I am proud to be the Online Parish Clerk for Ottery St Mary, Devon, England, and am taking this opportunity to outline what an Online Parish Clerk actually is. Taken from the GENUKI Devon page on this subject:
"The concept of an Online Parish Clerk (OPC), which
originated in discussion on the CORNISH-L mailing list, involves
identifying volunteers, one or more per Parish, who will act as a
focus for gathering together transcriptions and name indexes
related to that Parish (which are not already readily available
elsewhere). The notion of Online Parish Clerks should in no way be
confused with that of the official (i.e. Parish Council-appointed)
Parish Clerks. All OPCs are unpaid volunteers who are willing to
assist others in their genealogical research...The term OPC as used here, refers to a repositor of genealogically
related materials such as (but not limited to) Church register
transcripts, land tax assessments and census information, and the
OPC should in no way be confused with the County Council appointed
Parish Clerks. All OPCs are unpaid volunteers who are willing to
assist others in their genealogical research."
Currently, there are Online Parish Clerk schemes running in the following counties: Cornwall, Dorset, Kent, Somerset, Sussex, Warwickshire, and
Wiltshire.
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