California Cornish Cousins

Links to Cornish Sources

Cornish Email Lists

• CORNISH-L
• CORNISH-GEN
• CORNISH-ANCESTORS
• CORNISH-FAMILY
• CORNWALL-AUSTRALIA

Family History & Genealogy

• Old Cornwall Societies Federation of Old Cornwall Societies
• Cornwall GenWeb Part of the World GenWeb project, this site features genealogical data on persons of Cornish ancestry, including wills, Bible records. obituaries and other information that may not be available elsewhere on the internet.
• The Cornish Online Census Project
• The 1891 Census of Cornwall Transcription
• Hunter's Cornish Gen Ref
• CornishRoots
• Gen UKI UK & Irish Genealogical resources, including Cornwall
• West Penwith Resources
• Join the Cornish on E-mail Roster: Send name and e-mail address to Tom Tuttle, manager of the roster. Includes persons of Cornish ancestry in the United States, Canada, Australia, and the United Kingdom.
• Cornwall Family History Society
• Colin Roe's Genealogy Page
• Dunkerley Family Celtic & Cornish Web Page
• Mebyon Kernow Page in Australia
• soc.culture.celtic newgroup FAQ
• St Piran's Day - March 5th
• Cornish Studies Library (CSL)
• Cornwall Online's Genealogy Pages -- data bases here
• St Catherine's Marriage Index
• Medieval Studies.
• Emigration to the U.S. and the British Colonies - by Cornwall Online
• Old Maps.co.uk - An online library of historical maps of Great Britain (including Cornwall).

Language

• Kesva Cornish Language Board
• Kernowek Standard: An orthography for the Cornish Language
• Radyo an Gernewegva
• Kowethas An Yeth Kernewek
• Gaelic Dictionaries Online earchable On-line dictionaries of Phil Kelly's Manx-English dictionary, several Scottish Gaelic / Gàidhligdictionaries, and several Irish Gaelic / Gaeilge dictionaries and databases.
• Glossary of Cornish Place Names

Magazines & Newspapers

• Cornwall Online The Cornish Internet magazine. All you need to know about Cornwall
• The Cornishman -- A weekly paper that comes out on Thursdays.
• Western Morning News -- Daily newspaper of the 'west country' -- including Cornwall.
• Cornish Studies University of Exeter Press

Mines & Mining

• Roland's Cornish Steam Engine Page This page contains some pictures which are presented in two versions:  first as small thumbnails on buttons, second as bigger jpegs, loaded by pressing the buttons. Also two Quicktime movies available for free download and a virtual tour of a steam engine display that requires Quicktime VR viewer (a free downloadable plug-in).
• Mining History Network -- A compendium of history and current discussions of hardrock mining.  Of particular interest to those studying the Cornish Heritage
• The British Library
• Familia Libraries

Music

• Celtic Music Site Home of Celtic music on the internet, since 1994, Ceolas houses the largest online collection of information on Celtic music, and has links to hundreds of related sites. Current popularity is over half a million hits per month.

Tourism

• Cornish ConneXions
• Cornwall Connect 
• The Cornish Light - A travel guide to Cornwall.  A Three Star site according to infoseek.
• Genius Loci: The Spirit of the Place Music, pictures and narrative celebrating the land of Cornwall.
• Welcome to Cornwall - A tour of the legends and places of Cornwall
• Cornish Images photos of Cornwall by Clive Stocker
• Golowan - The Cornish Arts Festival held annually in Penzance.
• Myths and Legends of Cornwall by Craig Weatherhill & Paul Devereux
• The Universal Currency Converter
• The Eden Project The Eden Project Officially Opens Easter 2001, but the site receives visitors already.  The £80 Million project aims to show the importance of the relationship between man and plants via a giant biome built in an abandoned clay pit near St. Blazey in Cornwall.
• Cornwall County Council
• The Royal Institution of Cornwall (RIC)
• The Royal Cornwall Museum (Truro)
• Bodmin Moor and it's People 
• Bing Multi Media Mapping
• UK Street Map Page
• Map of St Austell area
• Cornwall Guide
• Spencer Thorn Jewellers Cornish makers of jewelry in Cornwall