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1 Unlock The Past Cruise Researching Your WA Ancestors And Their Descendants February, 2013 Presenter – Neil Bradley Researching Your WA Ancestors & Their
1 Unlock The Past Cruise Researching Your WA Ancestors And
Their Descendants February, 2013 Presenter Neil Bradley Researching
Your WA Ancestors & Their Descendants Unlock The Past Cruise
Feb 2013 Neil Bradley
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2 Rough Plan Demonstrate the Key Online Databases How to search
and tips Look at some available CDs Essential Books relating to WA
Genealogy Ask me questions as we go Researching Your WA Ancestors
& Their Descendants Unlock The Past Cruise Feb 2013 Neil
Bradley
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3 Adams - 1830 Martin - 1830 Hayman - 1858 Woods - ~1870
McMillan - 1892 Chamberlain - ~1848 Bradley - ~ 1898 Neils WA
Families Researching Your WA Ancestors & Their Descendants
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4 Western Australian Genealogy Society www.wags.org.au Quick
Links has most of the key databases Links ultimate Genealogy links
WA Surnames WAGS Forum Members Only Data Researching Your WA
Ancestors & Their Descendants Unlock The Past Cruise Feb 2013
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5 WAGS - LINKS Researching Your WA Ancestors & Their
Descendants Unlock The Past Cruise Feb 2013 Neil Bradley
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6 WAGS WA Surnames Researching Your WA Ancestors & Their
Descendants Unlock The Past Cruise Feb 2013 Neil Bradley
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7 WAGS EDR System Search a squillion CDs in one go!! Not huge
numbers of WA CDs yet but growing Researching Your WA Ancestors
& Their Descendants Unlock The Past Cruise Feb 2013 Neil
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8 WAGS EDR System Search the Index on the Net - MO Researching
Your WA Ancestors & Their Descendants Unlock The Past Cruise
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9 WAGS Library WA Family History Books Published Family
Histories are a great source of data (& photos) 929.2 is where
they all hide I have been through all the WA ones (twice) New
numbering system makes the WA ones a little harder to isolate (look
at the old cards for Bradley x2) Soon we will add key Families to
the Alice Keywords for each WA book I have had lots of surprise
finds Key Shire books are worth a look Researching Your WA
Ancestors & Their Descendants Unlock The Past Cruise Feb 2013
Neil Bradley
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10 WAGS LIBRARY Catalogue on the Net
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11 WAGS FORUM Need to be a Member or Registered to use Can
Subscribe by Section or Topic Researching Your WA Ancestors &
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12 WAGS Members Only Section Researching Your WA Ancestors
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13 Metropolitan Cemetery Board
http://www2.mcb.wa.gov.au/NameSearch/search.php Limited search
options, no wildcard search but using just the first few characters
can be helpful Updated really quickly so you look up quite recent
burials Spelling is generally pretty good If you cant find someone
whom you think died pre 1967 check out WA BDMs online Researching
Your WA Ancestors & Their Descendants Unlock The Past Cruise
Feb 2013 Neil Bradley
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14 Metropolitan Cemetery Board
http://www2.mcb.wa.gov.au/NameSearch/search.php Fremantle Cemetery
Established 1898 Older remains / headstones moved from Alma St
& Skinner St Index appears to have added some of these earlier
burials (but not all??) Go for a walk around the Pioneer Section
(with a camera!) Guildford Cemetery Established late 1800s I have a
photo of an 1870 headstone not on the index (more walking
required!) A number of graves at Guildford Grammar Karrakatta
Cemetery Established 1899 Im not aware of any missing from the
index (although headstones have been removed) Midland Cemetery I
need to check this one out Pinaroo (1978) Cremations only (I
think?) Rockingham (2007) Researching Your WA Ancestors & Their
Descendants Unlock The Past Cruise Feb 2013 Neil Bradley
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15 Metropolitan Cemetery Board
http://www2.mcb.wa.gov.au/NameSearch/search.php Approx Year of
Birth (+/- 1) Full Name Date of Death Where Living at time of Death
Cemetery Religion (if buried) Location so you can match to Spouse /
Children Grantee (positive proof of a relationship) Less detail if
cremation only and ashes removed Researching Your WA Ancestors
& Their Descendants Unlock The Past Cruise Feb 2013 Neil
Bradley
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16 Metropolitan Cemetery Board
http://www2.mcb.wa.gov.au/NameSearch/search.php Note: Nanas ashes
in the same Gravesite Same Grantee Check out anyone born before
about 1930 who you dont have a death for (not proof but often you
can be pretty sure) Check out Marriages before 1950 (as above)
Filters & Flags demo Researching Your WA Ancestors & Their
Descendants Unlock The Past Cruise Feb 2013 Neil Bradley
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17 WA Pioneer Index
http://www.bdm.dotag.wa.gov.au/_apps/pioneersindex/ Researching
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18 WA Pioneer Index
http://www.bdm.dotag.wa.gov.au/_apps/pioneersindex/ Births
1841-1932 Only Births before 1905 show parents Later birth records
can be useful but only as confirmation Deaths 1841-1971 Some have
age and parents Some also show place of birth (pre 1905) Can use
microfiche up to 1980 (has father & mother Christian names)
Marriages 1841-1936 pre 1905 show Place of marriage rather then Reg
District Searching Assume poor spelling and where possible only use
the first few chars Also try alternate spelling e.g. Headland
Hedland Hedlund Always check reverse Christian names Trixie Doris
& Doris Trixie %abc will look for abc anywhere within the field
Checking Everyone in your database whom you think may have had one
event in WA and you have missing data for needs to be checked
People with no mge born before 1916 need to be checked Filters and
Flags are the best way to check requires advanced s/ware
Researching Your WA Ancestors & Their Descendants Unlock The
Past Cruise Feb 2013 Neil Bradley
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19 Reverse WA Marriage Lookup http://www.wamarriage.info/ -
Limited search options, no wildcard search but using just the first
few characters can be helpful - Manually created from hard to read
microfiche (some are very blurred) expect some spelling errors -
Check out the missing partners. Original microfiche only give Name,
Registration District, Year and Registration Number for each
person. Matches have been done manually. - Between 1905 & 1936
check Pioneer Index as well if no luck here (just in case!!)
