rowid,dataset_title,publisher,author,dataset_issued,dataset_modified,dataset_description,source,info_url,start_date,end_date,file_title,download_url,format,file_description,file_created,file_modified,file_size,licence 948,Western Australian Biographical Index (WABI),State Library of Western Australia,Author Not Specified,2016-07-28T05:59:15.171170,2022-05-25T18:46:13.320421,"The Western Australian Biographical Index (WABI) is a highly used resource at the State Library of Western Australia. A recent generous contribution by the Friends of Battye Library (FOBS) has enabled SLWA to have the original handwritten index cards scanned and later transcribed. The dataset contains: several csv files with data describing card number, card text and url link to image of the original handwritten card. The transcription was crowd-sourced and we are aware that there are some data quality issues including: * Some cards are missing * Transcripts are crowdsourced so may contain spelling errors and possibly missing information * Some cards are crossed out. Some of these are included in the collection and some are not * Some of the cards contain relevant information on the back (usually children of the person mentioned). This info should be on the next consecutive card * As the information is an index, collected in the 1970s from print material, it is incomplete. It is also unreferenced. It is still a very valuable dataset as it contains a wealth of information about early settlers in Western Australia. It is of particular interest to genealogists and historians Work began on WABI in the early 1970s when information was sought on people who lived in Western Australian prior to 1914. Publicity was sent out through local libraries, historical groups and in publication such as the West Australian. Western Australians were asked to provide genealogical information, not only on prominent identities, but also from their family records including the arrival in Western Australia, occupations, dates of birth, marriages and deaths of their ancestors. Historical material such as diaries, letters, business records, minute books, maps, family trees and photographs, were also sought for copying. Entries for the index closed in December 1979, and were filed at the Battye Library for reference. We were recently delighted to discover that the WA Genealogical Society has made use of this dataset. You can view their use here: http://membership.wags.org.au/members-data/public-data/wabi-wa-biographical-index.",data.wa.gov.au,https://catalogue.data.wa.gov.au/dataset/6c026ce8-8a18-4920-a7e2-f1719e0d8c47,,,Introducing WABI,https://catalogue.data.wa.gov.au/dataset/6c026ce8-8a18-4920-a7e2-f1719e0d8c47/resource/d8355c12-94ea-4728-9b2f-ddb4fd60d86e/download/introducing-wabi.docx,DOCX,Brief document describing the dataset.,2016-07-28T06:02:33.537857,2016-07-28T06:02:33.501312,,Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 949,Western Australian Biographical Index (WABI),State Library of Western Australia,Author Not Specified,2016-07-28T05:59:15.171170,2022-05-25T18:46:13.320421,"The Western Australian Biographical Index (WABI) is a highly used resource at the State Library of Western Australia. A recent generous contribution by the Friends of Battye Library (FOBS) has enabled SLWA to have the original handwritten index cards scanned and later transcribed. The dataset contains: several csv files with data describing card number, card text and url link to image of the original handwritten card. The transcription was crowd-sourced and we are aware that there are some data quality issues including: * Some cards are missing * Transcripts are crowdsourced so may contain spelling errors and possibly missing information * Some cards are crossed out. Some of these are included in the collection and some are not * Some of the cards contain relevant information on the back (usually children of the person mentioned). This info should be on the next consecutive card * As the information is an index, collected in the 1970s from print material, it is incomplete. It is also unreferenced. It is still a very valuable dataset as it contains a wealth of information about early settlers in Western Australia. It is of particular interest to genealogists and historians Work began on WABI in the early 1970s when information was sought on people who lived in Western Australian prior to 1914. Publicity was sent out through local libraries, historical groups and in publication such as the West Australian. Western Australians were asked to provide genealogical information, not only on prominent identities, but also from their family records including the arrival in Western Australia, occupations, dates of birth, marriages and deaths of their ancestors. Historical material such as diaries, letters, business records, minute books, maps, family trees and photographs, were also sought for copying. Entries for the index closed in December 1979, and were filed at the Battye Library for reference. We were recently delighted to discover that the WA Genealogical Society has made use of this dataset. You can view their use here: http://membership.wags.org.au/members-data/public-data/wabi-wa-biographical-index.",data.wa.gov.au,https://catalogue.data.wa.gov.au/dataset/6c026ce8-8a18-4920-a7e2-f1719e0d8c47,,,WABI A-Z Zipped,https://catalogue.data.wa.gov.au/dataset/6c026ce8-8a18-4920-a7e2-f1719e0d8c47/resource/03fca146-01e3-472b-a6f9-30ff5c0cdb45/download/wabi-a-z-zipped.zip,ZIP,"All the WABI indexes A-Z zipped into one file. The data is contained within csv files and has 3 columns: card number, transcribed data and url to image of original card.",2016-07-28T06:01:31.009604,2019-10-24T06:25:13.885196,6139449.0,Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 950,Western Australian Biographical Index (WABI),State Library of Western Australia,Author Not Specified,2016-07-28T05:59:15.171170,2022-05-25T18:46:13.320421,"The Western Australian Biographical Index (WABI) is a highly used resource at the State Library of Western Australia. A recent generous contribution by the Friends of Battye Library (FOBS) has enabled SLWA to have the original handwritten index cards scanned and later transcribed. The dataset contains: several csv files with data describing card number, card text and url link to image of the original handwritten card. The transcription was crowd-sourced and we are aware that there are some data quality issues including: * Some cards are missing * Transcripts are crowdsourced so may contain spelling errors and possibly missing information * Some cards are crossed out. Some of these are included in the collection and some are not * Some of the cards contain relevant information on the back (usually children of the