Australia, Newspaper Vital Notices, 1831-2001

Source Information

Ancestry.com. Australia, Newspaper Vital Notices, 1831-2001 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015.

Original data: Personal Notices from Newspaper Issues. Fairfax Media.

About Australia, Newspaper Vital Notices, 1831-2001

This database contains birth, marriage, and death notices from three Australian Newspapers for the years 1831–2001: The Age, The Sydney Mail, and The Sydney Morning Herald. In these notices, you can find a variety of information, including:

Name
Gender
Birth date
Marriage date
Death date
Age at Death
Parents’ names
Spouse's name
Spouse's parents' names

Note: The entire collection is available to browse, though at this time the searchable index is complete only for a portion of the collection. Additional records will be added in future updates.

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