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News July Seminars 10: Finding your way around the English/Welsh censuses 1841–1911 Tea Tree Gully Public Library 10:00 to noon 30: Tracing your English ancestors WEA Centre Adelaide 6:30 to 9:30pm 31: Accessing the primary research stream State Library for the Flinders University 9:00am to 4:00pm August Seminars 13: Organising, recording and preserving your family history Payneham Library 9:30 to 12:30pm 14: Accessing the secondary research stream State Library for the Flinders University 9:00am to 4:00pm 15: Family History on the Web WEA Centre Adelaide 10:00 to 1:00pm 22: Cops, crooks and victims 1840s style West Torrens Public Library 1:30 to 3:00pm 28: Interpreting the record State Library for the Flinders University 9:00am to 4:00pm See the seminar program for more details and bookings. More privacy paranoia State Records of SA have withdrawn access to Series GRG21/1: 1885 Land Tax Returns. This series was particularly valued by family history researchers, not only because in one listing every land owner in the colony was listed, but because of the extensive information contained within the records. The material has been withdrawn because someone has realised that the South Australia Taxation Administration Act 1996 Div 3—Secrecy 77–80 Prohibition has certain disclosures that makes it illegal for the public to access this material compiled over 120 years ago in case someone's privacy is compromised! Irish Civil Registration Indexes Civil registration indexes for all Ireland to the end 1921 and for the republic until 1958 are now available on the new LDS pilot site associated with FamilySearch. The site offers free access to the Irish Birth, Death and Marriages Civil Registration Indexes 1864–1958 and the Irish marriage index 1845–1864 (non Catholic marriages). The index is available for online searching but the images have yet to be made available. Click on Browse our record collections, then Europe on the map for access. Note that the actual registers have been filmed by the LDS, but are not online. 1901/1911 Census of Ireland The 1901 census came online on 3 June 2010 at the National Archives web site. All 32 counties for 1901 and 1911, searchable by all information categories, are now available on this site. Ireland is unusual among English-speaking census-taking countries in that original household manuscript returns survive. These are the forms filled out and signed by the head of each household on census night. Most only have Enumerators' books, where family details were transcribed by the person charged with collecting the census information. |
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Registration records across Europe The following table outlines how to access European Civil Registration certificates for births, marriages and deaths including Iceland. The UK has been included for completeness only. For those jurisdictions that do not have Civil Registration the researcher needs to access church records—usually the records are held by the Established or State Church.
Use Google search to get the current address and other details: type "civil registration" +country/town (thus: "civil registration" +belarus) or if organisation is cited above in italics; organisation’s name +country (hence: zivilstandsamt +switzerland). In a number of countries, the term civil registration is not used or is used for differing records. Where this occurs use the term, birth marriage death instead of "civil registration" (thus: birth marriage death ukraine). You may need to use an online translator like those offered by Google and Babelfish to roughly translate what the site contains. There may be cases where no translation is available. Use the LDS Family History Online Library Catalogue to locate material to assist in your research by a keyword search using the words: "civil registration" + country. Also check LDS ongoing filming of European Country Vital Records. Keep an eye on the new LDS site. The LDS Wiki site also holds information on accessing vital records. The World GenWeb Project site may also lead you to appropriate resources. The USA government through its embassies offers useful information about securing records from some countries. Use the following web address replacing the word country with the country name or capital city accordingly: http://country.usembassy.gov/index.html Useful information may also be found at the CIA's World Factbook site.  It should be noted that many documents in Eastern European archives (countries as illustrated) have been microfilmed or copied in some manner and can be found in archives worldwide, including the Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People (CAHJP) in Jerusalem at Hebrew University, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives (USHMM) in Washington and the Family History Library (FHL) in Salt Lake City. Be aware of boundary changes especially in eastern Europe. For example your ancestor may have emigrated from the Austro-Hungarian Empire that now consists of Poland, Ukraine, Romania, the Czech Republic, and Slovenia. When writing seeking a certificate you can enhance your chance of a response by observing the following: 1. Write in the language of the recipient. 2. Enclose an IRC for return postage. 3. Do not require the recipient to undertake any research to provide the result. 4. Expect that the process may be a two-step one with the initial letter from you seeking the procedure to follow to secure the certificate and the second letter from you containing the specific request and the fee. 5. Do not expect an answer. Many facilities will not answer correspondence and you may have to engage a local accredited record agent. Remember that the country’s embassy/consulate nearest to you may be able to assist you. There are significant barriers to progressing this work in many cases. Notwithstanding the language barrier, many countries maintain the records at a local level only and so to secure the record the researcher needs to know the place in which the event occurred. Often this is the very reason for seeking the record! Also many countries do not require their public servants to undertake any form of searching and an almost precise date has to be provided to get a result. Some officials in some countries seem to consider responding to written requests not necessary and just pocket the stamps, IRC and/or postal orders! While the writer advocates attempting to secure this information oneself, sometimes the only recourse is to engage a local agent to attend the office in person. What does all this mean in a practical way? John Claudius Paisley, the South Australian Governor's Private Secretary, was reported in a brief notice in the Advertiser in September 1862, as dying on the Island of Elba earlier that year. On the surface it would seem a relatively simple exercise to obtain his death certificate especially when, as indicated in the above table, Elba is in Tuscany where civil registration started in 1809. Unfortunately these records are held by the Registrar of Vital Statistics in the place where the event occurred. There is no central, regional, or provincial office established that keeps such records. Elba has about fifteen such registries. So you say, contacting each office in turn until a result is achieved is not all that insurmountable, but this strategy does not recognise that Italian registrars are not required by law to assist in genealogical research work. Unless complete and correct information is provided, no search can be undertaken. A similar situation occurs in France where the records are retained at the local level for 100 years before being passed on to the regional archives. The difference is that while they are in local hands people tend to be more helpful and will undertake basic searches. Once the record gets to the archive, the researcher is subject to the whim of the recipient of the request and that means a range of responses from considerable help through to totally ignoring the request. If you have experienced securing a BMD certificate from any of the above continental European countries, please share this with us. Tell of the problems and successes so others can be aware of the issues. |
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