Hi Jim & Yvonne, I agree, but I'm already up to my ears with my current volunteer projects. Perhaps if you were to outline just what is involved in being an OPC on any of the Lists & Groups that you belong to someone may step forward. I know at first I was hesitant to take on Ansford & Castle Cary until I understood what was involved, and other than transcribing, I've not found it too much to handle. Regards, Nancy Frey Newcastle, Ontario, CANADA OPC for Ansford & Castle Cary, Somerset Moderator of Yahoo! Catsash Hundred Group Moderator of Yahoo! Glaston Twelve Hides Hundred Group Moderator of Yahoo! NorthWiltshire Group Moderator of Yahoo! SouthWiltshire Group Moderator of Yahoo! WestWiltshire Group Moderator of Yahoo! FULFORD_North Devon Group Moderator of Yahoo! DAVIDGE Connections Group ----- Original Message ----- From: "Yvonne Scrivener" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 2010 4:11 PM Subject: Re: [B&D] Closure of Somerset Online Parish Clerk Project > > Thank you, Jim, for getting the Somerset OPC Project off the ground and > running - it has come a long way in a few short years, attracting OPCs for > parishes across the county. > > I do hope someone will volunteer to take over from you - it would be a shame > to lose such a valuable resource. > > Yvonne Scrivener > Canberra ACT > Australia > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Administrator SOM OPC > Sent: Wednesday, 24 November 2010 10:52 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [B&D] Closure of Somerset Online Parish Clerk Project > > The time has come for me to step away from the Somerset Online Parish > Clerk Project. My departure is bitter-sweet as I turn my attention to > matters closer to home. I would like to thank our Online Parish Clerks > and transcribers for their hard work and contributions to the project. > In the absence of a successor the project and website will close > indefinitely at the end of December. > > It is my hope that someone will be willing take over from me and keep > the project alive. If you are interested please contact me directly at: > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > > Jim > > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] > with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Nancy Frey wrote: > I agree, but I'm already up to my ears with my current volunteer > projects. Perhaps if you were to outline just what is involved in > being an OPC on any of the Lists & Groups that you belong to > someone may step forward. I know at first I was hesitant to take > on Ansford & Castle Cary until I understood what was involved, and > other than transcribing, I've not found it too much to handle. Being an OPC means transcribing all the records for a specific parish. For many it's the parish registers, BTs and census returns which are easily available no matter where in the world they are. Harder are the electoral rolls, agreements, mortgages, leases, wills, entries in the Petty and Quarter Sessions, bastardy examinations and bonds, Guardians of the Poor Account Books etc which are original documents and only available in the Heritage Centre itself. Some of these documents are available on fiche so can be purchased - if the OPC is feeling flush and sufficiently philanthropic of course :)) What Jim is talking about is co-ordinating efforts, recruiting new OPCs and running the website as well, which is rather different from actually being an OPC. There's nothing wrong with an OPC also being the co-ordinator if they've enough time and the expertise. -- Charani (UK) OPC for Walton, Greinton and Clutton, SOM Asst OPC for Ashcott and Shapwick, SOM http://wsom-opc.org.uk http://www.savethegurkhas.co.uk/

Under an arrangement with FreeCEN Jim receives the census transcriptions for Somerset as they are progressively being published on FreeCEN. I send him reformatted data in spreadsheet form and he then publishes this on the OPC website. The search on the OPC website is different to that on FreeCEN allowing researchers to search the records in different ways. This means that the two research facilities complement each other. It would be a shame to lose the OPC website as it was developing into a good resource of records for researchers. As FreeCEN Coordinator I would be happy to continue the relationship that has developed between the OPC project and FreeCEN with any new coordinator. Regards Geoff Jarvis FreeCEN Coordinator Somerset (1841 - 1871) http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~somtcen/ -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Charani Sent: Thursday, 25 November 2010 8:51 PM To: Nancy Frey; [email protected] Subject: Re: [B&D] Closure of Somerset Online Parish Clerk Project Nancy Frey wrote: > I agree, but I'm already up to my ears with my current volunteer > projects. Perhaps if you were to outline just what is involved in > being an OPC on any of the Lists & Groups that you belong to > someone may step forward. I know at first I was hesitant to take > on Ansford & Castle Cary until I understood what was involved, and > other than transcribing, I've not found it too much to handle. Being an OPC means transcribing all the records for a specific parish. For many it's the parish registers, BTs and census returns which are easily available no matter where in the world they are. Harder are the electoral rolls, agreements, mortgages, leases, wills, entries in the Petty and Quarter Sessions, bastardy examinations and bonds, Guardians of the Poor Account Books etc which are original documents and only available in the Heritage Centre itself. Some of these documents are available on fiche so can be purchased - if the OPC is feeling flush and sufficiently philanthropic of course :)) What Jim is talking about is co-ordinating efforts, recruiting new OPCs and running the website as well, which is rather different from actually being an OPC. There's nothing wrong with an OPC also being the co-ordinator if they've enough time and the expertise. -- Charani (UK) OPC for Walton, Greinton and Clutton, SOM Asst OPC for Ashcott and Shapwick, SOM http://wsom-opc.org.uk http://www.savethegurkhas.co.uk/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message