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Australia / What has happened to NSW BDMs
« on: Sunday 09 January 22 01:10 GMT (UK)  »
Hi All,

Can someone tell me what NSW have done to their index lookups.   Apparently from what I can gather, and I could be completely wrong, I can no longer look up the index.   The bdms seem to have moved to something called Services NSW but I cant find the index.  Can anyone point me in the right direction.  I might add I have been doing these lookups from Queensland for about 25 years but it now seems to have completely changed.  Caught Covid perhaps.

Andcarred

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Australia / Re: Accuracy of Ancestry DNA tests
« on: Thursday 12 August 21 23:56 BST (UK)  »
Hi Ruskie,

Thanks so much for those links.   I have read all the information and it's helped me understand so much more about the tests.

Cheers,

Andcarred

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Australia / Accuracy of Ancestry DNA tests
« on: Wednesday 11 August 21 23:32 BST (UK)  »
I have received the results of my Ancestry DNA test and I am somewhat surprised.  Mainly the countries are correct although my 3xgreat grandmother, an Irish convict, never got a mention.   The test also showed 24% Scotland.    According to my research there are no Scots in my family at all but that is a fairly large percentage.  I was expecting about 60% England with one Swedish grandfather who accounts for 20%  I am 5th generation Australian on both maternal and paternal lines except for the Swedish grandfather.

Has anyone else received unexpected results or had reason to doubt the accuracy of DNA test results.

Andcarred

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Australia / Re: Little Bay Hospital and Cemetery NSW
« on: Wednesday 05 August 20 08:49 BST (UK)  »
Just as a bit of information which may help other people, not all patients who died at the Coast Hospital were buried there.   Many bodies were transported to family cemeteries for burial.  My grandfather died at Little Bay but was buried at Field of Mars Cemetery at Ryde because that was where the family lived.

Also when I lived in Sydney in the 1950s we did not have sewerage, it came to Sans Souci about 1960 and then to Gymea Bay about 1968.  I now live in Queensland and parts of Brisbane were still unsewered in the 1970s. 

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Australia / Re: Illegal immigrant 1838 Ann Collins
« on: Friday 12 April 19 10:53 BST (UK)  »
Hi Charles,

No this is not the same Ann Collins.   My Ann died on the Rocky River goldfields in 1855 and was buried in the Uralla Cemetery as Ann Baker (her second husband was Baker).   

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Australia / Re: Old age pension records
« on: Tuesday 12 February 19 04:11 GMT (UK)  »
Hi JM,

My grandfather's Certificate of Naturalisation was issued on 22 December 1902, the condition being he had resided in New South Wales for 5 years and intended to keep residing there,    The Certificate was issued by the NSW Government under the Naturalization and Denization Act of NSW, 1898.

Andcarred

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Australia / Re: Old age pension records
« on: Monday 11 February 19 23:21 GMT (UK)  »
Hi JM,

Thanks for that explanation.  I guess there is not that much difference because once you were a naturalised Australian you could then qualify for pension, vote and get an Australian passport (when they came in).

Andcarred


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Australia / Re: Old age pension records
« on: Monday 11 February 19 21:13 GMT (UK)  »
Hi All,

JM I don't understand your statement that there was no Australian citizenship until after Ww2.  My Swedish grandfather was granted Australian Citizenship in the early 1900s. ::)

And carried

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Australia / Re: WA Probate records ?
« on: Tuesday 16 October 18 23:23 BST (UK)  »
Hi All,

Last time I got a WA Probate I had to go to the Supreme Court of WA not the Archives.  Always good to remember that less than 50% of Wills need a Probate.

Andcarred

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