Records of Eric Costa on Ancestry

Ancestry is a major source of information if you are filling out the detail of Eric Costa in your family tree. Many large databases are available to search covering from births, deaths and marriages, military records, census records and immigration records with many other smaller collections too. Free trials are normally available and are a good way to fill out a lot of your tree quickly.

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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Eric Costa and the Costa Genealogy

Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Costa Genealogy that will form part of your family tree. Although records vary from country to country, they are normally the most formal record of a person's relations. From the sources below you will be able to find a birth record and, from that, a birth certificate can be ordered which lists the names of the mother and father, taking you back another generation in your tree. A marriage certificate may also list the names of the respective fathers of the bride and groom which may then help you to find them earlier in life on a census record enabling you to fill out more detail in the Costa family tree.

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Costa Family Tree Databases

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Costa Forums

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Eric Costa

Dominic Eric Costa (10 December 1900 – 23 September 1976) was an Australian politician. He was an Australian Labor Party member of the Australian House of Representatives from 1949 to 1969, representing the electorate of Banks.

Costa was born at Warialda, New South Wales and was educated in Newcastle and Sydney. He worked for the Postmaster-General's Department for 30 years, as messenger, postmaster, trainer in army communications procedure during World War II and at the time of his election to parliament, lecturer at the Postal Training School in Sydney. He was state president of the Australian Third Division Telegraphists' and Postal Clerks' Union from 1939 to 1949 and was secretary of the Labor Party's Lang federal electoral council. Costa had also been a prominent rugby league footballer in earlier years.

Costa was elected to the House of Representatives for the new western Sydney seat of Banks at the 1949 federal election and was re-elected seven times. He was associated with the right wing of the Labor Party. In 1959, he declared his support for abolishing both the New South Wales Legislative Council and the Australian Senate. He became a member of the caucus economic policy committee in 1964. Costa retired at the 1969 election.

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