Family History

Edited by Patricia Frei and produced by the Heraldry & Genealogy Society of Canberra in 2006, this 4 CDROM set contains a combined total of thirty-three individual files, which total approximately 29,900 records.

Vol. 1 Bungendore & Michelago NSW -- Vol. 2 Council & court records, Queanbeyan NSW -- Vol. 3 Land and other records -- Vol. 4 Parish registers & burial records.

The collection is attributed to the teacher, archivist and historian, Errol Lea-Scarlett, who compiled these records for his own research purposes from various public and private sources during the 1960s–1970s. Therefore, the researcher using this collection must be aware that the material incorporated in these volumes is incomplete and all data should be verified with the appropriate primary sources.

Records come from council records, courts, publican licences, lists of teachers, cemetery transcriptions, obituaries, baptisms, marriages and burials, land records, convicts, probate etc.

Volume 1: Bungendore & Michelago NSW contains:

1. Registers of St. Mary’s Church, Bungendore: baptisms 1882-1888 (extracts only).

2. Court Records, Bungendore—Bench Books 29 July 1870-30 Nov 1891 - Police & Summons Cases

3. St. Patrick’s Church, Michelago: baptisms 1891-1922;marriages 1899-1946; burials 1910-1973; Clergy List 1891-1972.

4. Michelago memorials, Michelago cemetery register & Jerangle cemetery memorials.

5. Court Records, Michelago—Bench books: Police & Summons Cases 1875-1936.Includes maps.

Volume 2: Council & Court Records, Queanbeyan NSW, contains:

6. Minutes of meetings of Queanbeyan Municipal Council 1885-1926 (selective); Commons Trust Minute Book 1899-1916 (selective).

7. District Council Papers 1843-1847 (notes).

8. Yarrowlumla Shire Council Minutes 1907-1950 (notes)

9. Courthouse Records: Minutes of Proceedings in Court of Review, Queanbeyan 1899-1903 (selective); Bailiff’s Execution Book 1897-1918 (selective)

10. Bench of Magistrates Correspondence 1833-1851 (notes).

11. Free Report for 1846-1847; Small Debts Register 1849-1864 (incl. Return of Ticket of Leave Holders); Court of Requests—Judgement book 1854-1859 & Cash Book 1844-1846.

12. Court of Claims, register of cases from 1835 (selective).

13. Publican’s Licences 1841-1862 recorded in the Deposition Book from 1838

14. Bench Records—Queanbeyan 1838-1896. Includes maps.

Volume 3: Land and Other Records, contains:

15. Research notes from the: Queanbeyan Conditional Purchase Registers 1862-1872, 1874-1877; Selections made 1870-1879 under the Volunteers Regulation Act 1867; Conditional Purchase Registers, Queanbeyan 1862-1878; Dates of Birth—Juvenile Selectors 1872-1878 (selective).

16. Alienation of Lands 1812-1853 (selective) includes County Register 1829-1839 (King, St. Vincent, Murray).

17. Land Selection 1869-1872, 1874-1876 (selective Queanbeyan & district).

18. Selective notes from the Royal Commission on the Site for a Federal Capital (site proposed at Queanbeyan: Wanniassa, Canberra, Lake George 1899-1902)

19. Teachers in Public Schools 1884 (selective Queanbeyan & district).

20. Notes transcribed from the Queanbeyan School of Arts Minute Book 1925-1935.

21. Index to Obituaries & Personal Notices circa 1820s-2001 from Errol Lea-Scarlett’s personal archive. Includes maps.

Volume 4: Parish Registers & Burial Records, contains:

22. Deaths registered at Queanbeyan NSW 1856-1901 & Burials in outlying cemeteries 1856-1907.

23. Queanbeyan NSW - Cemetery records transferred from denominational trustees.

24. Supreme Court of NSW - Probate Index 1800-1901 (extracts relating to the Queanbeyan district).

25. Supreme Court of NSW - Wills & Administrations 1800-1901 (extracts).

26. Cemetery transcriptions—Michelago, Riverside-Queanbeyan, Gundaroo, Upper Gundaroo,Barnsdale-Gundaroo, St. Thomas-Carwoola,Ss Peter & Paul-Hoskingtown (all NSW),Weetangera, Hall, Tharwa (all ACT).

27. Anglican Church of St. John the Baptist, Canberra:baptisms 1845-1900; marriages 1845-1877;burials 1844-1915 (selective only)

28. Christ Church (Anglican), Queanbeyan: baptisms 1838-1866; marriages 1838-1909;burials 1838-1880, 1913-1917, 1920-1968.

29. St. Gregory’s Catholic Church, Queanbeyan: baptisms 1843-1920; marriages 1843-1857,1856-1898, 1881; burials 1844-1877, 1937-1967.

30. Ministrations by Rev T. Hassall, Diocese of Goulburn:baptisms 1836; baptisms by Rev T. Hassall 1827-1834, 1836; marriages 1827-1833; burials 1827, 1829.

31. Fr. J.J. Therry’s registers (Catholic baptisms, marriages & burials), Queanbeyan district 1820-1838

32. Anglican Church of St. Clement’s, Yass NSW selected Gundaroo entries only): baptisms 1839-1863; marriages 1839-1853;burials 1839-1875.

33. Parish Registers, Gunning NSW (Gundaroo entries only): baptisms 1839-1930; marriages 1840-1850; burials 1842-1855.Includes maps.

A comprehensive guide to undertaking Indigenous family history research throughout Australia. Includes an online request form as well as links to organisations such as Link-Up, which assists in family tracing and reunion of Indigenous people who were removed.

This site provides links to online passenger lists which cover migrant ships to Australia and New Zealand. It also includes maps which link years of arrival with ports. Maintained by Graham Jaunay.

Published for the National Aboriginal Consultative Committee (NACC) by the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies in 2004, this CDROM contains the electoral roll for over 27,000 Indigenous people (aged 18 and over) who voted to elect 41 members of the National Aboriginal Consultative Committee ( NACC ) on 24 November 1973.

NACC voters had to be an Aboriginal person or Torres Strait Islander and registered on the Commonwealth Electoral Roll. The total number of Aboriginal adults eligible to enrol for the NACC elections was 53,000 and the total number of Aboriginals in Australia at the time is estimated at 116,000.

The NACC was the first national representative organisation in the Australian body politic for Australian Aborigines. Altogether there were 41 National Aboriginal Consultative Committee Electoral Districts: New South Wales 8; Victoria 3; Queensland 9; South Australia 4; Western Australia 8; Tasmania 1; and Northern Territory 8. Electors residing in the Capital Territory were included in the appropriate Electoral District for the State of New South Wales.

In 1977 the Federal Government dissolved the NACC and replaced it with the National Aboriginal Conference (NAC), which in turn was abolished in 1986. The NAC was subsequently superseded by the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC), established by the Federal Government under Bob Hawke through the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission Act 1989 (the ATSIC Act), which took effect on 5 March 1990. ATSIC was then formally abolished on 24 March 2005 by the Federal Government under John Howard.

The Australian Electoral Commission has guides ' Electoral Milestones for Indigenous Australians ' and a 'History of the Indigenous Vote' at Australian Electoral History.

The official website of the Ulster Historical Foundation. The site includes free and subscription databases, research services, publications, events and a consultation service.

Produced by Legault Enterprise in 2005 and edited by John G. Macrae and Ian L. Franks, this CDROM includes 945 entries and over 1,200 illustrations of Arms. Text and graphics are in PDF format.

The project was initiated with the support of members of the Armorial & Heraldry Society of Australasia, Heraldry Australia and the Company of Armigers (Australian Branch).

Produced by the Society of Australian Genealogists in 2004, this fully searchable, AGCI Volume 1. CDROM contains indexes to 3.9 million records drawn from the collections of 39 family history societies and institutions throughout Australia and New Zealand.

Some of the main records indexed on the CDROM include: cemetery transcriptions, especially for NSW, Victoria, Western Australia and New Zealand; newspaper cuttings; Irish Transportation Records 1788-1868; shipping into NSW and South Australia; as well as other sources, such as council rate books and war memorials.

Whilst entries predominantly relate to Australia and New Zealand, some overseas entries are included. Entries relate only to individuals. There are no listings under place names, companies, ships or broad subject headings.

An AGCI entry will show:

(1) The surname and given name of the person to whom the entry relates

(2) The place where the event occurred

(3) The date of the event

(4) Whether the entry is a cross reference

(5) What type of record contains the entry. For example, the entry may come from a cemetery transcription, government gazette, newspaper or a parish register.

(6) The exact reference for the entry. This directs the researcher to the organisation which submitted the information to AGCI and gives the exact location of the information within that organisation. AGCI CDs facilitate seeking further details, by automatically inserting the organisation address and reference into a form letter requesting further information and a copy of the indexed record, if available.

The previous microfiche edition of AGCI included indexes to the NSW Government Gazette 1832-1863 but these records are not on this CDROM because of capacity restraints. The 247-fiche edition of the AGCI (covering both volumes 1 & 2), that was published in 1999, is located in the Family History Service at REF 10/NQ929.394/17 and in ML at REF 1/ MAV/ FM 6/ 817.

A second AGCI CDROM, Volume 2, which is a personal name index to the NSW Government Gazettes for 1832-1863, was published in 2005 and is also listed on the State Library's Family History CDROM menu.

Basics on Australasian Genealogical Computer Index (AGCI) on the SAG website provides further information on the AGCI.

A 2007 fully-searchable, 2,476-page CDROM fascimile of the following 8 Australian medical directories - the 'Australasian Medical Directory and Hand Book' for the years 1883, 1886, 1892, 1896 and 1900; the 'Medical, Dental and Pharmaceutical Directory of NSW' for 1903 ; 'Loxton's Medical Directory of Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, Pacific Islands, Malay States, China, Japan, Hong Kong etc' for 1911; and the 'Medical Directory of Australia, New Zealand, etc' for 1915.

There have been several different publishers of medical directories throughout Australia’s history, including Ludwig Bruck, F.W.Loxton, Errol Galbraith Knox, W. E. Smith and others. Ludwig Bruck was a medical practitioner and medical journalist as well as the compiler of the first five editions of the Australasian Medical Directory and Handbook between 1883 and 1900. F. W. Loxton's Medical Directory for 1911 is similar to Bruck's Australasian Medical Directory but is a lot more comprehensive in many areas, as well as including many extra features unique to this publication. Primarily, it covers all Australian States, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands. This work was later incorporated into the Medical Directory of Australia, New Zealand, etc, published in 1915. The 1915 Medical Directory contains a large amount of statistics and medical information for all Australian states, together with New Zealand, the Pacific Islands, South East Asia, China and Japan. The Medical Directory of NSW 1903 by W. E. Smith contains statistics and medical information relating specifically to New South Wales in 1903.

These medical directories generally contain the following information:a complete directory of registered doctors, surgeons etc listing their qualifications and past experience; obituaries; a complete directory of medical associations and departments (giving names and addresses); information regarding medical courses; medical fees; laws applicable to the medical profession; medical Acts; relevant geographical information for the different states; a general gazetteer and local directory for several country towns; statistics; lists of medical periodicals; and information and directories on several pacific islands, New Zealand etc depending on the directory's geographic coverage.

The 5 editions of Australasian Medical Directory and Hand Book ( also titled Bruck's Medical Directory) are held in the Mitchell Library at 610.99/ B. Both Loxton's Medical Directory 1911 and the Medical Directory of Australia, New Zealand for 1914-15 are in Mitchell Library at 610. 99/ M and in offsite storage at DS610.3/3. The Medical Directory of NSW 1903 by W. E. Smith is in the Mitchell Library at 610.99/S. The Medical Directory of Australia, by Errol Galbraith Knox ( aslo known as Knox's Medical Directory ) is located in the Mitchell Library at 610.3/4 and in SRL at S610.3/16 from 1935 to 1977 and in ML at Q610.3/6 and in SRL at NQ610.58/1 from 1978. The most recent print editions should be on the reference shelves and 2007 is on CDROM in SRL at RAV/DISC 10/474.

Further information on Australia's early medical pioneers can be found at Australian Medical Pioneers index

Australian birth, death and marriage registries. Includes links to all registries as well as a table of current prices for certificates, as well as lists of official BDM indexes for each Australian State and Territory which identify resources online, on microfiche and on CD-ROM. Site maintained by Cora Num.

Compiled by Eric & Rosemary Kopittke and published by Gould Genealogy in 2006, this CDROM consolidates the full 21 publications in the Emigrants from Hamburg to Australasia series previously released in both book and microfiche format by the Queensland Family History Society for period from 1850 to 1879.

Records cover all available departure lists for ships from Hamburg to Australia and New Zealand during the period of 1850-1879 and information includes name, former place of residence, age, occupation, ship, destination and departure years for more than 40,000 European emigrants. Migration was not only from Germany but other European countries such as Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Switzerland and Italy.

The index allows direct searching, on name, year and other details, with search results directly linked to the relevant pdf file of the original publications. Field oriented and keyword searches are featured along with Boolean selection, sorting, wildcard searches and, when applicable, links between search results and images held in pdf files of the source records.

Besides information from the original Hamburg listings, much of which is unavailable on corresponding arrival lists, also included in the pdf files is information on the ship and reports extracted from contemporary newspapers.

The 20-volume print and 35-fiche versions are available in the Family History Service at REF 10/NQ929.308931/ 1-2 SET. Further content details for these formats can be found at Gould Genealogy : Emigrants From Hamburg to Australasia CDROMs

This website lists passengers on a variety of ships arriving in all Australian states during the 19th century. Includes inter-colonial arrivals and departures and some lists contain names of freed convicts travelling interstate or overseas. Produced by Jenny Fawcett.

A very rare record of many men who fought in the Great War (1914-18).

This volume is a collection of biographies of approximately 1800 soldiers, each with significatn biographical details. Each entry includes a photograph along with the name of the soldier, where they were born and education, where and when they enlisted, the places they fought, when they came back or, if they died, where they were buried.

Produced by Gould Genealogy in 2007, this CDROM is a fully searchable fascimile of the 1919 title Australia’s Fighting Sons, a compilation of biographies and photos of some 1,500 Australian soldiers (mostly from Western Australia) who fought in World War 1.

Each entry includes a photograph along with the name of the soldier, where they were born and educated, where and when they enlisted, the places they fought and where and when they came back or, if they died, where they were buried. Often included are other significant details about their war activities and their family.

A free online index of soldiers featured in the book, alphabetically by surname with page reference number, is available at the Western Australian Histories & Biographies For Genealogists and Family Historians website at Australia's Fighting Sons of the Empire.

Mitchell Library holds an original 1919/20 print edition at REF 1/Q940.4092294/1

Produced by Y.M.Johnson in 2003, this CDROM covers the first 25 years of paddle steamers on Australia's inland rivers, from their arrival in 1853 to 1878.

Many of the reports give minute details of the construction of the steamers and their barges, for whom they were built, their masters, where they traded and the cargo they carried.

Each colony involved with interests in the rivers attempted to wrest the lucrative trade from each other. It saw towns increase and decrease in size, depending on where they were located.

Battles with snags, low rivers, droughts, high rivers, sinkings, fires, and intercolonial rivalry are recounted.

Bailliere’s Gazetteers were compiled for most colonies in Australia during the 19th century and are a useful tool for researching places throughout the whole of Australia in this period.

This 2007 CDROM digitises 2206 pages from the following 5 Bailliere's gazetteers :

(1) Bailliere's New South Wales Gazetteer and Road Guide 1870

(2) Bailliere's Queensland Gazetteer and Road Guide 1876

(3) Bailliere's South Australian Gazetteer and Road Guide 1866

(4) Bailliere's Tasmanian Gazetteer and Road Guide 1877

(5) Bailliere's Victorian Gazetteer and Road Guide 1879

They generally contain the following:

* The most recent and accurate information (at publication date) for every township, village, hamlet, river, creek, mountain, lake, gold field, road and railway with its botanical, geological, and physical features.

* The division of the colony into counties, and electoral, council, pastoral, and municipal districts and hundreds with their boundaries and statistics.

* The names, areas, occupiers, positions, rentals, new valuations and grazing capabilities of the squatting stations with the best means of reaching them.

* Particulars of the coast survey, statistics of the ports, manufactures, and agricultural, pastoral, and mining pursuits, census of dwellings and population, areas in acreage and miles and comprehensive and correct electoral, municipal, district council and police information.

* A complete road itinerary, showing the easiest, most expeditious, and cheapest method of transit and conveyance of goods to and from every place in the colony by rail, coach, boat, dray or horse.

Published by Ralph Reid in association with Gould Genealogy in 2007 as a third edition,this bibliography lists 6,700 family histories and provides a name index with 208,000 surname entries to help you locate which histories your family name may have appeared in.

Hardcopy third edition published in 2007 is located at REF 10/N929.2/ 129 and at ML REF 1/929.2/38A

All titles listed are known to be publicly available through the National Library of Australia or through one of the various State libraries, family history societies and local public libraries.

Australian Heritage Bibliography ( AHB ), formerly HERA, produced by the Australian Heritage Commission, is a bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles from published and unpublished material on Australia's natural and cultural environment.

Compiled by Elizabeth Hook in 2004, this index to Historical Records of Australia Series I, II and IV 1788 to early 1848 (33 volumes) has over 100,000 entries, covering Governors' despatches to and from England for the period 1788 to 1848 etc.

When publication of HRA began in 1914, there were plans to print them in 7 Series, as follows:

Series I (1) contains 'Governor's Despatches To and From England

Series II (2) Papers Belonging To the General Administration in sub-sections [not published]

Series III (3) Despatches & Papers Relating to the Settlement of the States [resumed publishing 1997]

Series IV (4) contains Legal Papers

Series V (5) Exploration Papers [not published]

Series VI (6) Scientific Papers [not published]

Series VII (7) Ecclesiastical, naval, and Military Papers [not published]

33 volumes were published up until 1925 but the project was then discontinued. In 1997 the project recommenced and number VII of the third series was published. As of Januaury 2004, there are 35 books in the set in 4 series.

Index to selected Cemetery Monumental Inscription Transcriptions held at the Australian Institute of Genealogical Studies Inc.(AIGS), , PO Box 339, Blackburn, Vic, 3130. Email:info@aigs.org.au

PH:(03) 98773789 Fax:(03) 9877 9066

Digitised and searchable issues of 'The Australian Lutheran',the national magazine for the Australian Lutheran churches,this CDROM series comes in compendiums of 5 years per CDROM: 1913-1920, 1921-1930, 1931-1940 and 1941-50. Compendiums for 1951-60 and 1961-66, when the magazine ceased publication, are pending.

The magazine provides a large amount of information on specific events and people in the Australian Lutheran churches in the form of notices, including many marriages, deaths and obituaries. It also provides an insight into the issues of the day and the development and role of the Lutheran Church in Australian history.

Australian Men of Mark was produced in two large volumes in 1888/1889. It is a wonderful centennial biographical record of thousands of men of the time.

This digital edition is unique and valuable in that it gathers all seven known variants of volume 2 into one complete fully searchable publication. All of volume 1 (same in all editions) and much of volume 2 contain substantial biographies and full page illustrations of the person concerned. Most volume 2 volumes also include a significant selection of mini-biographies - enabling inclusion of many more than would have been possible in larger form.

There are nearly 750 main biographies and over 3000 mini-biographies in the appendixes of some of the volume 2 series.

The subjects of the biographies originate from many different countries, and come from all walks of life. The main biographies are mostly 2 or more pages long, and contain valuable biographical and historical information. There are full page sepia portraits throughout.

CDROM version of the book compiled and edited for the Federal Department of Defence by P.L. Murray in 1911 (see N355.09901/1) and re-published in 1982(see E968.048/6).

It is a compilation of official Australian reports regarding the war in South Africa from 1899 to 1902, and was recorded as a memorial & remembrance of the war.

It is written as a reference book rather than a history of the war, and contains records of units, uniforms, dates, war services and honours, deaths, names and ranks, excerpts of written reports, rolls, medics and nurses, promotions etc for the different states.

You can keyword search the whole 616-page volume for names, places etc.

The Australian National Maritime Museum mission is to bring maritime heritage to life and preserve it for future generations. It's Collection Development Policy identifies 10 collection focus areas, including : exploration and European settlement 1788-1901; convicts, migrants and refugees voyaging to Australia; 18th and 19th century colonial shipping and trade; and Australian naval history.

The Museum's Research Library, known as the Vaughan Evans Library, is open to researchers by appointment from 10 am to 4 pm Monday to Friday and the first Saturday of each month. To make an appointment contact the Public Enquiries Librarian on 02 9298 3731 or email gsimpson@anmm.gov.au The Library has an online Library Catalogue and bookmarks digital versions of titles on topics relating to maritime history and family history research on the social bookmarking site del.icio.us. at ANMM Bookmarks.

