Dear Bill, Thanks for the info. I will certainly follow through on some of your suggestions. Regards, Margaret ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill" <oldboybill@westnet.com.au> To: <aus-nsw-hills-hawkesbury-hunter-valley@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, September 18, 2009 9:41 PM Subject: Re: [HHHV] BOYD FAMILY > Dear Margaret and Ray, > If you try www.records.nsw.gov.au which is the site for State Records and > do > a name check in the alphabetical section you may well come up with a > match. > > The ARK, like everything else it seems, now has a new name, whiich I can't > think of an my printed document from 2003 calls it the Archives Resources > Kit. It is held by several big libraries around the State, and interstate. > Scotland might be stretching it a bit far though. > > There is an Archives in Brief on most subjects, about 130 of them, and > shipping is one of the first. Ship or Shipping, maybe passengers in the > index should refer you to them. The records will give you two reel > numbers, > firstly the shipping list, and secondly the immigration list. In the main, > if supplied and recorded correctly, the second one will give a lot of > family > details, parents etc, and whether alive, relatives in the colony etc. > > Another resource is the Australasian Genealogical Computer Index which is > produced by the Society of Australian Genealogists and an index of > anything > that has come across the desk in 19 different societies in Australia and > New > Zealand. > > Regards,Bill > >> >> I'd also suggest searching in the Immigration Deposit Journal INDEXES >> issued >> by Pastkeys on microfiche -- held in many oz public libraries; which then >> direct you to the relevant Deposit Journals themselves -- also held by >> many >> oz public libraries as part of the NSW ARK from NSW State Records. That >> may >> indicate other relations in the colony etc. >> > > > > > > E-mail message checked by Internet Security (6.0.0.386) > Database version: 5.13300 > http://www.pctools.com/en/internet-security/ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > AUS-NSW-HILLS-HAWKESBURY-HUNTER-VALLEY-request@rootsweb.com with the word > 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the > message >