..... and you deserve a huge huge "thank you" Julia! I was going to say it is astonishing what you and the other volunteers do, but even that describes it inadequately. You'll understand what I mean, and I'm sure other more erudite list members will come up with the right words. Sincerely - and with thanks! Jason in sunny Victoria, BC Canada jwmos99@msn.com wrote: >Hi All - > >I've been indexing/transcribing the St. Austell, Charlestown, and Treverbyn church/parish registers, knowing that the images would be put on FamilySearch, but not knowing when. So I'm not quite done!! Sorry for that - will keep on until the baptisms are complete, at least. (And then will finish burials, if there's a need.) > >Right now, Baptisms are from 1632 to 1775 (I'm uploading the last bit tonight) and from 1813 to 1850. Marriages are done from 1565 to 1900, and the early years of burials aren't done. I don't have any municipal cemetery records, unfortunately. > >People can use the database on the St. Austell website to search for individuals, either by year or using the search function on the main page (so by name), finding the appropriate entry, then if they want to, they can look at the originals on FamilySearch; many of the marriages have family signatures, etc. that can be of interest. I've tried to include the parish register page numbers to help identify which image you'll need to view. > >LDS has received copies of many of my transcriptions, so they'll soon have an index to go along with the original images as well. > >The best thing is that the St. Austell website has LOTS of "supporting" information, such as the tithe map index from 1841 - which is a record of all owners, lessees and residents of land in the parish. There is also information from various taxes (such as hearth) and transcriptions of various Directories that might prove helpful, too. Hopefully, it's worth a look. > >It's great to have the original registers online; you can check questionable entries for yourself, and puzzle over various entries that perplexed the transcriber[s] - LDS deserves a huge "thank you"!!!! > >Cheers, > >Julia > >Julia Mosman, OPC for St.Austell,Charlestown, and Treverbyn >Website at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~staustell >W. Briton newspaper transcripts at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~wbritonad >Please visit the OPC website at http://cornwall-opc.org >I'm a volunteer for FreeCens - why don't you join, too? > > > >