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April 2013
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News
April seminars
9: Researching your English ancestors, WEA Centre Adelaide 6:30 to 9:30pm
13: Glenelg heritage walk, WEA Centre Adelaide 1:00 to 3:00pm
20: Port Adelaide heritage walk, WEA Centre Adelaide 2:00 to 4:00pm
May seminars
There are no seminars planned for May.
See the seminar program
for more details and bookings.
Adelaide Proformat will be closed 4 May to 26 May 2013
English pre-1837 research
More English parish registers have come online with the indexing of about 200 north-eastern Kent parishes from the Canterbury Collection now available at FindMyPast.
The Diocese of London Consistory Court Wills index contains 31,000 entries of wills and letters of administration compiled from the London Diocesan Court registers with near complete coverage is provided for the years 1514-1858 (please note there are no registers for the years 1521-1539 and 1642-1670). In this period the Diocese of London included a wide geographical area including parts of the counties of Essex and Middlesex, and some parishes in Buckinghamshire and Hertfordshire.
Accents & dialects
Have you ever wondered how your ancestor spoke in their British regional dialect? The British Library website Sounds covers all major regions of the UK and is worth a listen!
DNA
Regular readers know I am a sceptic about the value of DNA tests (see newsletters #29 & #76) and every time I reveal what I see as issues in the tests I attract some stick! It is pleasing to see some support for my stance in the series, Sense about Science. If you are contemplating taking these still quite expensive tests it may be appropriate to read the article.
Westminster Parish Registers
FindMyPast recently added 3 million baptisms, marriages and burials from 50 London churches to their website in early March. Members of SA Genealogy & Heraldry Society are reminded that FindMyPast can be accessed within the Society's library at no cost.
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In
this issue:
News
April seminars
May seminars
English pre-1837 research
Accents & dialects
DNA
Westminster Parish Registers
Feature article
How to locate details for BDMs in SA
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How to locate details for BDMs in SA
Newsletter #19 was all about how to locate a death record in South Australia and it is time to update the contents of that issue and reveal more avenues available to researchers.
It is also appropriate to expand the material to embrace births and marriages
too.
Finding such records in SA (or anywhere else for that matter) is not as straightforward as it may seem! Firstly we have to contend with the human element—just because rules or laws are introduced it does not mean that everyone observed them. Secondly although we know that civil registration
was introduced in South Australia in mid-1842 it certainly did not embrace the whole colony for a significant number of years.
The fact that some individuals did not report events to the authorities simply means that there will be no registration of the event. It does not mean that the event went unrecorded in other records as was outlined in Newsletter 80 in the article relating to unregistered deaths. As with such deaths, so it was with births and marriages, namely, the process of notifying the Principal Registrar in Adelaide meant that sometimes this did not eventuate. Therefore if a search of the published index fails, it is important to consult the District Registrar's records. 
There are examples where the certificate can be found in District Records but does not appear in the state-wide index of the Principal Registrar. Some information did not even get to the District Registrar. When James Enright's wife, Mary, died at their Bugle Ranges home on 6 Sep 1856, James just buried her out the back! On this occasion the news reached the ears of the authorities and James was prosecuted. His defence was that he was ignorant of the need to report a death!
Adjacent: Register Newspaper 24 Oct 1856 p4a.
Similarly many parents failed to register the birth of a child, but certainly did not neglect the baptism! Likewise it is well documented that marriages can be found in church registers but no certified copy was ever forwarded to the authorities.
How
to locate a birth record in South Australia
Before Jul 1842 |
Jul 1842 to 1928 |
1928 to 1960 |
1960 to present |
Pre-civil
Registration Births:
Data
CD (from Gould & available at
FindMyPast) A free online
index available.
Parish Registers— (see
online database) this material is also
in the above CD.
Note State Library of SA (see note below) does not have Catholic or Lutheran records.SA Genealogy & Heraldry
Society has copies of State Library and Catholic records. |
SA Births
1842–1928:
2 Data CDs (purchasable from Gould & available
at some libraries). |
Search personal
columns of newspapers at the State Library of SA
or SA Genealogy & Heraldry
Society library. Trove has searchable digitised newspapers to 1954:
Advertiser (State)
Border Watch (SE)
Bunyip (Gawler)
Burra Record
Chronicle (State)
The Mail (State)
Northern Argus (Clare)
Pt Lincoln Times
Pt Pirie Recorder
Sthrn Argus (Pt Elliott)
Note that newspapers are difficult to digitise and the resulting image may be poor causing indexing to fail.
