the RYERSON INDEX to contemporary death notices and obituaries in Australian newspapers was named for Joyce Ryerson of the Sydney Dead Persons Society
It is normally updated weekly and has been at RootsWeb since 2002. It contains well over a million entries for predominantly NSW & ACT (100 publications) but there are many tens of thousands of death and funeral notices for the last few years up to 2006 from other Australian newspapers, Qld (14), Vic (5) and SA (4).


as at March 2011 the Ryerson Index Online Database contains 2,875,552 notices from 181 different Australian newspapers

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