Apr-10-2010, 06:04 PM (UTC)
(This post was last modified: Apr-11-2010, 12:24 PM (UTC) by Nuytsia.)
Yep, I am not sure about what you can do for free at the actual archive (if anything).
So far I have done it all online, as my family are from other parts of Australia than where I live now. So the relevant records offices are in other States.
You can get a little bit of information for free online, which is how I got to where I am now. If I want to get more detailed, and older, information a lot of it requires to actually get a copy of Marriage Certificate, Death Certificate, Birth Certificate etc. This always costs money. I did get one so far and they mailed the copy out to me. It WAS good to get it though! Filled in quite a few pieces of information for me (this was a marriage certificate).
The rest of my family that I know about are from England and Scotland. As far as I know the situation is the same for those records? You can't get much, if any, information for free. I did find out a bit by just getting a basic subscription to one of those online genealogy sites for a month.
Unless there are things I don't know about!
Here's a pic, seeing this is the pic thread. It was taken from my lounge room. Pretty!
[Image: 6ca26205f93e5386e6c2629ff9f012c45648dce3.JPG]
So far I have done it all online, as my family are from other parts of Australia than where I live now. So the relevant records offices are in other States.
You can get a little bit of information for free online, which is how I got to where I am now. If I want to get more detailed, and older, information a lot of it requires to actually get a copy of Marriage Certificate, Death Certificate, Birth Certificate etc. This always costs money. I did get one so far and they mailed the copy out to me. It WAS good to get it though! Filled in quite a few pieces of information for me (this was a marriage certificate).
The rest of my family that I know about are from England and Scotland. As far as I know the situation is the same for those records? You can't get much, if any, information for free. I did find out a bit by just getting a basic subscription to one of those online genealogy sites for a month.
Unless there are things I don't know about!
Here's a pic, seeing this is the pic thread. It was taken from my lounge room. Pretty!
[Image: 6ca26205f93e5386e6c2629ff9f012c45648dce3.JPG]