Here's a shorter version of the URL as I see it is line-breaking here on the list: http://tinyurl.com/nlzpsb Kerry

That is going to be a very useful tool for lots of people Kerry...especially since you have included the actual link to the article... Now! My big question is, How on earth do you find the time to do this... I am sure many people will be jumping on the site to find ancestors...just as I did. (unsuccessfully :-((). Cheers Gay ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kerry Raymond" <kraymond@iprimus.com.au> To: <aus-qld@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, July 05, 2009 10:55 AM Subject: Re: [AUS-QLD] Index to the Moreton Bay Courier BDMs > > Here's a shorter version of the URL as I see it is line-breaking here on > the > list: > > http://tinyurl.com/nlzpsb > > Kerry > > > > ------------------------------- > 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 > >

> Now! My big question is, How on earth do you find the time to do this... That's the great thing about indexing online newspapers. I just have a browser window open on the newspaper and Excel open in another window. Whenever I have the time, I just sit down and do a bit more. All in the comfort of my own home; no running out to libraries and archives on cold winter weekends. > I am sure many people will be jumping on the site to find ancestors...just > as I did. (unsuccessfully :-((). Indeed, I didn't find any of my own family, much to my disappointment. Just out of curiosity, I did some coarse statistics, comparing the number of entries I have in my index for each year against the number of entries for the same year in the Pioneer CD. It fluctuates wildly from 5% to 26% prior to the commencement of civil registration and then settles down to about 9-10% after civil registration. So realistically you have about a 1 in 10 chance of finding a notice in my index for an event that appears in the BDM. Actually the odds are worse as the notices in the newspaper include some events that occurred outside Queensland (although one assumes that the family involved had some connection to Qld or they wouldn't have paid for the notice). I suspect it is only the wealthier families that are publishing BDM notices. Kerry

I am sure you are right Kerry...I have records of events for my families during the span of your indexing...but these events weren't published. I know they lived "on the smell of an oily rag" as my ancestors used to say.. They didn't have the money to pay to publish BDMs, and just went about their business. >From what I have found, it's normally only the wealthy or the scoundrels, or victims of crime who find themselves published. Cheers Gay ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kerry Raymond" <kraymond@iprimus.com.au> To: <aus-qld@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, July 05, 2009 12:05 PM Subject: Re: [AUS-QLD] Index to the Moreton Bay Courier BDMs > >> Now! My big question is, How on earth do you find the time to do >> this... > > That's the great thing about indexing online newspapers. I just have a > browser window open on the newspaper and Excel open in another window. > Whenever I have the time, I just sit down and do a bit more. All in the > comfort of my own home; no running out to libraries and archives on cold > winter weekends. > >> I am sure many people will be jumping on the site to find >> ancestors...just > >> as I did. (unsuccessfully :-((). > > Indeed, I didn't find any of my own family, much to my disappointment. > > Just out of curiosity, I did some coarse statistics, comparing the number > of > entries I have in my index for each year against the number of entries for > the same year in the Pioneer CD. It fluctuates wildly from 5% to 26% prior > to the commencement of civil registration and then settles down to about > 9-10% after civil registration. > > So realistically you have about a 1 in 10 chance of finding a notice in my > index for an event that appears in the BDM. Actually the odds are worse as > the notices in the newspaper include some events that occurred outside > Queensland (although one assumes that the family involved had some > connection to Qld or they wouldn't have paid for the notice). I suspect it > is only the wealthier families that are publishing BDM notices. > > Kerry > > > > ------------------------------- > 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 > >