CORNISH RESEARCH ON THE INTERNET Yvonne Bowers with Judy Powell 14th Annual Gathering Keweenaw, MI. July 25-29, 2007.

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CORNISH RESEARCH ON THE INTERNET Yvonne Bowers with Judy Powell 14th Annual Gathering Keweenaw, MI. July 25-29, 2007

AGENDA Introduction Resources Methodology & Plan Discussion Demo

RESOURCES Message Boards Mailing Lists Websites Online Databases Lookup Volunteers Subscriptions

MESSAGE BOARDS “Bulletin Board” or BBS Can often post attachments Are sometimes “gatewayed” Searchable

Sample MB Post from Rootsweb Message Board - Cornwall St.Mewan,Courts family. Replies: 2 St.Mewan,Courts family. New Posted: 16 May :33PM GMT Classification: Query Surnames: courts lm wondering if anyone has any information on my ancestor Thomas Courts born 29th September 1729,his father was James Courts,ld love to know more about the family as lve only just traced them back to St. Mewan from Fowey. thanks very Much Val. * Reply * Report Abuse * Print

MAILING LISTS Often Require Free Subscription Digest versus List Requires “Selective” Reading Community of People Lookups & Leads Rootsweb, Yahoo, Google

Sample List Message From: "Jacqueline Hill" Subject: [CORNISH-GEN] British Prisoners of War Archives Date: Thu, 03 May :06: Hopefully the following might be of help to someone. From the National Archives: British prisoners of war: interviews and reports Prisoners of War (Cat. ref. FO 383/413) You can now search and download First World War interviews and reports for over 3,000 named individuals. These reports have previously been available online, but we have just completed a project to improve access to them by enabling you to search for them by the names of the authors of each report. Jackie Hill Researching: PIDWELL

FREE DATABASES FreeBMD Cornwall Online Census Project OPC

CORNWALL ONLINE CENSUS PROJECT Started in September 2000 Mission: To transcribe and place online (free-to- view) the 19th century census returns for Cornwall. 100% Complete: 1841, 1861 & % Complete: % Complete: is fully transcribed (needs checking) Volunteers Needed: Images are supplied on disk Software is provided Requires a few hours work a week. Contact Michael McCormick

VOLUNTEERS OPC Cornish Lookup Library FindaGrave.Com raogk.org

SUBSCRIPTION DATABASES Ancestry.com Genealogy.com HeritageQuest FindMyPast.com

METHODOLOGY BE ORGANIZED ARRANGE FOLDERS (SURNAME/REGION/TYPE) BOOKMARK & ORGANIZE SITES FILE IMPORTANT CORRESPONDENCE HAVE A FILING SYSTEM PRINT & FILE SAVE & FILE PRINT DOCUMENTS (I.E. CENSUS FORMS) CONSIDER A FAMILY FILE (Reunion/FTM)

PLAN Check Out Government sites Look at maps Discover which offices take care of what Understand ordering information Visit GENUKI Visit sites which cover an entire county (such as the OPC website) Visit FreeBMD and Free Census Visit websites for specific areas or parishes - and be sure to check indexes and links.

DISCUSSION Q&A

THANK YOU and HAPPY HUNTING Presentation & Handout Available via

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