person mentioned). This info should be on the next consecutive card * As the information is an index, collected in the 1970s from print material, it is incomplete. It is also unreferenced. It is still a very valuable dataset as it contains a wealth of information about early settlers in Western Australia. It is of particular interest to genealogists and historians Work began on WABI in the early 1970s when information was sought on people who lived in Western Australian prior to 1914. Publicity was sent out through local libraries, historical groups and in publication such as the West Australian. Western Australians were asked to provide genealogical information, not only on prominent identities, but also from their family records including the arrival in Western Australia, occupations, dates of birth, marriages and deaths of their ancestors. Historical material such as diaries, letters, business records, minute books, maps, family trees and photographs, were also sought for copying. Entries for the index closed in December 1979, and were filed at the Battye Library for reference. We were recently delighted to discover that the WA Genealogical Society has made use of this dataset. You can view their use here: http://membership.wags.org.au/members-data/public-data/wabi-wa-biographical-index.",data.wa.gov.au,https://catalogue.data.wa.gov.au/dataset/6c026ce8-8a18-4920-a7e2-f1719e0d8c47,,,Index entries beginning with A,https://catalogue.data.wa.gov.au/dataset/6c026ce8-8a18-4920-a7e2-f1719e0d8c47/resource/2ef7484c-0268-420f-abab-bbfc33036bf1/download/a-final.csv,CSV,,2016-07-28T06:03:00.211332,2016-07-28T06:03:00.174121,,Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 951,Western Australian Biographical Index (WABI),State Library of Western Australia,Author Not Specified,2016-07-28T05:59:15.171170,2022-05-25T18:46:13.320421,"The Western Australian Biographical Index (WABI) is a highly used resource at the State Library of Western Australia. A recent generous contribution by the Friends of Battye Library (FOBS) has enabled SLWA to have the original handwritten index cards scanned and later transcribed. The dataset contains: several csv files with data describing card number, card text and url link to image of the original handwritten card. The transcription was crowd-sourced and we are aware that there are some data quality issues including: * Some cards are missing * Transcripts are crowdsourced so may contain spelling errors and possibly missing information * Some cards are crossed out. Some of these are included in the collection and some are not * Some of the cards contain relevant information on the back (usually children of the person mentioned). This info should be on the next consecutive card * As the information is an index, collected in the 1970s from print material, it is incomplete. It is also unreferenced. It is still a very valuable dataset as it contains a wealth of information about early settlers in Western Australia. It is of particular interest to genealogists and historians Work began on WABI in the early 1970s when information was sought on people who lived in Western Australian prior to 1914. Publicity was sent out through local libraries, historical groups and in publication such as the West Australian. Western Australians were asked to provide genealogical information, not only on prominent identities, but also from their family records including the arrival in Western Australia, occupations, dates of birth, marriages and deaths of their ancestors. Historical material such as diaries, letters, business records, minute books, maps, family trees and photographs, were also sought for copying. Entries for the index closed in December 1979, and were filed at the Battye Library for reference. We were recently delighted to discover that the WA Genealogical Society has made use of this dataset. You can view their use here: http://membership.wags.org.au/members-data/public-data/wabi-wa-biographical-index.",data.wa.gov.au,https://catalogue.data.wa.gov.au/dataset/6c026ce8-8a18-4920-a7e2-f1719e0d8c47,,,Index entries beginning with B,https://catalogue.data.wa.gov.au/dataset/6c026ce8-8a18-4920-a7e2-f1719e0d8c47/resource/b26eb893-19c8-4d78-ba0c-dcf3ab1f386d/download/b-final.csv,CSV,,2016-07-28T06:03:18.730159,2016-07-28T06:03:18.690282,,Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 952,Western Australian Biographical Index (WABI),State Library of Western Australia,Author Not Specified,2016-07-28T05:59:15.171170,2022-05-25T18:46:13.320421,"The Western Australian Biographical Index (WABI) is a highly used resource at the State Library of Western Australia. A recent generous contribution by the Friends of Battye Library (FOBS) has enabled SLWA to have the original handwritten index cards scanned and later transcribed. The dataset contains: several csv files with data describing card number, card text and url link to image of the original handwritten card. The transcription was crowd-sourced and we are aware that there are some data quality issues including: * Some cards are missing * Transcripts are crowdsourced so may contain spelling errors and possibly missing information * Some cards are crossed out. Some of these are included in the collection and some are not * Some of the cards contain relevant information on the back (usually children of the person mentioned). This info should be on the next consecutive card * As the information is an index, collected in the 1970s from print material, it is incomplete. It is also unreferenced. It is still a very valuable dataset as it contains a wealth of information about early settlers in Western Australia. It is of particular interest to genealogists and historians Work began on WABI in the early 1970s when information was sought on people who lived in Western Australian prior to 1914. Publicity was sent out through local libraries, historical groups and in publication such as the West Australian. Western Australians were asked to provide genealogical information, not only on prominent identities, but also from their family records including the arrival in Western Australia, occupations, dates of birth, marriages and deaths of their ancestors. Historical material such as diaries, letters, business records, minute books, maps, family trees and photographs, were also sought for copying. Entries for the index closed in December 1979, and were filed at the Battye Library for reference. We were recently delighted to discover that the WA Genealogical Society has made use of this dataset. You can view their use here: http://membership.wags.org.au/members-data/public-data/wabi-wa-biographical-index.",data.wa.gov.au,https://catalogue.data.wa.gov.au/dataset/6c026ce8-8a18-4920-a7e2-f1719e0d8c47,,,Index