"Richard van Schaik" <f.m.a.vanschaikREMOVE@THISziggo.nl> wrote > Richard van Schaik wrote: >> I would like some links to publicly available data apart from links as >> via e.g. Cyndi's list (duplicates are no problem, will be edited). Is >> there some FAQ on this list or some other more general site pointing to >> other sites were information can be found (especially since about 1910). >> I'd like to add some data to my Kuiper branch (my mothers side) and know >> some did leave for New Zealand. Most I know is through my uncle (recently >> deceased) via his correspondence with the family. As the whole family >> might still be living I'd rather not put too many details on Usenet. >> >> Part of the problem is that I know there are as many rules to publicly >> available data on persons (recent and possibly living that is) as there >> are countries. I do not know yet what is available in Australia+NZ as to >> the more recent records. Any option to search is welcome. > > Pity none answered as yet. Searched a bit and came to seven deeds I would > like to check, but are they indeed $ 28 a piece ..... £ 7 in England is > already some huge mountain. Five a quarter is my max. At more than double > that amount for me its quitting this investigation (even though they are > closer to me than my English research). Hi Richard Most of us here would understand your frustration of searching long distance given that many of us also have to search in Europe for our antecendents. I have some doubts if the FAQ will be helpful as I suspect it's been years since it's been updated. The last time I read it was years ago when the newsgroup still received visits from Andrew Billinghurst who was the Administrator at that time and was known then as 'Boss Cockie'. There is also the complication that this list is not like the UK group where known names of the UK genie world post regularly because there is also in existence an 'invite only' forum where 'down under' experts congregate. However, if it is any help, the rootsweb reference to the FAQ is at: http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/intl/AUS/GENANZ.html however the link to the FAQ at Billinghurst's site is broken. I agree that the cost of certs/wills and other paraphenalia we genies want is high and decisions always have to be made. If I counted all the time I put into this hobby/interest against more useful things I could be doing, I'd give up tomorrow - I don't though because that way lies real madness. Perhaps it would be of help to we out here in cyberland if you were more specific in what you want? I assume your prime interest is NZ? Is it only NZ? What do you want found out? Possible names of births/offspring of your migrants to NZ? Sources of online Indexes to wills/Newspapers?????? What help exactly? I can understand your reticence to put out a query that may involve living people, but perhaps you might get some help if you ask for a volunteer who might be willing to look up Electoral Rolls/Phone books and then give them details of possible living people offline.

FarmI wrote: > Most of us here would understand your frustration of searching long distance > given that many of us also have to search in Europe for our antecendents. > > I have some doubts if the FAQ will be helpful as I suspect it's been years > since it's been updated. > > The last time I read it was years ago when the newsgroup still received > visits from Andrew Billinghurst who was the Administrator at that time and > was known then as 'Boss Cockie'. There is also the complication that this > list is not like the UK group where known names of the UK genie world post > regularly because there is also in existence an 'invite only' forum where > 'down under' experts congregate. > > However, if it is any help, the rootsweb reference to the FAQ is at: > http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/intl/AUS/GENANZ.html > however the link to the FAQ at Billinghurst's site is broken. > > I agree that the cost of certs/wills and other paraphenalia we genies want > is high and decisions always have to be made. If I counted all the time I > put into this hobby/interest against more useful things I could be doing, > I'd give up tomorrow - I don't though because that way lies real madness. > > Perhaps it would be of help to we out here in cyberland if you were more > specific in what you want? I assume your prime interest is NZ? Is it only > NZ? What do you want found out? Possible names of births/offspring of your > migrants to NZ? Sources of online Indexes to wills/Newspapers?????? What > help exactly? > > I can understand your reticence to put out a query that may involve living > people, but perhaps you might get some help if you ask for a volunteer who > might be willing to look up Electoral Rolls/Phone books and then give them > details of possible living people offline. Thank for the link, will read it tomorrow. I tried already a bit on newspapers (saw some link passing in one of the posts) but not extensively enough yet. Its indeed NZ where this family went to and last known address is 13 years old (correspondence of my late uncle with them). I'm trying among others to fill in data on the surnames of my 4 grandparents working from the oldest known back to the present. This is the Kuiper branch (surname of my mother). Data I thus far have are just the names of the parents and three children and some about the education the father got. Any offline help would appreciated very much. Richard -- Richard van Schaik f.m.a.vanschaikREMOVE@THISziggo.nl http://www.fmavanschaik.nl/ Mail address changed repair to this on my site is being worked on