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"What do you mean? Besides the passenger list?"

"Hmm , I suspect that you are pretty easy to find, but won't put a direct link here re your privacy .. Select "passenger arrivals" and use only your surname and 1968 as your search criteria."

"Giovanni Marciano arrived in Melbourne on 9 Oct 1949. Passenger List of the “Toscana” when it arrived in Fremantle on 4 Oct 1949 (page 9) : http://soda.naa.gov.au/record/9243236/9 Alien registration documents (incl marriage to Luigia):…"

"Could this have taken place in September 1942 instead ..   after the Japanese attack in June 1942? http://www.waverley.nsw.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0009/8667/Shelling_of_Bondi,_1942.pdf"

"Not a very common name, so I wonder whether this is him in…"

"Could you please tell us a bit more about this person eg DOB, parents ... Sylvia"

"Hmm, .... again one that copies an old post and adds a suspicious link to a vietnamese website? The origina;: http://forum.naa.gov.au/profiles/blogs/trying-to-find-family"

"Do you know at least an approximate birth year? If it is abt 1926 then we've probably got the right one. If it is e.g. something like 1910 we'll have to have a fresh look at things."

"No date, just that she died in Italy. Unfortunately there are so many errors in this tree that I cannot believe anything"

"What is Giuseppa's birth date/year, so we can be a bit more sure that it is the right person?"

"I had a look, but I think the family tree on Ancestry might contain a number of mistakes! This is guy that they are talking about: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/29356524 . I can’t prove it, but I suspect that this person was born in…"

"You can find the information for Salvatrice in the newspapers here: https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/result?q=%22salvatrice+gangemi%22   This is Francesca’s 1956 passenger list. She seems to be travelling with her daughter.…"

"Is this another child of Francesca? A Salvatrice Gangemi died on 6 Feb 1953 at Babinda (Qld) at the age of 38 years. She was born in Caltabiano (Catania) as the daughter of Santo Messina & Francesca Patane,  was married to Salvatore…"

"I realised that the last link won't work, because of the weird way that the NAA site works. Go to http://naa.gov.au/collection/search/ Click on the "Advanced search" tab. Click on "Series" Enter A12027 in the "Series…"

"You can find it on this same site i.e http://naa.gov.au/. There are no documents, so it’s all a matter of reading the details for the individuals and the series.   Rita-Margot is listed in series A2571 for period 24 May 1950 - 16 Aug…"

"A little trick for Ancestry, when you let your mouse hover over the left part of that entry, a little pop up screen will give you more information. Normally it will mention something like "there's more to see" and you'd need to…"