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From: "Tom Perrett" <>
Subject: RE: [AUS-MELB] Electoral Rolls
Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2004 21:52:35 +1100
In-Reply-To: <BAY15-F4071cV9tGfyr00030bd6@hotmail.com>


On Tue, 02 Mar 2004 18:46:08 +1100, Lenore Frost wrote:

||>Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2004 14:45:21 +1000
||>From: "Leona Smithurst" <>
||>To:
||>Subject: Re: [AUS-MELB] Electoral Rolls
||>
||>Hi Lenore,
||>
||>I have done quite a lot of Electoral roll "searching" armed only
with a
||>surname, and in some cases just that, without any Christian names to
go
||>with
||>it.
||>
||>The address is what most of us are looking for.
||>
||>Best regards,
||>
||>Leona
||
||Hi Leona,
||
||You're obviously a great deal cleverer than I am, as I have never yet

||located anyone in an Electoral Roll if I didn't know where to start
looking
||in the first place. However, my point was that it can be a lengthy
||business, and not the sort of thing one would expect a lookup in -
unless
||you are happy to spend hours on someone else's behalf armed with
nothing
||better than a surname. I generally look at electoral rolls to pick
up
||occupations and the names of adult children, wives names. There are
better
||sources for addresses, I would have thought. I probably have less
patience
||than you. :-)
||
||Best wishes
||
||Lenore
||
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I may be wrong, but the discussion might be going around based
on a misunderstanging where you are talking about the old style
electoral rolls which were organised by sub-divisions and you
needed a good handle where the person lived so you could
find the right subdivision, whereas the other party is talking
about the modern electoral roll organised alphabetically by
state, so both your experiences are correct but in different
circumstances.



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