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Electoral Roll Information
« on: Sunday 17 January 10 22:40 GMT (UK) »
Hello

Does anyone know the reason why A...........y does not have South Australia Electoral Rolls on there database. Seems odd they are not included.

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Re: Electoral Roll Information
« Reply #1 on: Saturday 23 January 10 21:36 GMT (UK) »
i have the same problem, it seems south australia, wants to keep information to itself and not share, but if you get in touch with the
south australian genealogy history group they maybe able to help

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Re: Electoral Roll Information
« Reply #2 on: Saturday 23 January 10 23:06 GMT (UK) »
Here is a link regarding the Electoral rolls for South Australia.

http://www.jaunay.com/electoral.html

Also, all of the State Libraries as well as large regional libraries with family history collections would hold copies.

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Re: Electoral Roll Information
« Reply #3 on: Saturday 30 January 10 03:27 GMT (UK) »
Afer reading the infoamtion on the link

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http://www.jaunay.com/electoral.html

How is it possible then that these rolls are not availble free on A*****Y?

Is the Federal governemnet not aware that this inforamtion is in effect being" sold" as you must be a subscriber to view the full results?

This is as rhetorical question for which I am not ecpecting an answer.


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Re: Electoral Roll Information
« Reply #4 on: Sunday 31 January 10 03:46 GMT (UK) »
My local family history society gives A*****y their cemetery indexes etc. in exchange for free access to the site, and I think it may work the same with the government documents.  As far as I know the library edition of the site is available free of charge at all/most libraries in Australia, and I doubt if anyone is paying for it.  I suppose they see it as a win/win situation where the government doesn't have to be involved in the scanning, indexing, hosting, and the site gets free carrots to dangle.  I think one might be winning more than the other though!  ;D  As for SA records, possibly the site is simply looking at where most of the demand is coming from.  They will milk dry the early records for the eastern states as these are likely to be the ones that bring the punters in.  Then again, SA might have just told them to b*** off!

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