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20 Reverse WA Marriage Lookup If you know the wifes Surname
look both ways Not uncommon for women to remarry, Surname might be
their last married name Check out all Mges where you dont have a
Year and or Place Check out anyone born after 1885 who isnt married
(not proof but it gives you a start). Can then look for burials, if
buried together and ages/middle names match then looking stronger
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21 WA Convict Database
http://www.fremantleprison.com.au/Pages/Convict.aspx Researching
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22 Country & Other Cemeteries Check in the country for
burials that you cant find in the city Sometimes you also need to
look interstate Researching Your WA Ancestors & Their
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23 OZ Burials http://www.ozburials.com/index.htm Search this
site feature is terrific Smith, Fred Check town website as well if
available (e.g. Albany more data) Researching Your WA Ancestors
& Their Descendants Unlock The Past Cruise Feb 2013 Neil
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24 MidWest Cemeteries
http://members.westnet.com.au/gfhs/Cemeteries/menu.htm Researching
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25 Outback Family History
http://www.outbackfamilyhistory.com.au/ Researching Your WA
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26 Carnamah Historical Society
http://www.carnamah.com.au/index.html Great site with Bios on
nearly everyone who has lived in the area Plus Cemeteries in the
area Plus other data Andrew Bowman (4 th cousin twice removed) has
done a great job Researching Your WA Ancestors & Their
Descendants Unlock The Past Cruise Feb 2013 Neil Bradley
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27 Northam Cemetery http://northamcemetery.atwebpages.com/
Headstone photos, inscriptions and some links to other info Double
click on the photos, often more than one view Colleen Ranger
(relatives in common) has done a great job Researching Your WA
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28 Bunbury Cemetery
http://bunburycemetery.com.au/burialcremationrecords.aspx/
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29 Albany Cemetery
http://www.albanycemeteryboard.com.au/search.php Researching Your
WA Ancestors & Their Descendants Unlock The Past Cruise Feb
2013 Neil Bradley
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30 East Perth Cemetery You have to hunt around on the site to
find this New On-line East Perth Cemetery Database coming soon
Friends of Battye You can buy photos of the headstones (
myweb.westnet.com.au/talltrees they have a number of others)
http://members.iinet.net.au/~perthdps/graves/register.htm
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Past Cruise Feb 2013 Neil Bradley
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31 Australian Cemeteries http://www.australiancemeteries.com/
Can find available Cemeteries I have only played with the search
briefly but it looks good Researching Your WA Ancestors & Their
Descendants Unlock The Past Cruise Feb 2013 Neil Bradley
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32 FAMILYSEARCH.ORG Ian Simon pointed this gem out to me. It is
not obvious if you just browse the site for WA records Good place
for pre 1841 Births, Baptisms and Deaths Can search submitted trees
if you join up You really need to hunt around this site a bit to
get the feel of it
http://www.familysearch.org/eng/search/frameset_search.asp?PAGE=igi/search_IGI.asp&clear_form=true
https://www.familysearch.org/ Researching Your WA Ancestors &
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33 The Bicentennial Dictionary Of Western Australians 1988 Also
look at Dictionary of Western Australians 1979 Researching Your WA
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34 Time to Check the Bic. Dic. Researching Your WA Ancestors
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35 The Bicentennial Dictionary Of Western Australians 1988 Also
look at Dictionary of Western Australians 1979 Great source of
information Expect mistakes and omissions Look at both sets. The
Dictionary set is in Year groups then alpha Check spouse records as
well Expiree = Convict Source submissions are in WAGS archives and
have been scanned WABI cards are on microfiche at WAGS or have a
look at Battye (look both sides) I check everyone pre 1900 (flags
and filters) Researching Your WA Ancestors & Their Descendants
Unlock The Past Cruise Feb 2013 Neil Bradley