Lancashire Online Parish Clerks

You can create a narrative and a source citation for all (eventually) the types of event that are found on LanOPC.

Currently available in the program are:

Baptisms
Marriages
Burials

To follow shortly are:

School Admissions
Workhouse Admissions
Churching
Confirmation
First Communion
Roll member

Using the formatter

This is a simple as pasting a block of Lan OPC data into the box and clicking ‘Cite this data’

Finf the data you want by search Lan OPC

Highlight a block of text by dragging the mouse across it or using whatever your chosen method of copying is and then copy it (Control + C on Windows)

Now open the program and navigate to the Lanc OPC Tab.Paste (Control + V) the data into the text box.

Now click on Cite This Data. Depending on the other settings you will get a citation or a citation and a narrative constructed from the text.

A Citation: ”’Marriage:”’ Citing Lancashire Online Parish Clerks ([https://www.lan-opc.org.uk/Search/indexp.html LanOPC]) and Event date/place: 21 Jun 1843 St George, Everton, Lancashire, England and ”’Charles Meredith and Eliza Wilson”’ and Marriages 1837 – 1848, Page 147, Entry 294 and LDS Film 2147913 and Medium: Web and Accessed: 21 Aug 2023 and Free to view (But you must search)

A Narrative: Charles Meredith of full age, Gent Farmer, a bachelor, Gloucester Place, married Eliza Wilson of full age, a spinster, Gloucester Place, on 21 Jun 1843 at St George, Everton, Lancashire, England. The couple were married by Licence and the ceremony was performed by J. B. Meredith Offg. Minister. The father of the groom was Rich.? Meredith, Gent farmer. The father of the bride was William Wilson, Cattle Broker. Witnesses to the ceremony were James Wilson and Caroline Massing.

The citation is inserted immediately after the date:

Charles Meredith of full age, Gent Farmer, a bachelor, Gloucester Place, married Eliza Wilson of full age, a spinster, Gloucester Place, on 21 Jun 1843¹ at St George, Everton, Lancashire, England. The couple were married by Licence and the ceremony was performed by J. B. Meredith Offg. Minister. The father of the groom was Rich.? Meredith, Gent farmer. The father of the bride was William Wilson, Cattle Broker. Witnesses to the ceremony were James Wilson and Caroline Massing.

Create narrative checkbox

This if ticked (default) produces a narrative and a citation. If not ticked only the citation is produced. There is no facility at this time to just create the narrative but it could not doubt be arranged if someone wanted it. If a citation only is being created the option to include or exclude the ref tags is available. The ref tags is a named tag so it can be referred to later in the profile.

Apply style

Applies various different formattings according to the current selection. No further details just at present. See the ‘Layout settings’ tab or the GRO page to get an idea of what this does.

Important

Where a line is split in the OPC text you must ‘un-split’ it otherwise the program will not read the line correctly

For example:

Baptism: 4 Jun 1731 St Peter, Liverpool, Lancashire, England
James Merrideath –
Notes: [James entered as Christian name. The entry then reads:] Davis Merrideath. A
child about 12 years old.
Register: Baptisms 1704 – 1737, Page 65, Entry 48
Source: LDS Film 1656376

Should have the break between A and child removed thus:

Baptism: 4 Jun 1731 St Peter, Liverpool, Lancashire, England
James Merrideath –
Notes: [James entered as Christian name. The entry then reads:] Davis Merrideath. A child about 12 years old. (all one line)
Register: Baptisms 1704 – 1737, Page 65, Entry 48
Source: LDS Film 1656376

This produces the text:

===1731 Baptism===
:James Merrideath was baptised at St Peter, Liverpool, Lancashire, England on 4 Jun 1731.² Notes: [James entered as Christian name. The entry then reads:] Davis Merrideath. A child about 12 years old.

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