At their meeting at ARV in June 2017 the members who were present
concluded that the Sydney DPS had run its course and therefore there would be
no more meetings.
History
The inaugural meeting of the Dead Persons Society was
convened by John Snelson (a then Member of the
Council of the Society of Australian Genealogists) and Phil Young (operator of
the Custom Built BBS, later Ancestors Online), and held in Sydney on Saturday
27 August 1994 at the premises of SAG at Rumsey Hall, 24 Kent Street, Sydney.
Subsequently John Graham took over the running of the
group and he initiated the indexing of death notices in the Daily Telegraph and
Sydney Morning Herald. This grew to become the Ryerson Index (ryersonindex.org) which is arguably the
high point of the organisation.
Later the running was taken over by Peter Kettle and
meetings were also held at the Anglican Retirement Villages in Castle Hill. The
meetings at SAG were discontinued in early 2006 but continued at ARV until 2017
The DPS operated a mailing list using the
ROOTSWEB umbrella.to enable many more people to participate in DPS discussions.
Although the DPS no longer meets the mailing list remains functional. To
subscribe, send a message to [email protected]
with the word "subscribe"
without the quotes in the subject and the body of the email with no additional text.
To post a message to the DPS mailing list: Click Here. (Note: Rootsweb requires
you to be a subscriber to post to any of their lists, including this one.)
Some members established their own home pages on the web (generally, but not exclusively, genealogically-related), and you are welcome to visit them.
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