Hi again John. I have deleted the earlier posts on this topic, and am too snowed under at the moment to go into the list's archives to retrieve the information from them, but I do recall that in your previous posting you said that you are in Queensland. Accordingly, you might not be aware of some of the more common online resources for NSW. Firstly: here is a link to the free online indexes to BDMs in NSW up to a variety of dates (dates are given on the page there): http://www.bdm.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/Index/IndexingOrder.cgi/search?event=births Try searching first for the married surname and forename for each person. It really depends on the number of hits received, as to the best way to proceed thereafter. If not many hits: easy to check them all out. If a lot of hits, as I'd expect with a surname like WILLIAMS, then maybe input ONE parent's forename to see if that narrows it down -- but beware that for a lot of the entries, parent names might be unknown. If no luck there, then delete that parent's forename, and try the forename of the other parent. etc. That site also uses the asterisk: * as a wildcard, which might help you a bit where spellings might be dicey. For example if the death might be recorded as WILLIAM instead of WILLIAMS, if you search for William* that will bring up entries under both surnames -- but warning: it will also bring them up for WILLIAMSON etc. as well. Secondly: This link is to the online indexes page at NSW State Records (the state archives). If you use their KeyName Search facility, you never know what wonderful results might appear for you. Thirdly: you are possibly familiar with the Ryerson Index of DEATHS in Australia, which is progressively working backwards in time, as their few but willing volunteers transcribe more newspaper death and funeral entries. Here is the link to the Ryerson Index though, just in case you don't have it: http://ryersonindex.net/search.php Fourthly: don't forget to look in Trove at the National Library of Australia, where they are progressively placing OCR-ed transcripts of early oz newspapers online, along with scans of the original pages. Although the OCR-ing is not very well done, once again volunteer transcribers are editing them after comparing them with the original scans, so over time it is hoped that better quality transcriptions will appear. http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper I suggest that you click on their ADVANCED SEARCH link, and then on that page, after entering your search terms, scroll down the page and click on the box beside NSW, to select ALL of the newspapers in NSW which have currently been scanned; before hitting enter or clicking on search to get your results. HTH: ray ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Rice" <jrice@westnet.com.au> > Hi Ray, > Thank you for your post. > Yes, the info supplied by Nancy to Vicki is spot on and they are my GG > Grandparents. I am hoping someone maybe able to tell me their death dates. > Regards > John > > -----Original Message----- > From: Ray

Hi Ray, Thank you for your very informative email. I have tried most of those tricks over the years without much luck. I know Elizabeth parents name but not William's parents. I will try the tricks again in case I did not do it right the first time. Many Thanks John -----Original Message----- From: Ray Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2011 9:55 AM To: aus-nsw-hunter-valley@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [HV] re Elizabeth Sherry Hi again John. I have deleted the earlier posts on this topic, and am too snowed under at the moment to go into the list's archives to retrieve the information from them, but I do recall that in your previous posting you said that you are in Queensland. Accordingly, you might not be aware of some of the more common online resources for NSW.