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Australian Dictionary of Biography ... now online
« on: Thursday 20 July 06 00:30 BST (UK) »
http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/adbonline.htm

Australian Dictionary of Biography Online, Australia's pre-eminent dictionary of national biography. Here are over 10,000 scholarly biographies of significant Australians who died before 1980.

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Bayley, Dorset, Lancashire, Yorkshire, Cheshire and others.
Antrobus, Somerset/Glouster
Skelton, Heslington, Yorkshire
James, Norfolk, and London
Delasalle, London area
Gravett/Grevet, Surrey
Also searching the above in Australia

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Re: AUSTRALIAN DICTIONARY OF BIOGRAPHY...NOW ONLINE
« Reply #1 on: Thursday 20 July 06 04:56 BST (UK) »
It is so nice to see that funding is still provided for other than sport in Australia. Most of my folks weren't important enough to be in the books, but I know of one and will search for some others

Trish

Just found a great uncle - how exciting!
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Re: AUSTRALIAN DICTIONARY OF BIOGRAPHY...NOW ONLINE
« Reply #2 on: Friday 21 July 06 07:06 BST (UK) »
Hi

It is fantastic - but I have found and reported some errors in stuff that I know of my family - and I gather from others in Australia that they too have found some errors.  In my case its an important but a wrong name....  so treat with some caution

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Knox (Greenlaw/Claydub/Edinburgh);
Syme or Sime (North Berwick/Montrose (Brechin);
McMurtrie (Dalmellington); Lamont/Limont(?);
Williams (Hampstead)/Glamorgan;
Lord (Hampstead/Lancashire);
Isaac (Wiltshire/Gower Peninsula) ;
Rowen or Rowan (Manchester);
Greenwood (Lancashire);
Also Forsythe; Kyle; Trotter; Hislop/Hoslop; Henderson; Chaplin; Parr; Mc Lean; Gourlay ; Harford
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Re: AUSTRALIAN DICTIONARY OF BIOGRAPHY...NOW ONLINE
« Reply #3 on: Saturday 26 August 06 11:58 BST (UK) »
I used to work for the Australian Dictionary of Biography at the ANU in Canberra in the early 1990s.  I'm surprised there are errors, as the research staff used to go over everything with a fine tooth comb... maybe standards have slipped since I left the editorial office?!   Wink

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Hewson (Dublin); Beacom (Co. Tyrone), Beer (Devon); Perry (Warwickshire); Tanner (Wiltshire); Mostyn Owen (Shropshire & Wales); Coles (Somerset & London); Fox (Cornwall); Peirce (Monmouth); Tolson (Yorkshire); Haigh (Yorkshire); Lunn (Yorkshire); Neill (Co. Down); Davies (Shropshire); Dryden (Roxburgh); McVane (Roxburgh); Lillico (Roxburgh); Symington (Roxburgh); Dickson (Roxburgh).
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Re: AUSTRALIAN DICTIONARY OF BIOGRAPHY...NOW ONLINE
« Reply #4 on: Saturday 26 August 06 12:19 BST (UK) »
Not sure about standards slipping - I just think its the first draft and maybe some editing that went astray. 

A friend contributed to the DNB here (UK) and he is a very professional historian but even he was picked up on a piece of research by someone who had focussed for years on the subject...  and my training was that its best always to be cautious of any secondary evidence and check check and check again. 

It is still a fantastic resource
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Knox (Greenlaw/Claydub/Edinburgh);
Syme or Sime (North Berwick/Montrose (Brechin);
McMurtrie (Dalmellington); Lamont/Limont(?);
Williams (Hampstead)/Glamorgan;
Lord (Hampstead/Lancashire);
Isaac (Wiltshire/Gower Peninsula) ;
Rowen or Rowan (Manchester);
Greenwood (Lancashire);
Also Forsythe; Kyle; Trotter; Hislop/Hoslop; Henderson; Chaplin; Parr; Mc Lean; Gourlay ; Harford
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