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 The Cornish Studies Library at the Cornwall Centre in Redruth [http://www.cornwall.gov.uk/index.cfm?articleid=6773 http://www.cornwall.gov.uk/index.cfm?articleid=6773]&nbsp;is a vital repository of information with many collections, including microfilms of all the main Cornish newspapers up to the present day, many dating back to the mid 18th century.&nbsp; &nbsp;The Courtenay Library at the Royal Cornwall Museum in Truro&nbsp; [http://www.royalcornwallmuseum.org.uk/ http://www.royalcornwallmuseum.org.uk/]&nbsp;has printed books and periodicals covering the history of Cornwall from the prehistoric to the modern period.&nbsp; It also has important collections of archives of Cornish families and historic photographs.&nbsp; The websites give more detailed information about their collections.
-Another invaluable resource is provided by the Cornwall Online Parish Clerks. This is a volunteer organization that has a free large database of baptisms (christenings), marriages, banns, and burials with excellent coverage of a number of parishes. There are also online clerks for nearly all of the more than 200 parishes, who on a free and voluntary basis will respond to questions, and many will&nbsp;do lookups in databases to which they have access. Some of them maintain their own website with extensive databases of these events that can be freely accessed. Their database&nbsp;also has&nbsp;information which has been submitted from birth, marriage, and death certificates that&nbsp;individuals have&nbsp;obtained from the Government Record Office. The home page of the OPC site&nbsp;has more details about their services and is accessed at&nbsp;[http://www.cornwall-opc.org/ http://www.cornwall-opc.org/]&nbsp; The searchable database may be accessed directly at [http://www.cornwall-opc-database.org/ http://www.cornwall-opc-database.org/] and is free to anyone. The database contains about 2 million entries, and more are being added frequently.
+Another invaluable resource is provided by the Cornwall Online Parish Clerks. This is a volunteer organization that has a free large database of baptisms (christenings), marriages, banns, and burials with excellent coverage of a number of parishes. There are also online clerks for nearly all of the more than 200 parishes, who on a free and voluntary basis will respond to questions, and many will&nbsp;do lookups in databases to which they have access. Some of them maintain their own website with extensive databases of these events that can be freely accessed. Their database&nbsp;also has&nbsp;information which has been submitted from birth, marriage, and death certificates that&nbsp;individuals have&nbsp;obtained from the Government Record Office. The home page of the OPC site&nbsp;has more details about their services and is accessed at&nbsp;[http://www.cornwall-opc.org/ http://www.cornwall-opc.org/]&nbsp; The searchable database may be accessed directly at [http://www.cornwall-opc-database.org/ http://www.cornwall-opc-database.org/] and is free to anyone. The database contains&nbsp;more than&nbsp;2 million entries, and more are being added frequently.
-There is an ongoing project with transcriptions from the historic newspaper “[http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~wbritonad The West Briton and Cornwall Advertiser]” of the 19th century, which is still being printed today.&nbsp; Transcriptions include not only all BMDs published (including those of Cornish people in foreign climes),but accidents, Coroner’s Inquiries, all trials of the Quarter Sessions and Assizes, and local news and advertisements. The free website has searchable archives of the papers that have been transcribed.
+There is an ongoing project with transcriptions from the historic newspaper “[http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~wbritonad The West Briton and Cornwall Advertiser]” of the 19th century, which is still being printed today.&nbsp; Transcriptions include not only all BMDs published (including those of Cornish people in foreign climes), but also&nbsp;accidents, Coroner’s Inquiries, all trials of the Quarter Sessions and Assizes, and local news and advertisements. The free website has searchable archives of the papers that have been transcribed.
-Many parish records have been extracted by the LDS Church and may be found in the IGI. The Hugh Wallis index of IGI batch numbers, which also gives the coverage in Cornwall by parish and years, is found at [http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~hughwallis/IGIBatchNumbers/CountyCornwall.htm http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~hughwallis/IGIBatchNumbers/CountyCornwall.htm]&nbsp;&nbsp; A map of Cornish parishes can be found online at&nbsp;[http://www.cornwalleng.com/parishmap3.gif http://www.cornwalleng.com/parishmap3.gif]&nbsp;&nbsp;When parish records are not available or have&nbsp;been lost, that information may sometimes&nbsp;be found in the bishops transcripts.&nbsp;&nbsp; Despite the fact that the Church of England (Anglican) is the established church in Cornwall, a major part of the population turned to Methodism and other smaller groups (of which the Bible Christian Movement was the largest).&nbsp; By the mid 19th century there were more Methodists than Anglicans in&nbsp;Cornwall, which must be remembered by all researchers, as a search of only the Church of England parish records would miss information for more than half the population during the 19th century.&nbsp; Methodism was especially dominant in the mining districts of Western Cornwall.&nbsp; However, until at least 1837, nearly all marriages were in the Anglican Churches, even among the Methodists.&nbsp; One must also know that burial&nbsp;of many Methodists continued to&nbsp;take place&nbsp;in the Anglican Church cemeteries.