entries beginning with C,https://catalogue.data.wa.gov.au/dataset/6c026ce8-8a18-4920-a7e2-f1719e0d8c47/resource/b81a521a-911d-488a-a6f7-cc385bce68d9/download/c-final.csv,CSV,,2016-07-28T06:03:39.555964,2016-07-28T06:03:39.516312,,Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 953,Western Australian Biographical Index (WABI),State Library of Western Australia,Author Not Specified,2016-07-28T05:59:15.171170,2022-05-25T18:46:13.320421,"The Western Australian Biographical Index (WABI) is a highly used resource at the State Library of Western Australia. A recent generous contribution by the Friends of Battye Library (FOBS) has enabled SLWA to have the original handwritten index cards scanned and later transcribed. The dataset contains: several csv files with data describing card number, card text and url link to image of the original handwritten card. The transcription was crowd-sourced and we are aware that there are some data quality issues including: * Some cards are missing * Transcripts are crowdsourced so may contain spelling errors and possibly missing information * Some cards are crossed out. Some of these are included in the collection and some are not * Some of the cards contain relevant information on the back (usually children of the person mentioned). This info should be on the next consecutive card * As the information is an index, collected in the 1970s from print material, it is incomplete. It is also unreferenced. It is still a very valuable dataset as it contains a wealth of information about early settlers in Western Australia. It is of particular interest to genealogists and historians Work began on WABI in the early 1970s when information was sought on people who lived in Western Australian prior to 1914. Publicity was sent out through local libraries, historical groups and in publication such as the West Australian. Western Australians were asked to provide genealogical information, not only on prominent identities, but also from their family records including the arrival in Western Australia, occupations, dates of birth, marriages and deaths of their ancestors. Historical material such as diaries, letters, business records, minute books, maps, family trees and photographs, were also sought for copying. Entries for the index closed in December 1979, and were filed at the Battye Library for reference. We were recently delighted to discover that the WA Genealogical Society has made use of this dataset. You can view their use here: http://membership.wags.org.au/members-data/public-data/wabi-wa-biographical-index.",data.wa.gov.au,https://catalogue.data.wa.gov.au/dataset/6c026ce8-8a18-4920-a7e2-f1719e0d8c47,,,Index entries beginning with D and E,https://catalogue.data.wa.gov.au/dataset/6c026ce8-8a18-4920-a7e2-f1719e0d8c47/resource/d413d101-7cf0-44f3-9a07-dae57e8c4cc0/download/de-final.csv,CSV,,2016-07-28T06:03:57.318987,2016-07-28T06:03:57.275531,,Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 954,Western Australian Biographical Index (WABI),State Library of Western Australia,Author Not Specified,2016-07-28T05:59:15.171170,2022-05-25T18:46:13.320421,"The Western Australian Biographical Index (WABI) is a highly used resource at the State Library of Western Australia. A recent generous contribution by the Friends of Battye Library (FOBS) has enabled SLWA to have the original handwritten index cards scanned and later transcribed. The dataset contains: several csv files with data describing card number, card text and url link to image of the original handwritten card. The transcription was crowd-sourced and we are aware that there are some data quality issues including: * Some cards are missing * Transcripts are crowdsourced so may contain spelling errors and possibly missing information * Some cards are crossed out. Some of these are included in the collection and some are not * Some of the cards contain relevant information on the back (usually children of the person mentioned). This info should be on the next consecutive card * As the information is an index, collected in the 1970s from print material, it is incomplete. It is also unreferenced. It is still a very valuable dataset as it contains a wealth of information about early settlers in Western Australia. It is of particular interest to genealogists and historians Work began on WABI in the early 1970s when information was sought on people who lived in Western Australian prior to 1914. Publicity was sent out through local libraries, historical groups and in publication such as the West Australian. Western Australians were asked to provide genealogical information, not only on prominent identities, but also from their family records including the arrival in Western Australia, occupations, dates of birth, marriages and deaths of their ancestors. Historical material such as diaries, letters, business records, minute books, maps, family trees and photographs, were also sought for copying. Entries for the index closed in December 1979, and were filed at the Battye Library for reference. We were recently delighted to discover that the WA Genealogical Society has made use of this dataset. You can view their use here: http://membership.wags.org.au/members-data/public-data/wabi-wa-biographical-index.",data.wa.gov.au,https://catalogue.data.wa.gov.au/dataset/6c026ce8-8a18-4920-a7e2-f1719e0d8c47,,,Index entries beginning with F,https://catalogue.data.wa.gov.au/dataset/6c026ce8-8a18-4920-a7e2-f1719e0d8c47/resource/6ec9b7c7-9c2a-4fd1-8631-fa08abc14bb2/download/f-final.csv,CSV,,2016-07-28T06:04:17.256344,2016-07-28T06:04:17.212943,,Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 955,Western Australian Biographical Index (WABI),State Library of Western Australia,Author Not Specified,2016-07-28T05:59:15.171170,2022-05-25T18:46:13.320421,"The Western Australian Biographical Index (WABI) is a highly used resource at the State Library of Western Australia. A recent generous contribution by the Friends of Battye Library (FOBS) has enabled SLWA to have the original handwritten index cards scanned and later transcribed. The dataset contains: several csv files with data describing card number, card text and url link to image of the original handwritten card. The transcription was crowd-sourced and we are aware that there are some data quality issues including: * Some cards are missing * Transcripts are crowdsourced so may contain spelling errors and possibly missing information * Some cards are crossed out. Some of these are included in the collection and some are not * Some of the cards contain relevant information on the back (usually children of the person mentioned). This info should be on the next consecutive card * As the information is an index, collected in the 1970s from