Australia, Sydney Branch Genealogical Library, Cemetery Inscriptions - FamilySearch Historical Records: Difference between revisions

This collection will include records from 1800 to 1960.<br>

This collection includes index cards of inscriptions found in cemeteries in Australia. Most entries are actual monumental inscriptions from cemeteries, while other entries were taken from burial registers. The majority of cemeteries are public ones in New South Wales, yet other States and Territories are represented. The cemeteries included were not necessarily transcribed completely.  

These records are handwritten transcriptions and do not list Cemetery locations within the content and need to be viewed on the cards. There are many typographical errors in transcriptions and as such cannot be relied on for accuracy. (Added 18/11/2012),

Extraction information was originally entered into books, but individual entries were later transferred to cards. The cards are arranged alphabetically within each cemetery. The transcription accounts were sometimes inconsistent in their entries and the search in Record Search collection has not always succeeded because of this. Record search is attempting to identify and improve search for all entries. The card entries have been found to succeed.  

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.  

{{Collection citation | text= "Australia, Cemetery Inscriptions, Sydney Branch Genealogical Library, 1800-1960." Index and Images. <i>FamilySearch</i>. http://FamilySearch.org : accessed 2013. Citing The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Sydney Branch Genealogical Library. Public Library of New South Wales.}}