The museum has an extensive image collection, comprising of photographs, paintings and drawings. Two important collections are (1) William J Hall Collection of glass plate negatives; and (2) the Samuel J. Hood Studio Collection - the largest of the museum's photographic collections. The museum holds the maritime component of this collection. The rest is held at the State Library of New South Wales.

The Museum offers online access to a selection of its images (currently 65) at ANMM Image Library . These images can also be viewed at the National Library of Australia's picture database Picture Australia.

The Museum also provides online Research Guides for the following topics: Australian and New Zealand Built Ships; Australian and New Zealand Yachts; Australian Veteran Ships and Maritime Museums; Coastal Shipping; Convict Ships; Discovery Ships; Dunbar Shipwreck; Ferries and Inshore Craft; First Fleet; History of Australian Ports; Immigration - Sailing Ships; Immigration - Steamships and Passenger Liners; Lighthouses and Lightships; Passenger Ships to Australia - a comparison of vessels and journey times to Australia between 1788 and 1900; Pictures of Ships in the Australian Trade; River Trade; Royal Australian Navy Ships; Royal Navy Ships; Seafaring Ancestors; Ship Models; and Shipwrecks.

Hosted by rootsweb and compiled by the Sydney Dead Persons Society, the website lists (1) online Australian cemetery indexes, (2) online indexes to deaths and funeral notices from Australian newspapers (other than the Ryerson Index); and (3) miscellaneous indexes which complement the Ryerson Index.

Sydney metropolitan cemetery indexes include Eastern Suburbs Memorial Park, Church cemeteries in the Canterbury Municipality, Macquarie Park Cemetery, Manly Cemetery, Parramatta Methodist (pre-1961), Rookwood Independent and Sydney Catholic Cemeteries. NSW country cemeteries include Bathurst, Bellingen Shire, Dundee, Hawkesbury Area and Lithgow.

Canberra public cemeteries include Gungahlin, Hall and Woden cemeteries. Queensland cemeteries include Brisbane, Ayr and Home Hill, Bundaberg, Nanango Shire and Toowoomba. Tasmania includes Hobart and Devonport. Victoria includes Geelong and Lilydale whilst Western Australia includes Perth.

This CDROM is the fourth edition by James Hugh Donohoe entitled the Paracensus 1788-1828.

It contains 130,000 entries embracing the sixteen British sites around Australia, namely Port Jackson-Botany Bay, Norfolk Island, O’Sullivan’s Cove (Port Phillip), King Island, Morton Bay, Westernport, Van Diemens Land, New Guinea, Ambon, Albany, Melville Island, New Zealand, Swan River, the Kimberleys and Cape Baron and the colony of Americans on Kangaroo Island by 1828.

Entries include the names of 70,000 convicts (52,000 actually arrived), 27,500 locally born children, 18,000 family units, 10,000 soldiers, 1,000 sailors, 8,500 migrants and 500 Aborigines and Maories living in settler communities.

The work also includes the names of 20,000 people whose means of arrival could not be discerned nor their status identified, viz., army, sailor, migrant, convict of locally born. These names were sourced from church birth, death and marriage records, business transactions, victualling lists, church event witnesses, memorials, bank accounts, court depositions, Government correspondence and literary works. 5,000 of these names were found in burial records only.

Problems encountered in undertaking this paracensus include:

* There are no other records extant on more than half the persons buried in Australia in the era.

* A baptismal record for most of the local children listed in Musters were not found.

* Most of the married couples recorded in musters were not mentioned among local marriage registers.

* There were 50% more names of people on average for each convict ship of arrival identified in the musters than the ships actually carried (some ships had 300% convicts mentioned to indent).

* More convict ships than identified by Charles Bateson in his work 'The Convict Ships' were located.

* One man fathered three children several years after his “death”.

* A convict killed by Aborigines in Port Stephens answered a muster two years later.

* A large number of convicts are not listed on the indent of the ship arrival stated in the muster.

* Several convicts identified the names of several different ships of arrival on different musters.

* One convict who “died” en-route had a wife and then children later.

* Several people who were buried before the arrival of the second fleet are not listed in first fleet records.

The codes for records/sources used are listed on the back of the CDROM cover (ie: A73 = Waterloo Fund Donors).

A 4-volume hardcopy third edition published in 2002 is located in ML at Q929.394/ 34 SET and an incomplete edition produced in 1998 is in SRL at REF 10/NQ929.394/16 (hardcopy) and ML at REF 1/MAV/FM6/702 (8 microfiche).

Compiled by Phyllis Wilson of the Returned and Service Nurses Club of Victoria, this website lists 102 Australian nurses who died as a result of war service in the Boer War (1), World War 1 (24), World War 2 (76) and the Vietnam War (1). The names were included in the Australian Service Nurses National Memorial recently dedicated in Canberra.

This weblist gives name, place of birth, place and date of death and age at death. Proposed additions to the list can be emailed (with 'Returned and Service Nurses Memorial' in the subject line) to Lenore Frost at: lenore.frost@optusnet.com.au

There is aslo a list of Australian Army Nursing weblinks, which includes : ANZAC Day - the Nurses; Australian Army Nurses in the Vietnam War; Army Nurses Memorial, Augusta, WA; Australian Army Nursing Service ( Australian Women's Archives Project); Australian Army Nursing Service, WW2; Australian Nurses in Vietnam; Australian Nursing Federation; Australian Service Nurses National Memorial; Australian Women at War ( a bibliography, Australian War Memorial); Australian Women's Land Army; Brave Women of the South Pacific (extensive site on WW2 nurses); Centenary of Women and the Australian Army: a Bibliography; Casualties in Korea; Maffra Library War Memorials; Military Nursing History; New Zealand Military Nurses; Nurses for the Front, New Zealand; Nurses - medical A range of pages on AANS; Nurses' Memorial, Point Walter, WA ; Penrith WW1 Nurses; Roll of Honour - Tasmanian Service Women, World War 2; and Victorian Nurses in the Boer War.

Besides containing shipping arrival details for various ports around Australia, they also include passenger list and occasional crew list details for some of the ships. Also contains a number of background pages covering a small number of shipwreck details and other information such as passenger diaries

This CDROM, published by Gould Genealogy in 2007, is a fascimile of the World War 1 magazine 'Aussie' covering the monthly issues from No 1 in January, 1918 to No. 13 in April, 1919. It was not issued in the period May, 1919 to March, 1920

Aussie was a popular Australian soldiers magazine during and after World War 1. The magazine had its origins in 1914 under a different name and was transformed into 'Aussie' in 1918. The 1918 to 1919 issues were written and illustrated by members of the Australian Imperial Force (AIF).

The magazine was created for the soldiers and was largely written by the soldiers. Its object was to be 'bright, cheerful and interesting'. Each issue consisted of approximately 16 pages and included many humourous and personal stories, poems, songs, tips and sketches which reflect the life of 'the Australian soldier'.

The magazine was printed in the field by the Australian Imperiel Force (AIF) Printing Section'. Issues no. 1 on January 18, 1918 to no. 13 in April, 1919 were produced in Fletre, France. Subsequently, production took place in Fauquembergues, France, from January 18, 1918 to January, 1919 and then in Marchienne-au-Pont, Belgium, from February, 1919 to April, 1919. Issue No. 14 onwards was subtitled 'the cheerful monthly' and later it was subtitled 'the national monthly'.

An original hardcopy is held in the Mitchell Library at Q940.939/A for the period No.1 January, 1918 to no.13 April, 1919 and Vol. 2, no. 14 April, 1920 to January, 1932.

An index to 4.8 million birth, christening, marriage, and death records from New South Wales (1788-1888), Tasmania (1803-1899), Victoria (1837-1888), and Western Australia (1841-1905).It does not include the states of Queensland, South Australia or the Northern Territory. References include name of individuals, the year and place events were registered, and index references you can use to order copies of original certificates from the relevant civil registration office. References may include names of parents and spouses, dates and places of events, age of individuals when events occurred, and other limited information.

The Australian War Memorial's national collection covers Australia's past involvment in the following armed conflicts : New Zealand (Maori Wars) 1860-1866; Sudan (NSW contigent) 1885; South Africa (Boer War) 1899-1902; China (Boxer Uprising) 1900-1901; the First World War (1914-1918); the Second World War (1939-1945); British Commonwealth Occupation Forces (1946-1952); the Malayan Emergency (1948-1960); the Korean War (1950-1953); Indonesian Confrontation (1963-1966); the Vietnam War (1962-1972); the Gulf War (1990-1991); East Timor (1999 - ); Afghanistan (2000 - ); Iraq (2003 - ); and various peacekeeping operations.

The AWM currently holds over 4,000 works of art, 203,000 photographs, 3,500 films, 350 sound recordings, 8,200 private records and 2,000 heraldry and technology items. There is an online search facility for this collection at Collections Search

The War Memorial website also offers the following online biographical databases that have been produced from names and associated information based on records in its collections :

Research a person - Enables a name search from a list of conflict records held by the AWM.

Nominal Rolls - Details of people who served in the Sudan War, Boer War, Boxer Uprising, First World War, Second World War and Gulf War (1990-1991).

Australian Red Cross Society Wounded and Missing Enquiry Bureau files - Digitised images of approximately 32,000 individual case files of Australian personnel reported as wounded or missing during the First World War.

Australian Military Forces [AMF] Prisoners of War and Missing in the Far East and South West Pacific Islands - Details of approximately 23,000 AMF prisoners of war and missing personnel from operations in the Far East and South West Pacific Islands, as at 30 June 1944.

Roll of Honour - Just outside the War Memorial's Hall of Memory, where the remains of the Unknown Soldier rest, there is a long series of bronze panels recording the names of Australians who died while on active service. This is known as the Roll of Honour. The names on the Roll of Honour have been replicated on the website.

Honours and awards - Honours and awards made to Australians while on active service in various conflicts. Includes some recommendations not subsequently granted, and some foreign awards and awards to foreign soldiers serving with Australian units.

Commemorative Roll - Australians who died during or as a result of wars in which Australians served, but who were not serving in the Australian Armed Forces and therefore not eligible for inclusion on the Roll of Honour.

Rememberance Book - commemorates all those members of the Australian Defence Force who have died on operations after 30 June 1947 designated as non-warlike service, and its equivalent, including Hazardous service or Peacekeeping service or humanitarian Peacetime service.

Additionally, the AWM website has :

(1) an Encyclopedia that features answers to frequently asked questions about Australians at war.

(2) a Glossary to Australian military related acronyms and abbreviations. The glossary is based on Research Centre queries and compiled primarily from Australian Military records.

(3) A guide to Australian Military Units ( navy, army and air force ) that have served Australia in times of conflict. Each profile includes a short history of the unit, details of its casualties, decorations, battle honours, commanding officers, and, in the case of technical units, the specifications of the equipment it used. Within each profile you are able to search the Memorial’s collections for items relating to the unit: photographs, works of art, film and sound recordings, personal records, and relics.

(4) Australian Army war diaries for the two world wars and the wars in Korea and Southeast Asia.

(5) Australian Government commissioned official war histories for the two world wars and the wars in Korea and Southeast Asia. Only the First and Second World War Official Histories are available here in digital format. In 2004, the Federal Government authorised the writing of a fifth official history relating to Peacekeeping and Post–Cold War operations.

The AWM Research Centre has produced a number of online collection finding aids at Finding Aids.

Maintained by Peter Larson, this website contains shipping and passenger information for Australia and, to an increasing extent, New Zealand. Information is derived primarily from historical newspapers and state and national archive material. There are now indexes to over 66,700 arrivals and departures and over 86,000 passengers.

The website has the following shipping indexes: Arrivals, Departures, Shipwrecks, Ship's Captains, Passengers and crew, Vessel index , Historical background, Vessel related reports and diaries, journals and reports. There are also some pioneer biographies and ship images.

The information available depends on the amount of detail provided by the source material. In some cases, this might be little more than the name of the vessel, through to complete passenger lists and background information for the trip, passengers and vessel.

Although there are a significant number of entries found here, it is just a small fraction of the total from 1788 to 1968. By the 1840's, Sydney was handling 300 to 500 coastal and foreign shipping movements a month and Melbourne was handling 100 to 200. This grew in the 1850's so that Melbourne was handling more shipping than Sydney, especially during early the gold-rush period. So by the mid 1850's, there were over 20,000 shipping movements per year for Australian ports.

This website contains almost all of the convict ships, as well as most of the ships that arrived in Sydney before 1825 where passengers were known to be on board. However, many ships in this period would have carried passengers and the records have either been lost, or there were no records in the first place. Also included are many of the vessels that have passenger or other documentation at the NSW Archives Office and the Queensland State Archives.

An alternative source for information on vessels not listed on this website is the 'Shipping Arrivals' books, found in some libraries. There have been books published up until 1845 for Sydney and later for Victoria, South Australia and Tasmania.

One area that is particularly difficult for researchers is the coastal movement of people, as many of these are not listed in official records. For these types of records, the best place to look is in the 'Shipping Intelligence' columns of the newspapers of the time. These often list the saloon passengers and occasionally will also list those in steerage.

Although there are a large number of passengers found here, it is only a small fraction of the total number of passenger lists available for the period covered. Currently almost all of the passengers listed are from the 19th Century, which appears to be the period of most interest. If you find a vessel and look at the details to find that there isn't a passenger list, then it won't be found anywhere else here. This does not mean that there isn't a passenger list available from other sources.

This problem can be worse when it comes to passenger's names. Depending on the year, type of vessel, type of passenger and the source material used, the person may not be included in the passenger list at all. This is most common for steerage passengers in the newspapers, for example, where steerage passengers were often given as a total number, or ignored completeley.

The spelling of a passenger's name may also be wrong, as many people were not overly literate and for those that were, there were many who could not spell. Also, some of the passenger lists are compiled by clerks or ship's officers and the passenger would say their name and the clerk would write what they heard, resulting in many differences in spelling based on differences in dialects and mother tongue.

This website also promotes volunteer participation in the OzShips Transcription Projects, which aims to capture shipping and passenger information from predominantly 19th Century newspapers. The main focus is Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands but information for other countries is accepted.

Completed newspaper projects include the Launceston Courier, the Melbourne Weekly Courier and the Teetotal Advocate. Currently being transcribed are the Shipping Gazette and Sydney General Trade List, the New Zealander and the Sydney Gazette. Transcription work begun but now inactive includes the Commercial Journal and Advertiser (40% complete), Free Press and Commercial Journal (90% complete), Geelong Advertiser (20% complete), Melbourne Courier (70% complete), South Australian News (15% complete) and the Sydney Herald/Sydney Morning Herald (2% complete).

Information for adoptees, birth parents, adoptive parents and anyone affected by adoption. Provides information about services available, how to undertake a search, legislation in NSW, other states and overseas, post-adoption stories and weblinks to other services such as NSW Department of Community Services and adoption support groups.

Birth, marriage and death records are the most important way of tracking down your ancestors. The trouble is the BMD records in the General Register Office civil registration index only go back as far as 1837. These records pre-date civil registration and form an invaluable tool.

The aim of this site is to provide you with access to records of birth, baptism, marriage, death and burial taken from non parish sources from 1534 to 1865:

Includes records of births, baptisms, marriages, deaths and burials of British subjects overseas and on board ships.

You can also trace non-conformist ancestors on this website with records ranging from Methodists and Baptists to Presbyterians and Quakers.

You can also trace miscellaneous foreign marriage returns from 1861 to 1921. This collection includes marriages recorded by foreign registration authorities, churches and British embassies. Marriages by British servicemen abroad, including First World War servicemen and former prisoners of war, are also listed.

You can search for free but you need to register to buy credits to view full records and images of the original pages.

The Naval & Military Press have digitally scanned 175 large-scale (1:10,000 or approximately 6-inches to 1 mile) World War 1 trench maps held in the Imperial War Museum in London to provide an almost complete coverage of the British section of the Western Front in the 1914-18 war, from the North Sea at Nieuport in Belgium southwards to St. Quentin.

Produced by Naval & Military Press in association with Public Record Office (now National Archives) in 2004, this CDROM is a fully searchable database of the original 81-volume set of books which recorded details of 665,000 Soldiers and 37,000 Officers in the British Army who died in World War 1.

In 1919 His Majesty’s Stationery Office published, on behalf of the War Office, a single volume that listed the commissioned officers who died in the war and, in 1921, an 80-volume set of books was published recording details of the Soldiers who died in World War 1. These 81 volumes covered every regiment and corps of the British Army. However, deaths were arranged regimentally, so that if the unit in which a man was serving at the time of his death was not known, it could be extremely time-consuming to trace his entry.

The CDROM version can be searched for Regiments, Battalions, surnames, Christian name(s), initial(s), born (town), born (county), enlisted (town), enlisted (county), regimental number, rank, killed in action, died of wounds, died, theatre of war of death, date(s) and supplementary notes ie: previous regiments, decorations, etc. The data on dead officers is in a separate database.

You can combine various elements to find, for example, every soldier who died of wounds on the second day of the Battle of the Somme, every soldier killed at the Battle of Ancre or all the soldiers born in Belfast.

Britain went to war in 1914 with an army based on voluntary enlistment, numbering just over 247,000 at the outset with 486,000 Reserves and Territorials. In January, 1916, conscription was introduced and by November, 1918, nearly a further 5 million men had enlisted, over half of them volunteers.

Further information is available at Soldiers Died 1914-19 CD-ROM.

This 2004 CD-ROM contains the complete scanned images of 1,164 single and double pages of the muster rolls of the British ships that were in action at the Battle of the Nile on the 1st and 2nd August 1798. The software does not allow printing.

The rolls list about 8,169 names and give rank, number, age, where born, date appeared on ship, wounded or killed.

Also included are : the medal roll for persons who received the Naval General Service Medal with a clasp Nile; the Captain's logs for the period 31st July to 7/8th August 1798; and the muster roll for the naval hospital at Gibraltar for the period July 1798 to March 1799 .

The Roll of Ships at battle - HMS Leander, HMS Culloden, HMS Theseus, HMS Alexander, HMS Vanguard, HMS Swiftsure, HMS Audacious, HMS Defence, HMS Zeaous, HMS Orion, HMS Goliath, HMS Majestic, HMS Bellerophon and HMS Minotaur.

the National Trust Names database contains information on the size and geographical distribution of 25,630 family names. The information is based on the findings of a project based at University College London (UCL) that is investigating the distribution of surnames in Great Britain, both current (1998) and historic (1881).

To qualify for inclusion in this list there must have been at least one hundred entries under that family name in the Great Britain electoral register for 1996.

A key feature of the names database is that every family name has been given a detailed classification code explaining what type of name it is. To help people better understand the characteristics of individual family names each name has been arranged into one of 225 categories, based in part on the meaning of the name but also on its form, on its origins and on its historic and current geographical concentrations.

To cater for the variety of non English surnames now found on Britain's electoral registers, the classification system has incorporated culture, ethnicity and language, reserving two major classes for celtic names and for those imported from abroad.

Within the Celtic group Irish, Scottish, Welsh and Cornish family names are separated out. Within the imported from abroad group it is possible to separately analyse a number of key cultural ethnic and linguistic groups. Names are separately identified as originating from East Asia, from South Asia, from the Muslim World, from Black Africa, from a Hispanic culture and from non Hispanic Europe. There is a further sub group consisting of Jewish names.

Some 8% of the names on the database are too individual or obscure to fit within any of these categories. In addition to these there are some names which may have more than one origin.

Findmypast.com is a family history website based in London, England, providing fee-based access to the following indexed UK records:

(1) Births, Marriages and Deaths (1538 - 2005) - England & Wales Births, Deaths and Marriages from 1837 to 2005; British overseas Births, Deaths and Marriages from 1761 to 2002; Births at sea 1854-1887; Marriages at sea 1854-1883; Deaths at sea 1854-1890; Civil service evidence of age 1752-1948; Divorces and matrimonial causes 1858-1903; National burial index records 1538-2005; Index to death duty registers 1796-1903; Soldiers Died in the Great War 1914-18; Royal Naval Division 1914-1919; Army Roll of Honour 1939-45; City of London burials 1742-1904; & GWR shareholders 1835-1910.

(2) England and Wales census records - 1841, 1861, 1871, 1881 (free) & 1891 (all with person or address search).

(3) Migration (1793 - 1960) - Passenger Lists Leaving UK 1890-1960 (also see A journey of discovery ); Register of passport applications 1851-1903; Bengal Civil Service Gradation List 1869; India Office List 1933; East India Register & Army List 1855; Indian Army & Civil Service List 1873; & East India Company's Commercial Marine Service Pensions List 1793-1833.

