I had problems as well, but persisted and eventually got on. If you are after people from County Clare there are none listed Regards Bernadette Salter -----Original Message----- From: australia-cemeteries-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:australia-cemeteries-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of lee hatfield Sent: Friday, December 10, 2010 11:47 AM To: australia-cemeteries@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [AUSTRALIA-CEMETERIES] AUSTRALIA-CEMETERIES Digest, Vol 5, Issue 216 i couldnt get the indian and irish site to work . does anyone else have a problem with it?, lee > From: australia-cemeteries-request@rootsweb.com > Subject: AUSTRALIA-CEMETERIES Digest, Vol 5, Issue 216 > To: australia-cemeteries@rootsweb.com > Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2010 01:01:06 -0700 > > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: ACT BDM's? For Jackie Q (Jan and Bob Grant) > 2. Re: ACT BDM's? For Jackie Q (Jackie) > 3. Irish and Indian Grave yards (joko) > 4. Re: ACT BDM's? (Maureen) > 5. ACT deaths (Garry Batt) > 6. Ursula May Cook buried Penola New Cemetery Sth Aust-photo > required please (Michelle Cook) > 7. ACT deaths (Garry Batt) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2010 22:21:06 +1000 > From: "Jan and Bob Grant" <grantos@ozemail.com.au> > Subject: Re: [AUSTRALIA-CEMETERIES] ACT BDM's? For Jackie Q > To: <australia-cemeteries@rootsweb.com> > Message-ID: <006101cb9540$0fa79e80$4319957c@janspc> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Hi Jackie > > So are they available for purchase and do you know which program they are > written in? > > Thanks > Jan > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jackie" <jackie01@netspace.net.au> > To: <australia-cemeteries@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Monday, December 06, 2010 10:04 AM > Subject: Re: [AUSTRALIA-CEMETERIES] ACT BDM's? For Jackie Q > > > > Hi Jo, > > > > Not digger unfortunately. > > > > Jackie Q > > > > At 09:58 AM 6/12/2010, you wrote: > > >Are they digger? And can do you know where I could purchase a copy?? > Kind > > >Regards. jo > > > > > > > > > > > >------------------------------- > > >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > > >AUSTRALIA-CEMETERIES-request@rootsweb.com with the word > > >'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the > message > > > > > > ------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > AUSTRALIA-CEMETERIES-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Tue, 07 Dec 2010 00:53:43 +1000 > From: Jackie <jackie01@netspace.net.au> > Subject: Re: [AUSTRALIA-CEMETERIES] ACT BDM's? For Jackie Q > To: australia-cemeteries@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: <20101206145353.08CA01C4001@smtp.netspace.net.au> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed > > They aren't on cd. It's just an excel file. > > Jackie > > > At 10:21 PM 6/12/2010, you wrote: > >Hi Jackie > > > >So are they available for purchase and do you know which program they are > >written in? > > > >Thanks > >Jan > >----- Original Message ----- > >From: "Jackie" <jackie01@netspace.net.au> > >To: <australia-cemeteries@rootsweb.com> > >Sent: Monday, December 06, 2010 10:04 AM > >Subject: Re: [AUSTRALIA-CEMETERIES] ACT BDM's? For Jackie Q > > > > > > > Hi Jo, > > > > > > Not digger unfortunately. > > > > > > Jackie Q > > > > > > At 09:58 AM 6/12/2010, you wrote: > > > >Are they digger? And can do you know where I could purchase a copy?? > >Kind > > > >Regards. jo > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >------------------------------- > > > >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > > > >AUSTRALIA-CEMETERIES-request@rootsweb.com with the word > > > >'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the > >message > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------- > > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > >AUSTRALIA-CEMETERIES-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > >without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > > >------------------------------- > >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > >AUSTRALIA-CEMETERIES-request@rootsweb.com with the word > >'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2010 08:24:30 +1100 (AUS Eastern Daylight Time) > From: "joko" <joko@tadaust.org.au> > Subject: [AUSTRALIA-CEMETERIES] Irish and Indian Grave yards > To: "Aus Cem" <AUSTRALIA-CEMETERIES-L@rootsweb.com> > Message-ID: <4CFD548E.00000D.03608@USER-PC> > Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Whilst trolling through looking for some people buried in Ireland I came > across this site and thought it might help someone http://www.kabristan.org > UK/ the blurb on the front of the page reads "KABRISTAN ARCHIVES is a > non-profit making organisation dedicated to preserving memorial inscriptions > from graveyards in the west of Ireland and the Indian sub-continent > including many which no