How do I find BMDs on Ancestry.com.au?

Dennis · Post by **Dennis** » Fri Mar 20, 2009 9:37 pm

Hi:)

I am on the 14 day free trial and can only find Voter Rolls for family, and no BMDs.

I did stumble onto the Anzac site and found a relative from WW1.

dennis

Kathy · Post by **Kathy** » Fri Mar 20, 2009 11:42 pm

Hi Dennis,

I don't think Ancestry has any OZ BMD, only voter rolls, even if you find your family on those, any underage persons will not be listed.

Kathy

Dennis · Post by **Dennis** » Sat Mar 21, 2009 1:09 am

Hi Kathy & thank you for the reply.

Does Australia have a registry of BMDs online? Where do you order certificates?

Regards. dennis

Post by **paddyscar** » Sat Mar 21, 2009 2:43 am

Hi Dennis:

The TalkingScot Library has a collection of links for searching Australian and New Zealand information. http://talkingscot.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=9596

Frances

Kathy · Post by **Kathy** » Sat Mar 21, 2009 6:28 am

Hi Dennis,

Which State are you expecting to find your relations?

Kathy

Currie · Post by **Currie** » Sat Mar 21, 2009 6:35 am

Hello Dennis,

I’m not sure which Anzac site you found the WW1 record on but you should be able to download the full Service File of any WW1 Australian soldier (usually very many separate pages) from Record Search at National Archives of Australia. http://www.naa.gov.au/collection/record ... index.aspx

Australia is a Federation of a number of States. Some functions of Government are Federal, such as Defence and Immigration, and those sorts of records are held by the National Archives of Australia but only since the States Federated in 1901.

Records of Births Deaths and Marriages and a variety of other things are the responsibility of the States and each has a different system. Before Federation in 1901 each State was a separate Colony of Great Britain and any records, of any kind, prior to then are held by the relevant State.

Alan

Dennis · Post by **Dennis** » Sat Mar 21, 2009 6:46 am

Hello Alan,

It was this Anzac site:

http://mappingouranzacs.naa.gov.au/map.aspx

dennis

Dennis · Post by **Dennis** » Sat Mar 21, 2009 6:51 am

Kathy wrote:Hi Dennis,

Which State are you expecting to find your relations?

Kathy

Hello Kathy,

It would be South Australia.

dennis

trish1 · Post by **trish1** » Sat Mar 21, 2009 11:04 am

Hi Dennis

SA would be almost the only state with no information online! There are very expensive CDs available. If you have access to an LDS centre, they may have them available. I have info from almost every state except SA (no family of mine has headed that way). Someone else from Oz may be able to help.

The registries are very protective of their indexes - the LDS once got access to some early records, but the CD they produced is not allowed to be sold in Australia - as they charge 1/20th of the price the registries charge for a subset of the information - I guess that is the reason. (It does not include SA).

If you have a relative who served in WWI in australia - go here
http://www.naa.gov.au/collection/record ... index.aspx

search as a guest & enter his name in the keywords. As Alan said, you will get a full digital copy of his service, which you can download or read online. You may find letters from family or other details that may help find the BDMs.

Online BDMs (noting that births post 1905-20 are usually NOT available - marriages and deaths are limited as well)

NSW http://www.bdm.nsw.gov.au/familyHistory ... ecords.htm

Victoria http://online.justice.vic.gov.au/servlet/bdm_home (pay to view)

Qld https://www.bdm.qld.gov.au/IndexSearch/BirIndexQry.m

WA http://www.bdm.dotag.wa.gov.au/_apps/pi ... fault.aspx

Tas - no bdms online but a useful set of indexes here
http://www.archives.tas.gov.au/

Trish