Hello List, Mine is a general query concerning birth registration in the Miners Rest area between 1869 and 1883. I am assuming that the actual registration was done at a local office in Ballarat and then a copy or transcript was forwarded to Melbourne for the "formal" registration. I do realise my assumption could be inaccurate. However, if this is the case I'm wondering if those original registrations can be accessed. I have four births where there is information that could have been mis-transcribed from the information originally proved. I guess another way of asking the same question is - Was there both a district registration record and a state registration record. I'm afraid I'm an uninformed South Australian who does NOT support the Crows or the Power(less) Regards, Chris

Hello Chris. Local registrations were filled out on the supplied pre-printed sheets. The local registration number appears in the far left gutter, outside the printed section. Every three months these sheets were forwarded to the office of the Registrar General, where the districts were arranged in alphabetical order, and the central registry number for that year was stamped in the central gutter, between the two pre-printed halves. They were then entered into the hand-written alpha index. The first entry for the year would be # 001. Each quarter the sheets were sent in, put together in the same way and numbered consecutively. When the last sheet was numbered, they were all bound into a volume for that year, and the new year began, again, with # 001. Local registrars kept a small exercise book in which they entered, usually, the surname e.g. for Werribee in 1902, thus: Cunningham Mary Margaret 1081, Julia Cecilia 1130, Thomas Gregory 1244, Agnes Catherine ..... e.g. Amherst , thus: "Monthly reports" Birth reg No., place of birth, date, sex BUT NO NAMES! e.g. Amherst, 1879, thus Reg number, name, area where born e.g. Koroit, thus: No dates, full name and registration number e.g.The Springs 1861, thus: John, son of Thomas and Susan Smith, no number, no date. e.g. Talbot 1885, thus: reg number, name. I gained these from VPRS 3653 "Country Registration Books" Most books are local indexes to deaths. Only a representative number of books with names of districts are found in these nine LARGE and very heavy boxes. Many books do not name the district. Years ago I managed, by reference to the birth indexes on microfiche to name and date some of these books, but I decided my time could be better spent on another project I was then involved with. As you can see, not much info was kept at the local level. I only listed Box 5: Birth books forAmhurst Talbot Mornington Koroit Mansfield The Springs Lethbridge Smythes Creek, Smythesdale Inglewood Werribee Kerang Shepparton Wyndham Warrnambool Shepparton Seymour all these in box 5 Box 2 has Geelong births up to 1954 (Shush, don't let that out or they'll be removed!) Box 1 has Bendigo births to 1933 (Shush with these, too) You'll need big muscles and long arms to lift & get into the bottom of the boxes! Regards, Ada Ackerly Chris Ward wrote: > Hello List, > > > > Mine is a general query concerning birth registration in the Miners Rest > area between 1869 and 1883. > > > > I am assuming that the actual registration was done at a local office in > Ballarat and then a copy or transcript was forwarded to Melbourne for the > "formal" registration. I do realise my assumption could be inaccurate. > > > > However, if this is the case I'm wondering if those original registrations > can be accessed. I have four births where there is information that could > have been mis-transcribed from the information originally proved. > > > > I guess another way of asking the same question is - Was there both a > district registration record and a state registration record. > > > > I'm afraid I'm an uninformed South Australian who does NOT support the Crows > or the Power(less) > > > > > > > > Regards, > > Chris > > > > > ------------------------------- > 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 > >