+Many parish records have been extracted by the LDS Church and may be found in the IGI, with the transcription of&nbsp;excerpts of the information from those parish&nbsp;records also to be found in the Family Search Historical Records Collection.&nbsp; Indexed images art not yet available on Family Search. A few browsable images (unindexed, but with waypoints) are beginning to appear in the Family Search Historical Records Collection.&nbsp; The Hugh Wallis index of IGI batch numbers, which also gives the coverage in Cornwall by parish and years, is found at [http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~hughwallis/IGIBatchNumbers/CountyCornwall.htm http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~hughwallis/IGIBatchNumbers/CountyCornwall.htm]&nbsp;&nbsp;
+A map of Cornish parishes can be found online at&nbsp;[http://www.cornwalleng.com/parishmap3.gif http://www.cornwalleng.com/parishmap3.gif]&nbsp;&nbsp;When parish records are not available or have&nbsp;been lost, that information may sometimes&nbsp;be found in the bishops transcripts.&nbsp;&nbsp; Despite the fact that the Church of England (Anglican) is the established church in Cornwall, a major part of the population turned to Methodism and other smaller groups (of which the Bible Christian Movement was the largest).&nbsp; By the mid 19th century there were more Methodists than Anglicans in&nbsp;Cornwall, which must be remembered by all researchers, as a search of only the Church of England parish records would miss information for more than half the population during the 19th century.&nbsp; Methodism was especially dominant in the mining districts of Western Cornwall.&nbsp; However, until at least 1837, nearly all marriages were in the Anglican Churches, even among the Methodists.&nbsp; One must also know that burial&nbsp;of many Methodists continued to&nbsp;take place&nbsp;in the Anglican Church cemeteries.
 The original Methodist Registers can be seen at the Cornwall Record Office, and much has been filmed by the LDS Church and is in the Family History Library collection. The Family History Library also has filmed a large part of the parish records in Cornwall, as well as parish chest, probate, and other records. The online catalog on [http://www.familysearch.org www.familysearch.org] is easily searchable where one can see what is available in the Family History Library. The GENUKI pages on Cornwall and each individual parish also give a comprehensive listing of what records are available in the Family History Library as well as records from other sources.
-In addition to the large databases which can be accessed on the usual commercial sites, such as Ancestry.com or FindMyPast.co.uk, there are excellent searchable databases available without cost. The most accurate census transcriptions (because they were done by Cornish people familiar with the names and places) are found at the Cornwall Online Census Project at [http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~kayhin/ukocp.html http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~kayhin/ukocp.html].&nbsp;The UK Census Online (FreeCEN), while not uniquely Cornish, is also valuable and will often yield positive results when other sites providing the census&nbsp;fail to find the person sought, because the search function allows a phonetic search of surnames. This is found at [http://www.freecen.org.uk/ http://www.freecen.org.uk/]. The civil registration indexes are also available, as part of all those for England and Wales at [http://www.freebmd.org.uk/ http://www.freebmd.org.uk/]. Not all entries after 1915 on most sites have been indexed for searchability, but the indexing and search capability for the BMD's from 1837-2005 has been completed on Ancestry.com.
+In addition to the large databases which can be accessed on the usual commercial sites, such as Ancestry.com or FindMyPast.co.uk, there are excellent searchable databases available without cost. The most accurate census transcriptions (because they were done by Cornish people familiar with the names and places) are found at the Cornwall Online Census Project at [http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~kayhin/ukocp.html http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~kayhin/ukocp.html].&nbsp;The UK Census Online (FreeCEN), while not uniquely Cornish, is also valuable and will often yield positive results when other sites providing the census&nbsp;fail to find the person sought, because the search function allows a phonetic search of surnames. This is found at [http://www.freecen.org.uk/ http://www.freecen.org.uk/]. The civil registration indexes are also available, as part of all those for England and Wales at [http://www.freebmd.org.uk/ http://www.freebmd.org.uk/]. Not all entries after 1915 on most sites have been indexed for searchability, but the indexing and search capability for the BMD's from 1837-2005 has been completed on Ancestry.com and FindMyPast.co.uk.
 There are transcriptions of important records available from commercial sources on CD, perhaps the most important early database being the 1641 Cornwall Protestation Returns, where every male above the age of 18 was required to take an oath to follow the "true Protestant religion."&nbsp; This is essentially the equivalent of a census of all adult males in Cornwall.&nbsp; Also available are other early sources, such as the military muster of 1569, the subsidies of 1524, 1543, and 1545, the hearth and poll taxes of 1660-1664.&nbsp; Transcriptions on CD of a number of parish records are available for purchase from commercial sites, and transcriptions of all known Methodist/Bible Christian records in Cornwall up to 1900 are also available from commercial sources.
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 There are many additional resources available on the internet with information about the history of Cornwall and the Cornish people that can be very helpful in genealogical research. There are also "lists" or message boards devoted to the inquiries and sharing of information about Cornish family History.
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