>-----Original Message----- >From: Graham Price >Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 2013 8:07 PM >To: Cheshire List ; M&LFHS List >Subject: Re: [CHS] CheshireBMD updates >At 07:49 PM 28/08/2013, you wrote: >>The following updates have recently been announced for CheshireBMD. >Thanks for that. I do have a query though. I've been looking at this >for some time and it seems that updates would be better served by >being put into a database such as OPC Lancashire does, whereby the >parents of births/baptisms and the marriage details are given in >full. The updates to Cheshire BMD don't really tell you all that >much, so that you have to search further and not always to >fulfillment apart from paying up with your credit card, but OPC give >you all the details you need without having to fork out payment heavy >sums for a certificate. Please tell me why Cheshire BMD continue this >limited service, which is useful, but not economic? Isn't it time for >Cheshire to set up an OPC if that is at all possible? LancashireOPC is sourced from Church Registers held in various Archives whereas CheshireBMD is sourced from the Statutory Indexes of Births Marriages and Deaths registered at the various Local Register Offices. I believe access relies on the goodwill of the Local Registrars and the information used is restricted to that included in Local Register Office Indexes. The advantage is that there is often a little more information than in the GRO Index. Most Cheshire Parish Registers are indexed on Familysearch.org and many images are on FMP Andy