I can help with all resources marked , copyright permitting.

Many of the Cornwall Family History Society publications are still in print at a reasonable cost. If you require a significant amount of information from one parish then I would suggest that you purchase the volume. They now have an online catalogue for all that they sell but this page is provided as a convenient summary of those of interest to West Penwith researchers. The CFHS also offers a surname search of their database of over 4,000,000 entries from the whole of Cornwall for a very reasonable fee. This includes Marriages, Census, Burials, MIs (these links show further details) and much more. Most (but not all) of this data is now online at the FFHS site Family History Online where a search is free but the details are charged (at a modest rate)

Correct to August 2009. The society’s publications department is undergoing a major overhaul at the moment so the printed catalogue and online shop may not reflect what is actually available. If what you are looking for is missing then I suggest that you contact them drekly.

All publications, apart from the older marriage indexes, are available on CD in PDF format (and at lower cost). In the case of Census, these are in “as enumerated” order rather than alphabetical as they are in the booklets. When stocks of printed booklets run out, they will produce printouts to order but it will be interesting to see if they can maintain the quality. Publications are also available by download (In practice they mean by email) saving the postage costs. Personally, I think I would prefer to have something tangible when ordering a publication.

All the MI indexes have been removed from the catalogue—I know that they have been unhappy with the quality of these publications for some time and I hope that revised editions will become available soon. In the mean time I may be able to assist with enquiries.

	Publications available		Older publications §
	Marriages Pre 1837 ‡	Burials 1813–37	Census			MIs	Marriages
			1841	1861	1871		1813–37	Pre 1813 ¤
St. Buryan			–	–			†	†
Gulval			–			–	†	% †
St. Ives			–	–			†	†
St. Just in Penwith			–	–
Lelant			–	–
St. Levan			–	–
Ludgvan			–	–
Madron			–	–				¶
Morvah			–	–
Paul			–	–
Penzance St. Mary	–		–	–	–		–	–
Sancreed			–	–
Sennen				–
Towednack			–	–
Zennor			–	–	#

Additional MI publications (now discontinued)

	MIs §
Barnoon (St. Ives)
Carbis Bay
Crowlas Methodist (Ludgvan)
Crows-an-wra Methodist(St. Buryan)
Escalls Bible Christian (Sennen)
Halsetown
Heamoor Cemetery (Penzance, incorrectly marked “Heamoor Wesleyan”)
St. Just Cemetery
St. Just Wesleyan
Madron Cemetery
Newlyn St. Peter
Paul Cholera
Paul Sheffield Road
Pendeen
Penzance Jewish (Roman letter inscriptions only)
Penzance St. John
Penzance St. Paul
Tregerest Methodist (Sancreed)

• or = publication available, indicates that I have not received my copy yet.
• † = Publication superceded.
• § = Possibly discontinued, no longer listed in catalogue. I can help if a lookup is required but note that they have probably been discontinued because they have been discovered to be incomplete e.g. Lelant MI does not include the adjoining cemetery extension.
• ¤ = Index of Phillimore transcript.
• ‡ = Definitive index to 1837 compiled using all available sources. This edition effectively superceeds the separate Phillimore and 1813–37 indexes.
• % = Includes transcript by Millet & Bolitho 1893.
• ¶ = Includes transcript by Millett 1877.
• # = Early printed editions of this volume were faulty, check that the alphabet extends beyond “T”.

Quaker Marriages 1813–37 and Quaker Burials 1813–37 are covered by separate volumes for the whole of Cornwall. There is also a curious little volume (no longer listed) in the “Burials 1813–37” series which contains all burials in Cornwall between the 1^st and 15^th July 1837. This is to catch those who died before civil registration but were buried after it started and hence would be missed by a search.

Other publications