print material, it is incomplete. It is also unreferenced. It is still a very valuable dataset as it contains a wealth of information about early settlers in Western Australia. It is of particular interest to genealogists and historians Work began on WABI in the early 1970s when information was sought on people who lived in Western Australian prior to 1914. Publicity was sent out through local libraries, historical groups and in publication such as the West Australian. Western Australians were asked to provide genealogical information, not only on prominent identities, but also from their family records including the arrival in Western Australia, occupations, dates of birth, marriages and deaths of their ancestors. Historical material such as diaries, letters, business records, minute books, maps, family trees and photographs, were also sought for copying. Entries for the index closed in December 1979, and were filed at the Battye Library for reference. We were recently delighted to discover that the WA Genealogical Society has made use of this dataset. You can view their use here: http://membership.wags.org.au/members-data/public-data/wabi-wa-biographical-index.",data.wa.gov.au,https://catalogue.data.wa.gov.au/dataset/6c026ce8-8a18-4920-a7e2-f1719e0d8c47,,,Index entries beginning with G,https://catalogue.data.wa.gov.au/dataset/6c026ce8-8a18-4920-a7e2-f1719e0d8c47/resource/88771e32-dcb1-464a-bc53-bd83dd9dba15/download/g-final.csv,CSV,,2016-07-28T06:04:36.334181,2016-07-28T06:04:36.287897,,Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 956,Western Australian Biographical Index (WABI),State Library of Western Australia,Author Not Specified,2016-07-28T05:59:15.171170,2022-05-25T18:46:13.320421,"The Western Australian Biographical Index (WABI) is a highly used resource at the State Library of Western Australia. A recent generous contribution by the Friends of Battye Library (FOBS) has enabled SLWA to have the original handwritten index cards scanned and later transcribed. The dataset contains: several csv files with data describing card number, card text and url link to image of the original handwritten card. The transcription was crowd-sourced and we are aware that there are some data quality issues including: * Some cards are missing * Transcripts are crowdsourced so may contain spelling errors and possibly missing information * Some cards are crossed out. Some of these are included in the collection and some are not * Some of the cards contain relevant information on the back (usually children of the person mentioned). This info should be on the next consecutive card * As the information is an index, collected in the 1970s from print material, it is incomplete. It is also unreferenced. It is still a very valuable dataset as it contains a wealth of information about early settlers in Western Australia. It is of particular interest to genealogists and historians Work began on WABI in the early 1970s when information was sought on people who lived in Western Australian prior to 1914. Publicity was sent out through local libraries, historical groups and in publication such as the West Australian. Western Australians were asked to provide genealogical information, not only on prominent identities, but also from their family records including the arrival in Western Australia, occupations, dates of birth, marriages and deaths of their ancestors. Historical material such as diaries, letters, business records, minute books, maps, family trees and photographs, were also sought for copying. Entries for the index closed in December 1979, and were filed at the Battye Library for reference. We were recently delighted to discover that the WA Genealogical Society has made use of this dataset. You can view their use here: http://membership.wags.org.au/members-data/public-data/wabi-wa-biographical-index.",data.wa.gov.au,https://catalogue.data.wa.gov.au/dataset/6c026ce8-8a18-4920-a7e2-f1719e0d8c47,,,Index entries beginning with H,https://catalogue.data.wa.gov.au/dataset/6c026ce8-8a18-4920-a7e2-f1719e0d8c47/resource/a9e328e9-8222-4156-b2eb-3192759791a5/download/h-final.csv,CSV,,2016-07-28T06:04:51.985994,2016-07-28T06:04:51.904063,,Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 957,Western Australian Biographical Index (WABI),State Library of Western Australia,Author Not Specified,2016-07-28T05:59:15.171170,2022-05-25T18:46:13.320421,"The Western Australian Biographical Index (WABI) is a highly used resource at the State Library of Western Australia. A recent generous contribution by the Friends of Battye Library (FOBS) has enabled SLWA to have the original handwritten index cards scanned and later transcribed. The dataset contains: several csv files with data describing card number, card text and url link to image of the original handwritten card. The transcription was crowd-sourced and we are aware that there are some data quality issues including: * Some cards are missing * Transcripts are crowdsourced so may contain spelling errors and possibly missing information * Some cards are crossed out. Some of these are included in the collection and some are not * Some of the cards contain relevant information on the back (usually children of the person mentioned). This info should be on the next consecutive card * As the information is an index, collected in the 1970s from print material, it is incomplete. It is also unreferenced. It is still a very valuable dataset as it contains a wealth of information about early settlers in Western Australia. It is of particular interest to genealogists and historians Work began on WABI in the early 1970s when information was sought on people who lived in Western Australian prior to 1914. Publicity was sent out through local libraries, historical groups and in publication such as the West Australian. Western Australians were asked to provide genealogical information, not only on prominent identities, but also from their family records including the arrival in Western Australia, occupations, dates of birth, marriages and deaths of their ancestors. Historical material such as diaries, letters, business records, minute books, maps, family trees and photographs, were also sought for copying. Entries for the index closed in December 1979, and were filed at the Battye Library for reference. We were recently delighted to discover that the WA Genealogical Society has made use of this dataset. You can view their use here: http://membership.wags.org.au/members-data/public-data/wabi-wa-biographical-index.",data.wa.gov.au,https://catalogue.data.wa.gov.au/dataset/6c026ce8-8a18-4920-a7e2-f1719e0d8c47,,,Index entries beginning with I and