Treasures in Australian government gazettes / Rosemary Kopittke.
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TextSeries: Unlock the pastPublisher: St Agnes, S.A. : Unlock the Past, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Description: 25 pages : facsimiles ; 21 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781925323207; 9781925323214Subject(s): Gazettes -- Australia | Australia -- Genealogy | Australia -- Archival resourcesGenre/Form: Handbooks and manuals. DDC classification: 929.1072094 Summary: "It is true that birth, death and marriage records, will, cemetery records, newspapers and a range of other resources are likely to tempt family historians with the wealth of details they can provide about our families. However, how often do we think of turning to the government gazettes to extend what we know about them? The likely response to any suggestion that it is worth investing time and effort into those records is that they are boring and only cover people who worked for the government so why bother. As Kopittke illustrates â?¦ that idea is far from the truth. Many ordinary people are mentioned, often with details you will find nowhere else. Digitisation of many years of Australian government, police and education gazettes now means that such a search is no longer a tedious matter but can return many treasures in just a matter of minutes."--Back cover.
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| wnor- Book | Wundowie Wundowie Adult Non Fiction | 929.1072 KYL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 31111060777180 |
Includes bibliographical references (page 24) and index.
"It is true that birth, death and marriage records, will, cemetery records, newspapers and a range of other resources are likely to tempt family historians with the wealth of details they can provide about our families. However, how often do we think of turning to the government gazettes to extend what we know about them? The likely response to any suggestion that it is worth investing time and effort into those records is that they are boring and only cover people who worked for the government so why bother. As Kopittke illustrates â?¦ that idea is far from the truth. Many ordinary people are mentioned, often with details you will find nowhere else. Digitisation of many years of Australian government, police and education gazettes now means that such a search is no longer a tedious matter but can return many treasures in just a matter of minutes."--Back cover.
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