Killing off the ancestors

Most family historians in Australia use The Ryerson Index in their hunt to find or verify death details of their ancestors.

At our general meeting last Saturday Bob Atkins, a Ryerson volunteer, gave two presentations to our members and guests on the history of the Ryerson Index, how to search the index and new innovations from Ryerson.

Bob Atkins addressing our Members

Bob emphasized that the Ryerson index which currently has 7,785,728 entries from 391 newspapers and websites is maintained and managed by a group of volunteers. If you can spare some regular time to support this organisation you can find more information on this page on the Ryerson site, So you want to be in indexer. Our members at Lake Macquarie are hoping that some of our members and friends will consider joining Ryerson as an indexer.

Bob's sessions, presented to a live audience, were also shared with members remotely via Zoom. Bob indicated that this was a first time a Ryerson presentation had been presented to an online audience via this medium. We, at Lake Macquarie Family History Group, are proud to have facilitated this first online event.

Bob Atkins presenting on Zoom