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[majm]

Hi majm I rang the church today they have said to send copies of the death cert of Frances and marriage of Agnes it costs a bit more then $20 they said an arm plus a leg more lol. I am gratefully for putting what to write to them as I am attaching it with the cert.
bron

Bron,

I promise you that the Church will accept copies of the transcripts of the death registration certificate for Frances and the marriage registration for Agnes.    Yes, NSW BDM charges a whole lot more for the "real deal" certificate, but you do NOT need that legal copy to conduct family history research.   NSW BDM's website even says so. " it can be worthwhile for genealogists to contact the relevant church to find details missing from a marriage certificate"  and ADDING ... NSW BDM's website also says "Family history transcription agents provide full and partial transcriptions, or verification of details. A good idea if you only need the facts, and not full certified copies of certificates."    I am quite sure that any Church volunteer doing their "look ups" requests  is familiar with these transcriptions, and likely prefers them to the real deal certificate.

Merlin is giving you good advice too, re those parish register images.  In fact everyone who is trying to help you and Werty here at RChat are all giving you good advice.

I will contact an RChatter who may be able to visit the NLA in Canberra in the next week or so, to follow up with the clues Merlin has provided.   

Fingers crossed

Cheers,  JM   

[majm]

Hi Sue,
sorry. I can see where I have confused you. Because you were talking about getting a transcription for Mary Ann  I thought you would have understood what I meant, I'll try remember to type names specific in each reply and realise that you are dealing with more than just me, I realise writing more conversation based probably might end up in cat and mouse as well as some people not being able to follow who it's for. I'm only use to talking to one person at a time.
Sorry again, just let me know if I don't respond correctly or if I'm being missunderstood.
Thankyou.

Werty,

 from my experience,  the usual jargon in family history circles (going back decades though, so could be 'new' words now) is "beg, borrow or steal/buy" the transcript, but I have not ever heard "retrieve"  used in that sense.   To me, if you retrieve something, you remove it completely from one place and take it in for yourself, so no one else has access to it.   

Yes, you are talking to a wider audience than one.  In fact you are publishing to a wider audience than one.   RChat threads are very easily found via google.  You do not have to log on to read them.  So they are in the public domain.


JM

[Wertyperty]

Hi Sue and Majm,
I write this to you's just to provide a little about my self as it may help understanding my comments at times. I'm a logical thinker and very good problem solver, my talents at school were math, science, all design technologies, sports and arts. I performed poorly in English, geography and history. In saying this I was still able to achieve Dux of my school. This might help explain my search techniques and on occasions not leaving enough reference in posts for you's when replying back to questions. I have always been a reserved person and my communication skills have always been poor.
You may have to bare with me a bit as I'm battling depression, research, relaying new advances in our research, roots chat, letters, correcting the past family research problems, house hold chores and my 2 and 6 year old children, it's all a bit emotional at the moment, I am still fairly new to running a household and looking after children, involving myself in research that has been a void in my mind since a child because I have always been questioned by people about aboriginal heritage because of appearance and my noticeably different ways of thinking.ihave never felt I have known enough to identify, this has always saddened me and made me feel like there was still a lot of my life I was missing in order to understand myself. On top of this I am a man whose multi tasking skills are not without flaws.
Please quote any posts I might miss or that you await answers for and I'll try to reply as prompt and accurate as possible.
Thankyou.

[Wertyperty]

Hi Merlon,
thankyou for the link and advice, I will be going through these micro films today.
Thankyou.

[judb]

Hi Wertyperty

I can go to the NLA to look at the films but not till next week.  You say that you are able to look at them yourself?  Please let me know  if you can as it will save me a trip.

Cheers, Judith

[Wertyperty]

Hi Wertyperty

I can go to the NLA to look at the films but not till next week.  You say that you are able to look at them yourself?  Please let me know  if you can as it will save me a trip.

Cheers, Judith

hi Jud B,
I just tried to access the films but it appears I will have to organise a national library card. A lot of the results I have found are not available online either.
I am inexperienced in these searches so any help would be great.
I will keep you updated if I manage to figure how to search these records. I'm assuming I would be best conducting this research at my local library itself.
Thankyou very much for your offer, it is very kind of you to offer your time to help.
Wertyperty.

[Wertyperty]

Hi Majm,
            I sent you a private message to try help you with a few of your early queries in this search.
Thankyou.

[majm]

Hi Majm,
            I sent you a private message to try help you with a few of your early queries in this search.
Thankyou.

Yes, thanks, I have been reading it.   

RChat does restrict the amount of words etc you can put in the one post or the one PM.  I think it is around 5000 characters in each instance.

Family history researching is about sharing and helping each other.  So I should mention that I am not a member of the FIRTH family.   I am simply NSW centric in my own family history researching, so I am happy to help with pointers as to the "How", "Where", "When", "Who" and "etc" re NSW in particular , and family history practices in general.

But whether you are researching in NSW or elsewhere, whether you are researching Anglo families, or German families, or Aboriginal families, or Russian families, or Maori families, or any other culture,  there's one basic rule.   You start with what you KNOW about your own parents, and then you aim to find out about their parents, and their grandparents and work back through each generation, one step at a time, joining the dots, before you proceed further back a generation.

Cheers,  JM 

[bron63]

Hi All

I am trying to work out how to aquire mary anne marriage cert .
I have not as yet send an email to st johns church as I have been reading the threads from you all and also about the price that should be paid for each cert. Also I clicked on thinks merlin had put up and in one of them it has the costs they charge for each ill see if I can find again and paste here so you can see what I got from the site.

Bron