(4) Military records (1656-1994) - Soldiers Died in the Great War 1914-18; National Roll of the Great War 1914-18; Royal Naval Division 1914-1919; Other army lists roll calls 1656-1888; Armed forces births 1761-1994; Armed forces marriages 1818-1994; & Armed forces deaths 1796-1994.

(5) Directories & occupations (1858 – 1925) - Civil service evidence of age 1752-1948; GWR shareholders 1835-1910; Clergy List 1896; Kelly's Handbook 1901; Medical Register 1913; & Medical Directory For Ireland 1858.

Produced by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 2001, this second edition 17-disc set contains approximately 10.4 million birth and christening records and 1.9 million marriage records from England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and the Isle of Man. The Channel Islands are not included. Both civil and church records from 1530 to 1906 are indexed but coverage varies greatly from parish to parish depending on the availability of relevant records.

The set actually comprises 16 data discs and one unnumbered disc containing the Family History resource file viewer 4.0 software, which should be loaded onto the computer before you access the data discs. An additional update from a series data disc also has to be uploaded for access purposes.

The 16 data discs contain the following: (1) Births & Christenings: A; (2) Births & Christenings: B; (3) Births & Christenings: C; (4) Births & Christenings: D-F; (5) Births & Christenings: G; (6) Births & Christenings: H-J; (7) Births & Christenings: K-L; (8) Births & Christenings: M; (9) Births & Christenings: N-O; (10) Births & Christenings: P-R; (11) Births & Christenings: S; (12) Births & Christenings: T-Y; (13) Births & Christenings: W-Z; (14) Marriages: A-F; (15) Marriages: G-O; (16) Marriages: P-Z.

Records that appear in the index generally contain names of the individuals, parents’ names, the date and place where the birth, christening or marriage took place, the name of a person's spouse, and reference information which allows you to locate the original record on a microfilm from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) world-wide network of Family History Centers. You can locate your nearest center at Find a Family History Center Near You .

Names in this index have been standardized. This means that variant name spellings are listed under a common name. For example, Smyth, Smithe, Smeith, would all be indexed under the name Smith. This allows you to search a name without knowing the exact spelling. However, you are still able to search under the exact spelling of an individual's name if you wish.

The records that comprise the index are extracted records, which means that someone copied selected pieces of information from the original record. However, not all of the genealogically important information was extracted. Therefore, you should use the reference information provided in this index to locate the original record on microfilm and evaluate the original record yourself.

Be aware that this is not a complete index. Your ancestor may not appear in this CD-ROM set even though you know that he or she lived in a time and place covered by the index. The amount of information available varies greatly by time period and locality.

Tips for conserving family history documents. Produced by the State Library of Victoria.

A complete topographical dictionary of the United Kingdom with numerous illustrations and sixty maps. Six volumes of information with over 2,840 pages. Nearly 200,000 geographical locations are listed. Features are barony, borough, burgh, chapelry, civil parish, ecclesiastical parish, hamlet,etc

Cemetery transcriptions from Australia and other countries. The transcriptions are compiled from submissions by volunteers.

The College of Arms is the official repository of the coats of arms and pedigrees of English, Welsh, Northern Irish and Commonwealth families and their descendants. The officers of the college, known as heralds, specialise in genealogicaland heraldic work for clients.

The official records of the college include the registers of grants of arms, funeral certificates and pedigree registers.

The Commonwealth War Graves Commission's Debt of Honour Register is a database listing the 1.7 million men and women of the Commonwealth forces who died during the two world wars and the 23,000 cemeteries, memorials and other locations worldwide where they are commemorated. These include the graves of more than 935,000 identified casualties and almost 212,000 unidentified individuals. The names of almost 760,000 people can be found on memorials to the missing.

In addition to commemorating the Commonwealth forces, the Commission maintains 40,000 war graves of other nationalities and more than 25,000 non-war military and civilian graves on a repayment basis. The register can also be searched for details of the 67,000 Commonwealth civilians who died as a result of enemy action in the Second World War. Their names are also listed on a roll of honour, housed near St George’s Chapel in Westminster Abbey, London.

The database can be searched by cemetery, which will provide the cemetery name, country, locality information, number of identified casualties and a link to cemetery reports. Cemetery reports can list the casualties' name, nationality, rank, regiment, date of death, service number, age, casualty type, grave/memorial reference number, additional information and an image of the memorial/grave.

Alternatively, you can search by casualty name with similar results. Your search can be limited by war (WW1 or WW2) , year of death (1914 to 1947), force ( Army, Navy, Merchant Navy, Air Force or Civilian), and nationality of the force served (Australian, Canadian, Indian, New Zealand, South African, United Kingdom).

The Commission does not have any details on service history for any casualty they commemorate. Surviving service records from the First World War are kept at UK National Archives. Unfortunately, more than half of their service records were destroyed in September 1940, when a German bombing raid struck the War Office repository. However, an estimated 2.8 million service records survived the bombing or were reconstructed from war pension records. This means that there is a roughly 40% chance of finding the service record of a soldier who was discharged at some time between 1914 and 1920. If a visit is not possible, you can employ a researcher listed at How to find a Researcher

Second World War Army service records are available from the following address for a fee. You will need to fill in a form before they will begin research and they will only give copies of records to the immediate family of the casualty, or with permission from the immediate family. Letters to: the Army Personnel Centre, Historic Disclosures, Mailpoint 400, Kentigern House, 65 Brown Street, Glasgow G2 8EX, Tel: 0845 600 9663 email: disc4.civsec@apc.army.mod.uk

Second World War Air Force service records can be obtained by the immediate next of kin or with written permission from them, from Royal Air Force Service Records, PMA IMIB, Building 248A, RAF Innsworth, Gloucestershire, GL3 1EZ, Tel: 01452 712612.

Second World War Naval records can be obtained by writing to The Naval Secretary, Ministry of Defence, Victory Building, HM Naval Base, Portsmouth, Hampshire, PO1 3LS. There may be a charge and it should be noted that the Department of the Naval Secretary are not open to the public.

The Commonwealth War Graves Commission was established by Royal Charter in 1917 to pay tribute to the men and women of the Commonwealth forces who died in the first and, subsequently, second world wars. Since its inception, the Commission has constructed 2,500 war cemeteries and plots, erecting headstones over graves and, in instances where the remains are missing, inscribing the names of the dead on permanent memorials. War casualties are now commemorated at military and civil sites in some 150 countries. The Commission's principles are : that each of the dead should be commemorated by name on the headstone or memorial; Headstones and memorials should be permanent; Headstones should be uniform; and there should be no distinction made on account of military or civil rank, race or creed.

A Commonwealth Government site which provides links to online services and information about adoption.

Miscellaneous convict records including lists of absconders, convicts apprehended, lists of convict names appearing in the Sydney Gazette, and convict assignments. Presented by Jenny Fawcett's Genseek Genealogy.

This site includes details about convict ships sent to each state, as well as a list of all female convicts sent to NSW from England and Ireland between 1788 and 1828. The site also includes a list of censuses and musters, and other lists relevant to convict research, including a glossary of convict terms and a history of transportation to Australia. Maintained by the Perth Dead Person's Society.

This provides useful links and information on researching Australian family history. Many subjects are covered including for example Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, births, deaths and marriages, child migration, occupations and service personnel from Australia and New Zealand, wills and probate.

A major resource with links to information arranged by country and by specific topic area.

Dawn and New dawn magazines were published between 1952 and 1975 by the NSW Aborigines Welfare Board. They include family history information such as births, deaths, and marriages, as well as hundreds of photographs. They also contain articles about conditions and activities on reserves, stations, homes and schools in NSW. The full text of Dawn and New dawn are available at this site. Biographical information on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in Dawn, New dawn and other magazines is also indexed by the INFOKOORI Database.

Created by the Division of Law at Macquarie University, this site currently contains a searchable database of decisions from the Supreme court of NSW handed down between 1824 and 1841 as well as cases concerning aborigines from later years.

This site, produced by the Australian Society of Archivists, provides details about archival and historical organisations in Australia.

Produced by the Australian Institute of Genealogical Studies in 2003 and 2006 respectively, the 2 CDROMs are the nearest Australian database to a census at the start of the twentieth century.

Each volume combines almost 900,000 men and women voters from the various states, from the earliest complete, surviving, post-Federation, electoral rolls that have been microfilmed.

Both volumes provides names, addresses and occupations and allow advanced searching on all fields. Each also has maps showing electoral districts for the states covered.

Research possibilities suggested include:

* Search on name and find that missing ancestor who may have followed the 'Gold Rush';

* Search on address to find out who were neighbours and who else lived in the same street;

* Search by name and occupation if a female's married name is not known;

* Social historians can see a 'snapshot' of any electoral area.

An additional floppy disc, containing a database update to Volume 1 (for NSW, Tas. and WA), is on order. It contains approximately 30,000 names in 45 subdivisions which were omitted from the original CDROM.

Produced by Lesley Uebel in 2003, this CDROM has some 160,000 entries and provides a descriptive indices of:

(1) Historical Records of Australia Series I, II and IV -- 1788 to early 1848 (33 volumes)

(2) The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser 1803 to 1811 (9 volumes)

(3) The Hobart Town Gazette 1818--1819

It contains material relating to: convicts, early settlers, places of residence,land grants, exploration, stores, military and civil service, shipping and immigration,births, deaths, marriages, government orders and regulations, administration of the out settlements, clergy, manufacturing and agriculture, trials and court hearings, ships, sailors,captains and all aspects of life in early New South Wales, Norfolk Island, Van Diemen's Land, Victoria, West Australia and Northern Territory.

A daily newsletter for genealogy consumers.

The 1901 Census Online.com database provides fee based access to the UK National Archives records of the 1841, 1851, 1861, 1871, 1891 & 1901 census for England & Wales and birth, death & marriage records from July 1st, 1837 to 2004.

The census is a survey taken by the British Government every 10 years to collect information on the population of the United Kingdom.

The first time any kind of census was taken in Britain was the Domesday Book of 1086. However, this was really to collect information on land rather than on people. No further official attempts to count the population were made until the late 1700s. At that time, there was general worry about the rise in population and a fear that the country would not be able to feed itself. Since no one had any accurate information on the number of people living in the country, the government ordered that a census take place. As a result, the first modern census in this country took place in 1801.

From 1801 to 1831 the censuses were simply head counts with no personal information on individuals recorded (except in exceptional cases) and thus contained only general information relating to the population . From 1841 personal information on each person living in a household was recorded.

Since 1966, the British Government has had a policy that census records are subject to a one hundred year closure period because they contain personal information. This means that the only census returns that can be seen at the moment are those for 1841 to 1901. The 1901 Census was released to the public on 2 January 2002.

For each individual the census gives: name, age, marital status, relationship to the head of household, occupation, birthplace and location on census night. You can search the data for a person (by surname or forename) or a place, vessel (if the person was on a ship at the time of the Census) or institution if the person was in a hospital, orphanage, prison etc..

Regarding birth, death & marriage records, four times a year a copy of all the district birth, death & marriage registers were gathered into one index covering the whole of England and Wales. The registers were arranged alphabetically by surname(and then alphabetically by forename within each surname). The registers are grouped by quarters – January – March, April – June, July – September and October – December.

For birth, death & marriage records from July 1st, 1837 to 1983 you will just find a first name, middle initial and surname with a place and reference number for your ancestor. So to locate a marriage you will need to search for both bride and groom.

For records after 1984, all births will show the maiden name of the mother and a month of birth, rather than quarter. For marriages after 1984, records will show partner’s surname and deaths will show a year of birth for the individual as well as month of death.

There is a glossary of census terms at Understanding Census Terms.

This web page, created by James Dixon and maintained by John & Barbara Dixon, aims to help people tracing their family history by explaining the usage of the different entries on birth, marriage, and death certificates throughout the 150-year history of civil registration in England and Wales.

The birth registrations of Scotland, Northern Ireland, and Southern Ireland are different from those of England and Wales and are not covered here.

Compiled by Stuart Tamblin and published by Family History Indexes in 2001, this CDROM is a surname master index to Home Office 27 (Series 2) county criminal register indexes of persons charged in England and Wales with indictable offences for the period 1805 to 1816. In effect, it is an index to an index.

This surname master index shows which of the county criminal registers for England and Wales a particular surname is listed in. The index gives surname, surname frequency and title of full volume only. There are some 55,000 entries.

Use this index to determine which of the 53 counties a surname occurs in and then look at the relevant county criminal register indexes. These HO 27 Criminal Register Indexes, also compiled by Stuart Tamblin and published in 1996 (see Criminal Registers), are held on microfiche in the Mitchell Library at REF 1/ MAV/ FM6/ 775

The fiche provide an alphabetical list of surnames within each county for the specified period and provides registry details such as names, aliases, court, offence and sentence/acquittal.There are 77,000 entries. Also, a variety of statistics showing numbers of (alleged) offenders and ratios within the population are provided. Around 35% of those recorded were not actually found guilty and these indexes give an insight into the social conditions of the time.

Following is a list of volumes & county periods covered by these fiche:

v. 1. Somerset & Dorset (1805-1816); v. 2. Devon & Cornwall (1805-1816); v. 3. Wiltshire (1805-1806); v. 4. Gloucestershire & Bristol (1805-1816); v. 5. Wales & Monmouthshire (1805-1816); v. 5A Anglesey (1805-1840); v. 6. Oxfordshire & Berkshire (1805-1816); v. 7. Northamptonshire, Leicestershire & Rutland (1805-1816); v. 8. Buckinghamshire & Hertfordshire (1805-1816); v. 9. Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire & Huntingdonshire (1805-1816); v. 10. Cumberland, Westermorland, Northumberland & Durham (1805-1816); v. 11. Middlesex (1805-1816) & (Clerkenwell & Westminster, 1807-1812); v. 12. Hampshire (1805-1816); v. 13. Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire & Lincolnshire (1805-1816); v. 14. Chesire (1805-1816); v. 15. Shropshire & Staffordshire (1805-1816); v. 16. Herefordshire & Worcestershire (1805-1816); v. 17. Warwickshire (1805-1816); v. 18. Norfolk & Suffolk (1805-1816); v. 19. Essex (1805-1816); v. 20. Surrey (1805-1816); v. 21. Kent (1805-1816); v. 22. Sussex (1805-1816); v. 23. Lancashire (1805-1816); v. 24. Yorkshire (1805-1816); v. 25. Cornwall (1817-1828); v. 26. Dorset (1817-1828); v. 27. Bedfordshire (1817-1828); v. 34. Devon (1817-1828); v. 38. Bristol; v. 45. Leicestershire (1817-1828); v. 66. Cornwall (1829-1940); v. 67. Dorset (1829-1840).

Also available on fiche are: Supplement D. Death sentences (England and Wales, 1805-1816); Supplement H. Highway robbery (England and Wales, 1805-1816); Supplement K. Killing (England and Wales, 1805-1816); Supplement M. Monetary crime (England and Wales, 1805-1816); Supplement S. Sexual crime (England and Wales, 1805-1816); Supplement T. Transportation (England and Wales, 1805-1816); Supplement U. Unrest (England and Wales, 1805-1816).

The actual HO 27 Criminal Registers (Series 2) cover the period 1805 to 1868 and are now in the custody of the UK Public Record Office. These registers record the person's name, description, birthplace, the alleged crime, the sentence - whether death, transportation or a term of imprisonment -and when the sentence was executed. Acquittals are also noted, and in the case of transportation, the date and to whom the prisoner was delivered. Most of this detail is on the fiche indexes listed above but it is also worth looking at the original record.

The actual HO 27 Criminal Registers were copied onto microfilm as part of the Australian Joint Copying Project and are also held in the Mitchell Library as reels 2772 to 2860. A guide to these reels can be found on page 26 of the AJCP Handbook: Part 3 Home Office, which is kept at the Mitchell Library Information Desk.

Historical Directories is a digital library of local and trade directories for England and Wales, from 1750 to 1919. The website is produced and owned by the University of Leicester.

Initially, the project is focussed on providing at least one directory for each county for the 1850s, 1890s and 1910s. The reasons for this are : (1) in the 1850s directories began to be published more widely, also providing information at parish level; (2) the final decade of the nineteenth century, the 1890s, is fascinating in itself. It also leads up to the 1901 census, which has been published online by the Public Record Office; and (3) immediately after the 1901 census, the 1910s also provide for potentially large audiences due to the current and intense interest in World War I. However, the project is also committed to publishing sample county directories from a wider range of dates, including a small selection of directories published between 1750 up to 1849.

Directories include lists of names, addresses and occupations of the inhabitants of the counties and towns they describe. There are drop down search menus to allow you to search by county location (also by using a county map of England & Wales); decade; and a keyword combination of location, decade, key name and any keyword. The key name menu refers to the publisher, owner or printer associated with a directory at the time of its original compilation. Kelly's Directories, for example, have the key name ‘Kelly’.

Search results initially give you the title, location, decade, key name and a ' Fact File ' option (that gives bibliographic information and linked contents/chapter headings) to a list of selected directories. The browse option allows you to 'read' the digitised directory.

The Historical Directories project came to the end of its funding on 31st October 2004. No new material has been added after this date.

Produced by the UK Federation of Family History Societies in 2004, this second edition of the National Burial Index (NBI) is a set of 4 CDROMs containing more than 13.2 million burial records (including 5.4 million records from the First Edition) and covering over 8,000 burial registers. Although many more counties and parishes are represented on the new edition, clearly, not all burials are included.

Records come from Anglican parish, nonconformist and cemetery burial registers, bishops' transcripts, memorandum books, etc. throughout England and Wales. No memorial or monumental inscriptions or death registrations are included.The records timescale ranges from 1538 to 2003.

The information contained includes (where given in the original record): forename(s) and surnames of the deceased; date of burial; age; details of parish or cemetery where the event was recorded; pre-1832 county; and the recording society, group or individual.

Burial records were transcribed and computerised mainly by family history societies although a few individuals have contributed records. Some information, such as relationships, abode and occupation, was not included on the NBI at the request of certain family history societies.

The 4 discs each contain:

Disc 1. Burials 1538-1760 & initial Installation program

Disc 2. Burials 1761-1825

Disc 3. Burials 1826-1860

Disc 4. Burials 1861-2003

Clicking on the name of a county in the following England & Wales County Table will give you details of the spans of years that the entries cover for each church, chapel or cemetery included for that county.

Number of Records Per County (rounded to the nearest 1,000) are, as follows:Bedfordshire 356,000; Berkshire 356,000; Breconshire 5,000; Buckinghamshire 83,000; Cambridgeshire 205,000; Cardiganshire 108,000; Cheshire 399,000; City of London 134,000; Cornwall 111,000; Co.Durham 416,000; Cumberland 56,000; Derbyshire 82,000; Devon 4,000; Dorset 286,000; Essex 508,000; Glamorgan 361,000; Gloucestershire 170,000; Hampshire 12,000; Herefordshire 68,000; Hertfordshire 137,000; Huntingdonshire 210,000; Isle of Man 7,000; Kent 205,000; Lancashire 169,000; Leicestershire 329,000; Lincolnshire 711,000; Middlesex 15,000; Monmouthshire 9,000; Montgomeryshire <1,000; Norfolk 105,000; Northamptonshire 197,000; Northumberland 188,000; Nottinghamshire 281,000; Oxfordshire 223,000; Radnorshire 11,000; Rutland 19,000; Shropshire 168,000; Somerset 755,000; Staffordshire 791,000; Suffolk 836,000; Surrey 370,000; Sussex 315,000; Warwickshire 504,000; Westmorland 6,000; Wiltshire 224,000; Worcestershire 542,000; Yorkshire [City & Ainsty] 34,000; Yorkshire [East Riding] 40,000; Yorkshire [North Riding] 386,000; Yorkshire [West Riding] 1,706,000; Total 13,215,000.

The CD-ROM contains all the census data for Berkshire 1851 and a few adjoining places.

Produced by S & N Genealogy Supplies in 2005, this Index to wills granted in the Court of the Archdeacon of Berkshire for the period 1508 to 1652 can give details of family members, place of residence and burial as well as revealing details about possessions.

It provides digitally enhanced images of the original text which is searchable and is bookmarked by major headings.

A hardcopy version was originally issued by the British Record Society in 1893, edited by W. P. W. Phillimore.

database of 118,000 records from the 1851 census of Cornwall

This database contains the 1851 census for Norfolk, Devon and Warwick counties. Information provided includes the name, age, gender, relationship to the head of household, marital status, occupation and place of birth of individuals within each household.

This 2003 CDROM is a fascimile of an 1887 1,500-page publication by Joseph Foster which gives details of London marriages for the period 1521 to 1868.

The original 1887 book 'London Marriage Licences, 1521-1869' is held in SRL stack at DS929.3/54

Fascimile of 4 volume set published between 1866 and 1875 entitled 'Local records; or historical register of remarkable events which have occured in Northumberland and Durham, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne and Berwick-Upon-Tweed from the earliest period to the present time; with biographical notices of deceased persons of talent, eccentricity and longevity'.