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SA Genealogy & Heraldry
Society Newspaper
Birth Notices: a full version only available on SA Genealogy & Heraldry
Societycomputers
but a name listing available online. Also search personal
columns of newspapers at the State Library of SA
or SA Genealogy & Heraldry
Society library.
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For unregistered births check out appropriate parish registers held at:
•SA Genealogy & Heraldry
Society
• State Library of SA
• Lutheran Archives |
Search personal columns of newspapers at the State Library of SA or SA Genealogy & Heraldry Society library. Trove has searchable digitised newspapers:
Advertiser (State)
Border Watch (SE)
Bunyip (Gawler)
Burra Record
Chronicle (State)
The Mail (State)
Northern Argus (Clare)
Pt Lincoln Times
Pt Pirie Recorder
Sthrn Argus (Pt Elliott)
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Note: The State Library of SA holds the following church records:
• Anglican (Series SRG 94)
• Baptist (SRG 465)
• Congregational (SRG 95)
• Methodist (SRG 4)
• Presbyterian (SRG 123)
• Society of Friends also known as Quakers (SRG 103)
• Uniting Church in Australia (SRG 198)
How
to locate a marriage record in South Australia
Before Jul 1842 |
Jul 1842 to 1937 |
1938
to 1989 |
1990
to present |
Pre-civil
Registration Marriages:
Data
CD (from Gould & available at FindMyPast) A free online
index available.
Parish Registers— (see
online database) (this material is also
in the above CD)
Note State Library does not have Catholic or Lutheran records.SA Genealogy & Heraldry
Society has copies of State Library and Catholic records. |
SA Marriages
1842–1937:
2 Data CDs (purchasable from Gould & available
at some libraries) |
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SAGHS Newspaper
Marriage Notices: full version only available on SA Genealogy & Heraldry
Society computers. |
| Search personal
columns of newspapers on Trove (as above), also at State Library of SA and SA Genealogy & Heraldry
Society. |
| Parish
Registers: State Library of SA (see
online database) & SA Genealogy & Heraldry
Society (this material is also
in the above CD) |
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The Advertiser funeral notices 1971–1990, 1997–2006: State Library of SA as
supplied by the Advertiser |
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Index to the Advertiser death
notices 1991–1996: State Library of SA (partial SA Genealogy & Heraldry
Society Index as above) |
How
to locate a death record in South Australia
Before Jul 1842 |
Jul 1842 to 1972 |
1973
to 1989 |
1990
to present |
Pre-civil
Registration Deaths:
Data
CD (from Gould & available at FindMyPast A free online
index available.
Parish Registers (see
online database) (this material is also
in the above CD)
Note State Library does not have Catholic or Lutheran records.SA Genealogy & Heraldry
Society has copies of State Library and Catholic records. |
SA Deaths
1842–1972:
2 Data CDs (purchasable from Gould & available
at some libraries). |
Search personal
columns of Advertiser at State Library of SA
or SA Genealogy & Heraldry
Society library |
SAGHS Newspaper
Deaths Index—full version only available on SA Genealogy & Heraldry
Society computers
but a name listing available online.
[Note: This
index is being extended back towards 1972 and some isolated months
already
available.] |
| Search personal
columns of newspapers on Trove (as above), also at State Library of SA and SA Genealogy & Heraldry
Society. |
SA Probate Index can
be viewed at Probate Registry, State Library of SA, SA Genealogy & Heraldry
Society (will only produce
a result if deceased had
a proven Will or Admons).
LTO Index of Land Owners and Certificate of Title Register can
only be viewed at Lands Titles Office (will only produce a result if deceased owned
property
at
time of death).
SAGHS Cemetery
Index—only available on SA Genealogy & Heraldry
Society computers.
Metropolitan
cemetery records held by: Centennial Park (online),
Cheltenham, Enfield, Magill (St George), North Brighton, North Road,
Payneham, Walkerville
(St Andrew), West Terrace, (Not on the
SA Genealogy & Heraldry
Society computers)
Local Government
Cemeteries (online). |
| Parish
Registers: State Library of SA (see
online database) & SA Genealogy & Heraldry
Society (this material is also
in the above CD). |
SA
Unregistered Deaths: Data CD (purchasable from Gould & available
at some libraries) with online index. |
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The
Advertiser funeral notices 1971–1990, 1997–2006 at State Library of SA as
supplied by the Advertiser.
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Index to the Advertiser death
notices 1991–1996 at State Library of SA (partial SA Genealogy & Heraldry
Society Index as above). |
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