longer exist. They are presented here in a form > which is easily accessible to the family historian. SEARCH or browse through > THE KABRISTAN ARCHIVES for your relatives, find the inscription and we will > supply either a copy, or the book, or a photograph if we have it for ?4 > each, or all three for ?12 Inc. Postage worldwide. " > > Hope this helps someone, Cheers, JO > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 4 > Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2010 11:23:34 +1100 > From: "Maureen" <mcreyn2@tpg.com.au> > Subject: Re: [AUSTRALIA-CEMETERIES] ACT BDM's? > To: <australia-cemeteries@rootsweb.com> > Message-ID: <015a01cb95a4$fd138080$f73a8180$@com.au> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > The ACT hasn't released any Birth or Marriage indexes for sale. You can > access the Death index online: > > ACT Historical Death Index 1930-1979 > http://www.ors.act.gov.au/bdm/WebPages/bdm_deaths.html > > General information to access ACT BDMs: > http://www.ors.act.gov.au/bdm/index.html > > Maureen in Sydney > > Anyone know if the ACT has it's BDMs on disc? Also I just found a baby > registered 3 times - each under a different surname (same first name) anyone > come across that before? > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 5 > Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2010 13:20:23 +1000 > From: "Garry Batt" <garrybatt@gmail.com> > Subject: [AUSTRALIA-CEMETERIES] ACT deaths > To: <australia-cemeteries@rootsweb.com> > Message-ID: <F55944389329487BA386D87CD16D3907@home> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Hi Jo > be a bit careful with that ACT deaths file. > The dates are a bit suspect in places. > If you go down to Ongley, Arthur Bowden you'll find he died in the 13th month. > > They've used Excel and a custom format for the dates column d/m/yyyy and it's scrambled all the dates. > > Anybody out there using Excel as a database are advised to format any columns in which you are going to put dates as TEXT. > Excel has big trouble with dates. > Excel can't sort dates before 1900 so you may as well format the column as TEXT. > Select the column(s) where you want to enter dates. > Click on "Format" on the menu bar across the screen, drop down and click on "Cells", in the dialog box that opens up click on "TEXT" and click on OK. > > Yours, > Garry. > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 6 > Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2010 16:18:06 +1300 > From: Michelle Cook <chammenfamilynz@gmail.com> > Subject: [AUSTRALIA-CEMETERIES] Ursula May Cook buried Penola New > Cemetery Sth Aust-photo required please > To: australia-cemeteries@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: > <AANLkTinvYbMH0HRcYgLD7ZiNtpkD8meO334t_szsv79A@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > Is there sks who lives near Penola New Cemetery, who would be able to > take a photo of her headstone please.Ursula died 14 Aug 1947 > > > Michelle Cook > Christchurch,NZ > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 7 > Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2010 17:49:05 +1000 > From: "Garry Batt" <garrybatt@gmail.com> > Subject: [AUSTRALIA-CEMETERIES] ACT deaths > To: <australia-cemeteries@rootsweb.com> > Message-ID: <0785C856F5CE4AC2AB99F55BFF1E306C@home> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Hi Marsha, > I realised what the problem was as soon as I saw it. > Peter caught me with this one a while back. > My regional settings in the Contol Panel were set differently to whatever the people who created the file had set theirs at. > > To my way of thinking this shouldn't affect anything sent to me or downloaded from the net. > You should make your files so that everyone sees the same information regardless of settings on their computer. > > We usually mix dates and single years in the one column. Databases don't like this and will scramble them all up. > A database expects to find the one type of data in each column whether it be either dates or years but not both. > The easiest way around the problem is to format the column as TEXT before entering any data. > > If you have trouble setting up a database in Excel contact me and we'll work through it. > Yours, > Garry. > > ------------------------------ > > To contact the AUSTRALIA-CEMETERIES list administrator, send an email to > AUSTRALIA-CEMETERIES-admin@rootsweb.com. > > To post a message to the AUSTRALIA-CEMETERIES mailing list, send an email to AUSTRALIA-CEMETERIES@rootsweb.com. > > __________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to AUSTRALIA-CEMETERIES-request@rootsweb.com > with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and the body of the > email with no additional text. > > > End of AUSTRALIA-CEMETERIES Digest, Vol 5, Issue 216 > **************************************************** ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to AUSTRALIA-CEMETERIES-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message