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From: "Val Stuart" <>
Subject: Re: [DEV] Contributing to OPC parish resources
Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2003 12:51:20 +0100
References: <001e01c35d24$dea1b010$0200a8c0@Jo> <000b01c35d2d$3749c9c0$0100a8c0@p2350>


I have Lyme Regis in my copy of the 1791 Directory. It is in the Appendix
under "Lime" in Dorset, later changed to Lyme Regis. I will send you a copy
in an attachment off-list.

Val


----- Original Message -----
From: "D. Carmichael" <>
To: <>
Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2003 10:45 PM
Subject: [DEV] Contributing to OPC parish resources


> What a great attitude Jo & her husband have! My previous observation about
> the level of research skills out there was in response to comments made by
> another lister. I want to stress, however, that my OPC experience is
very
> similar to that of Chris Graves i.e. mostly very positive. I do have
look-up
> rules on my website because I have quite a number of OPC parishes & if I
> didn't set some ground rules then I would just be overwhelmed by the
nature
> of some requests eg I don't do blanket searches for the purpose of one
name
> studies. Like other OPCs I now have a considerable library & have invested
> quite a bit of money in PRs etc & I make whatever expertise I may have
> freely available to people through Devon genuki. Sometimes I spend hours
> actually researching for people, not just doing look-ups, but then my
> husband gives me a hard time about not being paid for my efforts. So, when
> people actually give me resources for one of my parishes it really counts
as
> a fair exchange or payment in my book, although of course it is not
> obligatory. So listers, don't forget most OPCs have a wish list & will be
> happy to receive any contribution to their parish resources eg census & PR
> material, photograph & postcard images, Trade Directory entries, Lay
Subsidy
> lists, Land Tax, Tithe apportionment lists etc. Even if you don't require
> the services of an OPC you might have some resources they could use to
help
> others. It doesn't hurt to offer & I would be surprised if you get a knock
> back. Right now I would like to get hold of the 1791 Universal Gazetteer
> entry for LYME REGIS (yes, Dorset I know but only just!) If anyone can
help
> me on this score I'd love to hear from them :-)
> Deborah
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jo" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Friday, August 08, 2003 6:45 AM
> Subject: RE: [DEV] OPC Scheme
>
>
> > I've never offered a comment before now on the Genuki sites but Chris's
> > mail below stirred me to respond. His comments are all perfect sense and
> > in turn, explain why so many people ask for personal help...the genuki
> > pages are fabulous but I have sometimes found links no longer work etc
> > or they can occasionally take you to pages where you get lost and
> > confused in jargon and never-ending links elsewhere...it starts to
> > become unwieldy...but there are - too- some excellent fantastic links.
> > We live a min' of 140 miles from any family ancestry locality of ours
> > and so visits to LDS/FHS's etc are impossible for us. We work full time,
> > like Chris. We belong to 5 genuki mail sites so get dozens of mails
> > daily plus our own business ones..but we stroll through each one in the
> > hope of finding a nugget of info'..or sometimes just general interest.
> >
> > Like many family tree researchers I'm neither an internet expert nor a
> > genealogy expert but have been amazed by the helpfulness of genuki
> > contributors...to the point we've tried to put something back ourselves
> > and next week we are taking a day out of our annual holiday to take some
> > pic's for a contributor from Australia in Devon of ancestral sites, and
> > my husband is just about to finish indexing the 1891 Plymouth census in
> > database format for others to use..as a way of saying thanks.
> >
> > I recently approached a gentleman from a website I was led to for
> > assistance and received an extremely rude response which alluded to me
> > being thick and had naughtily not read his house rules for applying for
> > assistance. If you're going to put info on the web then expect to be
> > asked questions! (In fact I had read his "rules" and had asked a
> > perfectly sensible question!)
> >
> > Before I get slapped by the off-topic police (OTP'S?) I'll go! Thanks
> > everyone!
> >
> > Jo/Cotswolds
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [mailto:]
> > Sent: 06 August 2003 23:33
> > To:
> > Subject: Re: [DEV] OPC Scheme
> >
> >
> > As I see it, the success of the OPC scheme has been to make available a
> > band
> > of dedicated volunteers who collate and pass on information about their
> > respective parishes.
> >
> > Like other OPCs, I took my turn to buy the DRO fiche parish registers
> > (which
> > vary from extensive to downright minimal) for quite a lot of money, and
> > I make
> > the information available to those that ask - and, in return, quite a
> > few
> > reciprocate with their own pedigrees, copy documents and so on. That's
> > fun,
> > useful and rewarding.
> >
> > I'm gradually transcribing the PRs so someday they can go on a website
> > and
> > Genuki, but like many others, I have a daytime job, 100 emails a day in
> > the
> > evening, and this all takes time. I still regard myself as an amateur. I
> > was the
> > guilty party a couple of weeks ago, 13 days to respond to research I
> > volunteered to provide (a week of which I was abroad). At the moment, I
> > hope we're doing
> > enough.
> >
> > I would just like to say that, at the beginning, it seemed like one way
> > traffic. Now I get so many contributions from other listers that my
> > indexes and
> > database are beginning to heave, that's really great. Add to that the
> > daily
> > exchanges about this and that family, all helps to build up a greater
> > knowledge of
> > the parishes we look after. Quite a few of us live hundreds of miles
> > from
> > them, some of us on the other side of the world to boot.
> >
> > Chris Graves
> > OPC Sidbury & Salcombe Regis
> >
> >
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