I've heard of this problem before. Is there an active effort in NSW BDM to continue to collate parish records into the BDM? I guess the flip-side is to ask whether there are church archives actively 'holding out'? Or are they simply not resourced to dig out old records and hand them over? cheers, matt ------------------------------ > > Message: 9 > From: "Lesley Uebel" <ckennedy@bigpond.net.au> > Subject: Re: [PJ] Time capsule ....Fr Therry's papers and RCArchives > > Hi Karen > > That's correct Karen - not all records were handed over. We can only hope > that > one day they may be > > > regards > Lesley Uebel > >

You may be interested in reading the history of the BDM records at: http://www.bdm.nsw.gov.au/familyHistory/historyRecords.htm Regards] Lesley Uebel mailto:ckennedy@bigpond.net.au CLAIM A CONVICT http://users.bigpond.net.au/convicts/index.html -----Original Message----- From: aus-pt-jackson-convicts-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:aus-pt-jackson-convicts-bounces@rootsweb.com]On Behalf Of Matthew Hall Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2009 9:48 AM To: aus-pt-jackson-convicts@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [PJ] Time capsule ....Fr Therry's papers and RCArchives I've heard of this problem before. Is there an active effort in NSW BDM to continue to collate parish records into the BDM? I guess the flip-side is to ask whether there are church archives actively 'holding out'? Or are they simply not resourced to dig out old records and hand them over? cheers, matt