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Re: NSW BDM online UPGRADE June 2014
« Reply #9 on: Monday 23 June 14 00:47 BST (UK) »
 :)  Sue, I have my (retired BDM) rellies on the phone (on speaker phone) "barking" search options at me at the moment....   And Great Aunt has set up her 'card table' with various 'certs' for me to look up for them all.   

Our earliest NSW ancestors arrived 1790s, and most of our lines were well established before the gold rushes .... so the ECRs are so very significant .....

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Re: NSW BDM online UPGRADE June 2014
« Reply #10 on: Monday 23 June 14 00:59 BST (UK) »
Quote from: majm on Monday 23 June 14 00:27 BST (UK)

The upgrade seems to have expunged some details ....

For example, the family name heading no longer has "Aborigine" or "Aboriginal", which of course were the words used by the clergy when recording baptisms in the pre-civil registration era (so from say 1787 to say 1856, often in the Macquarie era 1810-1821).  The previous online version included these.   Those Church Records that formed the basis of the index do NOT have surnames for ANY of the persons of interest, regardless of their ethnicity.  So the surname was UNSTATED for the actual person being baptised.  The surname of the mother was stated, and if the mother gave the clergy the name of the child's father, then that too was stated (and in NSW during the Macquarie era, this was recorded regardless of whether the parents were lawfully married to each other or not). 

I can see that the online index is including the word "Aborigine" in the given name of the record of the baptism when the family name has been recorded as "unknown"   I can find TWO likely baptisms (there were many more !) and these two date from 1846.   John UNKNOWN and Joseph UNKNOWN.   

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Re: NSW BDM online UPGRADE June 2014
« Reply #11 on: Monday 23 June 14 01:03 BST (UK) »
Now I am in trouble from my rellies because NSW BDM has gone down  ::)

What did they expect (yes, I leave it open to interpretation as to  "they" .... choose ...  my rellies or NSW BDM)

Capacity .... rather than maintenance  ::)

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Re: NSW BDM online UPGRADE June 2014
« Reply #12 on: Monday 23 June 14 01:34 BST (UK) »
Quote from: majm on Monday 23 June 14 01:03 BST (UK)
Now I am in trouble from my rellies because NSW BDM has gone down  ::)

What did they expect (yes, I leave it open to interpretation as to  "they" .... choose ...  my rellies or NSW BDM)


It is back at the moment.  So I am back handling some “barking” orders from my rellies

DISTRICT as a heading seems to have become “redundant”

This heading no longer has any entries in it when I search for CIVIL registrations for births from 1856 to 1913 for any of my Grandparents or their siblings….   (For the Early Church Records, ie up to 1856 the “District” was not displayed online for 'births' or 'deaths' even in the earlier online version, but was in CODE for marriages pre 1856 era)  District was a very useful heading for family history buffs. 


This heading no longer has any entries in it when I search for CIVIL registrations for deaths from 1856 to 1983 for any of my Grandparents or their siblings.  (District was a very useful heading, particularly if you were searching for any of the more popular names …. John SMITH is a good example of where reading from the online index as to a possible DISTRICT where the death was registered can be most helpful to reduce the number of possible certificates needed to advance back a generation).

Cheers,  JM   
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Re: NSW BDM online UPGRADE June 2014
« Reply #13 on: Monday 23 June 14 01:55 BST (UK) »
Right, that does it …. My rellies can make the phone calls to NSW BDM to sort this one out.     (For my non RChat rellies reading this thread …. It’s the 1897 marriages for the parents of  Uncle Bert’s and for the parents of Auntie Dottie’s )

Civil Registration MARRIAGES …. Two lads who were brothers married.  The two lasses they married were sisters.  And there was a DOUBLE marriage ceremony.    So, surnames for the two lads are identical, but there’s different given names.  And of course, surnames for the two lasses are identical, but different given names....  And the marriage reference numbers from the paper copy of NSW BDM registrations are consecutive… and the DISTRICT used to be displayed.... So     Previously the search option would find BOTH just by using the lads’ surname and the lasses’ surname and the district, and limiting the search to the year. 

NOW, this new search option requires the given name ….. so I need to conduct TWO separate searches to find the two marriages.   WHAT IF I was not aware of the double ceremony?  What if I did not know the formal order of the given names for either of the lads or of the lasses ...

Fingers crossed I will get used to these differences, and fingers crossed some of the younger set who are taking up family history will not be put off by these possible difficulties.

Cheers,  JM  (logging off, as I do have a real TO DO list to get through today .... full of nought to do with family history searchings )
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Re: NSW BDM online UPGRADE June 2014
« Reply #14 on: Monday 23 June 14 02:19 BST (UK) »
Some Good News .....


(     *     ) works the way it used to back when NSW BDM first came online, and before they removed it in 2011  ;D

You know,  it works as a 'wild card' option

(the rellies   ::) made a phone call to Sydney )

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Re: NSW BDM online UPGRADE June 2014
« Reply #15 on: Monday 23 June 14 03:31 BST (UK) »
Doesn't work for me JM..... :(

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Re: NSW BDM online UPGRADE June 2014
« Reply #16 on: Monday 23 June 14 03:32 BST (UK) »
I'm still getting the 'old' BDM search page...what am I doing wrong ??? ???

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Re: NSW BDM online UPGRADE June 2014
« Reply #17 on: Monday 23 June 14 04:21 BST (UK) »
Hi

  Why Why Why when something worked and was easy to use  did they change it.  Must have had input from someone who is not researching their family tree ( watch the ordering  of certificates drop)   I wonder if the certificates number will disappear off the index when ordered online like QLD BDMs did.
 
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