J,https://catalogue.data.wa.gov.au/dataset/6c026ce8-8a18-4920-a7e2-f1719e0d8c47/resource/8b8f13b3-8e73-4d4e-9618-232567165f01/download/ij-final.csv,CSV,,2016-07-28T06:05:09.412886,2016-07-28T06:05:09.367284,,Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 958,Western Australian Biographical Index (WABI),State Library of Western Australia,Author Not Specified,2016-07-28T05:59:15.171170,2022-05-25T18:46:13.320421,"The Western Australian Biographical Index (WABI) is a highly used resource at the State Library of Western Australia. A recent generous contribution by the Friends of Battye Library (FOBS) has enabled SLWA to have the original handwritten index cards scanned and later transcribed. The dataset contains: several csv files with data describing card number, card text and url link to image of the original handwritten card. The transcription was crowd-sourced and we are aware that there are some data quality issues including: * Some cards are missing * Transcripts are crowdsourced so may contain spelling errors and possibly missing information * Some cards are crossed out. Some of these are included in the collection and some are not * Some of the cards contain relevant information on the back (usually children of the person mentioned). This info should be on the next consecutive card * As the information is an index, collected in the 1970s from print material, it is incomplete. It is also unreferenced. It is still a very valuable dataset as it contains a wealth of information about early settlers in Western Australia. It is of particular interest to genealogists and historians Work began on WABI in the early 1970s when information was sought on people who lived in Western Australian prior to 1914. Publicity was sent out through local libraries, historical groups and in publication such as the West Australian. Western Australians were asked to provide genealogical information, not only on prominent identities, but also from their family records including the arrival in Western Australia, occupations, dates of birth, marriages and deaths of their ancestors. Historical material such as diaries, letters, business records, minute books, maps, family trees and photographs, were also sought for copying. Entries for the index closed in December 1979, and were filed at the Battye Library for reference. We were recently delighted to discover that the WA Genealogical Society has made use of this dataset. You can view their use here: http://membership.wags.org.au/members-data/public-data/wabi-wa-biographical-index.",data.wa.gov.au,https://catalogue.data.wa.gov.au/dataset/6c026ce8-8a18-4920-a7e2-f1719e0d8c47,,,Index entries beginning with K,https://catalogue.data.wa.gov.au/dataset/6c026ce8-8a18-4920-a7e2-f1719e0d8c47/resource/1afb96f5-1d4e-45b6-a1b9-65d99b8172d5/download/k-final.csv,CSV,,2016-07-28T06:05:26.023545,2016-07-28T06:05:25.976410,,Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 959,Western Australian Biographical Index (WABI),State Library of Western Australia,Author Not Specified,2016-07-28T05:59:15.171170,2022-05-25T18:46:13.320421,"The Western Australian Biographical Index (WABI) is a highly used resource at the State Library of Western Australia. A recent generous contribution by the Friends of Battye Library (FOBS) has enabled SLWA to have the original handwritten index cards scanned and later transcribed. The dataset contains: several csv files with data describing card number, card text and url link to image of the original handwritten card. The transcription was crowd-sourced and we are aware that there are some data quality issues including: * Some cards are missing * Transcripts are crowdsourced so may contain spelling errors and possibly missing information * Some cards are crossed out. Some of these are included in the collection and some are not * Some of the cards contain relevant information on the back (usually children of the person mentioned). This info should be on the next consecutive card * As the information is an index, collected in the 1970s from print material, it is incomplete. It is also unreferenced. It is still a very valuable dataset as it contains a wealth of information about early settlers in Western Australia. It is of particular interest to genealogists and historians Work began on WABI in the early 1970s when information was sought on people who lived in Western Australian prior to 1914. Publicity was sent out through local libraries, historical groups and in publication such as the West Australian. Western Australians were asked to provide genealogical information, not only on prominent identities, but also from their family records including the arrival in Western Australia, occupations, dates of birth, marriages and deaths of their ancestors. Historical material such as diaries, letters, business records, minute books, maps, family trees and photographs, were also sought for copying. Entries for the index closed in December 1979, and were filed at the Battye Library for reference. We were recently delighted to discover that the WA Genealogical Society has made use of this dataset. You can view their use here: http://membership.wags.org.au/members-data/public-data/wabi-wa-biographical-index.",data.wa.gov.au,https://catalogue.data.wa.gov.au/dataset/6c026ce8-8a18-4920-a7e2-f1719e0d8c47,,,Index entries beginning with L,https://catalogue.data.wa.gov.au/dataset/6c026ce8-8a18-4920-a7e2-f1719e0d8c47/resource/66c82a82-d52f-4651-9a78-17cd6b86e64a/download/l-final_edited.csv,CSV,Replacement file prepared 10/10/19 after reports that there were errors in file. Thanks for reporting!,2016-07-28T06:05:41.571851,2019-10-10T03:07:54.528021,866621.0,Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 960,Western Australian Biographical Index (WABI),State Library of Western Australia,Author Not Specified,2016-07-28T05:59:15.171170,2022-05-25T18:46:13.320421,"The Western Australian Biographical Index (WABI) is a highly used resource at the State Library of Western Australia. A recent generous contribution by the Friends of Battye Library (FOBS) has enabled SLWA to have the original handwritten index cards scanned and later transcribed. The dataset contains: several csv files with data describing card number, card text and url link to image of the original handwritten card. The transcription was crowd-sourced and we are aware that there are some data quality issues including: * Some cards are missing * Transcripts are crowdsourced so may contain spelling errors and possibly missing information * Some cards are crossed out. Some of these are included in the collection and some are not * Some of the cards contain relevant information on the back (usually children of the person mentioned). This info should be on the next consecutive card * As the information is an index, collected in the 1970s from print