Questions tagged [australia]
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Why can't I find any records of my Great x2 Grandfathers travelling to New Zealand or Australia?
Background
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My Great x2 Grandfather (George Scammell) was born in 1856 in Semley, Dorset.Birth ...
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Transcribing text on Death Record
I am interested with the second entry. I know the date is November 1st 1931. And I know he died in Murrayville, Victoria, Australia.
But I am trying to make out the rest. I know it mentions county.
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Sharing DNA record between two ancestry accounts
My DNA record is in my Australian account and I have activated a UK ancestry account, how do I get the UK account to recognise the DNA record in my Australian account.
The reason I did this is because ...
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Finding details about an immigration from England to New Zealand / Australia
Here is a Immigration Certificate:
According to the source it says:
Departure Date: May 1919
Departure Port: England
Ship Name: Prinzessin
Destination Port: Auckland, New Zealand
I have several ...
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Abbreviation "H.M.C" in Sands Directory
What does "H.M.C." stand for in the following entry in the Sands Directory Street Index for Balmain, New South Wales, in 1890?
Henry Gill was about 64 at that time. He had owned and run a ...
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Significance of registration by Registrar General versus Assistant District Registrars in New South Wales
I've just received a death certificate for someone I believe to be one of my ancestors from the NSW Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages.
All the other NSW certificates that I have from around the ...
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Searching for 21st century Australian Death records
I'm looking for records for the death of Joel Holland Webster, 2009 Australia
All I know so far is that it was reported in the Illawarra Mercury
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Listing Protocol when there is birth name and other "also known as"?
I have been researching many (Australian) military/archival records and found a relatively small number of people who signed up for WWI and WWII did so in a name different to their birth name. For ...
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Travel from Australia to Palestine, 1870s
In Looking for information about Anna Oldag (*10 Oct 1866 in Warmbrunn) I asked a number of questions about my great-grandmother Anna Minna Martha Oldag. I was advised I'd get better response by ...
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Immigration Records for William Jacka circa 1860 to 1875 from England to Australia?
My GGGrandfather arrived in Australia somewhere between 1860 and 1875. His name is William Jacka. He was supposed to be travelling with his two brothers. We have newspaper reports of him in Bulli ...
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Deportees from Australia to UK early 1900's
I am trying to confirm the claim that a relative was deported form Australia back to UK in the early 1900's.
I can find any number of sources for people being transported from UK to Australia but ...
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Transfering money between England and New South Wales (Australia) in 1850s?
I have the original Accounts Rendered document prepared in London, England for my GX3 Grandmother Mrs Kate Fitzmaurice and dated April 1851. This document shows the distribution of the estate of her ...
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Finding ship arrivals for Australia in the 1870s?
I am looking for information relating to the arrival of James DAY in Australia, probably with his wife Anna and four children, William and Isabel (by his first wife, Isabel Carey), and Lucy and Percy. ...
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Identifying Australian soldier named Bennett in World War I photograph (1917)?
For more background to this question please see Identifying Australian soldier named Williams in World War I photograph (1917)?
This is a photograph of what I believe to be an Australian soldier from ...
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Identifying Australian soldier named Williams in World War I photograph (1917)?
Recently, I was able to obtain an image of a page from my grandmother's 1917 autograph book.
Her name was Gwenyth Jean Stacy (born 16 Dec 1902 at St Peters, Adelaide, South Australia) and at the time ...
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