The original authors were John Sykes (Vol 1 & 2) and T. Fordyce (vol 3 & 4).

The set covers the period from the earliest records to 1875 and provides a chronology by year, month, and day, from 1833 to 1875.

Accidents,crimes,floods,fires and other historical events are recorded, as well as biographical items about locals.

A digital and searchable version of volume 3, listing a chronology of local events from 1833 to 1867, is freely available on the Internet Archives website at Digital Copy of Volume 3.

Compiled by the Sussex Family Hstory Group in 2004, the Sussex Marriage Index covers all the parishes in the whole of Sussex from 1538 up to the beginning of general registration in England in 1837,plus some records up to 1850.

Also included are licence allegations and bonds, Quaker and Catholic marriages, and marriages of many Sussex people in other counties. Altogether, there are over 300,000 entries.

For further information at Sussex Marriage Index 1538-1837.

Produced by S&N Genealogy Supplies in 2000, this CDROM covers marriage registers for the period 1812 to 1837 for the Wiltshire parishes of Laverstock, Hankerton, Brinkworth, Christian Malford, Cliffe Pypard, Heytesbury, Knook, Eisey and West Knoyle.

Volumes 1 to 9 and volume 11 of the Wiltshire Parish Registers for marriages, edited by WPW. Phillimore and John Sadler as part of Phillimore's Parish Register series,v.61, are held in hardcopy in SRL at REF 10/DS929.3/40 SET. This CDROM substitutes for the missing hardcopy volume 10.

This database gives information on 2,476 names.744 were tried at Assizes, the remainder being tried at Quarter Sessions at Beverley, Bradford, Doncaster, Hull, Knaresborough, Leeds, Northallerton, Otley, Pontefract, Richmond, Ripon, Rotherham,Scarborough, Sheffield, Skipton, Wakefield, Wetherby and York City.

All the information is taken from records at the National Archives and the Archives Offices in NSW and Tasmania. Compiler, Jill Chambers, has not looked at any records in the Yorkshire Record offices. Also, compiler did not have access to the Conduct Records for females sent to Tasmania but has included the reference numbers for these, and the Description Books, where known.

The amount of information for each record varies. In some cases only name,date and place of trial and sentence are given.Place names, particularly those of Native Place, have been spelt as they appear in the records.

Familia is a web-based directory of family history resources held in public libraries in the UK and Ireland and is the on-line starting-place to find information about materials in public libraries which will help you trace your family history.

From a Familia record you can expect to gain the following information:

Contact details (including URL) for the library service

Information on the library's family history holdings, including points to note about whether you have to book an appointment/equipment

Information on whether research can be carried out for you

Further pointers on where to go for information on that area

The top of each Familia record gives you a set of links to the different types of sources listed in each Familia record so you can jump straight to the one you require. For instance you can jump straight to Census Returns or to Other Information.

Within each entry you will find listed the resources held by that library authority. You will not find digitised family history holdings - this database serves as a tool for locating information, not providing it over the Web.

The information is provided by the library authority involved. It is always a good idea to contact the library and check details before you set out for a visit.

A site for researching family of British or Anglo-Indian descent who lived and / or served within the Indian Sub-continent from 1600 to 1947

The Family History Archive is a collection of published genealogy and family history books. The archive includes histories of families, county and local histories, how-to books on genealogy, genealogy magazines and periodicals (including some international), medieval books (including histories and pedigrees), and gazetteers. The books come from the collections of the FamilySearch Family History Library, the Allen County Public Library, the Houston Public Library – Clayton Library Center for Genealogical Research, the Mid-Continent Public Library – Midwest Genealogy Center, the BYU Harold B. Lee Library, the BYU Hawaii Joseph F. Smith Library, and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Church History Library.

Produced by the Federation of Family History Scieties (UK), this site allows you to search over 5 million records including parish registers, monumental inscriptions, censuses, poor law documents and others. A fee is charged to view the records.

This site aims to help in finding government records and other sources for family history research. Includes information on births, marriages & deaths, census, and migration. Also includes information about archival institutions in the FamilyRecords.gov.uk consortium.

This site from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (the Mormons) provides a searchable database of more than 300 million names. The database includes the Ancestral File indexes and the International Genealogical Index. It also provides access to the Family History Library Catalogue as well as thousands of indexed web sites.

FamilySearch Wiki is a large, on-line library with thousands of articles and how-to instructions about doing family history. It is written by the community. You can edit an existing page or create your own. You can search by country or by subject.

This site provides a database of First Fleet convicts, diary extracts, stories and letters of the time and links to other information about Australia's past.

This database contains information about those who lived in Newcastle, Hunter Valley, Liverpool Plains and Brisbane Water districts of New South Wales before 1850.

The FreeBMD Project aims to provide free Internet access to Civil Registration (St. Catherine's House) indexes for England and Wales. The index is compiled progressively by volunteers, but is not verified by the Public Record Office. It covers the period 1837-1983 but the whole index has not been transcribed yet.

A free online searchable database of the UK census returns from 1841 to 1891. This database is not complete and the focus is on 1891.

This site provides access to a large collection of genealogical information pages for England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, the Channel Islands, and the Isle of Man.

Provides access to the archives for the London, Belfast and Edinburgh Gazettes. You can search the following archives: London Gazette: World War One and World War Two. Belfast Gazette: 1922-1999; Edinburgh Gazette: 1978-2001. A search by keyword or name will bring up a digitized copy of the original entry. Produced by TSO (The Stationery Office) for Her Majesty's Stationery Office.

Originally compiled by Joan Ainsworth in 1981 and subsequently published on microfiche in 1992 (See Some expatriates of Papua New Guinea), this CDROM index covers some 38 sources relating to Australians, Germans, Pacific Islanders and other expatriates in Papua New Guinea, including cemetery records, probate notices and transcriptions of BDMs from newspapers. Some information, such as the monumental inscriptions, is no longer available as time and vandalism have taken their toll on headstones.

The material is presented in five parts:

(1) Cemetery records (monumental inscriptions for 15 cemeteries: the old Port Moresby Cemetery Register 1912-1969; and transcriptions of memorials from six churches and war memorials)

(2) Miscellaneous records (change of name; civil officials and prisoners of war deported to Australia 1914-1915; firearm permits 1891-1895; naturalizations 1947-1956)

(3) Probate notices (from five different government gazettes; includes Notice to Creditors and Orders to Administer Estates by Curator of Intestates Estates)

(4) Transcriptions of the birth, death and marriage notices from seven newspapers

(5) Complete alphabetical index to the four earlier parts. The index covers approximately 15,000 people, with multiple sources for many, and the full file represents over 600 pages of indexes and other information.

The 2006 CDROM version of the Genealogical Research Directory, produced and edited by Keith A. Johnson & Malcolm R. Sainty, contains 75,000 surname, subject and one name entries.

The GDR is an annual publication that provides an invaluable list of family historian contacts from around the world and the family history research they are undertaking.

Each issue contains newly submitted entries, either from previous entrants or first-time users of the Directory, so you're guaranteed new information with each new edition.

The GDR was first published in book form in 1981 and is now in its 26th year. The first CDROM version was produced in 1999 and includes an accumulation of 10 years of the surname, subject and one name entries from the book versions of 1990 to 1999. Thus it holds 600,000 research queries.

The next CDROM version was in 2002 and this includes the surname, subjects and one name studies sections from the 2002 & 2001 hardcopy editions and every section from the 2002 book except maps. It thus has a total of 225,000 queries. Since 2003 the GRD has been published annually on CDROM.

The book version of the GDR is located in SRL at REF 10/N929.1025/2 for the years 1981 to the present and similarly in ML at 929.1025/1A-B

An Australian genealogical search engine and directory. Produced by the Whatever Australia Group.

This site is designed for people who are new to researching their family history on the Internet. It includes lessons about getting started on the Internet and useful information about online research.

This site provides more than 60 000 links to genealogical sites, news and articles on family history and guides to genealogical software.

This site provides links to passenger lists, church records, cemetery transcriptions, military records and censuses for USA, England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, Europe, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.

Family history links grouped by Australian state and subjects such as military, police, shipping records, cemeteries, convicts.

Includes over 900 genealogical indexes of mostly Australian material such as a mariners index of captains, crew, and deserters, passenger lists, police lists, convict assignment lists, crew lists, absconders, and publicans. Includes some electoral rolls. Includes some newspaper indexes. Further information about an individual found in an index can be provided for a small fee. Website created by Jenny Fawcett.

This Anglo-Boer War of 1899–1902 website contains:

(1) South African Graves - database which comprises the records of Australians in the Victims of Conflict database of the National Memorials Council (NMC) of South Africa. It serves as a record of burial places and locations of memorials of 557 individuals.

The NMC supplied the following background information: 'Our main source was from the Field Force Casualty List (FFCL) which was compiled just after the war. It contains the list of those fighting on the side of Britain who were killed, wounded, taken prisoner, etc., from October 1900 until the end of the war. We also used information from the registers of soldiers graves in the Cape, Free State and Transvaal provinces and from old files used by organisations that predated this office.'

The data supplied by the NMC was arranged in the following fields: Surname, Initials, Rank, Unit, Force No, Place of Death, Date of Death, Cause, Buried, Previously Buried, Memorials.

(2) Australian Memorials - database which allows you to search for memorials by name within each Australian state or by the name of the person.

The memorials fall into three groups. In one are the 'national' memorials built by the Commonwealth and State governments to commemorate the casualties from each jurisdiction. In another are the civic memorials built in public places usually by local government councils. And in the third are the numerous semi-public memorials in the buildings or grounds of institutions such as churches, schools and cemeteries.

The database currently encompasses all the 'national' memorials, several dozen of the civic memorials and a few semi-public memorials. It is a work-in-progress and contributions of inscriptions and photographs are welcome.

(3) The website also provides brief biographies, photographs, information on memorials in Australia and detailed South African maps for 1900 and 1905. There are also links to Boer War related websites, including : National Monuments Council of South Africa; Office of Australian War Graves; Colin Roe's Boer War Data Base Project; Perth DPS pages of Murray's nominal rolls; Australian War Memorial's Boer War Nominal Roll Data Base; National Archives of Australia; Anglo-Boer War Study Group of Australia; Defending Victoria's Boer War Web Page; Kieron Spires' Army Nursing in the Boer War; Parktown & Westcliff Heritage Trust, Johannesburg; Colesberg Anglo-Boer War Site; The War Museum of the Boer Republics, Bloemfontein; Anglo Boer War: Siege of Elandsriver Commemoration; and New Zealand's Participation in the South African ('Boer') War 1899–1902.

The website was developed by the Heraldry and Genealogy Society of Canberra and the Department of Veterans' Affairs assisted with funding in 1999 under the Federal Government's 'Their Service—Our Heritage' commemorative program. The National Memorial Council of South Africa provided the Australian records from their Victims of Conflict database through the Office of Australian War Graves. The website was launched on 11 October 1999—the 100th anniversary of the start of the Anglo- Boer War—and was re-developed in the first quarter of 2002.

Digitally enhanced 2006 version of 4-volume publication National Gazetteer : a Topographical Dictionary of the British Isles, published in London in 1868.

There are just over 2,700 gazetteer pages with information on such topics as the geography, industry, agriculture, transport, religion, education and social facilities of Britain & Ireland.There is also detailed information about every county, city, town, village and hamlet. Colour maps also provided.

130 pages of Appendices feature information about population statistics, agriculture, occupations,a summary of the Poor Law returns for 1866-7 and a digest of the 1861 census returns. A tabular view of England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland is provided(population, areas, births, deaths, marriages etc.).

It includes:

Details of 26,756 Irish surnames and 104,058 surname variants, coats of arms for 130 of the most common Irish surnames, the distribution of 2,296 surnames in 1890 as recorded in birth records, an extensive bibliography of Irish family history, Ireland-wide parish maps and details of the records of 3,782 churches and congregations throughout Ireland, comprising 8,376 sets of records and more.

Ask About Ireland provides free access to the details and original pages from the Griffith's Valuation. The Primary Valuation was the first full-scale valuation of property in Ireland. It was overseen by Richard Griffith and published between 1847 and 1864. It is one of the most important surviving 19th century genealogical sources.

HaMagid was the first ever weekly Hebrew newspaper, published from 1856 to 1903. It first appeared in Lyck, Prussis, later in Berlin, Cracow and Galicia. A complete English index of all personalities featured in HaMagid's records for its entire run. Included are women, professionals, and centenarians whose obituaries are not found elsewhere. A complete index of all towns which played a prominent role in the lives of those listed. A secondary index of all towns listed in all records.

Miscellaneous lists of Hawkesbury settlers from varous sources such as the 1901 census, post office directories, donor lists etc. Records are mostly from the 19th century. Produced by Hawkesbury on the Net directory.

Helpers is a guide to using the resources held in London University's libraries and archives for family and local history research. It is designed for those researchers who wish to research more deeply into their UK family history and includes tips and strategies for research.

This site is designed to help you conduct heraldry research on the Internet. It includes dictionaries or glossaries to help you identify the various charges and symbols found on coats of arms as well as notes on coats of arms for cities and towns.

The NSW Lands Department has a brief overview of the relevant records and links to the detailed guides to searching these records held at

Land and Property Information

1 Prince Albert Rd

Queens Square

Sydney NSW 2000

Produced by Nick Vine Hall in 2005, this CD is a 'how to' genealogical research guide to tracing French Huguenot ancestry from the Australian viewpoint, citing sources in both French & English records.

The Huguenots were French Protestants persecuted by the Catholic Kings of France from around 1520 until the French Revolution of 1789.

Many hundreds of thousands of Huguenots fled from France to countries such as the British isles, Netherlands,South Africa and America. Most fled to England in the 1680s and 90s. An estimated 300,000 Australians today are of Huguenot descent.

Resources relating to the history of the Hunter Valley, including information about cemeteries, churches, historic homes, collieries, and digitised publications such as early directories, newspapers and journals.

A listing of immigrant ships to New Zealand from the UK and Ireland, with links to information about passengers where available.

Produced by the Descendants of Convicts Group in 2003, this index concerns convict movements in the Colony of New South Wales (encompassing what is now New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania and Victoria) of nearly 10,000 convicts for the period 1827 to 1853.

It includes both convicts transported from England or English colonies, as well as colonial convictions. Colonial convicts were those persons who were born in the colony and committed an offence, or others who came free and subsequently committed an offence, or alternatively those convicts who had served their sentences and then re-offended.

The CDROM is in two main sections, the first being an index - which is easily navigatable using the alphabet hyperlink buttons. Names in the index are arranged alphabetically by surname together with the date of second transportation and from where.

If you click on the surname in the index, this takes you to the full entry which lists: Surname; Alias; Given Name; Ship of Arrival to the Colony; Ship of Second Transportation; Date of Second Transportation; Transported From; Transported To; Page; Location; Reel No: Remarks.

The information was compiled from microfilm of Colonial Secretary's Correspondence (reels 624 & 1030) held in the State Records of New South Wales. Copies of documents can be ordered on their website at Microform Purchase.

A facsimile reproduction of the book Information Victoria, published in 1938 as a travel book, the CD has an immense amount of information on every town in Victoria and along its borders in South Australia and New South Wales.

The book is divided by district,shires and towns. Each entry gives a description of the shire, includes a street directory, provides public information on police, hospitals, fire, newspapers, major business and other items of public interest, and gives names of towns, brief descriptions and distances to the towns in the shire. Relevant photographs and advertisements are dispersed throughout. Several of the larger towns and areas also include a map.

One section of the book includes road charts with detailed directions on travelling from town to town on different routes between Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney, Canberra and Brisbane, as well as around Melbourne and the whole of Victoria.

The International Centre for Convict Studies (ICCS) is a trans-national and multi-disciplinary consortium of scholars engaged in research on penal transportation and convict experience within the British Empire from 1600-1940. It includes researchers from Australia, United States, South Africa and Europe working in the disciplines of history, textual studies, archaeology, economics and sociology.

This site has a searchable database which covers the baronies, townlands, parishes and counties of Ireland. You can combine various criteria to narrow your search.

Compiled by Ian Cantwell, this 2005 CDROM brings together some of the few remaining primary sources about the people involved in 1798 Rebellion in Ireland. It contains two lists of rebels who surrendered, in Dublin City (1,057) and Coolock Barony (1,218), and two lists of individuals (totalling 6,165) who made claims for compensation for loss of property during the rising.

In relation to the Commission for the compensation of 'suffering loyalists' their brief was limited to individuals who suffered losses of property caused by rebel activity between 1st May 1798 and 6th April 1799. The only way that a death in the family by violence could be compensated was through the payment of a fine when a life in a lease of three lives was renewed but not for any other financial issues relating to the death such as loss of income. Claimants for compensation for property loss came from the following counties:

Antrim 143; Carlow 288; Cavan 1; Clare 7; Cork 21; Down 136; Dublin 173; England 11; Galway 63; Kerry 3; Kildare 363; Kilkenny 251; Kings (Offaly) 29; Leitrim 70; Limerick 2; Londonderry 3; Longford 79; Mayo 686; Meath 145; Monaghan 1; Queens (Laois) 42; Roscommon 15; Sligo 215; Tipperary 20; Tyrone 1; Waterford 5; Westmeath 45; Wexford 2,208; and Wicklow 1,033.

It has been estimated that up to 30,000 people were killed during the uprising, with many more wounded. There are over 8,000 names included on this CDROM.These groups come from every social background, from poor Dublin city labourers and artisans to the aristocratic ascendancy of late eighteenth century Ireland.

The Irish Rebellion of 1798 (Éirí Amach 1798 in Irish) was an aborted revolution against the British dominated Kingdom of Ireland. Even though it only lasted a few months, it was a major event in Irish history. The United Irishmen, a republican revolutionary group inspired by the ideas of the American and French Revolutions, was the main organizing force behind the rebellion. Further details at Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter : The 1798 Rebellion.

The CDROM is one of series of 6 entitled Irish Records Index produced by Eneclann, an Irish-based company dedicated to releasing Irish records on CD-ROM. Volume 1 is 'Index of Irish wills, 1484-1858'. Volume 2 is 'The 1848 petitions: the William Smith O'Brien Petition'. Volume 3 is 'The 1851 Dublin City Census'.Volume 4 is 'the 1831 Tithe Defaulters'. Volume 5 is 'Returning Home: Transatlantic Migration from North America to Britain & Ireland 1858 - 1870'. Volume 6 is 'The 1798 Rebellion: Claimants and Surrenders'. All but volume 5 are available at the FH Service.

Index to 80,000 signatories (with addresses and occupations) to a petition in Ireland in 1848, collected to gain clemency for the rebel leader, William Smith O'Brien, who was sentenced to death following the failure of the 1848 rising. As a consequence of this petition, O'Brien's sentence was commuted and he was transported to Australia for life.

Petitions were signed in 31 out of the 32 Irish counties,the exception being County Offaly or King's County. Almost 50% of the 70,000 signatories in Ireland came from County Dublin. About 10,000 signatures were gathered in England, mainly Liverpool, Manchester and Bradford. The majority of signatories were farmers or urban artisans. Scanned images of all 166 petitions are included.

This CD-ROM was launched in Dublin in March 2001 by the Australian Ambassador to Ireland. It will also be of special interest to the Australian community, given that O'Brien had a important influence on the movement for Federation. The author, Ruth Lawler, is also an Australian living in Ireland, and the CD contains a preface by the Australian Ambassador to Ireland.

Further information, including search strategies, can be found at The Origins Network : William Smith O'Brien Petition 1848-9 .

This CDROM is one of series of 6 entitled Irish Records Index produced by Eneclann, an Irish-based company dedicated to releasing Irish records on CD-ROM. Volume 1 is 'Index of Irish wills, 1484-1858'. Volume 2 is 'The 1848 petitions: the William Smith O'Brien Petition'. Volume 3 is 'The 1851 Dublin City Census'.Volume 4 is 'the 1831 Tithe Defaulters'. Volume 5 is 'Returning Home: Transatlantic Migration from North America to Britain & Ireland 1858 - 1870'. Volume 6 is 'The 1798 Rebellion: Claimants and Surrenders'. All but volume 5 are available at the FH Service.

Launched by Dublin's Lord Mayor at the Irish Genealogical Congress in Dublin in 2001, this CDROM contains over 60,000 names and addresses (and some occupations) in the city of Dublin in 1851.

The firebombing of the National Archives of Ireland in 1922 by the IRA destroyed many historical documents, including census records. However, prior to this, Dr. D.A. Chart of the Public Record Office had compiled a comprehensive list of the names and addresses of heads of households for Dublin City as found in the 1851 census.Dr. Chart’s extracted list has been edited and converted to this database by Seán Magee.

