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From: "Keith Flinders" <>
Subject: Re: Robert Watson from a lurker
Date: Sat, 4 Dec 1999 15:50:34 +1300


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From: geoff Coxon <>
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Sent: Saturday, December 04, 1999 9:57 AM
Subject: Robert Watson from a lurker


>
> If Robert Watson died in New Zealand, his parents names and birth places
> or towns they came from in scotland will be or should be on the new
zealand
> birh certificate as I understand it new zealand certificates are the same
> as Australian ones and this information is shown on Australian
certificates.
>
New Zealand birth certificates that I hold do not include birth place
details for the parents of the child. NZ death certificates tell you the
place the deceased was born at, and the names of his/her parents and
father's occupation. Information being only as good as the informant knew,
and then only as correct as it was heard and written down.

Some Australian states have extremely detailed certificate information, and
they are a model that the rest of the world should have adopted to make it
just that much easier for present day researchers. By chance I learned that
one of my great grandfathers came to NZ via Australia, when I though him to
have come directly from England. On checking I found that his parents
emigrated to what is now Victoria, and purchasing their death certificates
expanded my knowledge of that family greatly.

Keit

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