Todays blog is based around celebration. The OPC team would like to express their congratulations to Susan Penter and Michael Pearson on their forthcoming marriage in Leeds on Saturday 20th June. We wish them every happiness for the future as they commence their life together. I thought this song may be appropriate for them both. […]
Sunday – June 7th – Flaming June
Well June is here and it wasn’t greeted with a happy summer feeling in more ways than one. Sadly the blog is waning (certainly not melting in the heat) am still using the heater when I am at the computer and the number of spelling errors the checker picks up shows you how cold my […]
Sunday 31st May – Wow 7th Week of Blogging
Where does the time go!!!!!!!!!!!! This week has been a little quieter in that I have had time to load quite a few new items to the website. A full list of everything held on the website can be found on the home page under statistics. This list is updated on the first day of […]
Sunday 24th May 2015 – Mixed Feelings
Well today finds me a little sad – it’s the end of the football season but I am happy in that Stoke City have once more reached a top ten finish in the English Premier League. On the bright side that gives me another 2 hours a week to work on transcribing and uploading and […]
Sunday 17th May 2015 – Busy Busy Busy
I faced the week without my assistant Cathy who decided to break her internet connection and take some time off – only kidding she did lose her internet for a while but was not idle she was working on census returns and other bits and pieces for her parishes happily to say she is back […]
Sunday May 10th – Time Flies
Well here we are again – Its Sunday and blog day. After the recent election (not going to get political) Marion Swindells OPC for the Teffont Parishes & Burcombe has posted a couple of election related snippets on our Facebook Page. I have found this BBC Clip of MP John Glenkeeping up tradition in 2010. Thanks to all those who […]
Sunday 3rd May 2015 – Chit Chat
Hi all – as promised here is the weekly blog. Some of you will know that I have created a meet the team page, just a pic and what their role is within the project plus a small snippet about their interests. I hope in future to feature each of the team individually but written […]
Sunday 26th April 2015 – Initial (Thinks I Know What I am Doing)
Since I set up the idea of using a blog to get the Wiltshire OPC Project to reach out to more people I have been pondering as to what I should write about. I thought perhaps it would be a good idea to tell people a little bit more about the project and the people […]
Update to first blog entry
I shall update the blog weekly on Sundays. I shall include news about Parishes that have been updated with information and about the OPCs activity too. I will also include links to different areas of the website – hopefully to make our users more aware of what we have available for them to start us […]
Hello world!
Have finally joined the world of blogging – I am the administrator of the Wiltshire OPC project Our aim is to provide a free support network for anything related to Wiltshire Genealogy and edging into the local and social history sectors. We are a group of around 8o volunteers worldwide who spend various amounts of […]