My Dad has been searching for Decades - THOMAS

[Dundee]

Regarding the details on the form about providing identification - this death occurred more than 30 years ago so access is not restricted.  As far as I know you should not be required to provide any proof of identity.

Just fill out your details as the applicant and go down to the death cert section and fill that out.  I would leave the parents' details blank. 

As this has to be a postal application making the whole process a bit longer, perhaps you should confirm the ID requirements with them first.  I would even ask if you can scan the completed form and email it to them.  Canberra needs to come into the 21st century 

Debra 

[maddys52]

So glad this is working out for you!

I had another look at Trove for any other hints at where he may have been during those missing years, but as Debra said there are a number of men with the same name around. Hopefully the death cert will give you some more clues. 

[tssenior]

Thanks Debra, I'll get on to it today. I just talked to them, they had the death certificate right there and couldn't reveal anything aaaarrgghhh!! He did confirm that he has info about spouses, parentage etc so I probably won't know any more until it arrives (probably months). I need to provide proof that I'm related, ID etc and I'm not allowed to scan and email. Very old fashioned I thought  >:-(

[majm]

There's very strict privacy laws in Australia, and while the death certificate provides information about the deceased, that information can include private information about the persons supplying that info.   So, there's restrictions for access.

I have been the informant on several death registrations.  Each time my fulll name and address has been clearly displayed on the document, and of course, to the best of my knowledge I provided information about the deceased persons, their parents and their spouse/s and their children, which in Australia is considered to be private information.  The passage of time lessens the need to provide safeguards to protect their identities being infringed based on the info on those certificates.

May I suggest that the application for the ACT document may be swiftly processed if the applicant is his son, as his ID will provide his elderly status to the person processing the application.  I don't know if that will hasten the process, but it may.     You should not actually need any ID for the application to be processed.

Cheers,  JM   
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[ChrissieL]

I have been following this really interesting thread.  How wonderful that at last you have some positive information to follow up. Well done Roots Chatters!

Chris

[tssenior]

Yes Chris, I am so grateful to everyone that has helped from this site, I'm so glad I joined! There have been so many helpful links that I believe I never would have found on my own. My Dad (74) is in a bit of shock I think haha. He has phoned all of his siblings to tell them, and other family members that have been interested all these years. I just can't wait for the death certificate, to see if it reveals anything else! At this stage we don't know when he left NZ to go to Australia, all we know is that he spent the last 4 months of his life in a Veterans Home. I have been trying to follow up on a person of interest that Debra talked about. I thought I had discounted him because I had found his parents names but now I can't find where I got that information! A Leslie Joseph Thomas married a Laura Elizabeth Senior in 1942 in Redfern NSW. I'm heading to Ancestry.com now to see if I can find out more.

[aspin]

Bookmarking still enjoying this thread
great detective work all of you
I too would have been lost without Rootschat
Elizabeth

[MargP]

What a brilliant outcome, another success for RootsChat, and well done hsfan

Margp

[Beeonthebay]

Wonderful news and brilliant researching.