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*]

Ancestry has them all (maybe not SA) up to 1980.

Tasmania up to 1954.

But if you can search by address I have not been ablet o figure it out.

[punch*drunk]

I'll have a look, I'm pretty sure you can narrow it down to electorate, but maybe not address. I guess the electorates change a bit too.

[punch*drunk]

Ok, I had a look and you can refine down to electoral subdistricts.

In 1934 for example, in the subdistrict of Devonport, the entire electoral roll is 30 pages. It really wouldnt take too long to search those for an address.

I cant imagine other areas of Tassie having too many more pages than that, I think thats the only way you'll find it though.

[flashie*]

Punch...........no sucess that way............it would not let me search without have a "beginning with the letter".

So I have moved on.

Can you tell me if Findmypast has anything on this death..... Thomas Coulson died Smelland Lincolnshire 8-8-1929

[punch*drunk]

flashie message me the address and i will have a look if you like.

I'll check that death shortly.

Did you get those censuses i emailed you a while back? the ones that lived on that island.

[flashie*]

I will have to have a look Punch.

I have swapped and changed sides of the tree..........every time I hit a snag I move on.

I will email you the address now.

[flashie*]

     On 24 November 1642, Dutch explorer Abel Tasman discovered a previously unknown island on his voyage past the "Great South Land", or "New Holland", as the Dutch called Australia. He named it Van Diemen's Land after the governor of Batavia. The Dutch, however, did not settle New Holland and Van Diemen's Land. The First Fleet, which arrived in Port Jackson, New South Wales, in 1788 comprised eleven British ships carrying officers and convicts from England.

Fears that the French would colonise Van Diemen's Land caused the British to establish a small settlement on the Derwent River in 1803. 33 of the 49 people in the group were convicts, and the settlement continued to receive convicts re-shipped from New South Wales or Norfolk Island up until 1812. Regular shipments of convicts directly from Britain began in 1818. A second penal colony was established at Macquarie Harbour on the west coast of Van Diemen's Land in 1822, and three years later, the British Government separated Van Dieman's Land from New South Wales. Macquarie Harbour was eventually closed down, to be replaced by Port Arthur. Transportation of convicts to Van Diemen's Land ended in 1853. On 26 November 1855, the colony officially became known as Tasmania and elections for parliament were held the following year.

[clair.de.lune]

flashie & punch I'm sending you a message, it's pretty funny although I shouldn't laugh but.... lol

[darksideofthemoon]

Hey Flashie and Punch... good to see this here 

[kennedia_nigricans]

i found out my ancestors are neanderthaler.