material, it is incomplete. It is also unreferenced. It is still a very valuable dataset as it contains a wealth of information about early settlers in Western Australia. It is of particular interest to genealogists and historians Work began on WABI in the early 1970s when information was sought on people who lived in Western Australian prior to 1914. Publicity was sent out through local libraries, historical groups and in publication such as the West Australian. Western Australians were asked to provide genealogical information, not only on prominent identities, but also from their family records including the arrival in Western Australia, occupations, dates of birth, marriages and deaths of their ancestors. Historical material such as diaries, letters, business records, minute books, maps, family trees and photographs, were also sought for copying. Entries for the index closed in December 1979, and were filed at the Battye Library for reference. We were recently delighted to discover that the WA Genealogical Society has made use of this dataset. You can view their use here: http://membership.wags.org.au/members-data/public-data/wabi-wa-biographical-index.",data.wa.gov.au,https://catalogue.data.wa.gov.au/dataset/6c026ce8-8a18-4920-a7e2-f1719e0d8c47,,,Index entries beginning with M,https://catalogue.data.wa.gov.au/dataset/6c026ce8-8a18-4920-a7e2-f1719e0d8c47/resource/e4de1eb3-86f3-46d5-b456-1601e67bb5ac/download/m-final.csv,CSV,,2016-07-28T06:06:03.043689,2016-07-28T06:06:02.958386,,Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 961,Western Australian Biographical Index (WABI),State Library of Western Australia,Author Not Specified,2016-07-28T05:59:15.171170,2022-05-25T18:46:13.320421,"The Western Australian Biographical Index (WABI) is a highly used resource at the State Library of Western Australia. A recent generous contribution by the Friends of Battye Library (FOBS) has enabled SLWA to have the original handwritten index cards scanned and later transcribed. The dataset contains: several csv files with data describing card number, card text and url link to image of the original handwritten card. The transcription was crowd-sourced and we are aware that there are some data quality issues including: * Some cards are missing * Transcripts are crowdsourced so may contain spelling errors and possibly missing information * Some cards are crossed out. Some of these are included in the collection and some are not * Some of the cards contain relevant information on the back (usually children of the person mentioned). This info should be on the next consecutive card * As the information is an index, collected in the 1970s from print material, it is incomplete. It is also unreferenced. It is still a very valuable dataset as it contains a wealth of information about early settlers in Western Australia. It is of particular interest to genealogists and historians Work began on WABI in the early 1970s when information was sought on people who lived in Western Australian prior to 1914. Publicity was sent out through local libraries, historical groups and in publication such as the West Australian. Western Australians were asked to provide genealogical information, not only on prominent identities, but also from their family records including the arrival in Western Australia, occupations, dates of birth, marriages and deaths of their ancestors. Historical material such as diaries, letters, business records, minute books, maps, family trees and photographs, were also sought for copying. Entries for the index closed in December 1979, and were filed at the Battye Library for reference. We were recently delighted to discover that the WA Genealogical Society has made use of this dataset. You can view their use here: http://membership.wags.org.au/members-data/public-data/wabi-wa-biographical-index.",data.wa.gov.au,https://catalogue.data.wa.gov.au/dataset/6c026ce8-8a18-4920-a7e2-f1719e0d8c47,,,Index entries beginning with N,https://catalogue.data.wa.gov.au/dataset/6c026ce8-8a18-4920-a7e2-f1719e0d8c47/resource/bf56fcdd-6422-4434-8223-d9fff2bad371/download/n-final.csv,CSV,,2016-07-28T06:06:19.569551,2016-07-28T06:06:19.518368,,Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 962,Western Australian Biographical Index (WABI),State Library of Western Australia,Author Not Specified,2016-07-28T05:59:15.171170,2022-05-25T18:46:13.320421,"The Western Australian Biographical Index (WABI) is a highly used resource at the State Library of Western Australia. A recent generous contribution by the Friends of Battye Library (FOBS) has enabled SLWA to have the original handwritten index cards scanned and later transcribed. The dataset contains: several csv files with data describing card number, card text and url link to image of the original handwritten card. The transcription was crowd-sourced and we are aware that there are some data quality issues including: * Some cards are missing * Transcripts are crowdsourced so may contain spelling errors and possibly missing information * Some cards are crossed out. Some of these are included in the collection and some are not * Some of the cards contain relevant information on the back (usually children of the person mentioned). This info should be on the next consecutive card * As the information is an index, collected in the 1970s from print material, it is incomplete. It is also unreferenced. It is still a very valuable dataset as it contains a wealth of information about early settlers in Western Australia. It is of particular interest to genealogists and historians Work began on WABI in the early 1970s when information was sought on people who lived in Western Australian prior to 1914. Publicity was sent out through local libraries, historical groups and in publication such as the West Australian. Western Australians were asked to provide genealogical information, not only on prominent identities, but also from their family records including the arrival in Western Australia, occupations, dates of birth, marriages and deaths of their ancestors. Historical material such as diaries, letters, business records, minute books, maps, family trees and photographs, were also sought for copying. Entries for the index closed in December 1979, and were filed at the Battye Library for reference. We were recently delighted to discover that the WA Genealogical Society has made use of this dataset. You can view their use here: http://membership.wags.org.au/members-data/public-data/wabi-wa-biographical-index.",data.wa.gov.au,https://catalogue.data.wa.gov.au/dataset/6c026ce8-8a18-4920-a7e2-f1719e0d8c47,,,Index entries beginning with