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Title: COMPLETED: NSWBDM down? Back up, now.
Post by: Jamjar on Saturday 24 September 16 02:44 BST (UK)
Message I'm getting:

Service Unavailable

The service is temporarily unavailable. Please try again later.

Jamjar
Title: Re: NSWBDM Down?
Post by: rosball on Saturday 24 September 16 02:48 BST (UK)
Yes me too Jamjar.

I believe this site can be used http://austcemindex.com/bdm in the meantime.  From memory it links to old site and we used it while NSW BDM was upgrading.

Ros 
Title: Re: NSWBDM down?
Post by: majm on Saturday 24 September 16 05:30 BST (UK)
http://www.bdm.nsw.gov.au/Pages/family-history/family-history.aspx

working "at the moment"  (2:30 pm, 24 Sept 2016)  :)

JM
Title: Re: NSWBDM down?
Post by: majm on Saturday 24 September 16 05:33 BST (UK)
From NSW BDM online .... they have forgotten to include RChat  ::)

http://www.bdm.nsw.gov.au/Pages/family-history/other-useful-sites.aspx
Title: Re: NSWBDM down?
Post by: Jamjar on Saturday 24 September 16 05:54 BST (UK)
Quote from: majm on Saturday 24 September 16 05:33 BST (UK)
From NSW BDM online .... they have forgotten to include RChat  ::)

http://www.bdm.nsw.gov.au/Pages/family-history/other-useful-sites.aspx

Yes, they certainly have, JM.

I notice that they are happy to support a site that many of us are not in a position to afford, though.

Jamjar
Title: Re: NSWBDM down? Back up, now.
Post by: Dorliz on Saturday 24 September 16 07:21 BST (UK)
Hi everyone,
just saw your discussion,   it is working at the moment because I went in to look up a marriage and I find you now need to have the Grooms surname and the Brides Surname,    sometimes we don't know both so how to we find the info as many of us used this as a starting point to find a spouse.  Anyone know why?
Title: Re: NSWBDM down? Back up, now.
Post by: majm on Saturday 24 September 16 07:23 BST (UK)
Hi,

Try using a 'wild card' for a surname.....   eg  the Asterisk * works as a wild card.

JM
Title: Re: NSWBDM down? Back up, now.
Post by: majm on Saturday 24 September 16 07:26 BST (UK)
From their webpage :

Use advanced wildcard characters to find or replace text.

*
 
Any string of characters  eg R*n will match Ron, Ran, Roan etc.  and 'Bro*' it will match any word starting with Bro e.g. Brooks, Bromley, Bros.
 
............

?
 
Replace a single character   eg R?n will match Ron, Ran etc. It will not match Roan.
 
..............

@

Represents a soundex  eg @colin will match Clune, Colan, Cullan, Callahan.
 

JM
Title: Re: NSWBDM down? Back up, now.
Post by: Jamjar on Saturday 24 September 16 07:33 BST (UK)
Quote from: Dorliz on Saturday 24 September 16 07:21 BST (UK)
Hi everyone,
just saw your discussion,   it is working at the moment because I went in to look up a marriage and I find you now need to have the Grooms surname and the Brides Surname,    sometimes we don't know both so how to we find the info as many of us used this as a starting point to find a spouse.  Anyone know why?

Although it says that, you don't. You do need at least one surname though.

J.
Title: Re: NSWBDM down? Back up, now.
Post by: Dorliz on Saturday 24 September 16 07:38 BST (UK)
Thanks JM,
I'll give that a try   
D.