Hello All - HELP WANTED - a person living in or near Cornwall, who would be willing to visit the Cornish Library in Redruth once a month or so - to digitally photograph or capture images of the West Briton from 1810 to 1835. The Cornish Library is the only source we've found for the earlier issues. We transcribers have plenty of work ahead of us going into the 1860's, but we'd LOVE to transcribe some of the earlier papers as well! They're in worse shape, and have plenty of wrinkles, rips, and rough edges, but they were more reflective of the unique culture of Cornwall. Later papers seem to have 'standardized' to a great degree- but it's plain fun to read the earlier pieces, when even the titles of each article were amusing!! we've been told by the Library that they hold a Microfilm of the West Briton, from 1810 onward, which a person could digitally film or capture onto a flash drive (memory stick). You wouldn't need to film the entire collection, of course, just the "Local Intelligence" and BMDs - unless the earlier papers split the news into more columns than that. (But it seems they didn't, if the 1836 issues were an example.) Please let me know if you're interested, and would like to help the effort! (An if multiple people volunteer, it would be WONDERFUL!) Cheers, Julia M. West Briton Transcriptions, 1836-1856 at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~wbritonad St. Austell Area History and Genealogy at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~staustell