"Lorrie" <lorriej@optusnet.com.au> wrote in message news:mailman.130.1254907796.10619.genanz@rootsweb.com... > If you are not aware, Ancestry yesterday released a huge and > increased batch of Australian Electoral Rolls right up to 1954 for > all States (still except for Sth Australia though). > Have fun! Hi Lorrie Hard to have fun if the Australian Electoral rolls cant find any SMITHs for the whole country. I wasnt looking for SMITH but did when it couldnt find 6 folk who I know for sure were living in NSW 1940s-50s Must be a big gremlin in the works Bye -- MargM Beautiful NSW Central Coast NSW

On Thu, 8 Oct 2009 23:10:43 +1100, MargM wrote: > >"Lorrie" <lorriej@optusnet.com.au> wrote in message >news:mailman.130.1254907796.10619.genanz@rootsweb.com... >> If you are not aware, Ancestry yesterday released a huge and >> increased batch of Australian Electoral Rolls right up to 1954 for >> all States (still except for Sth Australia though). >> Have fun! >Hi Lorrie > >Hard to have fun if the Australian Electoral rolls cant find any >SMITHs for the whole country. > >I wasnt looking for SMITH but did when it couldnt find 6 folk who I >know for sure were living in NSW 1940s-50s > >Must be a big gremlin in the works > > >Bye > Hhhmmm, you post inspired me to go out to Firefox and log into ancestry.com.au and go to the Australian Electoral Rolls and just put SMITH in the family name field and I got ooodles of finds. Cheers, Tom [Tom Perrett] <tomp@st.net.au>