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Title: Cornwall PRs
Post by: nort on Saturday 07 August 10 16:40 BST (UK)

hi all,i know a lot of people in the north east will have ancestors from Cornwall that came up to work in the coal mines and i have just found out that the parish registers from that county are online now at http://pilot.familysearch.org

click search then europe and go down to England Cornwall.Happy hunting.

Steve

Title: Re: Cornwall PRs
Post by: Avril3 on Wednesday 01 September 10 23:51 BST (UK)

Hi Steve
Thanks so much for the tip about the Cornwall records.  They are fantastic! 
I have used the Northumberland Bishops Transcripts records on the family search site before, but these are the actual Cornwall parish records, and so complete!
I have been researching the family tree of an aunt whose grandmother came from Cornwall, and a lot of the stuff I had found from family trees via Ancestry has now been verified by seeing the original records.  I have even found a baptism in 1602.  So far I have saved 53 pages, and still going...
Thanks again
Regards
Avril

Title: Re: Cornwall PRs
Post by: nort on Thursday 02 September 10 15:33 BST (UK)

hi Avril,same here i have confirmed a lot of my Cornish side of the family tree using these PRs,its fantastic to view the originals,i could hardly believe it when they came online.Also came across some new ones as well.

Steve