Anyone who has been researching Australian records for a while will know about the Ryerson Index, and just how valuable it is.
The Ryerson Index is an index of death notices appearing in current Australian newspapers, it also includes some funeral notices, probate notices and obituaries. What started as one person’s passion for collecting the death notices out the newspaper, has now grown to encompass death notices from 216 Australian newspapers, and currently has over 3.5 million entries online (actually 3,672,088 to be exact).
Sadly Joyce Ryerson, the person who started it all, passed away a couple of months ago, aged 95, however her legacy and Index most certainly live on.
To give you a little background … it all started in May 1999 with Joyce offering to give “some” Sydney Morning Herald death notices to the Sydney Dead Persons Society, which she had saved so that they could index them. The “some” turned out to be an almost complete run from 1986 to 1999. Today with the help of volunteers around the country. the Ryerson Index continues to grow, and has become a truly Australia-wide collection of death notices.
This Index is used by family historians worldwide, and there is no doubt that the Ryerson Index has become an invaluable reference site for so many genealogists.
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Hi Researcher I am trying to find death notice of John Edwards who nick name Jack,
Died 20th July 1987 age 75 years in Newcastle buried 13 july 1987 Beresfield Crematorium, if you have details of death & burial could you please send details . Thankyou in advance
karenjames@y7mail.com
Hi Researcher, also h8s brother Athol Edwards died 1996 same place they lived next door to each other in Dawson street Cook’s Hill Newcastle and if his wife has died who is Heather Patricia Edwards (Howard ) and any details of othwr family , thankyou so much for your time I have been searching for themcfor so long , thankyou again.