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 == How to Use the Records  ==
 Use information from tombstones to locate death certificates which may have additional information. Also, date of birth and names of parents and place of birth, if available, can be used to search for additional birth information.
-This cemetery transcription collection was begun approximately in 1950 by members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints residing primarily in New South Wales and Queensland. Most information is extracted from the monuments, but extractions from a few burial registers are included. Each cemetery was not necessarily transcribed completely. Some transcribers only did those monuments for which they had a particular interest. The majority of the cemeteries are public cemeteries with only a few churchyards transcribed. Some tombstones may not have survived. Therefore, population coverage is not comprehensive.
-=== Why the Record Was Created  ===
-This collection was created to more readily to assist in locating a grave of someone buried in New South Wales.
-=== Record Reliability  ===
-Information taken from the monuments is probably fairly reliable, although it is possible that some mistakes were made in transcription. Birth information on the monuments is only as reliable as the knowledge of the person responsible for the gravestone at the time of death.
-The indexing of this collection was undertaken by volunteers in the USA. An Australian manuscript date entry of 3/5 (meaning 3 May) may therefore appear as 5 March when indexed by someone in America. Caution should therefore be exercised on the&nbsp;reliability of dates in the index.
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