stuck!!

[karacola]

Hi there, was wondering if anyone has any advice on finding my grandads sister 'Alice W*** (was S********)! i've gone on genes reunited e.t.c and no joy! its not like its a family member thats way in the past, and yet she just seems to hav vanished off the plannet!! everything i've tried has drawn a blank, and so now im stuck!!! we think she may hav gone to australia but where abouts we dont know? so how do i start to look at that area? if i hav no info? i just need someone to point me in the right direction as im new at this and just not sure where to look next! any help will be much appreciated;D

[Christine in Herts]

Welcome to FTF, karacola!

Sorry to mangle your first post, but FTF is very careful to protect privacy by avoiding the posting of details of living people (see the T&C). If you have evidence that Alice is no longer alive, then you can edit the name back.

If she could be alive, then members can contact you by PM (Personal Message), by clicking on your name, to ask for specific information. General ideas can be suggested on the open board.

Christine

[karacola]

oh ok, thank you for advice

karacola

[Anne in Carlisle]

Can you give us some idea of her year of birth. Presumably you know she was married with the name change? Do you know the year of marriage? Maybe she could have married again and have yet another name.

Anne

[karacola]

hi there, yes she was born in 1926 and was married in june 1947,as far as i know she didn't re-marry??

[Mary from Italy]

Roughly when do you think she may have gone to Australia?

[margaretmarch]

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Margaret

[omskirk]

If you goog;le passenger lists for Australia you should get date and place of departure ship name and destination

[Christine in Herts]

There's no obvious trace up to 1960 of a migration for that name. (I've remembered what I edited, so I am reasonably confident about that.)

Christine

[margaretmarch]

Karacola has found a couple of possibilities on 192.com and is going to get intouch to see if either is the person she is seeking.
Margaret

[karacola]

thanks everybody for ur advice much appreciated!! and christine so ur saying there doesn't appear to be anyone that migrated in 1960ish of that name???

[karacola]

thank you for that but unfortunately i dont know any info!! ship, date, e.t.c as my mum just remembers something being said about them going to australia! and seeing that we cant seem to find them here we think maybe they did go!!???

[Christine in Herts]

thanks everybody for ur advice much appreciated!! and christine so ur saying there doesn't appear to be anyone that migrated in 1960ish of that name???

I mean that I couldn't see anything likely in names of passengers up until the end of 1960. From 1961, onward, they may have gone. Have you looked at the Australian NAtional Archives? They have an increasing amount of info - much of it indexed for names - including immigration records. Also There's some incoming passenger info for specific states... NSW, Victoria and Queensland, possibly. (I have links, but have an appointment this morning, so can't stop to look for them. Might be worth a ramble in teh FTF Reference Library?)

Christine

[karacola]

Ahh thank you christine, will def hav a look into that see wot i can dig up!! :-)

karacola

[margaretmarch]

Did you not have any luck with the two you found on 192.com?
Margaret

[Christine in Herts]

Here are a few likely links:

http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/search?adv=y

http://www.naa.gov.au/

http://www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/AboutSydney/HistoryAndArchives/Default.asp

http://investigator.records.nsw.gov.au/

http://www.archives.qld.gov.au/

http://www.slq.qld.gov.au/

http://proarchives.imagineering.com.au/

http://www.slv.vic.gov.au/our-collections/what-we-collect/newspapers/

http://www.nambour-chronicle.com/

http://www.prov.vic.gov.au/

Christine