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kiterunner
12-10-10, 08:59
Might be of interest to some of you:

Australia historical postcards:
http://search.ancestry.co.uk/search/db.aspx?dbid=1707

Fife, Scotland, Voters Lists 1832-1894:
http://search.ancestry.co.uk/search/db.aspx?dbid=1984

Queensland Government Gazettes 1903-1910:
http://search.ancestry.co.uk/search/db.aspx?dbid=1855

kiterunner
12-10-10, 09:33
Just to say the Queensland Government Gazettes database looks to have been indexed using OCR technology and therefore it works like most of ancestry's directories do - if you search for a name and both the first name and the surname appear somewhere on the page it will probably list that as match! I was trying to search for Walter Lambert Brown and although he is listed several times under his full name, searching for the full name didn't work. I had to search for Walter Brown and then just look through all the results seeing which ones were actually him.