Family History - Related Links

1. Society of Australian Genealogists
The premier family history society in Australia.  Founded over 60 years ago, it currently occupies a unique heritage building in the heart of Sydney.
2. Port Macquarie and Districts Family History Society, Inc
This society is one of many family history groups along the mid north coast of New South Wales, Australia.  It is very active and recently celebrated its 20th anniversary.  The society has a significant library of family history related information available in conjunction with local studies material at the Port Macquarie Library.  Well worth joining if you live in the area or pay them a visit if you are in the area.
3. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter- Day Saints
An internet family history data repository of over 300 million names, where you can search the  Ancestral File, International Genealogical Index, Pedigree Resource File, and web sites (by last name only).
4. Ancestry.Com
An online resource for tracing family history, providing one simple search of million's of names contained in a comprehensive and diverse collection of online genealogical databases.
5. Roots Web WorldConnect Project
The Internet's oldest and largest FREE genealogy site with over 480 million names on file in RootsWeb's WorldConnect Project. This site also has a large number of mailing lists where you may post messages seeking information about persons in a specific geographic location.  For example, if you have family from the North Coast of New South Wales, you would subscribe to NORCO and post the message there so that others will receive your enquiry or find it at a future time.
6. Genealogy Search Australia
Genealogy Search Australia is a free, non commercial site for the amateur or professional genealogist.
7. New South Wales Births, Deaths and Marriages
Search the indexes to births (1787-1907), marriages (1788-1957) and deaths (1788-1977) for New South Wales for free.
8. Victorian Births, Deaths and Marriages
Search the indexes to births (1853-1907), marriages (1853-1942) and deaths (1853-1985) for Victoria. Searching is free, but you must pay to see the search results currently 99¢ per page.
9. Queensland Births, Deaths and Marriages
Search the indexes to births (1829 to 1914) and deaths and marriages (1829 to 1929) for Queensland without charge.
10. South Australian Genealogy & Heraldry Society Inc - SA DEATHS & BURIALS
This is a searchable database of the society's records covering the cemetery index (1836-2004), SA Government Gazettes (1845-2000) and newspaper deaths (1996-July 2003). The newspaper deaths includes Death, Funeral, In Memoriam and Lest We Forget notices.
11. Western Australia Index of Birth, Deaths and Marriages 1841-1905
Search the indexes to births (1841-1932), marriages (1841-1932) and deaths (1841-1953) for Western Australia for free. To search, click the drop down combo box after "Select the information you would like to search for" and choose either 'births', 'marriages' or 'deaths'.
12. Genealogy Search
This site has lots of links to other genealogy sites, such as an interactive genealogy search engine, genealogy "free stuff", surname search database, genealogy detective, etc.
13. Adobe Acrobat Reader
This software is required to be able to look at the EZITREE charts and Instruction Manual.  The charts are not viewable from version 4.
14. The Proceedings of the Old Bailey London  
A fully searchable online edition of the largest body of texts detailing the lives of non-elite people ever published, containing accounts of nearly 200,000 criminal trials held at London's central criminal court 1674 to 1913.
15. State Records of New South Wales
State Records is the New South Wales Government's archives and records management authority.
16. National Archives of Australia
The National Archives promotes good government recordkeeping and encourages community awareness and use of valuable Commonwealth records in its care.  This is a great site for ordering WW1 and WW2 service records.
17. FreeBMD
FreeBMD is an ongoing project, the aim of which is to transcribe the Civil Registration index of births, marriages and deaths for England and Wales, and to provide free Internet access to the transcribed records.  The recording of births, marriages and deaths was started in 1837 and is one of the most significant resources for genealogical research. The transcribing of the records is carried out by teams of dedicated volunteers and contains index information for the period 1837-1983.
18. Ryerson Index of Deaths in Australia
The Ryerson Index is an index to death notices appearing in current Australian newspapers and currently has over 1.7 million entries from 136 newspapers. It also includes some funeral notices, probate notices and obituaries. To support this strictly volunteer organization, please access this site by going directly to www.ryersonindex.org and not using Google or any other search engine.
19. Cemetery Records
There are many people and organizations putting their cemetery records on the internet from where they may be searched.   The following list mainly refers to internet sites with search facilities that I have found useful in my research.  There are many others.
Australian Cemetery Index website (contains details of over 40,000 burials in over 330 NSW, Qld and Tas Cemeteries Blue Mountains Cemeteries Brisbane Cemeteries
Canberra Catholic Cemeteries Board (Rookwood, Field of Mars, Liverpool & North Rocks) Clarence Valley Cemeteries
Drayton and Toowoomba Cemetery Easter Suburbs Memorial Park (Botany) Macquarie Park Cemetery
Manly Cemetery Newcastle City (Gloucester, North Waratah, Old Christchurch, Old Wallsend, Stratford, Tarro) Rookwood Independent Cemetery
Rookwood Jewish Cemetery
20. World War Two Nominal Roll
The World War Two Nominal Roll was created to honour and commemorate the men and women who served in Australia's defence forces and the Merchant Navy during this conflict.
21. Mariners and Ships in Australian Waters
Masters, crew, a stowaway or two; passengers, cabin, saloon and steerage; births at sea, deaths at sea; deserters; vessels with one crew and one passenger and those with 70 crew and hundreds of passengers; simple single sail boats, barques, brigs, large steam ships; whaling voyages, regular coastal passenger trips, voyages from other Australian ports, London, San Francisco, China and other exotic ports - you will find them all here.   It currently (January 2004) covers 1870 to 1874, about 50% of 1875 and 1876, all of 1877 and 1878 (except July 1878), and January 1879 only.  I know other periods are currently being indexed. 
22. Searchable Digital Copies of Australian Newspapers on the Internet
In 2007, the National Library announced a plan, in collaboration with each Australian State and Territory library, to digitise out of copyright Australian  newspapers. The aim was to provide free online AND SEARCHABLE access from the first Australian newspaper published in 1803 through to 1954.  At the end of July this year (2008), the first beta (or test) release of this search facility became available. Although it is only early days yet with limited the date ranges on most newspapers, it is the start of a major historical resource for those persons interested in Australian history. As of 7 August 2008 there were 91,577 pages consisting of 792,703 articles available to search.

Click here to view the newspapers and date ranges digitised - and scroll down to 'Coverage'.

Click here to go straight in to the search page
23. Other Digital Copies of Newspapers on the Internet, 1840-45
The Australian Cooperative Digitisation Project aims to ensure access to and preservation of selected periodical titles that began publication between 1840-1845 through a process of preservation microfilming and digitisation.  Currently there are over 60 titles including the Geelong Advertiser. North Geelong, 1840-1845., The Hunter River Gazette and Journal of Agriculture, Commerce, Politics, and News. West Maitland, N.S.W., 1841-1842 and The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser. Maitland, N.S.W.; 1843-1855.
24. New Zealand 19th Century Newspapers Digitising Project 
This site hosts Papers Past a web site of the National Library of New Zealand and showcases selected 19th century New Zealand newspapers and periodicals. The site currently contains digital images of over 750,000 pages from 34 publications.  This includes the New Zealander 1845 to 1852, the Southland times 1869 to 1905 and the Bay of Plenty Times 1875 to 1886 as well as many other early newspapers. A very worthwhile site due to its extensive time period coverage.
25. English Parish Registers 
The following sites generally provide free access to English parish register information on the internet. If you find others, please let me know so I can include them on the list.
Sussex Online Parish Clerks    

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