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Researching old gold historic claims and leases in NSW
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<blockquote data-quote="Dron" data-source="post: 367639" data-attributes="member: 7074"><p>Well I made a trip to the State Archives yesterday.</p><p></p><p>I spent all day (10am - 5pm) going through old records but unfortunately couldn't find the information I was looking for.</p><p></p><p>The staff were very helpful in providing suggestions on where to look, such as old surveyors field books and probate records, but the process of researching is very slow and laborious. The day just flew away.</p><p></p><p>The microfilm records of the old leases look like this:</p><p></p><p><img src="https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/img/member-images/7074/1509145214_example3.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>They also have boxes and boxes of the original lease applications and transfer documents which you are allowed to go through in <a href="https://www.records.nsw.gov.au/series/10134" target="_blank"> NRS 10134</a> but unfortunately I ran out of time. These are the actual lease applications and they are very old and fragile and sometimes have hand drawn maps.</p><p></p><p>Still these only seem to be the records of the larger and more expensive leases that were gazetted and displayed on the parish maps ... the smaller claims and the Chinese workings don't seem to be documented anywhere that I have found yet. A lot of the information I already had from DIGS and the old parish maps.</p><p></p><p>I will have to go back next time and look through some more boxes.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dron, post: 367639, member: 7074"] Well I made a trip to the State Archives yesterday. I spent all day (10am - 5pm) going through old records but unfortunately couldn't find the information I was looking for. The staff were very helpful in providing suggestions on where to look, such as old surveyors field books and probate records, but the process of researching is very slow and laborious. The day just flew away. The microfilm records of the old leases look like this: [img]https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/img/member-images/7074/1509145214_example3.jpg[/img] They also have boxes and boxes of the original lease applications and transfer documents which you are allowed to go through in [url=https://www.records.nsw.gov.au/series/10134] NRS 10134[/url] but unfortunately I ran out of time. These are the actual lease applications and they are very old and fragile and sometimes have hand drawn maps. Still these only seem to be the records of the larger and more expensive leases that were gazetted and displayed on the parish maps ... the smaller claims and the Chinese workings don't seem to be documented anywhere that I have found yet. A lot of the information I already had from DIGS and the old parish maps. I will have to go back next time and look through some more boxes. [/QUOTE]
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