Anyone else into seeking their ancestors?

[darksideofthemoon]

I have become adicted to Ancestry.com and am lucky enough that one side of my family can be researched way back into the dim times.

The other side has hit a brick wall and I have to wait until someone else in the world may have more information.

How is everyone else going?

[flashie*]

Australian History

Thursday, November 7, 1861. :   The first Melbourne Cup is run.

     The Melbourne Cup is the major annual thoroughbred horse race in Australia. Sometimes referred to as "the race that stops a nation", it is run at Flemington Racecourse in Melbourne on the first Tuesday of November each year.

The first Melbourne Cup was run on 7 November 1861, and was attended by a crowd of around 4000. The race was won by Archer out of a field of 17 horses. Legend states that Archer had been walked from Nowra in NSW to the Cup in Melbourne, a distance of around 885 kilometres. However, shipping documents discovered many years later cast doubts upon that popular claim.

By the year 2000, attendance at the racing carnival was up to 120,000. Originally run over a distance of two miles, in 1972 the race was converted to 3200 metres, which is just short of two miles by 18.69 metres, or 61.30 feet.

[grapes_collector]

Does anyone know a really good site for New Zealand ancestry records? The only sites I can find don't let you see anything unless it's more than 80yrs ago. Even worse than the Australian records, which are hopeless unless you happen to know your grandparents info.

My DIL comes from NZ but knows nothing beyond her parents names and birthdays.

Ta

[flashie*]

Grapes................I am not familiar with too much N.Z. research. 

I only know of these two sites.

http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast

https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/Home/

If you wish you can message me through ebay and I can have a look on ancestry for you.

[grapes_collector]

Thanks for that  flashie, I have used the NZ Govt site and I am already a member of Ancestry.  I will have a closer look at at paperspast though.

It seems the laws governing what you can see re records for  NZ & Aust are widely different to the UK, which go right up to 2005. 

[punch*drunk]

I found paperspast really good for my NZ families. I also found their BDM registries better than ours. I think they have some good cemetery registers too.

[flashie*]

Punch.............on Find My Past can you search the Electoral Roles by address.

I have a bit of a mystery...................a great great Uncle put a death notice in the paper when his father died and it said he had an adopted son Charlie............................and again when the Great great Uncle died Charlies name comes up.

But there is no Charlie I can find.

This was a family who were terrible for giving our three or four names to their children and thier children could have been known by any of them.

I know from the death notice that the Great great Uncle must have left his house to Charlie...........and the address is in his death notice when Charlie dies.

So I was hoping we might be able to see who lived in the house in the 1930's.

But I can not search by address only on Ancestry.

[punch*drunk]

No, FMP only have recent electoral rolls, unless your looking for someone in Chesire, they go back to 1842. Sounds like they are still working on the indexing.

I found this page, which isnt much help, but its interesting.

http://www.electoralregisters.org.uk/

http://www.electoralregisters.org.uk/searching.htm

Interesting to read there's no 1931 or 1941 census for England. That will annoy people in years to come, its a pretty big gap between 1921 and 1951.

[flashie*]

Sorry Punch..........I should have said..............I meant here...............Tasmania

[punch*drunk]

Oh, I've only got UK FMP.

I'll check again though because I can change to Australia, just dont know if I can view the results if there is any.

[punch*drunk]

They only have QLD and NT territory electoral rolls.