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|NLA National Library of Australia|\\ | |NLA National Library of Australia|\\ |
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|Qld Births https://www.bdm.qld.gov.au/IndexSearch/queryEntry.m?type=births|\\ | |Qld Births __ BROKEN-LINK:https://www.bdm.qld.gov.au/IndexSearch/queryEntry.m?type=births|\\ LINK-BROKEN __ |
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|QJO John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland|\\ | |JOLQ, John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland|\\ |
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|TLM-P Thomas Lodge Murray-Prior|\\ | |TLM-P The first Thomas Lodge Murray-Prior (1819-92)|\\ |
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When one source is listed more than once on the same page, an abbreviated title is given. | When one source is listed more than once on the same page, an abbreviated title is given. |
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===== Money value ===== | ===== Money value ===== |
It is notoriously difficult to accurately judge the value of money in the past, yet some idea is necessary to make sense of lives. All conversions must be treated as, at best, rough estimates. For Australian currency from 1850, I have used Thom Blake's converter, converting amounts to equivalent 2015 values. For more on the difficulties of estimating current worth of past money, see his {{http://www.thomblake.com.au/secondary/hisdata/query.php}}. | It is impossible to precisely judge the value of money in the past, yet some idea is necessary to make sense of lives. Therefore, we do give conversions to modern values but emphasise that these must be treated as, at best, rough estimates. For Australian currency from 1850-1900, we use Thom Blake's converter, converting amounts to roughly equivalent 2015 values. For more on estimating the value of past money, see his {{http://www.thomblake.com.au/secondary/hisdata/query.php}}. For the value of money from 1901, we rely on the Reserve Bank of Australia's [[https://www.rba.gov.au/calculator/annualPreDecimal.html]] |