were clearly readable in the LDS microfilms. Bit of a shock!! > > And since buying a set of the Brit Isles Vital Records Index > CDs, I was happily shocked to find pre- 1855 Scotland > records indexed for the first time, including non- > conformist church sources. It is the case that Catholic, > Methodist, Baptist, Episcopal etc etc Churches Registers > were archived in General Register Hse not New Reg Hse hence > cannot be searched online nor in remote libraries. > > I wish you and your team every success and if not too late, > drop the <OPR> term which is specific to Ch of Scotland, and > continue to use the term PRE 1855 VITAL RECORDS or similar. > And go hunt out the registers of the very many churches > outwith the Established Church. > > > Cheers, > > > ALISTAIR > > Searching THORNHILL in Ilkeston, Heanor, Shipley and > " " " FERGUSON in Borders pre 1854 > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > BORDER-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message >