We are a worldwide group of volunteers who endeavour to provide free information about a parish, its people and history, to assist family historians. We try to collect information about our ancestors and how they lived, not just about when they were born, baptised, married, died and were buried. 

*An OPC should not be confused with a Parish Council appointed Clerk (Clerk to the Parish Council).*

1. Each OPC endeavours to collect, collate and compile reference material for their chosen parish or parishes in the form of transcripts, extracts, abstracts and indexes of original source records.

2. Data is collected from as many sources as can be accessed, including census records, parish registers, cemetery records and parish histories. The emphasis is on genealogy, but is not limited to that alone.

3. Each OPC considers possible copyright, data protection and privacy issues and, to the best of his/her ability, avoids the misuse of data.

4. All information is provided to researchers on the understanding any transcripts are, at best, a secondary source and only a guide. As errors may occur, original documents should always be checked.

5.  An OPC aims to distribute material free of charge and will never ask a researcher for a fee or donation. That distribution can include publishing to a website.

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Counties / Geographical Areas

Links to websites:

Cornwall

Cumberland / Westmorland

Devon

Dorset

Essex

Hampshire

Lancashire

Leicestershire

Somerset

Sussex

Warwickshire

Wiltshire? - website not updated recently