Dear Elaine, I got the answer for you straight from the horse's mouth, so to speak: Australian Electoral Commission..... http://www.aec.gov.au Under the section "When" called "Australian Electoral History", there is a timeline from 1788 onwards which will answer most of your questions. Since my "RING" family come from Chiltern I have quite a large odds & sods collection about Chiltern in my collection so I will go through that to see what else I can find. Victoria.......... http://www.vec.vic.gov.au/ New South Wales:......... http://www.seo.nsw.gov.au/ Here is the NSW Time line: http://www.seo.nsw.gov.au/publications__resources/trivia__history_corner/history_in_nsw.html The above word wraps so click on this re-direction: http://tinyurl.com/uts2 Briefly it says: 1902 Women's Franchise Act enabled women to vote (this was first implemented in the 1904 election). You can search around these three web sites at leisure. Particular curly questions could be aimed either at state or federal depending on what the question is. I hope this will be a starter while I search my Chiltern folder. Cheers, Tony Moore (Balgo, Western Australia) @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ -----Original Message----- From: Alan & Elaine Rogers <erogers@powerup.com.au> To: AUS-NSW-WEST-L@rootsweb.com Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 18:56:50 +1000 Subject: [NSW-W] Electoral rolls. Dear listers, Could some one please be able to tell me when the electoral rolls came into being. I realise women did not get the vote when the men did. Also what would the names of the electorates for Chiltern, Ballarat in Victoria be, and Tottenham, Nymagee, Nyngan,Condobolin, Bobadah and Penrith in NSW, both state and federal pre and post Federation. Hope this is not a silly question. Regards Elaine ==== AUS-NSW-WEST Mailing List ==== To read previous messages to this list, for at least the last twelve months, go to: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/AUS-NSW-WEST/