Hello Cynthia I agree with you these records need to be retained. The most appropriate people for the job are the Society of Australian Genealogists. You can contact them through their webpage and pass on the details http://www.sag.org.au/ info@sag.org.au Regards, Ann -----Original Message----- From: aus-nsw-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:aus-nsw-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of aus-nsw-request@rootsweb.com Sent: Wednesday, 25 November 2009 7:02 PM To: aus-nsw@rootsweb.com Subject: AUS-NSW Digest, Vol 4, Issue 348 Today's Topics: 1. Inverell General Cemetery - lookup (Cynthia and Ted Glover) 2. Funeral Director's Records (Cynthia and Ted Glover) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:38:12 -0800 From: "Cynthia and Ted Glover" <cynted@actrix.co.nz> Subject: [AUS-NSW] Inverell General Cemetery - lookup To: <AUS-NSW@rootsweb.com> Message-ID: <9604984540964364937077A4D4D729D6@toshibaddff991> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Would some kind person be able to look at Inverell cemetery records for me, please. My great uncle, Bertram Dawson Vere FOSTER, died 1963, according to the BDMs for NSW. (He was known as "Vere.") I need an actual date of death to be able to look for his Death Notice. Would like to know if he had children, their names, and to know if he was still with his wife, Clarice FOSTER. Perhaps someone could help me with that also. Sincere thanks, Cynthia (NZ) ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:49:25 -0800 From: "Cynthia and Ted Glover" <cynted@actrix.co.nz> Subject: [AUS-NSW] Funeral Director's Records To: <AUS-NSW@rootsweb.com> Message-ID: <10DE68E461F841D89E662EB3BC35BCDF@toshibaddff991> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" If someone from the NSW Genealogy Society/Family History Group, is watching this list they might like to know that the owner of Walters Funeral Directors, Sydney, told me she is on the verge of throwing out 100yrs of records because they are taking up too much space. These are the records of the 9 branches of the business which have been in the family since her grandfather's day. Please don't let this happen. She told me that most firms in Sydney have been taken over by big American companies and they just send the records to the dump. Criminal. In NZ we find the undertaker's records wonderful for genealogy as they contain the same info as death certificate. They are only too happy to share them with genealogists. A huge saving. I hope a group of Sydney genealogists will get together, take these records off their hands and make it their project to transcribe them for history's sake. Cynthia (NZ) ------------------------------ To contact the AUS-NSW list administrator, send an email to AUS-NSW-admin@rootsweb.com. To post a message to the AUS-NSW mailing list, send an email to AUS-NSW@rootsweb.com. __________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to AUS-NSW-request@rootsweb.com with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and the body of the email with no additional text. End of AUS-NSW Digest, Vol 4, Issue 348 ***************************************