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Research in Other Countries => Australia => Topic started by: hurworth on Friday 29 September 17 21:53 BST (UK)
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I'd be grateful for the link please to the site. I know I've used it before but I've forgotten where it is.
I'm looking for historic records in the index. I don 't need an actual certificate.
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Is this the one
https://www.genealogysa.org.au/
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Thanks spike. It wasn't that one because the one I found was totally free. I may have just got lucky with another branch of the family and someone had transcribed it to a website.
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Hi
According to this page, it's all a bit patchy in Sth Aus
https://www.sa.gov.au/topics/family-and-community/births,-deaths-and-marriages/family-research
Steve
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Thanks spike. It wasn't that one because the one I found was totally free. I may have just got lucky with another branch of the family and someone had transcribed it to a website.
Membership is not required to search the database. Some additional info is free, some is available to members only. If you have a specific person you are after, I can do a look up for you.
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https://www.genealogysa.org.au/resources/online-databases.html
Jamjar
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Hi
According to this page, it's all a bit patchy in Sth Aus
https://www.sa.gov.au/topics/family-and-community/births,-deaths-and-marriages/family-research
Steve
Where does it say that? South Australia as do other states, limit the years that you may search. Marriages in SA to 1942 will be available soon. Many of us have our own resources and may be able to help you further.
Perhaps this page will be of interest...
https://www.genealogysa.org.au/resources/online-databases/18-uncategorised/62-south-australian-certificates-story.html
Not all BDM events were registered, as in the early years, Catholics refused to comply with the Act. Researchers may need to search church records of baptisms, marriages and burials, and also school admission registers held in our research library. Our early Certificates have only minimal information, so you should refer to the Charts to see what information was recorded in which years.
https://www.genealogysa.org.au/resources/online-databases/18-uncategorised/76-what-is-in-a-certificate-when.html
If you would like to post your names of interest I'm sure we can assist you ie if the information is in the public arena.
Have you browsed the SA resources?
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=280572.0
Cando
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HI
I only meant is a bit patchy compared to the other states because they are not all indexed and not all online and as it says they are working on the indexes .
Steve
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Steve I've been researching SA records for many years and SAGenealogy have indexed their records from the former district registers. I have all the CD's they have produced in association with McBeth Genealogy. Births from 1842-1928; marriages from 1842-1937 and to 1942 soon, and deaths to 1972.
I still can't see where on that link you posted anything about records being 'patchy'. Must need new specs :P
Cando
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I still can't see where on that link you posted anything about records being 'patchy'.Cando
I agree SA is reasonably well covered. It does have a unique model to WA, QLD, NSW and VIC, in that a not-for-profit makes the BDM indexes available rather than a government entity. Perhaps the reference came from this statement on that page "Some records are also available from Genealogy SA" [bold added]. That might be a reference to changes of name and adoptions not being available.
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For many years only the Diggers series of CD's produced by MacBeath Genealogy were the way to access South Australian, Tasmanian, Qld and some of NSW (to 1918) bdm's. Perhaps I've been at this for too long :P.
Cando
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Hi
My comment was mainly a reference to lack of a comprehensive index, my apologies if I offended anyone.
I think it's great a non-profit is indexing them and I have no issue with paying a small fee to search.
I too spent hours trawling through the Digger Cd's :-X
Of course the further back yo go the more holes there are in the registers as well regardless of which state you are searching in, I have people as late as 1893 who were in VIC/NSW and simply disappeared; well it certainly seems that way.
Maybe I have been doing this for too long as well ;)
Steve
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Steve I am a bit puzzled....SAGenealogy is free to search however the indexes don't not have all the information that is on the CD's however for a small fee they will transcribe the entry from their records.
SAGenealogy filmed the District Registers which were no longer required by the Adelaide Registry after the districts were abolished. You can read the history here
https://www.genealogysa.org.au/resources/online-databases/18-uncategorised/62-south-australian-certificates-story.html
As with all paper based bdm records, the returns of which were to be submitted regularly to each colony/state registry, many were lost in transit. I remember reading about one incident in South Australia where the quarterly returns from the Copper Triangle were destroyed in a coach fire. I think one historian advised to search both the district registers and the Adelaide BDM Registry. I can't locate the info at the moment.
Of course you will have those who didn't register their chn's births; ministers who didn't notify the registry of marriages they had performed and funeral directors who buried people and didn't complete their paperwork along with local registrars who misunderstood the need for death certificates if a person's death was the subject of a magisterial inquest. All off the top of my head and someone is sure to come along and tell me I'm wrong :P
Who of your ancestors 'disappeared'? Have you asked for specific help here on the board?
Must stop rambling....comes with age ::)
Cando