The CDROM has 3 search modes, as follows:

(1) Standard Search - This is the most specific way of finding what you are looking for. You may combine your search across the Surname, forename, street, street number, parish & northside/southside fields, or combine searches within each search field.

(2) Soundex Searching - Most surnames (or family names) can be spelled in a variety of ways. For example, 'Smith' can also be spelled 'Smyth,' 'Smithe,' and 'Smythe.' Soundex is a method of giving names sound codes. The 1851 Dublin City Census CD-ROM allows you to enter a surname into the search dialogue. This surname is converted (on the fly) to its appropriate sounded code and the records searched. As a result, you can often find names that sound alike, even though they may have different spellings. Note that this search is run against surnames only.

(3) Expert Search – A search utility that uses Boolean logic. The Expert Search supports And, Or, Not, Exclusive Or, Phrase, Multiple character wildcard, Ordered proximity, Unordered proximity, Stemming (word form) and Synonym.

There are also all 33 Ordnance Survey Town Plans of Dublin City from 1847 on this CDROM, courtesy of Dublin Corporation. The maps included are the first detailed town plans of Dublin City to be produced by the Ordnance Survey and are still used today by cartographers,city planners and developers. These 33 maps contain detail of all the streets and houses within the city at this time, a great addition to help users identify specific addresses. The maps are viewed with a separate program, which you launch separately.

Further information, including search strategies, can be found at The Origins Network : Dublin City Census 1851 - Heads of Household Index.

This CDROM is one of series of 6 entitled Irish Records Index produced by Eneclann, an Irish-based company dedicated to releasing Irish records on CD-ROM. Volume 1 is 'Index of Irish wills, 1484-1858'. Volume 2 is 'The 1848 petitions: the William Smith O'Brien Petition'. Volume 3 is 'The 1851 Dublin City Census'.Volume 4 is 'the 1831 Tithe Defaulters'. Volume 5 is 'Returning Home: Transatlantic Migration from North America to Britain & Ireland 1858 - 1870'. Volume 6 is 'The 1798 Rebellion: Claimants and Surrenders'. All but volume 5 are available at the FH Service.

Search the free census records for Ireland on the National Archives of Ireland's website.

This 2006 CDROM by Trinity College is a fascimile of Henry Farrar's two volume index published in 1897 which indexes over 12,000 marriage entries in 'Walker's Hibernian Magazine from the journal's beginning in 1771 until it ceased in 1812. It also includes an appendix by Sir Arthur Vicars of some 1,350 births, deaths and marriages recorded in the short-lived magazine 'Anthologia Hibernica 1793-94'. In total, it is estimated that the 2 volumes contain over 22,000 names across 547 pages.

These records are from a time when few other records of this nature survive. As a consequence it is of exceptional genealogical value, recording the names, addresses and some occupations of the couples, and often the names and details of their parents (principally the fathers of the brides). The dates and places of marriage are also recorded and additional detail for selected marriages.

The monthly 'The Hibernian Magazine: or Compendium of Entertaining Knowledge' was the main general Dublin journal for this period and covered many topics, from news and current affairs to fashion and the arts. As a consequence it was the main publication for the announcement of marriages.

Mitchell Library only has Part 1 of 'Walker's Hibernian Magazine or Compendium of Entertaining Knowledge' located at 050/W.

This CD-ROM provides access to records on microfiche on over a million individuals who occupied property in Ireland between 1848 and 1864. The records list every property holder in a county together with details of houses, outbuildings, fields and gardens. Some records contain additional information about an individual's occupation, religion, or relative's names.

Published by John Hunter in 2006,the CD has over 1000 pages including 60 documents, 93 maps,a townland index, research notes as well as civil and Catholic parish maps.

A detailed contents list follows:

(1) a townland index with 23 entries for each of the 1,650 townlands.

(2) Barony,Poor Law Union and Registrars' District maps.

(3) Notes on Ordnance Survey maps.

(4) Map showing the location of 18 Civil parishes.

(5) Maps showing the townland locations in each Civil parish.

(6) Maps showing the location of the 24 Catholic parishes.

(7) Maps showing townland locations in each Catholic parish.

(8) A Civil parish database.

(9) A Catholic parish database.

(10)LDS Family History microfilm numbers.

(11) Notes on townland suffixes,Tithe Applotment Books and 1901 Census.

(12) Distribution of surnames in Civil parishes at the 1901 Census.

(13) Notes on change of land occupiers (Continuing valuations) 1854-1920.

(14) Brief explanation of terms used in Irish research.

(15) research tips.

Compiler,John Hunter, is located at 10/72, Lorimer Terrace,(or PO Box 2068), Kelvin Grove, Qld, 4059.

Fax: 61 7 3856 0882

Email: john@roscommon.info

Published by John Hunter in 2004,the CD has over 1110 pages including 95 documents and 105 maps.

Detailed content list follows:

(1) a townland index with 23 entries for each of the 2205 townlands

(2) the complete Griffith's valuation of County Roscommon (1852-1858) with 20 entries for each of the 37,000 occupiers. 17 data sorts include surnames by 'soundex'.

(3) Griffith's valuation database expanded to include Barony, Poor law Union, Registrars District, Electoral Division, Year of Valuation and likely Catholic parish.

(4) Location of churches, schools, graveyards, police barracks etc at Griffith's valuation.

(5) Barony,Poor Law Union and Registrars' District maps.

(6) Notes on Ordnance Survey maps.

(7) Map showing the location of Civil parishes.

(8) Maps showing the location of townlands in all 62 Civil parishes.

(9) Maps showing the location of Catholic parishes.

(10) Maps showing the location of townlands in all 34 Catholic parishes.

(11) A Civil parish database.

(12) A Catholic parish database.

(13) LDS Family History Library microfilm numbers.

(14) Notes on townland suffixes, Tithe Applotment Books and 1901 Census.

(15) Distribution of surnames in Civil parishes at the 1901 Census.

(16) Notes on change of land Occupiers (Continuing Valuations) 1854-1920.

(17) Brief explanation of terms used in Irish research.

(18) Estate maps and rent records for part of Lord Crofton's estate.

(19) research tips.

Compiler,John Hunter, is located at 10/72, Lorimer Terrace,(or PO Box 2068), Kelvin Grove, Qld, 4059.

Fax: 61 7 3856 0882

Email: john@roscommon.info

Published by John Hunter in 2006,the CD contains the following:

(1) Distribution of surnames 1749 to 1901 (378 pages) - sorted by Civil parish, Barony and Soundex Code.

(2) Index to the 1749 Census of Elphin Diocese (189 pages) - sorted by Civil parish, Barony and Soundex Code.

(3) Roscommon Historical & Archaeological Society Journal Index to Volumes 1-10 (1986-2006).

(4) Roscommon Freeholders 1768 to 1799.

(5) Names and location of Catholic churches.

(6) Graveyard records and monumental inscriptions

Compiler,John Hunter, is located at 10/72, Lorimer Terrace,(or PO Box 2068), Kelvin Grove, Qld, 4059.

Fax: 61 7 3856 0882

Email: john@roscommon.info

Compiled by Stephen McCormac and published by Eneclann in 2004, the records compiled in this CDROM provide important evidence of the people involved in the infamous Tithe War of 1831-38.

All occupants of land were required to pay an annual tithe (or religious tax) of 10% of the agricultural produce generated by that holding. This money was demanded from all landholders, irrespective of their religion and was paid directly to the official state church, the Anglican (Episcopalian) Church of Ireland. However, in 1831 many people refused to pay this tithe and so started the Tithe War, which was fiercest in the southeast.

The names that appear on this CDROM are of those people, recorded by the Church of Ireland clergy, who refused to pay their tithe.The CDROM contains all personal details from the original files, as well as information about the parishes that the people resided in.

This publication contains: 30,000 names with addresses and occupations; complete records for 232 parishes; and Full text of the Affidavits.

Further information, including search strategies, can be found at The Origins Network : 1831 Tithe Defaulters .

This CDROM is one of series of 6 entitled Irish Records Index produced by Eneclann, an Irish-based company dedicated to releasing Irish records on CD-ROM. Volume 1 is 'Index of Irish wills, 1484-1858'. Volume 2 is 'The 1848 petitions: the William Smith O'Brien Petition'. Volume 3 is 'The 1851 Dublin City Census'.Volume 4 is 'the 1831 Tithe Defaulters'. Volume 5 is 'Returning Home: Transatlantic Migration from North America to Britain & Ireland 1858 - 1870'. Volume 6 is 'The 1798 Rebellion: Claimants and Surrenders'. All but volume 5 are available at the FH Service.

This 2005 CDROM provides fully searchable scanned images of over 5,000 pages of the official Journal of the Irish Genealogical Research Society from the first issue published in April 1937 up to Volume 8 in 1993. This journal,The Irish Genealogist, was bi-annual (April & October), from 1937 to 1942, and then annual from 1943 to-date.

The Irish Genealogist, through many of its articles, allowed researchers to gain access to material held in private collections or otherwise inaccessible or lost, particularly following the fire in the Public Records Office in 1922.

The journal covers such diverse topics as family registers, abstracts of Diocesan Wills, monumental inscriptions, many important family genealogies, guides for those wishing to do their own genealogical research, as well as Ken Nicholls standard setting work on the Kavanaghs (1400-1700).

An online journal contents list by year and volume, for the period April 1937 to 2001, is available at Index to The Irish Genealogist .

The State Reference Library holds The Irish Genealogist from Vol. 11. no. 4, 2005, in stack at N929.3415/16.

Irish census, directory and Griffiths listings arranged by County.

The General Register Office Ireland is the central civil repository for records relating to births, deaths and marriages in the Republic of Ireland. Records of births, deaths and Roman Catholic marriages date back to 1st January 1864. Records of marriages other than Roman Catholic marriages date back to 1st April 1845.

This CD is a reproduction of the journal 'The Irish Ancestor', published from 1969 to 1986 on a non-profit basis with the aim of providing original source material, etc. on Irish genealogy, biography and domestic Irish history.

The Irish Ancestor was usually published twice yearly,in spring and autumn, plus in several of the earlier years a supplemental volume was produced.

For example, in 1969 a third volume, An Index to Raphoe Marriage Licence Bonds, 1710-1755 and 1817-1830, was also published.

In total, there are 33 issues over 18 years, 4 supplements, over 2.500 pages and some 320 pages with illustrations.

Articles contributed to the main volumes varied from Christian names in Ireland by Brian de Breffny (1969 Vol 1 No 1) to Some Irish weddings in Nova Scotia 1834-1840 by Terrence M. Punch (1976 Vol 8 No 2) to Tombstones in Killbride Graveyard, Callan Parish, Co. Kilkenny,edited by Joseph Kennedy (1986 Vol 18 No 1).

The Publisher is Eneclann Ltd, a Trinity College Campus Company in Dublin (See Eneclann).

The Irish Ancestor website has a number of searchable databases, which cover place names and surnames, including extended histories of the name. It also provides information on subjects such as published family histories and heraldry in Ireland.

Irish Ancestor is part of the Irish Times news and information website ireland.com which provides a range of internet-based products aimed at those interested in Ireland and all things Irish.

A subscription is required to access full records. You can also commission offline research on most of the sources detailed on this site. All research is carried out by the website's research partners Eneclann. Eneclann is a Trinity College Dublin campus company which undertakes House Histories and Genealogical Research. (see Eneclann Historical Research ).

This site allows you to search an online database which contains information on Irish convicts who were transported to New South Wales in the period 1791-1830's. Includes a list of ships carrying Irish convicts and links to other Irish convict and revel sites. Site maintained by Peter Mayberry.

This site contains the largest collection of Parish records for the island of Ireland that are searchable online.

List of databases that are searchable:

Birth Records for Ireland 7,675,533

Marriage Records for Ireland 3,895,638

Death Records for Ireland 1,372,081

Census Records for Ireland 2,304,434

Griffith's Valuation for Ireland

Produced in 1999 this CDROM is a reproduction of a Flax Growers List compiled in 1796 in Ireland that contains names of about 60,000 individuals who received a grant for growing flax. The names are arranged by civil parish in each county (except Dublin and Wicklow, which were not included).The barony was listed instead of the parish in a few of the records.

During the 18th century, Ireland, and Ulster in particular, established a reputation as a producer of fine linen (made from flax). At various times the government introduced special incentives to encourage the production of linen, usually giving away spinning wheels and looms.

In 1796 the Irish Linen Board published a list of almost 60,000 individuals who had received awards for planting a specified acreage of flax. Those who had planted one acre were awarded four spinning wheels, and those planting five acres were awarded a loom.

The Flax Growers List, known officially as the Spinning Wheel Premium Entitlement List, or more commonly the Flax Growers Bounty List,is an important source of information on people living in Ireland in the 18th century, particularly as most of the Irish census returns for 1871, 1881 and 1891 were pulped for the 1914-18 war effort while the Irish Civil War of 1922 destroyed even older records in a huge fire resulting from the conflict.

Counties listed, followed by the number of individuals referenced, as follows:

Antrim (1,117);Galway (641); Meath (1,390); Armagh (3,026); Kerry (888); Monaghan (4,258); Carlow (9); Kildare (6); Offaly (290); Cavan (2,180); Kilkenny (6); Roscommon (2,712); Clare (178); Laois (4); Sligo (1,007); Cork (1,071); Leitrim (1,756); Tipperary (26); Derry (4,784); Limerick (171); Tyrone (6,616); Donegal (6,852); Longford (2,365); Waterford (1); Down (2,942); Louth (3,041); Westmeath (1,216); Dublin (7); Mayo (1,848); Wexford (8); Fermanagh (2,190).

This database is now freely available on the internet at Irish Flax Growers 1796.

An Ancestry.com product dated 2002-2002,this CD contains 236,386 records, primarily from cemetery tombstone transcriptions and similar sources, from the Irish counties of Antrim, Down and Louth from 1538 to 1837 (pre-civil registration).

This CD-ROM extracts key information from the Irish Tithe Applotment Books of 1823 to 1838, a unique land survey taken to determine the amount of tax payable by landholders occupying upwards of 5 acres of land to the Church of Ireland, the established church of Ireland until 1869. They are known as the Tithe Applotment Books because the results of this land survey were originally compiled in nearly 2,000 hand-written books.

This data set represents a virtual census for pre-famine Northern Ireland, covering the 6 counties that make up present-day Northern Ireland: Antrim, Armagh, Derry, Down, Fermanagh and Tyrone.

These Irish Tithe Applotment Books are also available on the Ancestry Library database which the State Library of NSW subscibes to.

An index to the Irish Convict Records held on microfilm. The microfilm records reproduce the holdings of the Irish National Archives in Dublin on the transportation of convicts from Ireland to Australia from 1788 to 1868.

These records were a Bicentennial gift from the Irish Government to Australia.

The National Archives of Ireland's website also provides free online access to this index at Ireland-Australia transportation database.

This database indexes the Testamentary Records in the National Archives of Ireland and is only concerned with those records which survive in more than index form, such as original documents, copies, transcripts, abstracts and extracts. It covers the years up to 1858 only, when the whole testamentary system was transferred from Church control to the State.

It covers all 32 counties for this poorly documented period and contains over 70,000 individual records with over 100,000 names, over 10,000 surnames and variants and over 1,000 different occupations. There is also a composite map of counties and dioceses on the CD which will help users to locate place names throughout Ireland.

Each index entry contains the name of the person leaving a will, or being covered by a grant of probate or administration. It also contains their address, sometimes their occupation, and the place where the document was proved (i.e. a diocesan or the Prerogative court). The index also contains the names of the executors for almost half the entries, along with their addresses. In essence this index contains all the information contained in the National Archives finding aids (i.e. card catalogues, typed lists, and original summaries).

Further information, including search strategies, can be found at Searching the Irish Wills Index.

This CDROM is one of series of 6 entitled Irish Records Index produced by Eneclann, an Irish-based company dedicated to releasing Irish records on CD-ROM. Volume 1 is 'Index of Irish wills, 1484-1858'. Volume 2 is 'The 1848 petitions: the William Smith O'Brien Petition'. Volume 3 is 'The 1851 Dublin City Census'.Volume 4 is 'the 1831 Tithe Defaulters'. Volume 5 is 'Returning Home: Transatlantic Migration from North America to Britain & Ireland 1858 - 1870'. Volume 6 is 'The 1798 Rebellion: Claimants and Surrenders'. All but volume 5 are available at the FH Service.

Free and subscription databases, advice and resource documents are available to users on this site. Databases include Griffiths Valuations, flax growers, directories of many major towns, newspaper indexes and landowners.

Produced by Miriam Pollak in November 2004, this database of personal notices from the London newspaper the Jewish Chronicle, for the period 1900 to 1909, has approximately 31,500 entries from around the world.

Personal announcements included births, bar mitzvahs, engagements, marriages, deaths, in memoriams, silver, golden and diamond weddings and tombstone settings.

The database consists of 16 fields - Event, Date of Event, Surname, Personal Name, Position of Family, Parents' Names, Address, Child's Sex, Fiance or Partner, Synagogue or Place, Ministers' Names, Relatives or Friends, Age at Death, Hebrew Date, Notes and Jewish Chronicle Issue Date.

The Jewish Chronicle began publication in 1841. Like most major English papers of the day, personal announcements were printed on the front cover. This was discontinued in the 1960s.

The State Library holds a paper version of the Jewish Chronicle in offsite storage for the period Oct. 6, 1871-Oct. 25, 1872; 1908-1922; Sept. 13, 1963-Jan. 1971 at the location number TN25.

The address for the Jewish Chronicle Project is 3 Walkers Drive, Lane Cove, NSW, 2066, and the email address is jewishchronicle@tpg.com.au.

Further details in the third edition of British Jewry News.

An Internet source connecting researchers of Jewish genealogy worldwide.

Searchable lists of names, mainly from Queensland State Archives, such as Hospital and Asylum registers and records, old age pension recipients, and names appearing in the Queensland Police Gazette. A fee is charged for the exact source reference. Tips and advice for Queensland genealogy also provided.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (the Mormons), collect many records of interest to the family history researchers. Their family history centres are open to the public at no charge. Search the database to find a centre near to you.

Registration details of shipping, transcribed from the Lloyd's Register of British and Foreign Shipping from 1764 up to 2003 by Gilbert Provost with assistance from Pauline Joicey.

Vessel details can include rigging, tonnage, dimensions, propulsion, owners, port of registry, port of survey, voyage and the vessel's Master. New vessels are being continuously added.

Contact details for family history societies in New South Wales, Queensland and Western Australia. Produced by the New South Wales Family History Document Service.

MAPCO's aim is to provide genealogists, students and historians with free access to high quality scans of rare and beautiful maps. Featuring digital images of maps of London and Adelaide. Maps currently online include London 1767 and 1850 and Adelaide 1880. More maps will be added over the next few months.

This website, developed by Mary-Anne Warner, covers the movement of mariners and passengers into Sydney from NSW State Records Shipping Inward lists from the Shipping Master's Office. This is an ongoing project and volunteers are invited to contribute. Lists for the 1850s, 1860s and 1870s are almost complete, with 1880s and 1890s to follow, and the aim is to cover the period up to 1922.

The area of special interest is arrivals in the colonies of New South Wales, Morton Bay and Port Phillip. More particularly, the focus is on unassisted passengers from 1826 to1900, and again within that section, the lists of unassisted passengers arriving from 1854 to 1900 (NRS reels 399-560).

These records can include name of ship; masters; tonnage, where from; date of arrival; seamen's names, station, age and nation; passengers' names and very occasionally occupation; stowaways; deserters; births at sea; deaths at sea; and details of ships arriving from non-UK ports.

You can search by year, month and then ship's name or by keyword (ie: passenger's name or vessel name ) to see a transcribed record of passenger lists and links to scans of the original lists. The Ship's Master's signature is usually found at the bottom right corner of the scanned passenger list.

It is noted that not all clerks / masters who entered the information onto these lists were uniform in their presentations. In some instances scant details are included, e.g. Lucey & family, servants rarely had their names recorded, some crew members are listed with all details and others with just their name.

These lists were completed as each vessel arrived in Sydney Harbour. Therefore we expect that the information is as accurate as was possible in those circumstances.

The website has a glossary taken from the Queensland State Archives 'Brief Guide to the use of Immigration Records' which explains the following terminology : Emigrant or immigrant; Free passages; Assisted passages; Nominated or remittance passages; Indentured immigrants; Full paying passengers; and the Bounty system.

The website has another page on whaling vessels, noting that there are two kinds of whaler : (1) vessels which stay at sea for up to three years and both catch and process the whales; and (2) vessels which service the needs of shore whaling parties. These are basically traders and merchants. In New Zealand waters, about 75% of the first type were from America. The second type were mostly of Australian origin.

