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*A very large percentage of the parish registers for Cornwall have been transcribed by the [[Cornwall Online Parish Clerks]] organization. The transcriptions generally contain all of the information that was entered into the registers, and the collection is comprised mainly of baptisms, banns, marriages, and burials. The database now contains more than two million names and is searchable online free of any cost. This can be found at [http://www.cornwall-opc-database.org/ http://www.cornwall-opc-database.org/] | *A very large percentage of the parish registers for Cornwall have been transcribed by the [[Cornwall Online Parish Clerks]] organization. The transcriptions generally contain all of the information that was entered into the registers, and the collection is comprised mainly of baptisms, banns, marriages, and burials. The database now contains more than two million names and is searchable online free of any cost. This can be found at [http://www.cornwall-opc-database.org/ http://www.cornwall-opc-database.org/] | ||
The [[Online Parish Clerks]] are unpaid volunteers, and an individual clerk may have data that has not yet been posted to the OPC database, nor available on Family Search. They can be contacted through the Cornwall OPC website and may be able to provide help and information that they have in their personal data collections. Some also have their own website, and when that is so, there is usually a link from the main OPC website at [ | The [[Online Parish Clerks]] are unpaid volunteers, and an individual clerk may have data that has not yet been posted to the OPC database, nor available on Family Search. They can be contacted through the Cornwall OPC website and may be able to provide help and information that they have in their personal data collections. Some also have their own website, and when that is so, there is usually a link from the main OPC website at [https://www.opc-cornwall.org/ https://www.opc-cornwall.org/] | ||
All of Cornwall's parishes are covered in [http://search.findmypast.co.uk/search-united-kingdom-records-in-birth-marriage-death-and-parish-records Boyd's Marriage Index] (£), though not all years from each parish are included. [http://web.archive.org/web/20101214095147/http://www.origins.net/help/aboutbo-bmi-parish-CORN.aspx Coverage]. Popular places to marry included the towns of [[Bodmin, Cornwall Genealogy|Bodmin]], [[Falmouth, Cornwall Genealogy|Falmouth]], [[Madron, Cornwall Genealogy|Madron]], [[Redruth, Cornwall Genealogy|Redruth]], and the [[Truro St Mary, Cornwall Genealogy|Church of St Mary in Truro]].<ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20101214095147/http://www.origins.net/help/aboutbo-bmi-parish-CORN.aspx 'Boyd's Marriage Index - Parish details by county,'] ''British Origins,'' (Wayback Machine) accessed 31 August 2013.</ref> | All of Cornwall's parishes are covered in [http://search.findmypast.co.uk/search-united-kingdom-records-in-birth-marriage-death-and-parish-records Boyd's Marriage Index] (£), though not all years from each parish are included. [http://web.archive.org/web/20101214095147/http://www.origins.net/help/aboutbo-bmi-parish-CORN.aspx Coverage]. Popular places to marry included the towns of [[Bodmin, Cornwall Genealogy|Bodmin]], [[Falmouth, Cornwall Genealogy|Falmouth]], [[Madron, Cornwall Genealogy|Madron]], [[Redruth, Cornwall Genealogy|Redruth]], and the [[Truro St Mary, Cornwall Genealogy|Church of St Mary in Truro]].<ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20101214095147/http://www.origins.net/help/aboutbo-bmi-parish-CORN.aspx 'Boyd's Marriage Index - Parish details by county,'] ''British Origins,'' (Wayback Machine) accessed 31 August 2013.</ref> | ||
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