Search Index Cards of inscriptions found in cemeteries in New South Wales, Australia at FamilySearch.org
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Many of the entries are actual monumental inscriptions from cemeteries in New South Wales, but some entries were taken from burial registers. The majority of cemeteries are public ones. The cemeteries included were not necessarily transcribed completely. Cemeteries include Minmi, Mulbring, Mount Vincent, Maitland district and Newcastle. Link to film numbers
Use information from gravestones to locate death certificates which may have additional information. Also date of birth and names of parents and place of birth, if available, can be used to search for additional birth information. Information taken from the monuments is probably fairly reliable, although it is possible that some mistakes were made in transcription. Birth information on the monuments is only as reliable as the knowledge of the person responsible for the gravestone at the time of death.
I've just used this for the first time and found it frustrating that the images were not grouped into the cemeteries they referred to. I found my family on image 297 of 663 images but nothing mentioning the cemetery. A search of the previous 30 odd images still didn't tell me where.
ReplyDeleteI happened to know the location already and the cemetery appeared in the typed list of volume nos. but these did not relate to the images. If I hadn't already known the cemetery there was noting to indicate it here.
If you are lucky then the transcriber wrote the cemetery name at the top of the page, but unfortunately mine didn't.
Searching for family, came across image of death of two other relatives. Not sure who does the inscriptions but it was incorrect.
ReplyDeleteListing being WHETTEN sarah jane 16/5/1923 and Walter Lochart 6/11/23 (Husband and wife) dates are correct should read WHETTON.