Rookwood Burial Records NSW Australia are online.
Rookwood burial records now available at findmypast.co.uk . Over 233,000 burial records available to search online . It's now easier to research Australian ancestors . Records include former NSW Premier John Lang, who opened Sydney Harbour Bridge, and Peter Dodds McCormick, who wrote Advance Australia Fair
Family history website www.findmypast.co.uk has published online for the first time burial records from Rookwood Cemetery, working in partnership with the Society of Australian Genealogists.
Between 1981 and 1992 members of the Society of Australian Genealogists painstakingly transcribed inscriptions from headstones in Rookwood Cemetery - the final resting place for over 600,000 Australians, located in Sydney's west.
The transcriptions that resulted from that mammoth 11 year project, containing 233,160 names, have now gone online for the first time at findmypast.co.uk, so that anyone around the world can search for their Australian ancestors from the comfort of their own home. It is possible to search the records by surname, forename, inscription or year of death, and each entry shows the complete transcription and grave location.
The oldest graves in Rookwood Cemetery date back to 1867, and today it is one of the largest cemeteries in the whole of the Southern Hemisphere. It is therefore likely that many Australians would have a relative whose resting place is within Rookwood's gates and will be able to find their record in the new online database. The online records cover dates of death over the period 1798 to 1999.
Elaine Collins, Business Development Director at findmypast.co.uk, said: "The Rookwood Burials are a unique and valuable resource for anyone interested in researching their Australian family history. We're delighted to be working with the Society of Australian Genealogists to put these records online for the first time, enabling people worldwide to find their Australian connections."
Heather Garnsey, Executive Officer of the Society of Australian Genealogists, said: "The Society was delighted to work with findmypast to bring its Rookwood Cemetery Transcriptions to a new audience online. SAG volunteers transcribed Rookwood - the largest cemetery in the southern hemisphere - as its contribution to the Australian Bicentenary in 1988 and the transcripts were previously only available on microfiche and CD, both long out-of-print.
Since it was opened in 1867, Rookwood has remained Sydney's most important cemetery with more than a million burials believed to have taken place there. Headstones provide vital clues for genealogists, often revealing far more than just name, age and date of death. Place of origin, religion, occupation and family relationships can all be revealed through headstone inscriptions. We'd expect many new research leads to be discovered through the availability of this material online through findmypast."
The new records can be found within the Parish Record Collection at www.findmypast.co.uk and are part of a much larger on going project with the Federation of Family History Societies to put millions of parish records online. These records are also available through findmypast.com.au, the Australia-based sister site of findmypast.co.uk.
Technology is a wonderful thing for the genealogist. This month Og Blog Newsletter focuses on several types of technology. First, we explore Photo Restoration with Eric over at Photo Grafix, and find out how to rescue our photos from their dusty hiding places in Climbing Family Trees: Preserving Pictures. For more tech fun, check out the My Heritage - Photo Tagging video.
Og also explores other types of technology, like the cool new Reunion application for iPad. Check it out if you are a lucky iPad owner. And if you are considering purchasing genealogy software, don't miss 10 Things Genealogy Software Should Do
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This post was originally published on The Smithsonian Archives' blog, The Bigger Picture and republished on the National Museum of American History's "O Say Can You See?" blog. It is republished here with permission. It was written by Catherine Shteynberg, the social media and marketing coordinator with Smithsonian Institution Archives.
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