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Research in Other Countries => Australia => Topic started by: droops on Thursday 24 November 11 22:08 GMT (UK)
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I am hoping that someone can give me some advice on where to look next.
My father never knew his father. We recently found out that he died in Australia in 1957. We have his death certificate and on it, it says that there was a daughter from the last marriage, a half-sister my father didnt know.
We have her first name from this, and that she was born in 1948 in Sydney.
From his probate papers, we know the daughters middle name and her date of birth.
We know where her mother was buried. My father sent a letter asking them to pass it onto the owner of the grave; its his half sister who has now married. The last contact the cemetery had with her was in 1989.
From the 1980 electoral role, we find her with the same married surname as above, and her husbands name.
We cant find her death in the Ryerson index.
My Dad has hired someone in Sydney. They couldnt find her in the most recent electoral role.
Havent had any luck with Lost Cousins.
Is there anywhere else that we could look for her?
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Have you tried the online phonebook?
www.whitepages.com.au
select residential
Leanne
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Hi
You can try writing to the address you have, and ask who lives at the address now if they or the neighbours have any knowledge of her or her family.
Have you researched her husband's family? maybe someone in his family knows
Muss
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i'm sure you have already, but have you tried putting in an appeal in writing to the local news paper?
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http://www.nla.gov.au/infoserv/faq/index.php?action=artikel&cat=19&id=18443&artlang=en&highlight=missing
http://www.peoplesearch.com.au/find_people/
http://www.australian-ancestors.com/default.asp?PID=a298d3f7-86e3-4c22-ac5d-5740c2ba34fa&gclid=CI_P49zpuZUCFQwZegod22llQQ
http://www.coraweb.com.au/shipindex.htm
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http://guides.slv.vic.gov.au/content.php?pid=110529&sid=833236
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Thanks to you all for your thoughts. Very much appreciated.
I forgot to mention that we had looked in the white pages. Sorry for that.
Muss, thats a good idea. Sometimes its easy to miss the obvious.
The person my Dad hired did put notices in local libraries. Not sure if one was also put in the paper, but worth doing if it hasnt been done.
muddy48, lots to go on there, thank you very much.
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Did the person who was hired in Sydney look further afield in the electoral rolls? or even the possibility of your father's half sister's husband dying and she remarrying?
Can you say what year she was born?
thanks Jenn
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Hi, wondering if your grandfather died in NSW?
Jenn, I think it was 1948 from first post.
Neil
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Some thoughts and ways which have worked for me!
Google her husband's name if you know it fully, and see if he is on faceboo** or other network.
Were there children to her?
Check for them on same sites.
Get the mother's (second wife's) death certificate. It may have clues as to possible names the half sister would give her own children.
Sue
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you mention that your father had someone searching in Sydney.
A NSW newspaper the Telegraph have a column "In Search"
you send your search request to
yoursay@dailytelegraph.com.au
the entries are usually short and sweet an example
MARY SMITH Searching for Mary Smith. Daug of John Brown who died ........ for family history, Email ......
I have tried this column a couple of times and have had great results
Cass
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Why not post your grandfather's full name here. I have made 2 wonderful family contacts through my posts here (by people who hadn't used rootschat but had just googled their ancestor's name).
Do you have his death notices from the papers? If not perhaps we can find them and they may have clues to other family members or friends that my be contactable.
regards,
Ros
Adding : and possibly death notices for his second wife?
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I agree with Rosball.
If you and your immediate family are comfortable with the idea, the names of the deceased may give the team here a little something to work with.
Understandably though, it may be sensitive territory ;)
Sue
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Good Idea Sparrett
I have found a number of my cousins using facebook
Jennn
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Jenn, not sure if she did look further on the electoral roles.
Neil, yes the grandfather died in NSW. Have his death certificate and probate.
Sue, I hadnt thought of FB. Again, glaringly obvious once its been suggested. This is why I like this site so much, people suggest stuff you have not thought of.
I am not totally comfortable with putting my grandfathers name or his last wife's name here. I have so much to go on now, that hopefully I or my father can find his half sister. If we dont, then I might come back with their names.
Thanks for all your thoughts.
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good luck then, understand your thoughts but bear in mind that someone out there may be looking for the family of her half brother and googling away.
I only found my grandfathers family from roots chat and I was comfortable in the knowedge that he was deceased and his name appeared on public record on the NAA
Jenn