Electoral Rolls

[ozlady]

Could someone please tell me where  these are held and how can you access them? What information do they contain? Available online? 

[debraanne]

hi
if you are referring to the Australian Electoral Roll  here is South Australia they are  in the State Library  not my local library they hold all states 
They state name of person address and their occupation  only of  the people who  are at voting age   21 and older  Here in australia in the 1970's they changed the age limit of voting to 18 .
regards debra

[debraanne]

www.aec.gov.au site for Australian Electoral Commission and you can click on the state you want hope this helps
debra 

[ozlady]

Sorry, I should have stated that I was after UK electoral rolls. Don't have any antecedents in Oz (that I know of!).

[stonechat]

Hi

These can be sometimes at local RO or libraries according to location.
Some Cheshire ones are online at Recordsearch

[ozlady]

Thanks, Stonechat. I'll have to locate the various RO's and hope someone is kind enough to do a lookup! It's a bit far to South Wales from Brissie!

[stonechat]

Hi

Many catalogues for RO's are online. Quite often this can be via the Access to Archives website

[Glen in Tinsel Kni]

I would have a try via the local (to the area) reference libraries first, the majority of them have the info either on film or in printed format, if they can handle an overseas enquiry and payment then you will  find they only charge for copying and posting the information whereas the local records office charge an hourly search fee too.

Certainly in my experience i have had results for as little as £1.50 (two lookups and photocopies of the results) from a library but paid over £15 for one lookup & photocopy from the adjacent archives office.

Although you don't mention any dates it might be worth considering the directories for an area too as sometimes you may find entries you can't find elsewhere, again the library is usually a useful source for them.

Glen

[stonechat]

Hi

This shows the differences in areas
I have never used a library for such things - they just don't seem to hold anything for my areas