Hello, I live in W.A. I have or should I say had been using current electoral rolls in order to locate members of the families I am researching so I can contact them by letter to add and ask for their stories, this has worked very well. This last week I went to the local electoral office to find that I cannot do this now, despite the fact that the computer is in the entry to the office and provided with a chair. All you are allowed to do is look for your self on Rolls, well I know where I am!! This Information was Australia wide and very useful, has this happened Australia wide,? While I can understand the reason for this, I did notice on the note on the computer also forbade searches for Lawyers and for the reason of other things. I had been in there before when the staff was all busy way behind the counter talking about their activities on the weekend and family problems, perhaps I should just go in there on a Monday morning! Would be happy to find out if this restriction is Aust. Wide. Chris in W.A.

Christine, I used to use this facility a lot myself. I have heard that this is now the policy Australia-wide. All you are now allowed to do it look for yourself to check that your enrolment details are correct. It is a shame that it has come to this. Cheers Chris > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2014 19:25:24 +0800 > Subject: [AUS-SAGEN] electoral rolls > > Hello, I live in W.A. I have or should I say had been using current electoral rolls in order to locate members of the families I am researching so I can contact them by letter to add and ask for their stories, this has worked very well. This last week I went to the local electoral office to find that I cannot do this now, despite the fact that the computer is in the entry to the office and provided with a chair. All you are allowed to do is look for your self on Rolls, well I know where I am!! This Information was Australia wide and very useful, has this happened Australia wide,? > While I can understand the reason for this, I did notice on the note on the computer also forbade searches for Lawyers and for the reason of other things. > I had been in there before when the staff was all busy way behind the counter talking about their activities on the weekend and family problems, perhaps I should just go in there on a Monday morning! Would be happy to find out if this restriction is Aust. Wide. Chris in W.A. > AUS-SAGEN Archives are here: > http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index/AUS-SAGEN/ > > Websites of Interest on our Blog: > http://aus-sagen-genealogy-websites.blogspot.com/ > > ------------------------------- > 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