projects
Latest update: March 2009
Last year we successfully completed three projects.
The CD entitled Boatmen & Their Families was published. This CD includes extracts from various sources of records and also a series of then & now photographs of the Leeds & Liverpool canal.
The project to record the Memorial Inscriptions at St. Johns C of E Church, Burscough was also completed. The Church Officers have been most helpful & supportive with this project.
We have produced a CD of the M.Is, priced at #12. As there were about 4,000 graves to be transcribed, we used photographs to help our transcription team. These photos fit on a DVD and are available separately or included with the M.Is for a total of #15.00.
We have been very pleased to receive very positive comments about this CD & DVD set.
The CD of Catholic records of Births, Marriages and Burials in Scarisbrick has also become available. We are indebted to one of our members for all the hard work that has made this possible. There are very few sources of early catholic records and this CD has enjoyed steady sales.
We are also pleased to report that making it possible to buy online, via The Parish Chest has found favour with a number of customers and some members are even using this facility to renew their membership. However, please dont forget that buying direct from us, using a cheque, gives members a 10% reduction on the cost of the CDs.
Two other projects are nearing completion. As with all our projects, (including the massive Burscough M.Is project) our final stage of quality control is to check the printed information against the real thing. The winter weather has not been conducive to carrying out the final checks on our two outstanding projects: Hesketh with Becconsall M.Is and St. Andrews C. of E., Maghull, M. Is. We hope to publish both of them during this spring.
We have been informed that the Liverpool & S.W. Lancs. FHS has already transcribed St. Cuthberts C. of E., Halsall and they hope to publish that soon. We are keeping in touch with St. Cuthberts to discover if they have any other records we may be able to publish.
Our records of St. Peter & St. Pauls Church, Ormskirk (the Parish Church) were completed in 1995. Two years ago we updated the format of the CD so that it could be used on modern PCs. We have been asked to update the index, which is only in surname format. It would certainly speed searching if Christian names & dates were included. In 1995, the original transcribers did not have access to suitable computer programs but we will begin this work soon.