Forwarded with authors permission. Hope it helps someone MargM List Admin ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kerry Raymond" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, July 05, 2009 10:29 AM Subject: [AUS-QLD] Index to the Moreton Bay Courier BDMs > Hi folks! > > > > Now that the National Library has put the early Brisbane > newspapers online, > I decided to have a go at creating an index of the BDMs as > appeared in the > Moreton Bay Courier, Brisbane's first newspaper, which was > published from > 1846 to 1861 (after which it was sold and published under > the name The > Courier, and then later The Brisbane Courier, and then > later the > Courier-Mail). > > > > I have indexed any birth, death, marriages or funeral > notices I could find. > I also added a few obituaries and articles about how > people died (but on the > basis of "I happened to spot it" rather than anything more > systematic). Note > that in those times, a lot of the notices just talk about > Mr Smith and Miss > Brown without given names, so look any entry (click to see > the scanned > newspaper article at the National Library) with the > surname of interest - > don't ignore something because the names you seen in the > "other names > mentioned" don't include the given names you are hoping to > see. > > > > It is sorted by "principal" surname, meaning the surname > of the person who > was born, married or died. In the case of marriages, they > are indexed twice, > once under the bride's surname and once under the groom's. > Just scroll down > to find the surname you are interested in. If you are > interested in given > names or other surnames that may have appeared in the > notice (note I did not > include the name of the clergyman in the marriage > notices), use the "Find on > Page" in your WWW browser - usually "Ctrl-F" in most > browsers or drops-down > off your menu somewhere. > > > > This is a first go at doing an index into the National > Library's newspaper > database, so I'd be interested in your feedback. Of course > there may well be > errors or omissions etc; I am only human. Please let me > know. > > > > Anyhow, here's the URL: http://tinyurl.com/nlzpsb > Just a comment. The contents of the page belong to me (I > am the copyright > holder). What this means that you are welcome to use the > page but not to > make copies of it elsewhere. > > > > Kerry > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the > message