Graham The indexes on CheshireBMD are compiled from the original Indexes/Registers held by the local Register Offices and because of GRO regulations we are limited as to the amount of detail which we may extract from them. Remember that the Local ROs have to pay their way nowadays and the purchasing of certificates helps them accomplish this. CheshireBMD is the most accurate index of BMDs you will find. Cheshire is one of the best served counties for Family History information. However if you would like to startup, organise and keep up to date a similar database to the LancashireOPC then I'm sure that it would be well received by all the researchers in our fair County. If you were to take on this monumental task i fear that you would just be repeating a lot of information that is already out there and available with a little delving which is what Family History research is all about. If you want to take your idea further contact the Web Master at the address on the CheshireBMD web page I'm sure he would give it the attention it deserves. Have Fun & Look Wide Bob Kirk Dukinfield Cheshire www.Kirksoft.me.uk http://www.cheshirebmd.org.uk On 28 Aug 2013, at 11:07, Graham Price <genetree@tpg.com.au> wrote: > 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? > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to CHESHIRE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

An excellent answer, Bob - certainly puts things into context. Lancs is surely very, very fortunate to have both the BMD site and the OPC. And as you state it is a big task and a big ask for anyone to take an OPC up for Cheshire. I've been involved in FH for over 20 years so I have a fair idea of what a monumental job it would be. It is impossible for me to take it up. Furthermore, I do appreciate the work that Ian Hartas and his team are doing. A good job well done. Cheers Graham Melbourne Oz

Hi Graham, There is a Cheshire Parish Register Project on the go (slowly but useful all the same). http://cgi.csc.liv.ac.uk/~cprdb/ It's not the most intuitive database I've ever come across, but for the parishes so far completed, it has transcriptions of all the detail from the original registers, including any notes where they exist. Regards Lesley Baxendale Colwyn Bay On 29/08/2013 00:21, Graham Price wrote: > > An excellent answer, Bob - certainly puts things into context. Lancs > is surely very, very fortunate to have both the BMD site and the OPC. > And as you state it is a big task and a big ask for anyone to take an > OPC up for Cheshire. I've been involved in FH for over 20 years so I > have a fair idea of what a monumental job it would be. It is > impossible for me to take it up. > > Furthermore, I do appreciate the work that Ian Hartas and his team > are doing. A good job well done. > Cheers > Graham > Melbourne > Oz > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to CHESHIRE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >