www.rootsweb.com
This is a
database consisting of over 324 million names. Use the information
carefully- a lot of people have loaded the information without
checking it thoroughly.
www.cyndislist.com
This is
the best known gateway site in the world. Use the subject search
feature or just have a browse. It has over 235 thousand
links.
www.coraweb.com.au
This site
is designed for family historians.
| Births Deaths and
Marriages |
www.bdm.nsw.gov.au
The NSW
registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages has free online indexes to
NSW birth records from 1788 to 1905 and deaths and marriages from
1788 to 1945.
www.justice.vic.gov.au
The
Victorian Registry is the first offer online electronic delivery of
documents.
www.rgo.act.gov.au
A little
known listing of all the deaths that have occurred in the ACT from
1930 to 1973 are on this site.
www.nt.gov.au/justice/graphpages/bdm
The
Northern Territory Governments Web site gives information on
obtaining certificates.
www.justice.qld.gov.au/bdm
The
Queensland registry has specific requirements for anyone wishing to
obtain a BDM certificate.
www.justice.tas.gov.au/bdm/
The
Tasmanian site shows examples of certificates, has downloadable
forms and more.
www.justice.wa.gov.au
From the
main site you can download application forms and check
fees.
www.rootsweb.com/~nswsdps/
This site
is one of the most impressive cooperative ventures to be found on
the internet. Volunteers from the dead person society have worked
to make available online indexes to the death notices of the Sydney
Morning Herald and 80 other Newspapers from the current day. There
are almost 750,000 entries to the search.
www.classifieds.fairfax.com.au/
This site
will keep you up to date with the recent BDM announcements from
Fairfax published newspapers. It is an online database of personal
notices for the last week.
www.nla.gov.au
This is
the site for the National Library of Australia. Search its
catalogues, visit its help pages on tracing family history and use
its web link features.
www.naa.gov.au
One of the
gems of government sites for family historians. Especially good for
WW1 Personnel records and for searching post WW2
immigrants.
www.sl.nsw.gov.au
The NSW
State Library Web site will help you track down books, newspapers,
and pictorial collection it holds.
www.archives.qld.gov.au
The
Queensland state archives have some useful online indexes,
including probate, teachers, divorce and inquests.
www.archives.tas.gov.au
This
website has online indexes to convict records, divorces,
naturalizations and census records.
www.prov.vic.gov.au
The Public
Record Office of Victoria has recently revamped its web site and
now includes new online data bases as well as digitized images of
historical records. These include immigration, education, divorce,
gaol and asylum records.
www.archives.sa.gov.au
State
records of South Australia- Online research of guides are listed by
topic under family history.
www.affho.org
The
Australian federation of Family History Societies Inc has links for
all its member societies. You can search by region or members
name.
www.ffhs.org.uk
The UK
Federation of Family History Societies has links to all its member
Society web sites available.
www.feefhs.org
The
Federation of East European Family History Society- includes links
to all its member societies.
www.one-name.org
Search
this online database of registered surnames to see if there is a
society for the name you are researching.
www.aagra.asn.au
It is an
online directory of members of the Australasian Association of
Genealogist and Record Agents.
http://www.records.nsw.gov.au/archives/immigration_and_shipping_indexes_4645.asp
Includes
online indexes to assisted immigrants arriving in Sydney from 1844
to 1896 and to Port Philip from 1839 to 1851.
www.anmm.gov.au/LIB/pictures.htm
The
Australian National Maritime Museum site includes guides provided
by its Research Library.
http://www.records.nsw.gov.au/archives/convicts_3689.asp
This is the best site to visit for NSW convict research. On this
site you will find, access to various databases leading to tickets
of leave, passports, bank accounts and sorts of listings for your
criminal ancestors.
www.convictcentral.com/index.html
This site
is a good place to start if you want to get a grasp of the convict
system in Australia and learn about the online records.
www.nationalarchives.ie/topics/transportation/search01.html
This is
the online index to the transportation Database. This site is
useful for finding Irish Ancestors sentenced to transportation to
the Australian colonies from 1791 to 1868. It is especially good
for Western Australian and Tasmanian convict research.
www.oldbaileyonline.org
If your
ancestor was sentenced at the famous Old Bailey Court in London,
this site is a must. Current coverage is from 1674 to
1799.
www.pictureaustralia.org
This site
has over 1 million images online. You can download a viewable image
and order a print copy online.
www.sl.nsw.gov.au/picman
This is
the State library of NSW’s photographic and manuscript
collection catalogue. . Thumbnail images are also available online
and copies can be ordered.
www.imagesofengland.org.uk
This site
consists of over 370,000 images of England’s Listed
Buildings.
http://www.lands.nsw.gov.au/default.htm
This site enables you to view all
available historic parish, town, country, pastoral and municipal
maps for NSW. There are 35,000 to choose from.
http://www.old-maps.co.uk/
This site
helps you find historic maps of areas of interest, and then plot
that place on a modern ordinance survey map. You can even download
an aerial image.
www.ga.gov.au/map/names
This
Geoscience Australia site allows a search of 310,000 Australian
place names from the Australasian Gazetteer.
www.nrme.qld.gov.au/property/place_names.html
Queensland
place names.
www.vicnames.vic.gov.au/dmb1/plsql/gnr.init
Victorian
Government website showing place names.
http://www.ozgenonline.com/aust_cemeteries/
This alphabetical list of Cemeteries gives links to online
databases and volunteer look-up services.
www.hawkesbury.net.au/cemetery/index.html
Hawkesbury
cemeteries include transcriptions, photographs and maps available
online.
