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Title: New searchable Post Office & Telephone directories for NSW and Tasmania
Post by: Tim Sherratt on Saturday 17 September 22 03:47 BST (UK)

I've recently created some free, online, searchable versions of Post Office and Telephone Directories for NSW and Tasmania and thought they might be of use:

• NSW Post Office Directories, 54 volumes, 1886 to 1950: https://glam-workbench.net/trove-journals/nsw-post-office-directories/ (https://glam-workbench.net/trove-journals/nsw-post-office-directories/)
• Sydney Telephone Directories, 44 volumes, 1926 to 1954: https://glam-workbench.net/trove-journals/sydney-telephone-directories/ (https://glam-workbench.net/trove-journals/sydney-telephone-directories/)
• Tasmanian Post Office Directories, 48 volumes, 1890 to 1948: https://glam-workbench.net/tasmanian-post-office-directories/ (https://glam-workbench.net/tasmanian-post-office-directories/)

The directories had been digitised by SLNSW/Trove and Libraries Tasmania but were not easily searchable. I've put all the text content into databases, indexed it by line, and linked the text back to page images – so with one search you can get results across all the volumes in a series.

I've also created an aggregated Name Index Search that searches for names across 253 open datasets from 10 Australian libraries and archives – more than 10 million records: https://glam-workbench.net/name-search/ (https://glam-workbench.net/name-search/)

Hope you find them useful!

Title: Re: New searchable Post Office & Telephone directories for NSW and Tasmania
Post by: Ruskie on Saturday 17 September 22 04:15 BST (UK)

Great resource Tim. Thanks for sharing. I don’t have many in NSW and none in Tassie but managed to find a couple of relatives.

I’m going to request this be “stickied” at the top of the Australia board.  :)

Title: Re: New searchable Post Office & Telephone directories for NSW and Tasmania
Post by: a chesters on Saturday 17 September 22 04:48 BST (UK)

Will make it a whole lot easier than going through the micro fiche at the library :'(

Title: Re: New searchable Post Office & Telephone directories for NSW and Tasmania
Post by: Nova67 on Saturday 17 September 22 04:56 BST (UK)

Many thanks, Tim. What a great resource to be able to research from home!

I am from NSW and back from my great-grandmother also have a connection to Tasmania, so this is just perfect.

I have already found my great-great grandfather A J Potter in 1886-1887 as a draper. This must have been very soon after he arrived in Newcastle.  A most interesting character in family folklore.

Added: By 1889-1890 back to more regular professions of watchmaker/jeweller.

Title: Re: New searchable Post Office & Telephone directories for NSW and Tasmania
Post by: shume on Sunday 18 September 22 07:09 BST (UK)

This is a fantastic resource.. thank you so much .. it is more than just Post Office and Telephone!

Title: Re: New searchable Post Office & Telephone directories for NSW and Tasmania
Post by: Lucy2 on Thursday 29 September 22 00:32 BST (UK)

Wow ... great resources.    Much more "viewer-friendly".   

Well done ... and thank you, Tim,   :)

     ~   Lu

Title: Re: New searchable Post Office & Telephone directories for NSW and Tasmania
Post by: mckha489 on Thursday 29 September 22 02:03 BST (UK)

Thank you!

Title: Re: New searchable Post Office & Telephone directories for NSW and Tasmania
Post by: jc26red on Thursday 29 September 22 04:22 BST (UK)

Can this be also added to the resources please, otherwise it will drop done the page and be lost.

Thank you for sharing.