09-12-2020, 04:16
Hello Theresa, [from Australia, no less. I lived in Sydney in the 70s-80s after escaping the UK, and before moving to NZ (further still from UK); I have family living in Sydney.]
Thank you very much for recommending your researcher. I'll frame a question about Amelia BARBARA to put to him.
Now I'm intrigued by your reference to the Archdiocese Archives of Malta. I have indeed trawled the Malta Archdiocese Archive. I take it, this is the one where you can review a photo of an original page, one at a time, each time having to call up a zoom view because the first view of each page is too difficult to read. It is time consuming, but the sense of the life of the people of the period jumps off the pages.
You say "the records for some parishes are listed with another parish depending on when the event occurred". In fact, I had thought that this might be the case because some parishes are just plain missing from their Archive, which was odd. However, I could not find any Parish in their Archive close enough to Tarxien to persuade me to do more trawling, potentially for no return.
I will go back and have another look, with renewed intent. Tarxien Parish office is happy for me to visit, and I'm pretty sure the Archdiocese told me that they do not have records for Tarxien. Perhaps they meant they do not keep the originals. I'll find the right "period" (British Colonial, I think) and work through "locations" reasonably close to Tarxien. Paolo Parish told me all their records pre-1900 are held by Tarxien Parish.
Happy searching and thanks heaps for your advice.
John from NZ
Thank you very much for recommending your researcher. I'll frame a question about Amelia BARBARA to put to him.
Now I'm intrigued by your reference to the Archdiocese Archives of Malta. I have indeed trawled the Malta Archdiocese Archive. I take it, this is the one where you can review a photo of an original page, one at a time, each time having to call up a zoom view because the first view of each page is too difficult to read. It is time consuming, but the sense of the life of the people of the period jumps off the pages.
You say "the records for some parishes are listed with another parish depending on when the event occurred". In fact, I had thought that this might be the case because some parishes are just plain missing from their Archive, which was odd. However, I could not find any Parish in their Archive close enough to Tarxien to persuade me to do more trawling, potentially for no return.
I will go back and have another look, with renewed intent. Tarxien Parish office is happy for me to visit, and I'm pretty sure the Archdiocese told me that they do not have records for Tarxien. Perhaps they meant they do not keep the originals. I'll find the right "period" (British Colonial, I think) and work through "locations" reasonably close to Tarxien. Paolo Parish told me all their records pre-1900 are held by Tarxien Parish.
Happy searching and thanks heaps for your advice.
John from NZ