O,https://catalogue.data.wa.gov.au/dataset/6c026ce8-8a18-4920-a7e2-f1719e0d8c47/resource/ec61deef-3200-4611-bbac-fe412ab59923/download/o-final.csv,CSV,,2016-07-28T06:06:39.758074,2016-07-28T06:06:39.703701,,Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 963,Western Australian Biographical Index (WABI),State Library of Western Australia,Author Not Specified,2016-07-28T05:59:15.171170,2022-05-25T18:46:13.320421,"The Western Australian Biographical Index (WABI) is a highly used resource at the State Library of Western Australia. A recent generous contribution by the Friends of Battye Library (FOBS) has enabled SLWA to have the original handwritten index cards scanned and later transcribed. The dataset contains: several csv files with data describing card number, card text and url link to image of the original handwritten card. The transcription was crowd-sourced and we are aware that there are some data quality issues including: * Some cards are missing * Transcripts are crowdsourced so may contain spelling errors and possibly missing information * Some cards are crossed out. Some of these are included in the collection and some are not * Some of the cards contain relevant information on the back (usually children of the person mentioned). This info should be on the next consecutive card * As the information is an index, collected in the 1970s from print material, it is incomplete. It is also unreferenced. It is still a very valuable dataset as it contains a wealth of information about early settlers in Western Australia. It is of particular interest to genealogists and historians Work began on WABI in the early 1970s when information was sought on people who lived in Western Australian prior to 1914. Publicity was sent out through local libraries, historical groups and in publication such as the West Australian. Western Australians were asked to provide genealogical information, not only on prominent identities, but also from their family records including the arrival in Western Australia, occupations, dates of birth, marriages and deaths of their ancestors. Historical material such as diaries, letters, business records, minute books, maps, family trees and photographs, were also sought for copying. Entries for the index closed in December 1979, and were filed at the Battye Library for reference. We were recently delighted to discover that the WA Genealogical Society has made use of this dataset. You can view their use here: http://membership.wags.org.au/members-data/public-data/wabi-wa-biographical-index.",data.wa.gov.au,https://catalogue.data.wa.gov.au/dataset/6c026ce8-8a18-4920-a7e2-f1719e0d8c47,,,Index entries beginning with P and Q,https://catalogue.data.wa.gov.au/dataset/6c026ce8-8a18-4920-a7e2-f1719e0d8c47/resource/7d635ab0-b656-4b36-967a-ea9ff62f5cac/download/pq-final.csv,CSV,,2016-07-28T06:07:00.326060,2016-07-28T06:07:00.272451,,Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 964,Western Australian Biographical Index (WABI),State Library of Western Australia,Author Not Specified,2016-07-28T05:59:15.171170,2022-05-25T18:46:13.320421,"The Western Australian Biographical Index (WABI) is a highly used resource at the State Library of Western Australia. A recent generous contribution by the Friends of Battye Library (FOBS) has enabled SLWA to have the original handwritten index cards scanned and later transcribed. The dataset contains: several csv files with data describing card number, card text and url link to image of the original handwritten card. The transcription was crowd-sourced and we are aware that there are some data quality issues including: * Some cards are missing * Transcripts are crowdsourced so may contain spelling errors and possibly missing information * Some cards are crossed out. Some of these are included in the collection and some are not * Some of the cards contain relevant information on the back (usually children of the person mentioned). This info should be on the next consecutive card * As the information is an index, collected in the 1970s from print material, it is incomplete. It is also unreferenced. It is still a very valuable dataset as it contains a wealth of information about early settlers in Western Australia. It is of particular interest to genealogists and historians Work began on WABI in the early 1970s when information was sought on people who lived in Western Australian prior to 1914. Publicity was sent out through local libraries, historical groups and in publication such as the West Australian. Western Australians were asked to provide genealogical information, not only on prominent identities, but also from their family records including the arrival in Western Australia, occupations, dates of birth, marriages and deaths of their ancestors. Historical material such as diaries, letters, business records, minute books, maps, family trees and photographs, were also sought for copying. Entries for the index closed in December 1979, and were filed at the Battye Library for reference. We were recently delighted to discover that the WA Genealogical Society has made use of this dataset. You can view their use here: http://membership.wags.org.au/members-data/public-data/wabi-wa-biographical-index.",data.wa.gov.au,https://catalogue.data.wa.gov.au/dataset/6c026ce8-8a18-4920-a7e2-f1719e0d8c47,,,Index entries beginning with R,https://catalogue.data.wa.gov.au/dataset/6c026ce8-8a18-4920-a7e2-f1719e0d8c47/resource/76ffb89f-2994-4aba-8cd9-d492ff325d1d/download/r-final.csv,CSV,,2016-07-28T06:07:36.211170,2016-07-28T06:07:36.156770,,Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 965,Western Australian Biographical Index (WABI),State Library of Western Australia,Author Not Specified,2016-07-28T05:59:15.171170,2022-05-25T18:46:13.320421,"The Western Australian Biographical Index (WABI) is a highly used resource at the State Library of Western Australia. A recent generous contribution by the Friends of Battye Library (FOBS) has enabled SLWA to have the original handwritten index cards scanned and later transcribed. The dataset contains: several csv files with data describing card number, card text and url link to image of the original handwritten card. The transcription was crowd-sourced and we are aware that there are some data quality issues including: * Some cards are missing * Transcripts are crowdsourced so may contain spelling errors and possibly missing information * Some cards are crossed out. Some of these are included in the collection and some are not * Some of the cards contain relevant information on the back (usually children of the person mentioned). This info should be on the next consecutive card * As the information is an index, collected in the 1970s from print material, it is incomplete. It is also unreferenced. It is still a very valuable dataset as it contains a wealth of information about