Oldest Message In A Bottle To Date Found In Australia

Searching Public Records

The trick to finding Paul (top left) was to manually search a massive archive of un-digitized historical public records. Sue searched births, deaths, and marriage records, property listings and the electoral roll from Australia to the UK. Eventually, she tracked down the Gilmore family…

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