Hi List, I am again asking for assistance with transcribing my manuscript Cornish documents collection. Thanks to my last appeal I have some great transcribers come on board, these are doing a sterling job and my sincere thanks to all of them. As people’s lives and circumstances change some drop out of the project and these need replacing to keep the transcribing ticking along. For those of you who do not know of the project I have a massive collection of Cornish Documents from the 1500’s to the early twentieth century. These are being transcribed word for word, indexed by Susan Old, deposited at the Cornwall Record Office so they are available to all and the index hosted on the OPC site. All the early ones are now completed and there is nothing earlier than 18th Century left to be transcribed. The index is fully searchable and if you get a hit you just email me and I send a full transcript, _taclowcoth@aol.com_ (mailto:taclowcoth@aol.com) . If you are interested the way it works is, I photograph the document, I send the image to you, you transcribe it and send it back to me, I check it against the original and return the final transcript to you, and to Susan for indexing and enter it in an excel file ready for uploading into the Record Office Database on completion of the project. Many of my transcribers have had a go, never having done anything like this before, the feedback I have received back from them is that many of them enjoy transcribing. The project is coming to an end with hope this year, it has been ongoing for the last ten years and an incredible amount of work has been done, all those who have helped should feel very proud of themselves. The only parishes left now that require work are Bodmin, Lostwithiel Camelford and St Kew. Anyone who offers help does not have to commit to any time scales, everything is pretty relaxed. If you have read this and don’t want to help please search the index on the OPC Cornwall website as all this effort is being put in by volunteers and I am getting very few enquiries for transcripts. It is a very large database and easily searchable at present having over 17,000 entries so please have a look and with luck I can help you fill a gap in your tree. If you would like to help this project please email me off list, _taclowcoth@aol.com_ (mailto:taclowcoth@aol.com) . Many thanks Malcolm McCarthy in sunny Padstow