early settlers in Western Australia. It is of particular interest to genealogists and historians Work began on WABI in the early 1970s when information was sought on people who lived in Western Australian prior to 1914. Publicity was sent out through local libraries, historical groups and in publication such as the West Australian. Western Australians were asked to provide genealogical information, not only on prominent identities, but also from their family records including the arrival in Western Australia, occupations, dates of birth, marriages and deaths of their ancestors. Historical material such as diaries, letters, business records, minute books, maps, family trees and photographs, were also sought for copying. Entries for the index closed in December 1979, and were filed at the Battye Library for reference. We were recently delighted to discover that the WA Genealogical Society has made use of this dataset. You can view their use here: http://membership.wags.org.au/members-data/public-data/wabi-wa-biographical-index.",data.wa.gov.au,https://catalogue.data.wa.gov.au/dataset/6c026ce8-8a18-4920-a7e2-f1719e0d8c47,,,Index entries beginning with S,https://catalogue.data.wa.gov.au/dataset/6c026ce8-8a18-4920-a7e2-f1719e0d8c47/resource/79899a5d-ecb8-4c01-8547-45a731131e29/download/s-final.csv,CSV,,2016-07-28T06:07:54.609825,2016-07-29T00:40:18.832860,,Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 966,Western Australian Biographical Index (WABI),State Library of Western Australia,Author Not Specified,2016-07-28T05:59:15.171170,2022-05-25T18:46:13.320421,"The Western Australian Biographical Index (WABI) is a highly used resource at the State Library of Western Australia. A recent generous contribution by the Friends of Battye Library (FOBS) has enabled SLWA to have the original handwritten index cards scanned and later transcribed. The dataset contains: several csv files with data describing card number, card text and url link to image of the original handwritten card. The transcription was crowd-sourced and we are aware that there are some data quality issues including: * Some cards are missing * Transcripts are crowdsourced so may contain spelling errors and possibly missing information * Some cards are crossed out. Some of these are included in the collection and some are not * Some of the cards contain relevant information on the back (usually children of the person mentioned). This info should be on the next consecutive card * As the information is an index, collected in the 1970s from print material, it is incomplete. It is also unreferenced. It is still a very valuable dataset as it contains a wealth of information about early settlers in Western Australia. It is of particular interest to genealogists and historians Work began on WABI in the early 1970s when information was sought on people who lived in Western Australian prior to 1914. Publicity was sent out through local libraries, historical groups and in publication such as the West Australian. Western Australians were asked to provide genealogical information, not only on prominent identities, but also from their family records including the arrival in Western Australia, occupations, dates of birth, marriages and deaths of their ancestors. Historical material such as diaries, letters, business records, minute books, maps, family trees and photographs, were also sought for copying. Entries for the index closed in December 1979, and were filed at the Battye Library for reference. We were recently delighted to discover that the WA Genealogical Society has made use of this dataset. You can view their use here: http://membership.wags.org.au/members-data/public-data/wabi-wa-biographical-index.",data.wa.gov.au,https://catalogue.data.wa.gov.au/dataset/6c026ce8-8a18-4920-a7e2-f1719e0d8c47,,,Index entries beginning with T,https://catalogue.data.wa.gov.au/dataset/6c026ce8-8a18-4920-a7e2-f1719e0d8c47/resource/704b4c28-a132-4008-9edd-e7ed1f89c4b8/download/t-final.csv,CSV,,2016-07-28T06:08:17.685992,2016-07-28T06:08:17.580970,,Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 967,Western Australian Biographical Index (WABI),State Library of Western Australia,Author Not Specified,2016-07-28T05:59:15.171170,2022-05-25T18:46:13.320421,"The Western Australian Biographical Index (WABI) is a highly used resource at the State Library of Western Australia. A recent generous contribution by the Friends of Battye Library (FOBS) has enabled SLWA to have the original handwritten index cards scanned and later transcribed. The dataset contains: several csv files with data describing card number, card text and url link to image of the original handwritten card. The transcription was crowd-sourced and we are aware that there are some data quality issues including: * Some cards are missing * Transcripts are crowdsourced so may contain spelling errors and possibly missing information * Some cards are crossed out. Some of these are included in the collection and some are not * Some of the cards contain relevant information on the back (usually children of the person mentioned). This info should be on the next consecutive card * As the information is an index, collected in the 1970s from print material, it is incomplete. It is also unreferenced. It is still a very valuable dataset as it contains a wealth of information about early settlers in Western Australia. It is of particular interest to genealogists and historians Work began on WABI in the early 1970s when information was sought on people who lived in Western Australian prior to 1914. Publicity was sent out through local libraries, historical groups and in publication such as the West Australian. Western Australians were asked to provide genealogical information, not only on prominent identities, but also from their family records including the arrival in Western Australia, occupations, dates of birth, marriages and deaths of their ancestors. Historical material such as diaries, letters, business records, minute books, maps, family trees and photographs, were also sought for copying. Entries for the index closed in December 1979, and were filed at the Battye Library for reference. We were recently delighted to discover that the WA Genealogical Society has made use of this dataset. You can view their use here: http://membership.wags.org.au/members-data/public-data/wabi-wa-biographical-index.",data.wa.gov.au,https://catalogue.data.wa.gov.au/dataset/6c026ce8-8a18-4920-a7e2-f1719e0d8c47,,,Index entries beginning with U-Z,https://catalogue.data.wa.gov.au/dataset/6c026ce8-8a18-4920-a7e2-f1719e0d8c47/resource/14403b96-b2b6-4985-a3b7-9932235ff62f/download/uvxyz-final.csv,CSV,,2016-07-28T06:09:02.798176,2016-07-28T06:09:02.739595,,Creative Commons Attribution 4.0