www.mcb.wa.gov.au
An online
database provided by the Metropolitan Cemeteries Board in Perth to
a number of its cemeteries including Karrakatta.
www.nla.gov.au/npapers
Want to
find out if there is a local paper in your area of interest? Use
this site to find out.
www.nla.gov.au/ferg
This site
brings together the digitized images of a variety of early colonial
journals and newspapers, mostly for the 1840’s.
http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/ilej/
These are
digitized images of the 18th to the 19th century journals such as
Gentleman’s Magazine and the Annual Register are worth
browsing for mention of family members and world
events.
| Soldiers and War
Memorials |
www.awm.gov.au/database/biographical/asp
The
Australian War Memorial site gives access to enlistments of
soldiers for the Sudan, the Boar War and WWI, through to Gulf
War.
www.ww2roll.gov.au
The
Department of Veteran Affairs has an online database of all
Australian Service personnel who served in WW2. Searchable online
by name, service number and place, this site leads to a place of
enlistment, date of death or return to Australia if
relevant.
www.cwgc.org
The
Commonwealth War Graves Commission Web lists 1.7 million service
personnel from 23,000 cemeteries throughout the
commonwealth.
www.downtown.co.nz/genealogy
This site
claims to search over 2,500 pages of New Zealand genealogy
information, including passenger lists and family trees.
www.aucklandcitylibraries.com
This site
provides Genealogy links to online listings of passenger arrivals,
electoral rolls and 25,000 children who signed a petition for Queen
Victoria in 1897.
www.genealogy.org.nz
The New
Zealand society of Genealogists Web site has tips for beginners, an
online library catalogue and much more.
www.archives.govt.nz
New
Zealand National Archives site.
www.natlib.govt.nz
National
Library of New Zealand- includes 19th century New Zealand
newspapers and images online.
www.ancestry.com
This is
one of the biggest sites in US research. Ancestry is one of the
main online publishers of family history information. This is only
available on a subscription basis; you can see how many hits there
are specific names before you sign up.
www.rootsweb.com
Roots web
is the place to go to find a mailing list for the subject
you’re interested in; there are over 28,000 of
them.
www.familyrecords.gov.uk
A portal
for government agencies in the UK that can assist with family
information. It will link through to well-known Mecca’s of
family history such as the Family Records Centre and the National
Archives.
www.1901census.nationalarchives.gov.uk
This is
the website of The National Archives of the UK, in which you can
search the 1901 English census. A free index is available to all 32
million people, and then you can download a transcript of the
census image or view the original folio record by paying a
fee.
www.familyhistoryonline.net
This site
is where lots of English societies are placing their records
online, so you’ll find census entries, parish records,
monumental inscriptions, stray indexes and much more.
www.familyrecords.gov.uk/frc
The Family
Records Centre in London is home to the BDM indexes, census records
and much more. The site has a useful newsletter, plus information
on visiting the centre and using its records.
www.documentsonline.nationalarchives.gov.uk
Here
you’ll find the index to Prerogative Court of Canterbury
Wills for England from 1348 to 1858. You can search the index by
name, place or occupation.
www.freecen.org.uk
A sister
project to the well known free BMD site, this one aims to lead you
to census records you can search online for free.
www.1837online.com
A rival to
the free BMD site, this one has images of the actual microfiche
entries online for you to search, right to the present day. The
site “is pay to view”, but its advantage is that all
the indexes are there, so you aren’t waiting for someone to
get around to keying in what you want.
www.nationalarchivist.com
A new
player in the English genealogical scene, some records are free to
search, but most are ‘pay to view’. It's worth looking
at the range of records that this site has to offer.
www.a2a.org.uk
This site
is a cooperative venture between archives throughout the British
Isles. This site helps you locate papers relating to your family
hidden away in 350 country archives and libraries. `
www.englishorigins.com
This site
gives access to the online collections of the society of
Genealogists in London for a fee.
http://booth.lse.ac.uk/
This site
is the Charles Booth Archive. It offers online access to the work
of Charles Booth, who between 1886 and 1903 conducted inquiries
into the living conditions of the laboring poor of London. Maps and
reports help discover what kind of area your ancestor may have
lived in.
http://www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/community/bmd/Camdex/
This is a wonderful
example of work being done at the county level in the UK to make
records available. BDM’s from 1837 to 2003 online- more than
1 million records indexed already.
www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk
This is
the official website of the Scottish government authorities
responsible for births, deaths and marriages and also for census
records.
www.scotsfind.org
This is a
database or Scottish records. This includes Edinburgh apprentices
from 1583 to 1800, Edinburgh marriage registers from 1595 to 1800
and many other Scottish parish registers and historical
records.
www.scan.org.uk
Access the
catalogues of 52 Scottish Archives and libraries through this
site.
www.scottishdocuments.com
Free
searches of 520,000 Scottish wills and testaments from 1500 to 1750
available here.
www.scottishhandwriting.com
A free
site provided by the Scottish archive network, this one gives
online tuition in reading Scottish Documents for the period of 1500
to 1750. This site is not for the faint hearted.
www.groni.gov.uk
The
General Record Office for Northern Ireland site provides an online
application service for births, deaths and marriages in Northern
Ireland, but there are no online indexes for searching.
www.nationalarchives.ie
This site
helps provide useful fact sheets and background information on
Irish research. This site is a growing list of useful links that is
worth exploring.
http://www.proni.gov.uk/
The Public
Record Office of the Northern Ireland web site provides general
information on its services, together with online indexes including
lists of microfilmed Church of Ireland and Presbytarian Church
Records.
www.irishorigins.com
This site
is a “Pay to view” site that offers free searches on
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