I have heard whispers at the State Library that one of the family history staff is trying to bring the lists in the Moreton Bay Courier 1846-1859 together into a searchable form.    Brian Jones --- On Mon, 31/8/09, bedmonds <beverley@yourisp.com.au> wrote: From: bedmonds <beverley@yourisp.com.au> Subject: [AUS-QLD] Electoral Lists 1854 Stanley Borough Brisbane To: aus-qld@rootsweb.com Received: Monday, 31 August, 2009, 2:00 PM With all the talk of Voters Lists, I was reminded that I have a newspaper copy of the " Morelton Bay Courier " dated July 1854 which gives a List of all those who were in that area. It covers North Brisbane, South Brisbane and Kangaroo Point. There are lots of lines through some of the names so may not be able to read them all. If you think your name maybe amongst them I will take a look. Bev Edmonds ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to AUS-QLD-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message __________________________________________________________________________________ Find local businesses and services in your area with Yahoo!7 Local. Get started: http://local.yahoo.com.au

----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian Jones" <bmjon450@yahoo.com.au> To: <aus-qld@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, September 02, 2009 9:23 AM Subject: Re: [AUS-QLD] Electoral Lists 1854 Stanley Borough Brisbane I have heard whispers at the State Library that one of the family history staff is trying to bring the lists in the Moreton Bay Courier 1846-1859 together into a searchable form. Hi Brian Its already been done ? See below bye MargM QLD List Admin ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kerry Raymond" <kraymond@iprimus.com.au> To: <aus-qld@rootsweb.com> 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 >

Brian said: > I have heard whispers at the State Library that one of the > family history staff is trying to bring the lists in the > Moreton Bay Courier 1846-1859 together into a searchable > form. Marg said: > Its already been done ? > http://tinyurl.com/nlzpsb I sez: Yes, as Marg says, I have done an index of the BDM notices for the Moreton Bay Courier (well, to the best of my abilities, no guarantees that it is perfectly correct) and I am working on extending it to The Courier (the newspaper that follows it) as well as indexing Mudgeeraba cemetery at the same time. I'm just the gal who can't say "NO" to indexing :-) But Brian is asking about the electoral lists, which I haven't indexed and have no plans to index. Having said that, I am a bit dubious that the State Library would be doing this. I don't think they have so much spare staff time that they can afford to have people creating indexes (nice as it would be). But of course, it might be a staff member doing it as a labour of love on their evenings and weekends, as I do. If anyone wants to index anything out of the NLA's digitised newspapers (whether it be BDMs, electoral lists, sporting results, shipping news or whatever interests you) and wants to contribute it with my index, please let me know and I'll send you the Excel spreadsheet that I use to create the index for you to fill in. Note I will be away for a few weeks on holidays so if I don't reply to you immediately, just be patient. Although I have only published an index to the Moreton Bay Courier, as you will see on the index, there is a column labelled "Publication" so my index can accommodate entries relating to other newspapers without any difficulty. Kerry