Gendata.com.au is committed to providing quality services to you and this policy outlines our ongoing obligations to you in respect of how we manage your Personal Information.
We have adopted the Australian Privacy Principles (APPs) contained in the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) (the Privacy Act). The NPPs govern the way in which we collect, use, disclose, store, secure and dispose of your Personal Information.
A copy of the Australian Privacy Principles may be obtained from the website of The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner at https://www.oaic.gov.au/.
Personal Information is information or an opinion that identifies an individual. Examples of Personal Information we may collect includes names, addresses, email addresses, phone numbers.
This Personal Information is obtained in many ways including correspondence, by telephone, by email, via our website www.gendata.com.au, from your website, from media and publications, from other publicly available sources, or from cookies and from third parties. We don’t guarantee website links or policy of authorised third parties.
We collect your Personal Information for the primary purpose of providing our services to you and marketing. We may also use your Personal Information for secondary purposes closely related to the primary purpose, in circumstances where you would reasonably expect such use or disclosure. You may unsubscribe from our mailing/marketing lists at any time by contacting us in writing.
When we collect Personal Information we will, where appropriate and where possible, explain to you why we are collecting the information and how we plan to use it.
Sensitive information is defined in the Privacy Act to include information or opinion about such things as an individual’s racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, membership of a political association, religious or philosophical beliefs, membership of a trade union or other professional body, criminal record or health information.
Sensitive information will be used by us only:
Where reasonable and practicable to do so, we will collect your Personal Information only from you. However, in some circumstances we may be provided with information by third parties. In such a case we will take reasonable steps to ensure that you are made aware of the information provided to us by the third party.
Your Personal Information may be disclosed in a number of circumstances including the following:
Your Personal Information is stored in a manner that reasonably protects it from misuse and loss and from unauthorized access, modification or disclosure.
When your Personal Information is no longer needed for the purpose for which it was obtained, we will take reasonable steps to destroy or permanently de-identify your Personal Information. However, most of the Personal Information is or will be stored in client files which will be kept by us for a minimum of 7 years.
You may access the Personal Information we hold about you and to update and/or correct it, subject to certain exceptions. If you wish to access your Personal Information, please contact us in writing.
Gendata.com.au will not charge any fee for your access request, but may charge an administrative fee for providing a copy of your Personal Information.
In order to protect your Personal Information we may require identification from you before releasing the requested information.
It is an important to us that your Personal Information is up to date. We will take reasonable steps to make sure that your Personal Information is accurate, complete and up-to-date. If you find that the information we have is not up to date or is inaccurate, please advise us as soon as practicable so we can update our records and ensure we can continue to provide quality services to you.
This Policy may change from time to time and is available on our website.
If you have any queries or complaints about our Privacy Policy please contact us here.
GenData is a free resource for anyone searching for Australian ancestors. Transcribed from various historical sources, our datasets are an invaluable tool for anyone tracing their genealogy through the Australian colonial period. You can search our datasets by last name or first name to discover people and places for free.
We are continually adding new data and tools so check back regularly.
Datasets are updated regularly as new information is transcribed.
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Lists the names, occupations and locations of people in the NSW Sydney and Newcastles areas in 1903.
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Registers of government relief issued to needy persons.
Lists the names, occupations and locations of people in NSW country areas in 1903.
Lists the names of appointed magistrates in New South Wales in the year 1858.
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At no time will you be asked for personal information when visiting this site, unless you choose to contact GenData by email, in which case obviously you will need to provide your email address so that you can receive a reply.
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As no private user information is collected, no information is sold or passed to any third party. Period!
The data available on this site is gathered from many different sources including old newspapers, gazettes etc and some freely available data sets. Where possible data is gathered using an original source document, or document "of the day". While every effort has been made to ensure that information is accurate, it is always possible that mistakes can occur, things change, and improvements can be made. No responsibility can be accepted for any loss, injury or inconvenience sustained by any person using this information or by any business, organisation or individual shown in the data.
GenData came about after my passion for genealogy (and some inherited info) left me with some unique record sets for Australian Genealogy which I use both for my own purposes and to help others in their ancestral pursuits.
In 2020, during various Covid-19 Pandemic lockdowns, I decided to work on this little project to make my data available to a wider audience. The result is GenData.com.au.
Most of the data covers years as early as 1810 to around 1920 and spans every state in Australia. You will not find much in the records beyond 1920 due to the well abided by privacy rules. There are many other sources of information available for the more recent decades including the subscriptions libraries such as Ancestry.com.au and many government run websites where you may be able to access some contemporary records.
For more freely available information sources, a good site to visit is myancestors.com.au
I hope you will find the information useful and that it adds to your own body of research.
Julie
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