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Adding World War I descendents (from LynneG)
Posted by LynneG:
I am only new to this site and apologise if I have missed an obvious instruction anywhere.
I entered some of the data I have about one of my convict ancestors (Thomas Gillham per Governor Ready) yesterday and then began to add the names of his great-grandsons who served in WWI. However, it seems to me that in the absence of a list or some sort of reconciliation process we could end up with many different entries relating to the same individuals - either because the name information has been entered in a relatively unstructured way or because the individuals had more than one convict ancestor.
I guess my question is whether this matters (depending on how the information is to be used)? whether I've missed some instruction? or whether this has been thought through as well as necessary?
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Sorry Claudine -not sure I
Sorry Claudine -not sure I was clear - the arrangements you have for finding convicts and the work you are doing to enable sharing of that information is great. It just seems to me that you need something like the convict list for the world war I entries - perhaps drawn from or connected to the Mapping our Anzacs site? (http://mappingouranzacs.naa.gov.au/)
Thanks for the clarification,
Thanks for the clarification, Lynne. We do not have the resources to provide an interface to the Anzac data from the National Archives. You can search for WWI personnel on the National Archives site http://naa12.naa.gov.au/NameSearch/Interface/NameSearchForm.aspx and there are tips on searching at http://naa12.naa.gov.au/NameSearch/Interface/HelpNameSearchTips.aspx
It may be possible later down the track to search/view WWI personnel submitted to this project along with their convict ancestors (which would help identify those with more than one convict ancestor).
Claudine's response
Claudine's response:
Thank you for your question. We are in the process of applying for approval from the University of Melbourne's ethics committee so that we can make other people's convict submissions available. People who have submitted convicts will be asked whether they want to make their submissions available to the public, or only to other researchers. I provided an update about this in a comment last week. We hope to have an answer within a few weeks but cannot make any guarantees, as ethics committees have their own timelines.
This will indeed make it easier for you to check your submissions against others. However, I expect that nobody will have exactly identical information about the same ancestor, so think of this as helping fill each other's gaps, rather than duplicating information.
Claudine