E is for EDUCATION Yes, we can and should see what we can learn about our ancestors’ education, using school records, old school annuals, school administrative books and enrolment registers. Once again you can learn unexpected these about ancestral families such as their participation in school committees, their involvement in establishing a school or how … More E is for Education, Ethics & Electoral Rolls
Buiding on yesterday’s post about using electoral rolls to determine your street’s population, I decided to enter the name and other data into a spreadsheet which could be sorted in different ways. Somewhat to my surprise I found that there is really only one family living in the street with continuous residence from World War … More Street demographics – more on electoral rolls
Findmypast Australia’s blurb tells the researcher that electoral rolls are the nearest record Australians have to census listings and hence are extremely important to local, social and family historians…. Compulsory enrolment was introduced for all federal rolls from 1911 so the 1959 should reflect the adult population (over 21 years) excluding the foreign and indigenous … More The key to learning who lived in your street: Electoral rolls on FMP and WVR
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