Compiled by Nicholas Vine Hall and published in 2005, this CDROM indexes 11,736 images of identified vessels held in eight different collections of the Mitchell Library section of the State Library of New South Wales. These collections include the Small Pictures File: Ships; Ships Pictures Card Catalogue; Nichols Collection; Harold Schultz Collection at PXA 677; the Best Collection and the Dickson Gregory Collection.

It is a valuable resource for researchers looking for a photograph of a particular vessel. There are no images of vessels on this CDROM as it is only an index, which then advises where you will be able to obtain a copy from. Vessels cover the years 1500 through to 1991.

Set out in column format, the information supplied consists of the following: Name of Vessel; Rig; Date; Source Code; Source Reference; Tons; Masts & Funnels; Other Details; and Country of Association. There is also a 50-page introduction listing all the abbreviations.

In 1995, Nick Vine Hall also published a 3-fiche Ships' Pictures Index, 1491-1991: an Index to Ships' Pictures in Print. This is held in the SRL Family History Service at REF 10/N623.18016/1 and in ML at REF 1/MAV/FM6/577.

This site provides information about useful resources for tracing medieval English genealogy.

Compiled and published by Wyong Family History Group in 2007, this CDROM indexes and transcribes all records held by Simplicity Funerals Bateau Bay, NSW, up to 2006. The records include the former Funeral Directors, James Brown and Lakes District Funeral Service, incorporated into Simplicity Funerals in 1992.

Index entries for each individual include date and place of death, date and place of burial, age at death, religion and remarks such as religion and occasionally date of birth.

A 2006 hardcopy edition, indexing records up to 1975 is also available in ML at Q929.50994/ 187.

Produced by the Family History Group of Bathurst in 2005, some 20,000 entries were transcribed from headstones and other records.

Sources of Bathurst information :

(a) Godfrey Smith & Renshaws Funerals records

(b) newspapers, family trees, printed histories

(c) old cemetery maps - see reverse side for Bathurst Cemetery plan

(d) Council records at Bathurst Library

(e) inscriptions from known missing headstones taken from previous index

(f) replies to notices placed in Bathurst & Sydney newspapers & Family History Group of Bathurst's magazine

(g) from records held by Betty Beasley - Cemetery coordinator

Sources of Kelso information:

(a) no inscriptions - name, date of death and age only. Transcribed by Frank Paterson

(b) unmarked grave information taken from Information Board at Holy Trinity Cemetery, Funeral Directors & other sources

Further information is available from the Curator of Historical Records, PO Box 1177, Bathurst.

Photo's of headstones only available from J. E. Beasley, Family History Group of Bathurst Inc., at 173 Ryans Road, The Lagoon, 2795.

Produced by the Family History Group of Bathurst in 2007, this CD provides details of some 5,239 19th Century Bathurst pioneers (31,750 including spouses & children) from over 750 contributors to the register. Some 200 names are alternative spellings which point to another entry.

Information includes where and when the pioneers were born, married, died, worked and immigrated, as well as brief information about events that coloured their lives. There are maps with some place names that are no longer used and an index of place names to help you find them.

Features include:

(1) Clickable links from a pioneer's spouse children etc to their pioneer entries

(2) Clickable link to contributor's details, including email address

(3) Index of all persons mentioned including spouses, children, parents and pioneers

(4) Text searching facility to find places, ship names, property names, date etc

(5) Create bookmarkes so you can instantly return later to a particular entry

(6) 19th Century descriptions of local places, extracted from Baillierre's 1866 Gazetteer

(7) Parish maps covering the Bathurst district ( with permission from the NSW Lands Department). These maps show landholders and some property names.

A print version of this title is available in ML at Q929.39944/2.

Produced by the Campbelltown District Family History Society in 2002, this CDROM includes the many cemeteries of the Campbelltown area. Entries appear with the transcription of the headstone on one half of the screen, and its photograph on the other.

Compiled by Esma Hannah for the Campbelltown District Family History Society, this second edition was produced in 2005. Names, dates, events and photographs, as well as corrections to errors, have been entered which failed to make the first CDROM edition published in May,2000.

This CDROM includes the many cemeteries of the Cambelltown area, entries appearing with the transcription of the headstone on one half of the screen, and its photograph on the other.

A hardcopy version of the first edition is located in SRL at REF 10/NQ929.39446/3 and in ML at Q929.39446/7

Alphabetical indexes of burials at historic cemeteries of the City of Canterbury, Sydney. Cemeteries include Moorefields at Kingsgrove; St Barnabas's and St Saviours at Punchbowl.

Produced by the Central Coast Family History Society in 2006, this database of Charles Kinsela Funeral Directors Registers can be searched under surname, given name, date into Parlor, place of death or late residence, age, burial location, grave location, for the period 1905 to 1982.

Cemeteries and photographs for Coffs Harbour, Lawn Karangi, Coramba, Corindi, Bucca, Bellingen, Fernmount, Dorrigo, Urunga, NanaGlen, Glenreagh and Woolgoolga.Includes WW1 and WW2 servicemen and women.

This is an ongoing project updated each year by the Orara Valley Historical Society. First copy January 2003, updated January 1st 2006.

Compiled by Margot Crestani and Pamela Valentine for the Liverpool Genealogy Society in 2003, this is an index to two registers recording casual employment of convicts, showing locality and name of employer/s. The length of employment and rate of pay is sometimes also shown.

The Indexes have 10,000 entries covering:

(1) the Liverpool Bench from 14 Feb 1824 to 14 Oct 1826.

(2) Argyle Police District, Berrima/Throsby Park from 3 Apr 1826 to 2 Apr 1827;

(3) Argyle Police District, Goulburn Plains from 13 Nov 1827 to 31 Jan 1835.

(4) NSW convict/employer registers 1 & 2, 1843-1845.

This work has been assisted by funds allocated to the Royal Australian Historical Society by the NSW Arts Ministry.

The actual Magistrate Court records are contained on microfilm CY reel 366 held in the Mitchell Library.

An index to the Magistrate Court records is also available on 1 microfiche in the Mitchell Library at MAV/FM6/840.

Trial and transportation details on over 14000 convicts, including some Port Phillip and Van Diemen's Land records.

Produced by Lesley Uebel in 2000, this index to convicts sent to Port Jackson between 1788 and 1842 lists convicts by ship, place of trial, year of arrival and gives name, arrival date, ship, trial place and year, sentence and age. It also lists ships with date of arrival.There are some 120,000 entries.

Miss Mathilde E. Deane, working at the Public Record Office in London in 1929-1930, compiled an index (sometimes referred to as The Settlers' Letter Index) to miscellaneous letters by or about settlers, military and individuals in the Colonial Office series of records including (in the early portion), both New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land.

She indexed by name of the letter writer only with a precis of the contents and notation of persons' names mentioned therein. This CD is a composite index of all names noting whether the person listed was the writer or subject of the letter and cross-referencing both letter writer and subject. There is a large volume of correspondence exchanged between public figures of the day, much concerned with political wrangling and court cases. This index contains 16,189 records.

The Colonial Office series CO 201 is held in the Mitchel Library as part of the Australian Joint Copying Project. When you have found a name of interest you should refer to the original Deane Index to verify whether the letter is held in the CO201 series.

This CD is one of a series of six produced by Paskeys and Gould Genealogy as part of the NSW Immigration Index Series. The State Library has the other five titles in this series. They are:

(1) Immigration Deposit Indexes;

(2) Free Railway Passes (NSW) index 1880-1892;

(3) Convicts & Employers(NSW) Index 1828, 1832-33, Jan 1838-Jan 1844;

(4) Paskeys Miscellaneous Indexes - Unclaimed Letters index 1836-1852, Unemployed Registers 1860, 1884 Index and Wages Paid to Orphans Index 1842-1856;

(5) Unassisted Arrivals (NSW) Index 1842-56 and Ships & Masters to Sydney Index 1842-56.

Monumental inscriptions of 319 NSW cemeteries, with over 87,000 entries, transcribed by David and Julie Dern in 2005. Each entry gives surname, first names, date, age, comments, type & cemetery.There is a guide to abbreviations used.

The 319 NSW cemeteries covered are from the following:

ALECTOWN; ALSTONVILLE; ARDLETHAN; ARMATREE-Sunnyside; ASHFORD; ATTUNGA; BALDRY; BALLINA - Fenwick Park Pioneer Wall; BARADINE; BARELLAN; BARRINGUN; BEDGERABONG; BELLATA; BENA; BENDEMEER; BEN LOMOND R.C.; BEXHILL; BIMBI; BINALONG Anglican ; BINNAWAY; BLACKMAN FLAT; BLACKWELL; BLACK MOUNTAIN; BLACK SPRINGS - old & new; BOGAN GATE; BOGGABILLA; BOMERA; BONALBO - old & new; BONSHAW; BOOKHAM; BOURKE; BOWLING ALLEY POINT; BOWNING; BREADALBANE; BREEZA; BREWARRINA; BROKE - Anglican & R.C.; BROKEN HILL - TIBOOBURRA RD - 1 GRAVE; BRUNGLE; BUGALDIE; BULGA St Marks; BUNDARRA; BUNNAN St Judes; BURRAGA - old & new; BURREN JUNCTION; BYNG Wesleyan; BYROCK; CADIA; CANBELEGO; CAMBERWELL St Clement; CANONBA; CAPERTEE; CARAGABAL; CARAGABAL inc.St Peters; CARGO; CARINDA -BREWON RD - 2 GRAVES; CARINDA ; CAROONA Union Church; CARROLL; CASSILIS - KURRAJONG PARK, St Josephs & old; CHERRY TREE HILL; CHINAMANS BEND; CLUNES; COBBORA; COLLARENEBRI; COLLIE - old & public; COLLY BLUE; COME BY CHANCE; COOKAMIDGERA; COOLABAH - inc. St Matthews; COOLAC; COOLAH; COOLATAI - 1 GRAVE; COONABARABRAN - old & new lawn; COONAMBLE - inc.old; COPMANHURST; CORAKI; CORAMBA; COUTTS CROSSING; CRUDINE; CUDAL; CUDGEGONG; CULLEN BULLEN; CUMNOCK; CURLEWIS; CURRA CREEK; CURRABUBULA; DALTON - inc. St Matthews & Uniting Church; DANDALOO; DARBYS FALLS; DARK CORNER; DEEPWATER; DELUNGRA; DENISON TOWN; DINTON VALE - Formerly St. Johns; DORRIGO; DRAKE; DUBBO - BUTLERS FALLS; DUNDEE; DUNEDOO; DUNGOWAN; DUNOON; EAST GUYONG; EBOR; ELONG ELONG; ELSMORE; EMMAVILLE (FORMERLY VEGETABLE CREEK); ENNGONIA; EUABALONG; EUCHAREENA; EUGOWRA; FIFIELD; FORBES FREEMANTLE - “KILLONBUTTA” ; GALONG R.C.; GARRA; GEORGES PLAINS ; GEURIE; GIANTS CREEK St Johns; GILGANDRA; GIN GIN - “WAMBOOL” - 1 GRAVE; GIRILAMBONE; GLENCOE; GLENREAGH; GLENRIDDING - Presbyterian & Uniting ; GLENRIDDING; GOANGRA; GOOBANG; GOODOOGA; GOOLGOWI; GOOLOOGONG; GRABBEN GULLEN ; GRAMAN; GREENTHORPE St James; COLUMBARIUM; GULARGAMBONE; GUM FLAT; GUNBAR; GUNDAROO - inc. St Lukes & St Patricks; GUNNING; GUNNING FLAT - 1 grave; GWABEGAR; HALLSVILLE ; HANGING ROCK; HARGRAVES - inc. Pioneer & R.C.; HARTLEY; HAZELGROVE; HERMIDALE; HILL END; HILLGROVE; HILLSTON; HOBBY’S YARDS - Presbyterian; ILFORD; ISABELLA; JERRYS PLAINS R.C.; JUGIONG; KINGSTOWN; KIRKCONNELL St Marys; KYOGLE; LAGGAN R.C.; LAKE CARGELLIGO; LANGS CREEK Anglican; LAWRENCE; LEADVILLE; LEGUME; LISMORE - BARNHAM ST PIONEER; LIGHTNING RIDGE; LITTLE PLAIN; LOWER BUCCA; LOWTHER R.C.; LUE; MACQUARIE PLAINS; MANILDRA; MANILLA; MARCH - St Phillips & Uniting; MARRA - St Mary ; MEADOW FLAT; MENDOORAN; MERRIWA Holy Trinity; MERRIWAGGA; MILLTHORPE; MITCHELL HIGHWAY - MEMORIAL; MOLONG; MOLONG - FAIRBRIDGE REST AREA ; MOONBI; MOORILDA - St Davids; MORONGLA; MT. LAMBIE Presbyterian; MT. THORLEY Anglican; MT. YORK; MT. WILSON St George; MUDGEE - “GRATTAI”; MURRINGO; MURWILLUMBAH - BANNER STREET; MUTTON FALLS - St Phillips; MYLNEFORD; NANGUS; NARRABRI-WEE WAA RD - 1 GRAVE; NARROMINE; NEVERTIRE; NEWBRIDGE; NEWELL HIGHWAY - 1 GRAVE; NIMBIN; NULLAMANNA; NUNDLE; NYMBOIDA; NYNGAN; NYRANG CREEK; OBERON - General, St. Barnabas & old Methodist; OBLEY; O’CONNELL; FLAGSTAFF; OPHIR – GOLDFIELD; OWENS GAP; PARKESBOURNE Methodist; PEAK HILL; PEEL; PEELWOOD; PERTHVILLE Uniting; PILLIGA; PIPERS FLAT; PORTERS RETREAT; PYRAMUL.; PYRAMUL ; QUAMBONE; QUIPOLLY St Chads; RAMORNIE WORKS; RANKIN SPRINGS; RAWSONVILLE; RED RANGE; ROCKLEY; ROUS MILL; RUNNING STREAM St Johns; RYDAL - inc. St. Matthews; SALLYS FLAT R.C.; SHOOTERS HILL; SODWALLS; SOFALA - inc. Anglican; SOUTH BOWENFELS R.C.; SOUTH GUNDURIMBAH - LISMORE MEMORIAL PARK; SPICERS CREEK; SPRING HILL; SPRING RIDGE; STANNUM; STUART TOWN (FORMERLY IRONBARKS); SUNNY CORNER; TABULAM; TALLIMBA; TAMBAR SPRINGS; TAMBAROORA; TANGMANGAROO All Saints; TANNABUTTA; TENTERFIELD; TOMINGLEY; TOOGONG; TOORAWEENAH; TORRINGTON; TOTTENHAM; TRANGIE; TRUNDLE; TRUNKEY; TUCKI TUCKI; TUENA; TULLAMORE; TULLIBIGEAL; TUMBLONG; TURONDALE; TYALGUM; UARBRY; ULAN; ULMARRA; UNGARIE; UPPER HORTON; UPPER TOOLOOM; URALLA; URBENVILLE; WALLABADAH; WALLANGRA; WALLENDBEEN; WALLERAWANG - BARTON PARK; WARDELL; WARKWORTH - St. Phillips; WARREN; WATTLE FLAT - inc. R.C., Anglican & Presbyterian; WEETHALLE; WELLINGROVE - Presbyterian; WELLINGTON - R.C. & Pioneer; WILLOW TREE - FORMER CHURCHYARD; WILSONS DOWNFALL; WINDEYER; WINDEYER - inc. R.C.; WINGEN; WINTON; WOMBAT; WOODBURN; WOODENBONG; WOODSTOCK; YENDA; YEOVAL; YETHOLME - St. Pauls; YETMAN

Monumental inscriptions of 319 NSW cemeteries, with over 87,000 entries, transcribed by David and Julie Dern in 2005. Each entry gives surname, first names, date, age, comments, type & cemetery.There is a guide to abbreviations used.

The 319 NSW cemeteries covered are from the following:

ALECTOWN; ALSTONVILLE; ARDLETHAN; ARMATREE-Sunnyside; ASHFORD; ATTUNGA; BALDRY; BALLINA - Fenwick Park Pioneer Wall; BARADINE; BARELLAN; BARRINGUN; BEDGERABONG; BELLATA; BENA; BENDEMEER; BEN LOMOND R.C.; BEXHILL; BIMBI; BINALONG Anglican ; BINNAWAY; BLACKMAN FLAT; BLACKWELL; BLACK MOUNTAIN; BLACK SPRINGS - old & new; BOGAN GATE; BOGGABILLA; BOMERA; BONALBO - old & new; BONSHAW; BOOKHAM; BOURKE; BOWLING ALLEY POINT; BOWNING; BREADALBANE; BREEZA; BREWARRINA; BROKE - Anglican & R.C.; BROKEN HILL - TIBOOBURRA RD - 1 GRAVE; BRUNGLE; BUGALDIE; BULGA St Marks; BUNDARRA; BUNNAN St Judes; BURRAGA - old & new; BURREN JUNCTION; BYNG Wesleyan; BYROCK; CADIA; CANBELEGO; CAMBERWELL St Clement; CANONBA; CAPERTEE; CARAGABAL; CARAGABAL inc.St Peters; CARGO; CARINDA -BREWON RD - 2 GRAVES; CARINDA ; CAROONA Union Church; CARROLL; CASSILIS - KURRAJONG PARK, St Josephs & old; CHERRY TREE HILL; CHINAMANS BEND; CLUNES; COBBORA; COLLARENEBRI; COLLIE - old & public; COLLY BLUE; COME BY CHANCE; COOKAMIDGERA; COOLABAH - inc. St Matthews; COOLAC; COOLAH; COOLATAI - 1 GRAVE; COONABARABRAN - old & new lawn; COONAMBLE - inc.old; COPMANHURST; CORAKI; CORAMBA; COUTTS CROSSING; CRUDINE; CUDAL; CUDGEGONG; CULLEN BULLEN; CUMNOCK; CURLEWIS; CURRA CREEK; CURRABUBULA; DALTON - inc. St Matthews & Uniting Church; DANDALOO; DARBYS FALLS; DARK CORNER; DEEPWATER; DELUNGRA; DENISON TOWN; DINTON VALE - Formerly St. Johns; DORRIGO; DRAKE; DUBBO - BUTLERS FALLS; DUNDEE; DUNEDOO; DUNGOWAN; DUNOON; EAST GUYONG; EBOR; ELONG ELONG; ELSMORE; EMMAVILLE (FORMERLY VEGETABLE CREEK); ENNGONIA; EUABALONG; EUCHAREENA; EUGOWRA; FIFIELD; FORBES FREEMANTLE - “KILLONBUTTA” ; GALONG R.C.; GARRA; GEORGES PLAINS ; GEURIE; GIANTS CREEK St Johns; GILGANDRA; GIN GIN - “WAMBOOL” - LONE GRAVE; GIRILAMBONE; GLENCOE; GLENREAGH; GLENRIDDING - Presbyterian & Uniting ; GLENRIDDING; GOANGRA; GOOBANG; GOODOOGA; GOOLGOWI; GOOLOOGONG; GRABBEN GULLEN ; GRAMAN; GREENTHORPE St James; COLUMBARIUM; GULARGAMBONE; GUM FLAT; GUNBAR; GUNDAROO - inc. St Lukes & St Patricks; GUNNING; GUNNING FLAT - 1 grave; GWABEGAR; HALLSVILLE ; HANGING ROCK; HARGRAVES - inc. Pioneer & R.C.; HARTLEY; HAZELGROVE; HERMIDALE; HILL END; HILLGROVE; HILLSTON; HOBBY’S YARDS - Presbyterian; ILFORD; ISABELLA; JERRYS PLAINS R.C.; JUGIONG; KINGSTOWN; KIRKCONNELL St Marys; KYOGLE; LAGGAN R.C.; LAKE CARGELLIGO; LANGS CREEK Anglican; LAWRENCE; LEADVILLE; LEGUME; LISMORE - BARNHAM ST PIONEER; LIGHTNING RIDGE; LITTLE PLAIN; LOWER BUCCA; LOWTHER R.C.; LUE; MACQUARIE PLAINS; MANILDRA; MANILLA; MARCH - St Phillips & Uniting; MARRA - St Mary ; MEADOW FLAT; MENDOORAN; MERRIWA Holy Trinity; MERRIWAGGA; MILLTHORPE; MITCHELL HIGHWAY - MEMORIAL; MOLONG; MOLONG - FAIRBRIDGE REST AREA ; MOONBI; MOORILDA - St Davids; MORONGLA; MT. LAMBIE Presbyterian; MT. THORLEY Anglican; MT. YORK; MT. WILSON St George; MUDGEE - “GRATTAI”; MURRINGO; MURWILLUMBAH - BANNER STREET; MUTTON FALLS - St Phillips; MYLNEFORD; NANGUS; NARRABRI-WEE WAA RD - 1 GRAVE; NARROMINE; NEVERTIRE; NEWBRIDGE; NEWELL HIGHWAY - 1 GRAVE; NIMBIN; NULLAMANNA; NUNDLE; NYMBOIDA; NYNGAN; NYRANG CREEK; OBERON - General, St. Barnabas & old Methodist; OBLEY; O’CONNELL; FLAGSTAFF; OPHIR – GOLDFIELD; OWENS GAP; PARKESBOURNE Methodist; PEAK HILL; PEEL; PEELWOOD; PERTHVILLE Uniting; PILLIGA; PIPERS FLAT; PORTERS RETREAT; PYRAMUL.; PYRAMUL ; QUAMBONE; QUIPOLLY St Chads; RAMORNIE WORKS; RANKIN SPRINGS; RAWSONVILLE; RED RANGE; ROCKLEY; ROUS MILL; RUNNING STREAM St Johns; RYDAL - inc. St. Matthews; SALLYS FLAT R.C.; SHOOTERS HILL; SODWALLS; SOFALA - inc. Anglican; SOUTH BOWENFELS R.C.; SOUTH GUNDURIMBAH - LISMORE MEMORIAL PARK; SPICERS CREEK; SPRING HILL; SPRING RIDGE; STANNUM; STUART TOWN (FORMERLY IRONBARKS); SUNNY CORNER; TABULAM; TALLIMBA; TAMBAR SPRINGS; TAMBAROORA; TANGMANGAROO All Saints; TANNABUTTA; TENTERFIELD; TOMINGLEY; TOOGONG; TOORAWEENAH; TORRINGTON; TOTTENHAM; TRANGIE; TRUNDLE; TRUNKEY; TUCKI TUCKI; TUENA; TULLAMORE; TULLIBIGEAL; TUMBLONG; TURONDALE; TYALGUM; UARBRY; ULAN; ULMARRA; UNGARIE; UPPER HORTON; UPPER TOOLOOM; URALLA; URBENVILLE; WALLABADAH; WALLANGRA; WALLENDBEEN; WALLERAWANG - BARTON PARK; WARDELL; WARKWORTH - St. Phillips; WARREN; WATTLE FLAT - inc. R.C., Anglican & Presbyterian; WEETHALLE; WELLINGROVE - Presbyterian; WELLINGTON - R.C. & Pioneer; WILLOW TREE - FORMER CHURCHYARD; WILSONS DOWNFALL; WINDEYER; WINDEYER - inc. R.C.; WINGEN; WINTON; WOMBAT; WOODBURN; WOODENBONG; WOODSTOCK; YENDA; YEOVAL; YETHOLME - St. Pauls; YETMAN

Index of graves in Botany Cemetery and Eastern Suburbs Crematorium. Details include internment date, age, location and map. Produced by the Botany Cemetery and Eastern Suburbs Crematorium Trusts.

