----- Original Message ----- From: "jude" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, December 03, 2006 6:18 PM Subject: [HHHV] electoral rolls , > can someone tell me please what is the availability of > electoral rolls, when they started and what info is on > them. I am of course referring to 1840's period and > later. Hi Judy in Tassy Nick VINE-HALL listed the availablity of electoral rolls for all States in the 1994 edition of his book 'Tracing Your Family Tree in Australia' Earliest roll is dated 1842 and can be found at State Records, Mitchell Library, SAG and the Qld FHS Am pretty sure we have a small set of fiche NSW E rolls for about 1844/5 at the NSW Central Coast FHS library ?? In looking for someone I have tended more towards using Post Office Directories . For Sydney these date from 1832 Electoral rolls before 1990 can be very hard to search as were indexed by electorates . 1990+ are a breeze as indexed by State Who/what were you looking for ?? Bye MargM Member of Central Coast Family History Society Gosford NSW