At 06:56 PM 5/01/2011, you wrote: >Sorry this is off topic, but I urgently need help to find a living relation >in Australia and would be most grateful for any help in finding him. >Happy New Year to Everyone >Mavis in Canterbury, UK Hello Mavis If you can give some details I may be able to help, located in Melbourne Australia, with a magnificent State Library full of luscious records in Melbourne. Have Victoria State BMD's 1800s to 1920s, marriages to 1942, and can access some other States records through the 1800s. Glad to help, if the details fit within the time periods. Probably need to have earlier information, but naturally electoral rolls from the 1920s to 2010 are available also. Often it is a matter of searching through earlier records, electoral rolls for parents, grandparents etc. which then hopefully leads on to living relatives. Cheers Graham Melbourne Oz