Hello John and Lucy...
Thanks for the info. I didn't realize that Archives had digitised the pre-1949 Naturalisation Register. Good to know.
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If you take the second entry (Joseph AMREIN) and enter his record # 1908/3145 into the Advanced Search on Archway he pops up no problem.
If you take the thirteenth entry (Eduard Andrew ARCHER) and enter his record # 1868/2245 into the Advanced Search on Archway he too pops up no problem (although as Edward, not Eduard).
If you take the first entry (Frank AMODEO) and enter his record # 1869/3185 into the self-same Advanced Search on Archway it reurns the dreaded "Sorry, there are no results for this search".
And the same goes for our man Carl Leopold ANDERSON (1869/671). "Sorry, there are no results for this search"
This sort of eases my mind as it means there is a disconnect between the pre-1949 Naturalisation Register and the Archway search engine.
Regarding our current search, I think the answer is in this link...
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General Inwards Correspondence to the Colonial Secretary
Record No. 1869/605-837
Open Access
This record is missinghttps://www.archway.archives.govt.nz/ViewFullItem.do?code=21582282---
Record numbers 1869/605 to 1869/837 are listed as missing. Obviously not all are missing as a simple search with 1869 as the record number brings up a dozen hits between 1869/605 and 1869/837. But that still leaves a couple of hundred records unaccounted for. I'm guessing our man Carl's record is one of them.
One good thing is that it could still mean that Sten AMINOFF was working off Carl's Memorial when he compiled
Svenska in NZ in the late 70's. The records might have gone missing since then....anyway that's my theory :-)
Regards
Beg