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Title: 1935 Electoral Roll
Post by: jillieh on Tuesday 26 February 13 23:01 GMT (UK)
Hi,

The 1935 NZ Electoral Roll available on Ancestry is listed alphabetically by name.

Does anyone know if it is possible to cross reference this in anyway to find other persons living at the same address but with a different surname?

Jillieh
 
Title: Re: 1935 Electoral Roll
Post by: kiwihalfpint on Wednesday 27 February 13 00:00 GMT (UK)
Hi Jillieh,

I've done it and that was by putting the address in the "Lived In" box.  I had a divorced parent who had remarried and I was able to find the children that way, as I only had their first and last names, which wasn't a help, but to find their middle names was a bonus. :D

Hang in there, other RC'ers might have a different way of searching.


Cheers
KHP
Title: Re: 1935 Electoral Roll
Post by: jillieh on Wednesday 27 February 13 02:01 GMT (UK)
Hi KHP,

Thanks for the reply. I tried that in the ancestry search but got no results - not even the one person I did know lived at the address! Maybe using no name at all threw a spanner in ancestry's works!

Thanks anyway.
Jillieh
Title: Re: 1935 Electoral Roll
Post by: nigelo on Wednesday 27 February 13 04:49 GMT (UK)
You will only be able to search on the information that is indexed. You can tell what that is by the information displayed when you click on an entry.

For Electoral rolls that means:

Name
Electoral Year
District
Region or Province

I suspect kiwihalfpint's success may have been from the location used being also the district.

How useful it is will therefore depend on how many people there are in that District, and therefore how many pages of results you need to scroll through. It should be quicker than going through the originals page by page though.
Title: Re: 1935 Electoral Roll
Post by: kiwihalfpint on Wednesday 27 February 13 05:12 GMT (UK)
Quote from: nigelo on Wednesday 27 February 13 04:49 GMT (UK)


I suspect kiwihalfpint's success may have been from the location used being also the district.


Most likely it was, it was a few years ago with less wrinkles ;D

Cheers
KHP