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RIP
Joyce RYERSON
died 30 August 2012, aged 95
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WHAT IS RYERSON?
The Ryerson Index is a free index to death notices appearing in
Australian newspapers. The date range covered extends from the Sydney Gazette
of 1803 up to newspapers published within the last week or so.
The Index also includes many funeral notices, and some probate notices and obituaries.
In 2020, we commenced indexing notices from Funeral Directors' websites. This was in response to the mass closures of regional newspapers which occured in the second quarter of 2020.
Because the Index was originally created by the Sydney Dead Persons Society,
its strength lies in notices from NSW papers - including in
excess of two million notices from the Sydney Morning
Herald alone. However, the representation
from sources in other states continues to grow, with additional papers and funeral directors being
regularly added, so that the Index can now truly be considered an Australian index.
Indexing is being continuously carried out by a team of volunteers,
too numerous to mention individually, who give freely of their time to
ensure the site continues to grow. Site updates generally occur weekly.
The index itself cannot by definition be considered a primary source of data,
but is purely a research aid to direct the researcher to the original source
of a notice. We at Ryerson cannot undertake genealogical research for you, we are too busy indexing!
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WHAT'S NEW WITH RYERSON?
26 January 2022We have now turned on the ability to display ALL entries
from a specific newspaper or Funeral Director which has no more than
20,000 entries in Ryerson. This covers more than 90% of the sources we index.
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A Special Appeal to
Family and Local History Societies
We always welcome Family History or
Local History Societies who are interested in indexing
the notices from their local paper or funeral director. We find members of
such societies make excellent indexers, because they
know their local area and the names associated with it,
and usually have a personal interest in the notices
they are indexing.
If your society would like to contribute to Ryerson,
please contact us via the link at the left of the screen.
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Indexing Vacancies
We currently have the following vacancies for indexers:
capital city dailies: no vacancies!
regional papers: numerous vacancies eg Albury, Burnie, Eden, Gilgandra, Longreach, Kempsey, and many others.
If you are able to help out with indexing any of these papers, please contact us.
We have access to the .pdf version of all the capital city dailies, so you do not require your own access to be able to index. However, regional papers will (in most cases) require you to have access to the paper (either print or digital).
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Melbourne Help Required
We need people with access to The Age back issues on microfilm.
Our coverage of the years 2001-2004 is very weak, because these years are not available online. For earlier years, our source (Google Newspapers)
has not filmed every issue, so we also have numerous gaps in our pre-1990 indexing. We need people with access to The Age on microfilm to locate the
notices for the missing days, save them as .pdf and send them to us. No indexing is required (unless you want to!) - we only need your time spent in a library.
If you can help, please contact us via the link on the left.
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| Notices Indexed by Decade |
| (as at 6 November 2021) |
| 1803-1899 |
1900-1909 |
1910-1919 |
1920-1929 |
1930-1939 |
1940-1949 |
1950-1959 |
| 217,755 |
71,327 |
146,647 |
177,246 |
274,414 |
436,775 |
467,518 |
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| 1960-1969 |
1970-1979 |
1980-1989 |
1990-1999 |
2000-2009 |
2010-2019 |
2020-2029 |
| 467,361 |
507,678 |
548,035 |
750,558 |
1,758,927 |
1,958,997 |
203,896 |
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| FREE TO SEARCH! |
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Search site last updated
18 May 2022
(next planned update
22 May)
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462 Newspapers and websites
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8,275,931 entries
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(including more than 4 million entries from the past 30 years, which you won't find on any of the state BDM websites!)
Still can't find what you want? Then try the Australian Cemeteries Index
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| Ryerson and Facebook |
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As of 19 February 2021, Facebook banned the Ryerson Index page - presumably as collateral damage in their ongoing war with the Australian Federal Government. Consequently, Ryerson has now unfriended Facebook, and we will no longer maintain our page on their site. |
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| Can You Help? |
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Is your local paper currently included in Ryerson? If not,
then why not take on the task of indexing the notices for
us?
Do you have access to a library or other repository which has
microfilm copies of newspapers available? We are always in
need of people who can copy notices for us to index.
If you can help, please contact us via the link at the left of the screen.
Visitors
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