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Research in Other Countries => New Zealand => New Zealand Completed Requests => Topic started by: westernwombat on Friday 22 May 20 05:41 BST (UK)
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I have searched the NZ BDM records over the past 2-3 years, and also used Papers Past, and I am having problems finding deaths (specifically) that are in the papers, which i cannot locate in the BDM.
This may be my inexperience, but an example may help others give me advice.
I found in papers Past, the death of Elizabeth Ann Shackel, wife of Thomas Edmund Shackel, at Okain's Bay on 5 Sep 1882.
Searching for that death, with a date range 1/1/1880 to 1/1/1885, with variations of the surname only, found no persons at all.
The name variations I used were -
shackel
shackels
shackle
shackles
schackel
schackels
schackle
schackles
The newspaper article was as follows (first line only) -
INQUEST.
AKAROA MAIL AND BANKS PENINSULA ADVERTISER, VOLUME VII, ISSUE 642, 8 SEPTEMBER 1882
INQUEST.
An inquest was held yesterday at Mr Thacker's saw mill, Okain's Bay, on the body of a women named Elizabeth Ann Shackel, a resident in the Bay, .....
There may be alternative records for New Zealand BDM that I'm not aware of. I do search Find-A-Grave and Billion Graves, but I'm not familiar with church records; and i have not searched records in nearby cemeteries.
Any suggestions?
This is not the only "missing" record I would like to locate. Mainly, I am looking for LANDELLS and I am used to trying all the spelling variations (there are separate LANDELS families in NZ and Australia, and UK, that are not mis-spellings).
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I usually use “New Zealand, Civil Records Indexes, 1800-1966” on Family Search Because then you can use wildcards to figure out what the actual spelling that was used was.
I think she is. Elizabeth Ann Thackel. ;D
Drilling down on the offical site gives a date of 5th September 1882
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That's great.
I will try that database.
I'm spoilt by the (Australian) BDM databases, even though they are incredibly dissimilar, and some (like Victorian BDM) have made a dog's breakfast of the so-called improvements. (after some months, it is about 90% back to how it was in early 2019). But most allow sufficient flexibility in searching.
Again, thank you.