CDROM Index of F. Arnold & Sons Pty Ltd Stones of Rememberance Order Books for the period 1879 to 1977, with approximately 42,000 listings in alphabetical/chronological order covering memorial work, historic monuments, buildings, churches, industrial & defence work. The index also covers direct commissions from architects & builders.

The actual order books are held in Mitchell Library Manuscripts at Ref. ML.MSS 3621/1-68.The collection comprises 70 volumes, 3 boxes and 1 portfolio.

Contents includes: (1) Expenditure, order and receipt books, 1879-1898, (2) Order Books, 1901-1927, (3) Contract Books, 1927-1977, and plans, mainly of monuments, c.1940 - c.1968. (Locn No.: MLMSS 3621/1-68)

Original unfilmed volumes MLMSS 3621/1-4, 6-15, 36-68, may be issued. Otherwise, Microfilm volumes are issued. The preservation microfilming of the Arnold Order Books is a continuing project.

Microfilm numbers are, as follows : CY 4453 (MLMSS 3621/5: 1904-05); CY 4495 (MLMSS 3621/16-17: 1923-24); CY 4496 (MLMSS 3621/18-19: 1925-26); CY 4497 (MLMSS 3621/20-21: 1927); CY 4498 MLMSS 3621/22-23: 1928-29); CY 4499 (MLMSS 3621/24-25: 1930-31); CY 4500 (MLMSS 3621/26-27: 1932-33); CY 4501 (MLMSS 3621/28-29: 1934-35); CY 4502 (MLMSS 3621/30-31: 1936-37); CY 4503 (MLMSS 3621/32-33: 1938-39); CY 4504 (MLMSS 3621/34-35: 1940-41).

There is a microfiche version of the F. Arnold & Sons' Order Book index, compiled by Ruth Keir (nee Arnold),in ML as follows:

PART 1: Ref.1/MAV/FM6/861 (5 microfiche): Order Books, 1879-1922 (MLMSS 3621/1-15), compiled 2003-2005.

PART 2: Ref.1/MAV/FM6/853 (7 microfiche): Order Books, 1923-1977 (MLMSS 3621/16-68), compiled 1994-2003.

The ML hardcopy version of this index is part of the 'Ruth Keir - Stones of Remembrance: names index to order books 1879-1977 papers'. MLMSS 7711.

Frederick Arnold opened the Monumental Masonry Works, in March, 1879, which were then located at the corner of Wellington and Regent Streets, Sydney, N.S.W. In 1891, the works and show-yard were moved to the corner of 53 Regent & Outram Streets, Sydney. Herbert Thomas Arnold (father of Ruth Keir, nee Arnold - the Names Index compiler) was born at 53 Regent Street, on 4 December 1891. Frederick and Charlotte Arnold who had 9 children, rented the 53 Regent Street property from Mr. & Mrs. Bruce Palmer (ex Mayor) until c.1922, when the property was purchased by F. Arnold & Sons Ltd. In 1915, the works and machinery were moved to the stone Quarry at 110 Cascade Street, Paddington, Sydney, with the 53 Regent Street address being kept as a show-yard and Head Office only. In 1967, the show-yard and Head Office were also re-located to the Quarry at 110 Cascade Street, Paddington.

This project has been assisted by funds allocated to the Royal Australian Historical Society through the New South Wales Heritage Office.

Compiled from NSW Department of Lands parish maps of each county by Geoff Cannon and published in 2003, this CDROM includes:

(1) alphabetical lists of surnames of the first title holders and leaseholders in each parish, village or suburb at the time the map was printed

(2) dated grants of land in each parish with an additional chronological list

(3) portions of land with a register number are presented in separate lists

(4) Supplementary lists are compiled when the first title holder is not recorded by surname (i.e. financial institution, companies)

(5) lists of public facilities - cemeteries, churches, schools, historical features, recreation areas, dated prior to 1900

(6) private towns are listed when they occur

(7) All listings are cross-referenced and sourced by surname, area, date and grant reference number

(8) and maps, compiled from NSW Department of Lands maps

Microfiche version of this index is held in ML at MAV/FM6/857 with the following content details:

22 microfiche:

* County of Camden (5 fiche): parishes (fiches 1-2), supplementary lists (fiches 3-4), titleholder index (fiche 5)

* County of Cook (4 fiche): parishes (fiches 1-2), supplementary lists (fiche 3), titleholder index (fiche 4)

* County of Durham (4 fiche): parishes (fiches 1-2), supplementary lists (fiche 3), titleholder index (fiche 4)

* County of Gloucester (5 fiche): parishes (fiches 1-3), supplementary lists (fiche 4), titleholder index (fiche 5)

* County of Hunter (4 fiche): parishes (fiches 1-2), supplementary lists (fiche 3), titleholders index (fiche 4).

Product contact address is: P.O. Box 2014, Green Hills, NSW, 2323.

Compiled by A Eliason for the Heraldry and Genealogy Society of Canberra in 2004, this CDROM contains approximately 8,000 transcripts of memorials from the following cemeteries: Goulburn General Cemetery, Old General Cemetery Mortis Street, St Saviour's, Jewish Burial Ground, St Patrick's Roman Catholic Cemetery Kenmore and the Towrang Burial Ground.

A 1988 edition by Pam Ray and Grahame Thom is located in Mitchell library at 929.5099447/10.

Dedicated to the history of the 240 km convict-built road from Sydney to the Hunter Valley. Includes a convict workers database. Also includes a description of the Iron Gangs, Road Gangs and Bridge Gangs involved in its construction.

Provides headstone inscriptions for the cemeteries in the Gunning Shire area. Site produced by Graeme Challinor.

Compiled by Wollongong City Library in 1999.this CDROM contains approximately 7,000 historical pictures of the Illawarra District dating from 1832 to 1998 from the collection held in the Wollongong City Library.

A searchable database of convict ships and over 100,000 records of convicts who arrived in New South Wales and some in Van Diemen's Land between 1788 and 1842. Each record on the database contains the convict's name or alias, the ship on which he or she arrived and the date, and a reference to the relevant fiche and film that contains the original data.

Lismore City Council's searchable database of Lismore Cemetery and Memorial Gardens. Includes date of death and may include location of grave, or funeral service details.

Published in 2004 by the Liverpool Genealogy Society , this CDROM lists Liverpool Asylum admissions & discharges for the period 1859 to 1883 (volume 1).

Information includes name, age, country,occupation, religion and sometimes name of ship and year of arrival of the person admitted; and name of person discharged, when, why etc.

This CDROM is one of 3 listed on this menu, the contents of which are as follows:

CDROM 1 - 1859-1883 : Index to Archives Office of NSW Microfilm vol. 1, 2 & 3, Archives Ref. No's V245, 246 & 249

CDROM 2 - 1882-1894 : Index to Archives Office of NSW Microfilm, AO 1399, v. 4, 5, 6 & 7, Archives Ref. No V247, 247, 258 & 259

CDROM 3 - v.3. 1874-1890; v.5. 1898-1902 : Index to Archives Office of NSW Microfilms, AO 1400-AO 1401.

There is also a microfiche version of this index at REF10/RAV/FM6/640 & MAV/FM6/859

Published in 2005 by the Liverpool Genealogy Society , this CDROM lists Liverpool Asylum admissions & discharges for the period 1874 to 1890 (volume 3) and 1989 to 1902 (volume 5).

Information includes name, age, country,occupation, religion and sometimes name of ship and year of arrival of the person admitted; and name of person discharged, when, why etc.

This CDROM is one of 3 listed on this menu, the contents of which are as follows:

CDROM 1 - 1859-1883 : Index to Archives Office of NSW Microfilm vol. 1, 2 & 3, Archives Ref. No's V245, 246 & 249

CDROM 2 - 1882-1894 : Index to Archives Office of NSW Microfilm, AO 1399, v. 4, 5, 6 & 7, Archives Ref. No V247, 247, 258 & 259

CDROM 3 - v.3. 1874-1890; v.5. 1898-1902 : Index to Archives Office of NSW Microfilms, AO 1400-AO 1401.

There is also a microfiche version of this index at REF10/RAV/FM6/640 & MAV/FM6/859

Published in 2004 by the Liverpool Genealogy Society , this CDROM lists Liverpool Asylum admissions & discharges for the period 1882 to 1894 (volume 4, 5, 6 & 7).

Information includes name, age, country,occupation, religion and sometimes name of ship and year of arrival of the person admitted; and name of person discharged, when, why etc.

This CDROM is one of 3 listed on this menu, the contents of which are as follows:

CDROM 1 - 1859-1883 : Index to Archives Office of NSW Microfilm vol. 1, 2 & 3, Archives Ref. No's V245, 246 & 249

CDROM 2 - 1882-1894 : Index to Archives Office of NSW Microfilm, AO 1399, v. 4, 5, 6 & 7, Archives Ref. No V247, 247, 258 & 259

CDROM 3 - v.3. 1874-1890; v.5. 1898-1902 : Index to Archives Office of NSW Microfilms, AO 1400-AO 1401.

There is also a microfiche version of this index at REF10/RAV/FM6/640 & MAV/FM6/859

A listing of over 3,000 entries taken from the registers and funeral receipts held by Max Perrams Funerals, 143 George St. Liverpool, NSW.

Forest Lawn Cemetery and Crematorium is also listed as Leppington Lawn Cemetery and Crematorium which is south of Liverpool.

Sydney Catholic Lawn Cemetery is located at Kemps Creek west of Liverpool. Pine Grove Cemetery and Crematorium is located at Minchinbury west of Sydney.

Northern Suburbs Cemetery is located at North Ryde and is now known as Macquarie Park Cemetery. Northern Suburbs Crematorium is located east of Macquarie Park Cemetery.

Compiled by Betty Biffin & Betty Shepherd for the Liverpool Genealogy Society .

A listing of over 5,700 entries from the registers and funeral receipts held by Max Perrams Funerals 143 George St. Liverpool NSW.

When checking against the receipts,it was found that family members were grouped together and some earlier burials were found in the recipts.

Forest Lawn Cemetery and Crematorium is also listed as Leppington Lawn Cemetery and Crematorium which is south of Liverpool.

Sydney Catholic Lawn Cemetery is located at Kemps Creek south west of Sydney. Pine Grove Cemetery and Crematorium is located at Minchinbury west of Sydney.

Northern Suburbs Cemetery is located at North Ryde and is now known as Macquarie Park Cemetery.

Northern Suburbs Crematorium is located east of Macquarie Park Cemetery.

Compiled by Betty Biffin & Betty Shepherd for the Liverpool Genealogy Society .

Published by the Liverpool Genealogy Society in 2004, this CDROM contains over 460 photographs taken in 1992 by Bruce and Betty Sheperd, with an index of all names on the Liverpool Pioneers' Memorial Park headstones and corresponding photograph and inscription number. Some of the headstones no longer exist due to vandalism and deterioration from the elements.

Produced by the Society of Australian Genealogists (SAG) in 2003, this CDROM provides inscriptions and index to graves from Sydney's Macquarie Park (formerly Northern Suburbs) Cemetery.

The cemetery covers approximately 160 acres and was dedicated in 1902 to be known as Northern Suburbs General Cemetery Trust. It is owned by the NSW Government and operated under the Trusteeship of Honorary Trust Board members. The first Trust appointed in 1921 comprised Rev J G M Taylor and Messrs, C B Thistlewaite, G Chalmers and A J Hare.

As was the custom in those days, the cemetery was divided into various denominational areas. The first burial took place on 20 April 1922, namely, Henry Mashman in the Church of England area (G1 Grave No. 5.)

A brief history follows:

* 1954 the opening of NSW’s first Catholic and General lawn burial areas

* 1985 erection of Jewish Ohel

* 1988 erection of Armenian open air chapel

* 1999 Catholic and General Lawn areas completely refurbished

* 1999 Christ the Redeemer Mausoleum opened

* 1999 trading name changed to Macquarie Park Cemetery

* 2000 Stations of the Cross area opened

* 2001 RSL site established

* 2004 crematorium opening ceremony 23 November 2004

* 2004 initiative by the Catholic Archdiocese of Sydney approving the burial of cremated remains in the area known as the Garden of Stations of the Cross of deceased who have not embraced the Catholic faith

* 2005 joint dedication of Catholic, Anglican and Protestant lawn burial area

There is some technical support for SAG CDROMs at Technical support for SAG CDs.

Published by Maitland City Council on February 8, 1999.this CD has 25,625 entries recording cemetery details in the Maitland City Council area.

Entries include name, age, religion, death date, burial date, from the following cemeteries: Campbells Hill, East Maitland, Glebe, Hiland Crescent, Morpeth, Oakhampton, Oswald & Rutherford.

In 2002, Maitland City Council published an updated Burial Register for local cemeteries, in print format, containing 40,000 entries. This is available in the Mitchell Library at Q929.50994/74

Produced by Rod and Wendy Gow between 2003 and 2007, there are 9 CDROMs variously indexing the Maitland Mercury newspaper notices for births, deaths, marriages, funerals, inquests, insolvencies etc for the period 1843 to 1850.

Total entries for each CDROM are : 1843 - 16,000; 1844 - 19,000; 1845 - 18,000; 1846 (Jan/June) - 19,000; 1846 (July/Dec) - 22,000; 1847 - 7,000; 1848 - 2,800; 1849 - 7,500; and 1850 - 7,200.

The indexes may have references to the following events: Abducted, Absconded, Accident, Apology, Army deserter, Assault victim, Attempted burglary, Auction license, Baptism, Benefit, Birth, Burial, Caution Notice, Confection License, Court Martial, Death, Deserter, Elopement, Escapee, Estate, Execution, Exhumation, Found, Funeral, Hotel license refused, Inquest, Insolvent, Land Grant, Legal, Legal Notice, License transfer, Marriage, Medical, Memorial, Missing, Monument, Murder victim, Pardon, Presentation, Public Notice, Publican’s license, Quit Rent, Recovered, Relief Fund, Religios vows, Relocation, Remains Found, Resignation, Retirement, Reward, Robbery victim, Serious Injury, Shark Attack Victim, Sheriff sale, Shipwreck, Stabbing victim, Still birth, Subscription list, Suspected Murder, To be Executed, and Wounded.

To facilitate research, the format states the date of the edition and the P & C (page & column) number within that edition.

Further information at Gow Newspaper Indexes.

The 'Maitland Mercury, and Hunter River General Advertiser' is on microfilm for the period 1843-1893 at the State Library of NSW (location RAV/FM4/315). A digitised full text version is also available online for the period 7 January, 1843, to 29 December, 1855, undertaken as part of The Australian Cooperative Digitisation Project by the University of Sydney Library, the State Library of NSW, Monash University Library and the National Library. The project has digitised many mid 19th. century newspapers. See Australian Cooperative Digitisation Project : The Maitland mercury and Hunter River general advertiser

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Compiled by Nicholas Vine Hall in 1993 and published by Gould Genealogy in 2005, this CDROM is a fascimile of the 387-page book which is now out of print.

It not only contains much of the social history of Sydney's Northern Beaches, where the compiler lived for many years, but also records over 6,000 graves, some dating back more than 150 years. The compilation took over 20 years to complete and the index consists of a total 12,558 entries.

Records show that Manly Cemetery contains the graves of the reputed 'Man From Snowy River', a CBE, a CMG, a DFC, and decendants of the 'Flogging Parson', Rev. Samual Marsden, two Knights, a Baronet, a General, three MPs, three Mayors of Manly, several Professors, two Judges, two journalists, a Monsignor, a comedian, a town clerk, a potato merchant and seventeen clergymen. There are people from at least thirty-eight countries and every state in Australia.

Manly Cemetery is one of the oldest cemeteries in Sydney still in use. It is situated in Griffiths Street, Manly, and is divided into three sections, Church of England, Roman Catholic and General. It was consecrated as a burial ground in 1865 although it was only set apart officially by the Government in 1872. Soon after, Trustees were appointed to manage the cemetery and did so until 1969 when the administration was passed to Manly Council. Further details (including grave registers & cemetery plots) at Manly Cemetery.

A 1993 print edition is located in the Family History Service at REF/ N929.50994/14 and in Mitchell Library at REF 4/929.5099441/5A.

Headstone transcriptions of four significant cemeteries in the Newcastle area: Christ Church Cathedral Cemetery, Tarro Cemetery, Old Wallsend Cemetery and traces of North Waratah Cemetery. In time the index will be expanded to include a number of the larger cemeteries in the Newcastle area. Produced by Newcastle Regional Local Studies Library.

Compiled by the Orange Family History Group in 2002, the CD provides over 21,000 records from Orange Cemetery as well as a map and aerial photo of the Cemetery.

Compiled by the Wyong Family History Group in 2006, this CDROM transcribes some 30,000 memorials, some dating back to 1935, from the Palmdale Lawn Cemetery and Memorial Park.

Palmdale was first established in 1970 to service the Central Coast and it was the first crematorium on the Central Coast.

The database allows searches by surname, forename, year of birth and age.

This 2007 Gould Genealogy CDROM is a fully searchable fascimile of the 1889 directory by William Hanson that details pastoral landholders (owners or leasees) in NSW in 1889, together with information on the property/ies they owned or leased.

The book is divided into 3 alphabetically arranged sections; the Eastern division, the Central division and the Western division, all containing information on the areas of land owned.

Information on each pastoral holding includes:

* the land district and county in which each pastoral holding is situated

* the area in acres

* the annual rent and licence fee

* the rate per acre and per section for each leasehold and resumed area respectively

* the names of the registered pastoral holders of the crown

* the date of notification in the NSW Government Gazette.

* a map

A microfilm version is avaliable in SRL and ML at RAV/FM4/1152 and MAV/FM4/10506 respectively and a microfiche version in the Family History Service at REF 10/N333.3355309/1.

Compiled by Rod and Wendy Gow in 2004, the Patriotic Fund Subscribers index contains over 30,000 subscribers and collectors names, with most entries stating the place of collection.

