“Could you recheck your entry for me please?; one of us must be wrong.” (IA) “Just been looking through your M.I. disc of St. Mary's. No. 837 was one of our Banfield's and when you looked and noted just a base, the stone was away, being repaired. I have enclosed a photo of the repaired stone and below is the inscription from it.” (RB)

CIP : Some stones are difficult to read and, of course, we do make mistakes. Amendments are entered in the database as soon as received. The Registers are printed &/or burnt to order and so the additions / corrections will appear as soon as we are notified. We are delighted to receive snippets of information that help in the understanding of a memorial, for instance married / maiden names, dates of death (when not on the headstone), remarriages and help with those bits we could not transcribe.

“I see that you have numbered the parishes - what numbers are these? Is there any reason why you don't use the CRO numbers?” (RP)

CIP : The Cornwall Record Office allocated their numbers on an alphabetical basis e.g. Advent=1, Zennor=255. The map of ecclesiastical parishes produced by the CRO (and apparently used by other organisations including the Cornish Studies Centre and CFHS) enables you to find a parish by the use of a grid system, slightly confused by a separate listing of the modern parishes from the ancient parishes. The CIP survey is being conducted on a modern parish basis. We needed a logical map with numbering beginning at one end of the County and finishing at the opposite end. We also needed to make sure we fully understood the parish locations and their relationship with each other and the Registration Districts. Rather painfully, we drew up our own map, using information from the County Council Registration Service, OS maps of the 1920s which had been marked up with the ecclesiastical parish boundaries (these do not always coincide with the civil parish boundaries). We now have our own unique parish map, A3 size, which neatly fits in with the reference systems used in the database, in the Registers and in the photographic archive.

“Many thanks are not enough ... so thank you from the heart for the pictures” (J).

“Thank you, I have already found names I recognise! “(CC)

“Thank you for sending me the URL for the web site, I found dad there on Scilly and then looked at Mount Hawke and found my mother in law. There were a number of other names I recognised on Scilly too.” (C)

CIP : It is great to learn that the Project is ‘on message’.

“Congratulations on your web site. I found it very easy to navigate and you've obviously done a lot of work. The only thing I couldn't find on it was how to get more details for each inscription.” (CB)

I've seen the site (Mexican Register) which gives Cornishmen's names and a CIP reference number. Is it your CD rom that gives all the information relating to that reference number or how do we access that information? Your help would be appreciated.” (GR)

CIP : Whilst we would prefer you to buy a CD or booklet (the project cannot easily survive without some form of pay back) we do appreciate that you may be only interested in one memorial and that even then the information we have on that may be quite limited. Try sending an E-mail requesting the information (please quote the CIP reference), sometimes we are in a good mood.

“Hi Mike Thank you for your help, it was a lot of use. I have since handed in my coursework on the memorial and my history teacher gave me an A* so I am over the moon! Thank you again. With much gratitude.” (KP)