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-'''Online Parish Clerks''' are a worldwide group of volunteers who endeavour to provide free information about a parish, its people and history, to assist family historians. They collect information about how people lived, not just about when they were born, baptised, married, died/buried.
+'''Online Parish Clerks''' are a collection of volunteer groups that seek to transcribe genealogical information in English counties. Each county has its own group, which transcribes the parish records (and occasionally other genealogical records) from the different towns in the county.
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-== External Links  ==
+== List of Online Parish Clerks ==
-* [http://www.ukbmd.org.uk/online_parish_clerk UK Online Parish Clerks] at UKBMD
+The following OPC groups cover entire counties:
-* [http://cornwall-opc.org Cornwall Online Parish Clerks]
+* [http://www.opc-cornwall.org/ Cornwall]
-* [http://cornwall-opc-database.org Cornwall Online Parish Clerks Database]
+* [http://www.cumberlandarchives.co.uk/component/option,com_frontpage/Itemid,1/ Cumberland and Westmorland]
+* [http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/DEV/OPCproject Devon]
+* [http://www.opcdorset.org/ Dorset]
+* [http://www.knightroots.co.uk/ Hampshire]
+* [http://kent-opc.org/ Kent]
+* [http://www.lan-opc.org.uk/ Lancashire]
+* [http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~engleiopc/ Leicestershire]
+* [http://wsom-opc.org.uk/ Somerset]
+* [http://www.sussex-opc.org Sussex]
+* [http://www.hunimex.com/warwick/opc/opc.html Warwickshire]
+* [http://www.wiltshire-opc.org.uk/ Wiltshire]
+In addition to these, many OPC groups focus on individual parishes or parts of a county. A list of these can be found here: [http://www.ukbmd.org.uk/online_parish_clerk UK Online Parish Clerks] at UKBMD
 [[Category:England Online Research Sites]]
 [[Category:Online Parish Clerks| ]]