Australian Census Substitutes

Helen V. Smith
Nov 2, 2020
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About this webinar

Sadly, in Australia while censuses were taken, once the statistical data was extracted, most were destroyed. Apart from some early musters, researchers have to use other resources to try and fill in the gaps. These include electoral rolls, directories, gazettes, council rates, land records, civil registration and more. While not a perfect substitute these resources do help us put people in time and place.

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About the speaker

Helen has been researching her family since 1986 with research in Australia, England, Wales and Ireland. She is the author of Death Certificates and Archaic Medical Terms and Google the Genealogist’s ...
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  1. LT
    Legacy Family Tree
    5 years ago

    Another great tool and presentation. Great job!!\n\nAs I know nothing about Australia, found it very informative & will be able to apply it to other places & times.\n\nAs usual Helen is very entertaining and knowledgeable\n\nattended 1st legacy family tree webinar enjoy it very much\n\nClear and concise presentation. Pleased that Australia is being covered by the webinars. \n\nExcellent and useful. Thanks.\n\nExcellent overview. Thanks Helen! (& Geoff)\n\nExcellent! Very nice handout, too. Perhaps I'll still find my missing man! Thank you.\n\nFirst time I have watched a LIVE webinar from Western Australia although I have enjoyed viewing many after the event. Thank you, Helen, for an enlightening webinar and thank you Legacy for presenting. \n\nfirst timer - most informative but still learning the ropes technically. I can see it is all pretty straightforward - now I need to go to find the notes!\n\nFound out some new information. Thanks Helen (and Geoff)\n\nfull of information and easy to follow\n\nGood one\n\nGood to be reminded of some sites that I had forgotten about :)\n\nGood to know about these Thanks\n\nGood to know there maybe a "door" in the "Brick Wall"\n\ngreat info\n\nGreat presentation. I need to learn more about Australian genealogy as I hope to visit in 2 years to do some research.\n\nGreat webinar Helen. I wouldn't have thought about Council rate assessment books.\n\nIt thought it was very helpful. I had only really known about the electoral rolls but hadn't considered a lot of the other lists available. thanks!\n\nLots of food for thought, now I just have to find the time to try some new things out :) Thx\n\nLoved Helen Smith's talk! Very informative.\n\nLovely and clear - a lot covered in 60 minutes. Thankyou\n\nMy son in law has early Australian settlers good things to follow up\n\nOutstanding\n\nSo informative. Thank you so much.\n\nSo much great information! I always enjoy learning from Helen.\n\nThank you for a well researched and interesting event. It was very good to have dates of various legislative events etc that impact of the relevance of various records and their availability in the first place.\n\nThanks Helen another great presentation\n\nThoroughly enjoyed this webinar and learnt lots of new places to search. Many thanks, Helen.\n\nthought it was very good. Helen is a great speaker. No umms\n\nVery comprehansive and informative. Lots to use. Thank you.\n\nVery good. \n\nvery helpful as normal\n\nVery informative and lots of places to investigate.\n\nVery informative which will help me to research in areas not thought about. Thank you Helen and Geoff.\n\nVery rewarding. Learn't lots Thank you. \n\nVery thorough\n\nVery well done!\n\nVery well presented...lots and lots of useful info. Going to take me some time to process it all & will probably need to review the webinar a couple of times as well. Thank you!\n\nWonderful webinar if you a doing genealogy in Australia and what records are available.\n\nYou learn something from every webinar! Love the Down-Under ones. From NZ, but have done lots of research in Australia.

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