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| | Dorset Online Parish Clerk Project |
 | | An Online Parish Clerk (OPC) researches all the available historical data they can find on a parish, records are transcribed, and in order to promote further private research, are made FREELY available to any researcher. |
 | | This will include census, parish transcripts, bishop's transcripts and churchwardens accounts, overseers accounts, land tax records, postal directory extracts, church and village histories, etc. An OPC is a volunteer and should not be confused with the civil Parish Clerk appointed by a Parish Council. |
 | | There are about 275 parishes in Dorset and so far we have some data online for 274 of them, with OPC's covering 145 of these parishes. |
| www.dorset-opc.com (490 words) |
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