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From: "Polli Turner" <>
Subject: Re: [CASANFRA] Any suggestions?
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 21:02:54 -0800
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Thanks! I just subbed to the list! I'd like to learn more about the
Australian goldfields!

Polli :-)

----- Original Message -----
From: "sarah dorothy mcdonald" <>
To: <>
Sent: Friday, March 23, 2001 7:04 PM
Subject: Re: [CASANFRA] Any suggestions?


> Hi Polli
> May dive in here ,I only just seen your email and I subscribe
to
> this list from Perth West Australia ,my great uncle and Aunt went SF from
> Victoriain the 1890s and Im researching them there , I have great help on
> this list .
> You can search online Victorian birth death and marraiges its $1.00
(aus)for
> a page of ten lookups and when you find your person , it can be ordered
> online but I dont think the link accepts US postcodes but you can download
> the order forms from there , the link is as follows:
>
http://www.justice.vic.gov.au/DOJsite.nsf/all+by+key/BirthsDeathsAndMArriage
> sHome?opendocument
> Victorian certificates are great you will get a lot of useful family info
on
> them ,in the case of parent deaths all the children are listed on them
> including grandparents dates occupations and so on.
> If you are interested post the details of your people ,shipping and so on
> are availible to lookup online as well.
> Like I stated I have found obits deaths SS numbers and so on here thanks
to
> the SKS on this list and would be happy to help ,or subscribe to
> for lookups ,a lot of Americans are on
> this list searching for relies from the goldrush days.
> I wish you luck .
> Regards
> Ed McDonald
> Perth
> W.A
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Polli Turner" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Saturday, 24 March 2001 10:31 AM
> Subject: Re: [CASANFRA] Any suggestions?
>
>
> > Thanks for all the information! It's interesting to learn more about
> > Australia and the reason they might have gone there!
> >
> > Polli :-)
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: <>
> > To: <>
> > Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2001 11:39 PM
> > Subject: Re: [CASANFRA] Any suggestions?
> >
> >
> > > Polli,
> > > Permit me to make a few comments from Australia. I realise that your
> > > George Christensen search is in California, however, if the
registration
> > for the
> > > birth of Christian Christensen in 1860 is anything to go by you might
> need
> > to
> > > consider the Anglicised spellings for the names of the various
persons.
> > The
> > > Victorian Government Record of Birth Index states that Christian
> > Christensen
> > > was born to Margaret nee Thomson, and George Christensen in 1860 at a
> > > place coded as ARNH. This is probably Amherst, a forgotten town to
the
> > north
> > > East of Clunes one of the two places where gold was first found in
> > Victoria in
> > > 1851. Between Amherst and Clunes was another gold town called Talbot
in
> > > which were located a considerable number of Scandinavians - so much
so,
> > that
> > > the main street is still called Scandinavian Street. The Birth
> certificate
> > Number
> > > for Christian Christensen is 4319 and would reveal the actual place of
> > birth and
> > > the spellings used for their names at that time. Certificates of Birth
> are
> > > obtainable from Registry of Birth, Death and Marriages, 295 Queen
> Street,
> > > Melbourne, 3000. Australia, at Seventeen Dollars ($17.00) Australian
> each,
> > plus
> > > international postage. You should quote the Name of child, parents,
year
> > and
> > > registration number.
> > > Hope this is a little bit of help.
> > > Robert Ashley.
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>

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