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Searching someone alive
« on: Thursday 24 November 11 22:08 GMT (UK) »
I am hoping that someone can give me some advice on where to look next.

My father never knew his father. We recently found out that he died in Australia in 1957. We have his death certificate and on it, it says that there was a daughter from the last marriage, a half-sister my father didnt know.
We have her first name from this, and that she was born in 1948 in Sydney.

From his probate papers, we know the daughters middle name and her date of birth.

We know where her mother was buried. My father sent a letter asking them to pass it onto the owner of the grave; its his half sister who has now married. The last contact the cemetery had with her was in 1989.

From the 1980 electoral role, we find her with the same married surname as above, and her husbands name.

We cant find her death in the Ryerson index.
My Dad has hired someone in Sydney. They couldnt find her in the most recent electoral role.
Havent had any luck with Lost Cousins.

Is there anywhere else that we could look for her?

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Re: Searching someone alive
« Reply #1 on: Thursday 24 November 11 22:16 GMT (UK) »
Have you tried the online phonebook?
www.whitepages.com.au
select residential

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« Reply #2 on: Thursday 24 November 11 22:30 GMT (UK) »
Hi

 You can try writing to the address you have, and ask who lives at the address now if they or the neighbours have any knowledge of her or her family.

 Have you researched her husband's family? maybe someone in his family knows
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« Reply #3 on: Thursday 24 November 11 22:39 GMT (UK) »
i'm sure you have already, but have you tried putting in an appeal in writing to the local news paper?
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Re: Searching someone alive
« Reply #5 on: Thursday 24 November 11 23:02 GMT (UK) »

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Re: Searching someone alive
« Reply #6 on: Friday 25 November 11 12:55 GMT (UK) »
Thanks to you all for your thoughts. Very much appreciated.

I forgot to mention that we had looked in the white pages. Sorry for that.

Muss, thats a good idea. Sometimes its easy to miss the obvious.

The person my Dad hired did put notices in local libraries. Not sure if one was also put in the paper, but worth doing if it hasnt been done.

muddy48, lots to go on there, thank you very much.

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Re: Searching someone alive
« Reply #7 on: Friday 25 November 11 21:29 GMT (UK) »
Did  the person  who was hired in Sydney  look  further afield in  the electoral rolls?  or even  the possibility of  your father's half sister's husband dying and she remarrying?

Can  you say what year she was born?

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Re: Searching someone alive
« Reply #8 on: Friday 25 November 11 22:50 GMT (UK) »
Hi, wondering if your grandfather died in NSW?

Jenn, I think it was 1948 from first post.

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