All The so-called '100 years rule' is fairly ludicrous anyway and only makes life slightly more difficult. Not being able to search the indexes readily as for the NSW records is a major frustration in any case. However, all the information is 'out there'. I live in the UK and use the magical National Library Trove site to research births up to 1954. With Google news I can take it even further as my newspapers of interest, The Age, SMH and the Advertiser, are all scanned online up to 1985. In the latter case, you have to have some prior information as there is no means of searching the editions as there is for Trove, but the extra information including pictures and all the surrounding articles more than make up for it. Best! Lloyd On 01/02/2012 15:17, Doug Laidlaw wrote: > Graham wrote: > >> On Tue, 24 Jan 2012 16:44:39 +1100, Robert G Eldridge wrote: >> >>> On Sat, 21 Jan 2012 03:20:16 +0000 (UTC), Graham >>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> The old Great War Index (which is no longer available due to the 100 >>>> year rule) lists the birth twice. >>> Your use of the phrase "the 100 year rule" is I trust not meant to imply >>> that there is a general rule in these matters. >>> >>> I am aware of administrative decisions made by some States and past >>> moves to formulate an Australia wide policy but thank goodness it's far >>> from an Australia wide universal decision. >> In Victoria a few years ago (about 2000 I think) our Government in it's >> wisdom decided that birth records should not be released to the public >> until 100 years after the event. Before that it was 80 years. The Great >> War Index that had been published a few years earlier contained some of >> these records so it was removed from sale. Copies that are "out there" >> were not recalled however. >> > Why "thank goodness?" Because diversity is a good thing? Perhaps the > States should allow cars to be driven on whichever side of the road they > think best. An Australia-wide standard is better than 8 different ones. > Apart from its individual Registrars' abbreviations, its abbreviated > forenames and its DOS-age GUI for searching, Victoria takes care not to say > prominently anywhere, what its cutoff dates are. You are expected to look > up its leaflet. Time has stood still in this State. > > Doug, > Indexing for the Ryerson, now over 3.3 million entries from 199 newspapers. > Is your paper one of them? > > --- Posted via news://freenews.netfront.net/ - Complaints to [email protected] --- > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Hi everyone, At 3/02/201211:45 AM, Lloyd Mitchell wrote: >All > >The so-called '100 years rule' is fairly ludicrous anyway and only makes >life slightly more difficult. Not being able to search the indexes >readily as for the NSW records is a major frustration in any case. >However, all the information is 'out there'. Don't forget also that lots of cemeteries are online and they are up to date as of 2012 for deaths. Cheers Angie Some family trees have beautiful leaves, and some have just a bunch of nuts. Remember, it is the nuts that make the tree worth shaking. ~Author Unknown Andrea Roberts....in Melbourne, Australia. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Searching for Pyke/Millsom/Goodman/McCann/Rorke/Presnell/ Moorhouse/Millard/Taylor/Toppin http://www.1stopmedia.org/angieroberts/index.html