Dear Leslie, Susan, Nina and others who have contacted us off list, thank you for your kind words, and offers of assistance. Our aim is to get the PRIMARY records we have from British Ceylon into a data base on the net,for all to see, for FREE. We are trying for a database that can be viewed by all, and updated by a select few who can get the LDS films and other primary sources to transcribe from. The Hague baptism records need to be fully transcribed and put on the net as they do not appear to be on LDS film. There are 23 microfiche with a number of pages on each fiche, and we only copied pages with interest to our families on them. We hope to go back next year to complete the job. The other source of primary records are Ceylon families scattered all over the world, who have handed them down ( marriage, baptism and birth certificates) by generation to generation. Our problem is we are not computer literate enough to know how to go about it. This is the problem.We are diligent, or lucky enough to find primary records and we want to share them for free, free to us, no postage etc, and free to the British Ceylon researchers through the WEB. We dont expect it to be just our research. Anyone with a verified Primary record could submit their record for inclusion. After the Primary Source List is up and running it would then be nice to make a Secondary research list with thecomplete 1843 Ceylon Directory, which we already offered earlier in the year, the indexes to Tombstones and Monuments in Ceylon, the entries in Lap Zeylandica, the Index of the Officers of the Indian Medical Service and the Index to Cottons, Monuments and Graves in Madras Provence. We just want to share 30 years of accumulated resources and research for FREE....... well just about for free We NEED A MENTOR, with time, patience, and computer skills to tell us what, how and when to do XY&Z !!!!!! HELP COREEN & LARRY in beautiful, remote North Queensland. Australia.

Just a thought but as these records are on fiche how about purchasing the fiche and distributing them around so they can get transcribed quicker you would then have to get a team together to check the transcription.I for one would be happy to purchase some and transcribe them and do a check on others work. You need a program similar to the British free census project. and a co-ordinator too. Well done to Larry & Coreen regards Jean Researching de Kretser,Frugneit,Sansoni in Sri Lanka.