Media: DATA CD - 1 CD (5448 pages)
Year: (1896) 2009
ISBN: 9781742226675
Publisher: Archive Digital Books Australasia

The Government Gazettes are a unique, useful and extremely fascinating resource for local, family and social historians and researchers in other fields throughout Australia. They were published by the government as a means of communication to officials and the general public and therefore contain information that is of great use in establishing an image of Australia and its people in the past.

A massive volume of over 5000 pages, included is information relating to a wide variety of topics – of interest to both genealogists and historians:

• Business partnerships – both the creation and dissolution
• Cemetery trustees
• Executions
• Government appointments and general notices
• Intestacies, insolvencies and wills
• Land records
• Lost and stolen animals, impoundings
• Mining companies and leases granted
• Patents and trademarks
• Plans for towns and parishes
• Successful tenderers for government works
• Unclaimed letters

Some items of interest in the 1896 Gazette are: Occupants of Crown Lands who have not paid Rents and Fees due, list of employees of Post Master General, list of permanent employees of the Victorian Railways, Roll of Merchants and Traders, Roll of Ship-Owners, Contracts for the conveyance of inland mails, Licensed Surveyors, and Triennial Elections of Boards of Advice for schools.

Example entry:

This CD contains high quality scanned images of whole years worth of original issues, and has been bookmarked for easy navigation. Pages can be searched, browsed, enlarged and printed out if required.

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
Any computer using Adobe (Acrobat) Reader 4 or later
Adobe Reader 6 or later is recommended for CDs with searchable text

SAMPLE FILE
Click here to download a file of sample pages from this book
Right click on the link and select "save as" - to a location on your hard drive. The sampler can be opened, navigated and searched as with the full CD file/s.
Sample files usually contain the title page, contents, some introductory pages and sample pages from the body of the book. Often the complete index from the original book is included.