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Hello Fellow Researchers
Through the Kent OPC project, I hope to be able to fulfill the vision of the original Dorset OPC organizers for a County OPC as well as to foster the growth and evolution of the Kent OPC into a well-rounded research facility for all family history seekers having Kent roots. This site is complex and ever-growing. It is constantly undergoing changes - some small and unnoticeable, some significant.
Growing any OPC project takes time. Foremost, growth of the Kent OPC project rests on the extraordinary effort and dedication of our OPCs, who provide transcripts of records and lookup services for you, our readers. You, too, can have a vital role in keeping this project alive. I need each of you and wish to take this opportunity, now, to thank you for your ongoing participation in the Kent OPC project.
At the commencement of my involvement with the Kent OPC project a new webpage design was implemented. With the advancement in web coding, and the additional utilities afforded by our switch of hosting company in December 2008 a re-design of the site with a content management system ("CMS") was instituted. Unfortunately, constant successful hacking of that website eventually lead to the move of the Kent Online Parish Clerk's website to yet another new web host. Unfortunately, the content management system did not transfer properly from the old host so until I can clear the time to develop a fresh installation of that system I have reverted this site back to its previous incarnation from October 2008. Please bear with me while all of the design developments are put in place.
The first noticeable difference is the web name assigned to the Kent OPC home page. You will have to update your links to this page as your old bookmarks or favourites' link will no longer be active. Please note that it is now:
www.kent-opc.org/index.html
I am happy to announce that we have added a new facility to our OPC project - the Kent Family Garden where those with Kent ancestry are welcome to submit a GEDCOM for upload to the site. It can be accessed by going to this link:
www.kent-opc.org/opcfamilydata/index.php
Kent OPC Statistics:
| Searches on this site Dec. 18, 2006 to Dec 18, 2008: | 11,409 |
| Successful searches on this site June 15, 2009 to July 22, 2010: | 24,980,509 |
| Successful page views by authenticated users June 15, 2009 to July 22, 2010: | 3,212,278
(32,721 in past 7 days) |
| Unique visitors to the site June 15, 2009 to July 22, 2010: | 88,022 |
| Total Number of visitors to the site June 15, 2009 to July 22, 2010: | 103,066 |
| Number of times website was visited by direct address, bookmark or email link: | 100,724
(Jun 15, 2009 to July 22, 2010) |
| Number of times website was visited from an Internet Search Engine link: | 104,615
(Jun 15, 2009 to July 22, 2010) |
| Website pages currently online: | 564 |
| Kent parishes currently online: | 217 |
Busiest days of the week during July, 2010:
1. Tuesday
2. Wednesday
3. Monday |
Top 11 pages by popularity of visits during July, 2010:
Kent Family Garden, Parish List, Cemeteries, Registration Districts, Pubs and Brewers, Addresses, Research Tips, County Records, Families, Census, Maps |
Top 10 parishes by popularity of visits during July, 2010:
Beckenham, Plumsted, Ashford, Margate, Sheerness/Sheppey, Chatham, Faversham, Eastry, Lyminge, Deal |
| Greatest number of readers during July, 2010 are coming from Great Britain, United States of America in second, Australia in third, Canada in fourth, followed by the New Zealand, other European countries, and Ireland.
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| Other countries where readers are from include Germany, France, Romania, Spain, Netherlands, South Africa, Switzerland, Belgium, Cyprus, Israel. |
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Information wanted!
Anyone that has an interest in Deal, Deal area shipwrecks and/or the Finnis family from Deal, click here.
For a guide to OPC projects, please read the Introduction page.
Do you wish to contact us or volunteer?
Other OPC Projects
Cornwall
Cumberland & Westmorland
Devon
Dorset
Essex
Hampshire
Lancashire
Leicestershire
Somerset, now including Bristol
Sussex
Warwickshire
Wiltshire
OPC co-ordinators if your site is not listed above please get in contact and I will add it to the list.
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How this Site Works
There are two separate navigation menus. One located at the bottom of the top header containing static links to the Home page, the parish list, the Kent Family Garden and other. These links will not change. The second navigation menu is located along the left side of each web page and may change over time. Each navigation menu contains links to separate pages on this website, into many of which other web pages and web sites have been linked. The sub-pages, in turn, contain transcripts, extracts, abstracts and indices of many Kent records.
For example, to locate what information is available for a particular parish, click on the link in the top menu bar that reads "Parish List". On the Parish List, read down the page to find the parish in which you are interested. If the parish name is in blue then pages have been established for that parish. Clicking on the parish name will trigger that particular parish page to open. Once on the individual parish page, you will learn if an OPC is available for that parish and also find links to records, photographs, news, and families associated with that parish.
Every page in this web site has a link to this Home page. So, if you wish to change to another area of this web site but cannot find a direct link to a resource you wish to view, return to this Home page and follow the link from here. The parish pages, as well as any pages associated with a parish, have links back to the main Parish List as well as back to the home page of the parish.
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