Hi Anne On 10 May 2007 at 6:20, Anne Picketts wrote: > Looking for a Thomas SMITH who was possibly in the printing trade in > Sydney about 1900. I do not have his marriage but he had four > children - Harriet Hannah, Banks Percival Breckels, Harold Dale and > Constance Irene. > > Any help finding them would be much appreciated. So what have you checked so far? What kind of time frame were these children born? Do you know the first name of their mother? Have you checked the online NSW BDM's? http://www.bdm.nsw.gov.au/familyHistory/search.htm NSW has outsourced the supply a transcriptions to agents - I use this one as they email the transcriptions - which have all the details from the government certs and in some cases has additional info from parish registers. Oh and they are nearly half the price of the certified copies! www.transcriptions.com.au Have you check the National Archives? http://www.naa.gov.au/the_collection/recordsearch.html the Aust War Memorial in case they served? www.awm.gov.au Have you checked the NSW State Archives www.records.nsw.gov.au And lastly have you looked in the UK census or googled "Banks Percival Breckels" BFN OOROO Michelle ============== http://au.geocities.com/patientgenie/