In February 1855, the population of the colony (along with all British colonies throughout the world) were asked to contribute to the Patriotic Fund for the support of widows and orphans of soldiers, sailors, or marines killed while in active service in the war against Russia - the Crimean War.

Australia eventually raised over £66,000. The Sydney Morning Herald and the Maitland Mercury (and Hunter River General Advertiser) published the details of contributors in NSW in list form, stating the names of contributors and, with a few exceptions, the location of the district where collected is noted.

Not all people living in NSW donated to this cause. However, this index, compiled from the leading city newspaper, the Sydney Morning Herald, and the leading country newspaper, the Maitland Mercury, may assist those trying to establish where their ancestors were in 1855.

The index states the date of the edition of the Sydney Morning Herald or Maitland Mercury and the page and column within that edition. Both newspapers are available on microfilm at the State Library of NSW. The newspaper will show the amount donated.

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser is held on microfilm at RAV/FM4/315 for the period 1843-1893 and the Sydney Morning Herald at RAV/FM4/461RR for the period 1842 to the present.

Further details on CDROM at Gow Newspaper Indexes.

Compiled by Liz Vincent and produced by Gould Genealogy in 2004, this CDROM indexes records based mainly on court and Catholic records in the Picton/Camden and Campbelltown Districts of NSW.

(1) The Court Records Index contains the following:

* Cawdor Bench Books 1825-1828

* Entrance Book to the Picton Lockup 1845-1861

* Picton Bench Books 1829-1883

Information includes people absconding, others giving evidence, tickets of leave, lunatic, forgery, disorderly behaviour, obscene language etc. Set out in column format, the index gives surname, first name/s, date (dd/mm/yyyy), page, and details (in brief).

(2) The Catholic Records Index contains the following:

* Stray Registers from Picton and Districts

* Stray Baptism, Marriage and Burial entries 1840-1948

The Catholic Records Index: contains 10 Catholic parish registers covering primarily Appin, Picton, Burragorang, Berrima, with a small number of entries from outer areas such as Campbelltown, Sydney and Prospect. Many baptisms, marriages and burials entries - believed to be as high as 50% - are not at the NSW Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages.

Burials:

* Parish Register of Appin 1841-1891 (123 entries), covers persons living in Appin, Picton, Berrima, Bargo, The Oaks, Rocky Water Holes, Burragorang, East Bargo, Wilton and Thirlmere

Baptisms:

* Parish Register of Appin 1840-1903 (1521 entries), covers persons living in Appin, Red Bank, Stonequarry, Picton, The Oaks, Berrima, Bargo, Mittagong, Bong Bong, Burragorang, Menangle, Hore Town (Douglas Park), Rock Water Holes, Upper Picton, Wilton, Prospect, Thirlmere and Cataract.

* There is also entries from Bulli, Illawarra, Sydney, Tumut, Cambpelltown, Dapto, Baulkham Hills, Smithfield, Sutton Forest, Hawkesbury Bridge, St Marys South, Liverpool, Balmain and Parramatta

Marriages:

* Parish Register of Appin 1840-1881 (88 entries), marriages took place at Appin, Red Bank, The Oaks, Picton, Berrima, Mittagong, Campbelltown, Bong Bong and Burragorang.

* State Register 1886-1897 (20 entries), marriages took place at Appin, Menangle and Picton.

* State Register c.1891 (1 entry), marriage took place at Menangle.

* State Register 1900-1902 (4 entries), marriages took place at Menangle and Picton.

* State Register 1866-1943 (153 entries), marriages took place at Picton, Appin, Douglas Park, Menangle, Avon Dam, Nepean and Bargo.

* State Register 1856-1888 (67 entries), marriages took place at Appin, Picton, Burragorang, East Bargo, The Oaks and Campbelltown.

* Parish Register 1844-1911 (42 entries), marriages took place at Burragorang, Campbelltown, The Oaks, Cox's River, Camden and Yerranderie.

* Parish Register 1911-1948 (50 entries), marriages took place at Yerranderie, Cox's River and Burragorang.

Produced by Lesley Uebel (see Claim a Convict ) in 2001, this CDROM is a collection of databases covering convicts who arrived into Port Jackson, Moreton Bay and Hobart during the 61 years of transportation.

Databases provided are, as follows:

(1) The 87,000 convicts who arrived into Port Jackson 1788--1849 by surname; Convicts to Hobart Town 1812 to early 1824; Convicts to Moreton Bay 1849--1850; and nearly 14,000 Ticket of Leave Numbers.

Information includes convict names, year of arrival, ship, place of trial & year, sentence and age.

(2) Convicts Permissions and Refusals to Marry (April) 1810-1851 - lists alphabetically the convicts who obtained permission to marry and also those applications that were refused either another convict or a 'free' person in NSW.

Information includes: name, age, ship & voyage number if a convict, sentence, condition (i.e. Free, Bond, FS, GS, TOL, Born Colony, Arrived Free and in some instances the ship of which they arrived), name of other party, age, Ship & voyage number if a convict, sentence, condition, year of approval, Clergy & district, reason for refusal

(3) Convict Death Index 1828-1879 - this index records the convicts who died while still under sentence, although many who had served their sentence are also listed along with a few children of convicts.

There are over 6,000 entries listed and many of these are not contained in the official death registers. Not every convict who died whilst serving their term was recorded on any documentation and therefore not included in this Index. Some names mentioned are convicts who originally were shipped to places other than Port Jackson and some were colonial convicts.

Information contained in this Index - name of convict (surname, given name) listed alphabetically by surname, ship on which they were transported, age noted at death, year of death or burial, district or parish & remarks.

(4) Assignments Register 1821-1825 - Includes date assigned, To whom assigned, residence, convict, ship, comments & remarks

(5) Families of convicts on Bounty Ships 1848-1855 - includes name, age, calling, native place, country, religion, education, ship and state of arrival

(6) Conditional Pardons Granted 1791-1825 and convicts Recommended for Conditional Pardons 1826-1856

(7) Absolute Pardons and recommendations for Absolute Pardons 1791-1846

(8) Marriage Licenses granted to free persons 1813-1827

(9) The Convict Transports - transport name and voyage number, date of arrival, tonnage, master and surgeon

Compiled by Nanette Hill and published by the Port Stephens Family History Society in 2007, this CDROM is an index of domestic notices in the Port Stephens Pilot newspaper between 16 July 1926 and 7 February 1930. Notices are indexed under the following categories: anniversaries, bequests, deaths, engagements, funeral notices, inquests, marriages, in memoriums, obituaries, probates, return thanks, sympathy messages and twenty-first birthdays (note that no births are listed in this newspaper).

The “Pilot” circulated in the following areas: Allworth, Anna Bay, Booral, Bullahdelah, Bundabah, Bungwahl, Karuah, Nelson’s Bay, Pindimar, Salt Ash, Tea Gardens, The Branch and the Myall Lakes District.

The Port Stephens Pilot is available on microfilm for the period July 16, 1926 to Feb. 7, 1930 at RAV/FM4/169.

Details of over 2500 pubs and publicans in the County of Cumberland, New South Wales, 1788-1850, covering from the Hawkesbury-Nepean River in the north, to the base of the Blue Mountains to the west and to Bulli in the south.

Includes transcriptions of surviving licence butts held by New South Wales State Records, plus licence details from a range of other published and unpublished sources. Also includes biographical notes about around half of the publicans mentioned, often including details of arrival in Australia, as well as family details and any convict details.

Index of mining leases for gold and other minerals for NSW mining districts for the period 1874 to 1953.

Compiled by Kaye Vernon and Billie Jacobsen, the data is in the form of a spreadsheet with the following subject columns:

(A) Register number of lease; (B) location; (C) number of application; (D) date of application; (E) date of possession; (F) applicants surname; (G) applicants christian name; (H) to whom receipt was issued; (I) other names relating to lease-surname; (J) other names relating to lease-christian name; (K) reel number; (L) item identifier; (M) surveyor surname; (N) surveyor christian name; (O) purpose of lease; and (P) file or region.

You can keyword search the spreadsheet by using Contol Find. Not all columns have an entry for a particular lease.

There are 4 spreadsheet options using the Index tabs at the bottom of the page. The default option, Index Surname, is an aphabetical sequence by applicants surname (column F). The other options are Index Other Name (column I), Index Area (column P) and Index Area Surname.

Mining districts covered include:

(1) Bathurst - Bathurst, Orange, Trunkey, Carcour, Tuena

(2) Lachlan - Parkes, Cargo, Forbes, Grenfell, Bourke, Young, Barmedman, Temora

(3) Mudgee - Hargreaves, Gulgong, Peak Hill, Windeyer, Wellington, Parkes, Tomingby

(4) New England & Clarence - Drake, Fairfield, Lionsville, Tenterfield, Boorook

(5) Peel & Uralla - Barrington, Glen Innes, Armidale, Buladelah, Nundle, Bingara

(6) Southern - Nowra, Braidwood, Araluen, Nerriga, Nerrigundah, Moruya, Little Creek, Pambula, Milton

(7) Tambaroora & Turon

(8) Tumut & Adelong - Adelong, Tumut, Tumbarumba, Gundagai, Kiandra, Queanbeyan,Captains Flat, Albury, Cooma

The original records can be viewed at State Records NSW at SRNSW: CGS 10093-CGS 10101 Kingswood (7/3112-7/3166) and (7/3179-7/3229).

Published by the Society of Australian Genealogists in 2002, this CDROM has over 235,000 names transcribed from headstone inscriptions in Rookwood Cemetery between 1981 and 1992.

Rookwood Cemetery, opened in 1867, is the largest working cemetery in the southern hemisphere and is the burial place for over 600,000 people.

Searches are possible by surname, forename, inscription or year of death and each entry shows the complete transcription and grave location.

Published in 2004 by the Australian Jewish Genealogical Society , this CD covers the Old Jewish Section of Rookwood Cemetery.This section has over 2,400 burials.

The earliest burial is 1 June 1837. 106 pre-1867 burials were relocated from Devonshire St. Cemetery to Rookwood in 1901. Some burials later than 1905 are also included.

Overall, there are: 1100 graves with headstones; 600 burials without headstones that have been identified and their position located; & 70 burials identified, but not yet located.

Contents include: compilation of images; Rookwood Cemetery maps; transcriptions of the English; transcriptions of the Hebrew; references to the death certificate registration number; death notices from newspapers,where available; details from the burial registers,where available; relocation details,where available.

3,300 transcriptions and burial register entries and 2,970 photographs (JPEG format) from the Sydney Catholic Lawn Cemetery, Kemps Creek, NSW, for the period 1965 to 2004, with a few for 2005.

The bronze plaques were photographed with digital photography and are cross referenced with the register entries and transcriptions. 330 entries are not included on the plaques.

Compiled by Bruce Shepherd for the Liverpool Genealogy Society , assisted by funds allocated to the Royal Australian Historical Society by the NSW Arts Ministry.

Sydney Catholic Lawn Cemetery is located on Weston Road, Kemps Creek, approximately 20 minutes from Liverpool. It is situated on 10 hectares of land burials, commenced in 1965 and to date has recorded 3,300 burials. The cemetery averages 110 burials each year and the majority are Catholic but other denominations are catered for.

Compiled by Moore College and published by Gould Genealogy in 2007, this 3-set CDROM is a fascimile of the yearbook for the Church of England Diocese of Sydney, in 3 compendiums for the periods 1881-1900,1901-1910 and 1911-1920.

The annual Sydney Diocesean Sydney directories contain lists and details on all the Anglican clergy, cathedrals, committees, societies and schools of NSW, as well as Anglican clergy lists for all other states in Australia. Detailed biographical information on those who held office in the Anglican church at the time is included.

The fascimile annuals have been bookmarked for easy navigation and pages can be searched, browsed, enlarged and printed out if required.

The hardcopy version of this annual is held in SRL at DS283.911/1 for the period 1881, 1886, 1888, 1893-1896, 1899-1901 and 1903-1920 and in ML at 283.91/S for the period 1881, 1886, 1888, 1894-1896 and 1899-1920.

Published by Gould Genealogy in 2006, this CDROM is an update of the New South Wales section of Nicholas John Vine Hall's Tracing your Family History in Australia - a national guide first published in 1994. The national guide has, in fact, grown so big that NSW is large enough to require its own volume.

This fully-searchable CDROM does not contain actual records. Rather, it is a guide to where records - such as passenger lists, convict records, bankruptcy records, published family histories, etc. that relate to NSW - can be found. It covers traditional published and manuscript sources as well as those on the internet, giving details of 41 record groups and major Sydney record centres. It also includes a bibliography.

Contents are, as follows:

1. Historical Background; 2. Population; 3.Immigration; 4. Birthplaces; 5. Religion; 6.Record Access; 7. Location of Records: Society of Australian Genealogists,NSW Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages, State Records Authority of NSW, National Archives of Australia, Mitchell Library; 8. Record Categories: Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders, Adoptions, Biographical and Genealogical Dictionaries, Business Records, Cemeteries, Census Returns, Change of Name, Civil Registration, Convicts, Directories and Almanacs, Divorce, Electoral Rolls, Family Bibles, Genealogical Charts, Genealogical Societies, Government Gazettes, Hospitals and Asylums, Inquests, Insolvency and Bankruptcy, Land Records, Local Government Records, Local History Societies, Manuscripts, Letters, Diaries and Heirlooms, Maps, Gazetteers and Place-Names, Marriage Licences, Declarations and Banns, Naturalisations, Occupational Records, One-Name Groups, Orphans, Parish Registers, Passenger Arrivals and Departures, Photographs and Pictures, Published Family Histories and Biographies, Published Local Histories, Research Directories and Indexes, Schools, Colleges and Universities, Shipping, Specialist Historical Societies, Undertakers' and monumental Masons' Records, Wills, Probates and Letters of Administrations.

The 2002 3rd edition of Nick Vine Hall's Tracing Your Family History in Australia : a National Guide to Sources is held in SRL's Family History Service at REF 10/ N929.394/ 33A and in ML at REF 1/929.394/34.

This CD includes two indexes previously published as separate microfiche sets (but have now been extended to 1856):

1. Unassisted Arrivals to New South Wales 1842-1856 Index - lists some 150,000 entries for Sydney arrivals.

It was compiled from 3 State Records NSW sources (1) Reports of Vessels Arrived 1842-56; (2) Passengers Arriving Sydney 1846; and (3) Shipping Master's Office (Passengers Arriving) 1854-56. It is also supplemented by over 25,000 additional names from the 'Sydney Morning Herald' Shipping Intelligence columns.

The list was then compared with the arrivals in the Shipping Gazette and Sydney General Trade List, a weekly publication reproducing shipping information as, on occasion, an arrival was omitted from one or other of the sources. All name variants were noted and, if sufficiently different, appear as separate entries with cross-referencing in the remarks column. If the 'Sydney Morning Herald' provided a full forename where the original record had only an initial, the full name has been placed in the index and not in the remarks column.

The index includes the name of any regiment noted plus any deaths on board. It also lists the name, age (when given), arrival date, status (master, passenger or crew - and crew only listed from 1854), departure ports, including foreign, coastal and interstate and a remarks column noting any additional information such as place of origin, nationality etc.

2. Ships and Masters to Sydney 1842-1856 Index - for those studying the ships and masters of this period, this index lists all of the ship arrivals (over 12,000 entries) with a separate list of the masters with name variations.

Although the State Records NSW records do not generally include ships arriving from Moreton Bay and New South Wales coastal ports such as Clarence River, Port Macquarie, Twofold Bay, Newcastle etc., they are reported in the 'Sydney Morning Herald'. These are included in this list.

Additionaly, there is also, separately listed, the 42 ships arriving from German departure ports.

This CD is one of a series of six produced by Paskeys and Gould Genealogy as part of the NSW Immigration Index Series. The State Library has the other five titles in this series. They are:

(1) Immigration Deposit Indexes;

(2) Free Railway Passes (NSW) index 1880-1892;

(3) Deane Index Re-Indexed 1823-1840;

(4) Paskeys Miscellaneous Indexes - Unclaimed Letters index 1836-1852, Unemployed Registers 1860, 1884 Index and Wages Paid to Orphans Index 1842-1856;

(5) Convicts & Employers(NSW) Index 1828, 1832-33, Jan 1838-Jan 1844

Published by the Society of Australian Genealogists in 2005, this CDROM provides information transcibed from Waverley & South Head General Cemeteries' headstones and plaques.

Waverley and South Head Cemeteries are located in the eastern suburbs of Sydney and are the most significant burial sites in that area. South Head General Cemetery opened in 1869 and Waverley in 1877. Both are still in use and over 56,000 headstone transcriptions, compiled by SAG volunteers up to 2002, are included on the CD.

This new CD allows the user to search not only by last name (including phonetic and wild cards), but by first name, year of burial and inscription. Each record shows the complete transcription, as well as denomination, section, row and plot number - and a map for easy reference. Nearby graves are also listed.

Published by the Central Coast Family History Society in 200?, this CD contains an incomplete index to the wives of convicts, and female convicts with accompanying children, mentioned in the NSW Musters and Other Papers 1825 - 1840 held at NSW State Records ( 2/8241 to 2/8282 & reels 2417 to 2428).

Produced by Gould Genealogy in 2007, this fully searchable CDROM is a fascimile of a 1900 book by Alfred G. Yewen which was the first broad attempt at publishing a complete directory of over 70,000 landowners throughout NSW.

The 600-page directory is divided into approximately 1900 postal localities, grouped under 87 larger districts. There is an introduction and summary to each district.

Yewen's Directory indicates for each landholder whether they are dairy farmers, graziers or agriculturalists and what crops are under cultivation in the following categories - wheat, maize, barley, oats, potatoes, tobacco, sugar, other crops, grapes and orchard fruits.

The main directory is supplemented by further useful information:

* a list of butter factories, creameries cheese and bacon factories, flour mills, sugar mills, ice works etc.

* a large fold out chart with a breakdown of crops under cultivation and livestock by district

* a summary table of the landed estate of New South Wales

* indexes to the districts, the postal localities and over 50 advertisers in the directory.

This directory is useful not only for locating forbears but also details about a neighbourhood/district.

The 1900 print edition is located in the Mitchell Library at Z/Q630.991/Y and also on microfiche at MAV/FM4/9380.

This Census of NSW, undertaken in November 1828, aimed to record all the inhabitants of the colony at the time. Over 36,500 people are reported. It does not include the military, although their wives and children were probably included in the general population. It is the only census to survive in full to the present day.

The 1828 Census was published on CDROM in 2001 and in hardcopy in 1980, both edited by Keith Johnson & Malcolm Sainty. It provides the individual’s full name,age, free or bond, ship, year, sentence, religion, employment, residence, district, total number of acres, acres cleared, acres cultivated, horses, horned cattle, sheep and remarks.

It was the first census to be conducted after if was found that a Governor had no right to compel free men to come to a muster. Although the census fulfilled the same functions as the previous musters, there were some differences.The census was taken by appointed collectors, responsible to the Commissioner or Bench of Magistrates, who completed printed forms for each household in the district allotted to them. The magistrates then checked the returns and forwarded them to the Colonial Secretary's Office where they were gathered together in order to extract statistics.

The 1980 hardcopy is located in SRL at REF 10/NQ312.09944/5 SET and in ML at REF 1/Q312.09944/1

Further information on the 1828 Census and other census records can be found at the NSW State Records website at Short Guide 12 - Muster and Census Records 1788-1901.

This database contains indexes of death and marriage records only for New South Wales from 1919 - 1945. You can search by place of registration and parents' names as well as surname and given name for flexible searching.

This 2002 CDROM, indexed by Marj Knight, contains nearly 60,000 records of bounty or assisted immigrants arriving in NSW from 1829 to 1842, compiled from 64 NSW State Records microfilm ( reels 1286 to 1349 ).

This includes the following :

(1) The Persons on early migrant ships, 1828-32 (reel 1286) - records, for each immigrant, name, age, sex, country and calling, and status as a passenger (cabin or steerage).

(2)The Persons on early migrant ships, May 1832-Jan 1833 (reel 1286) - is similar to the earlier volume but also includes a list of mechanics and females who received advances of money from the British Government to pay the cost of their passage to New South Wales.

(3) For each certificate in the series Entitlement certificates of persons on bounty ships, 1832-42 (reels 1286 to part-1349) - the name of the ship and the ship's agent; and the native place, calling, age, health, religion and name of the immigrant are recorded. Each certificate is endorsed with a character reference and a certificate of baptism.

Fields used in the database are: Surname, Given name; Age in years; Year; Ship; Native place; Occupation; Religion; Notes; and Reel.

According to the Queensland State Archives Brief Guide to the use of Immigration Records, the Bounty system, established in NSW in 1837, involved the payment of set amounts of money or 'bounties' per immigrant to person who arrived and paid for the passage of certain categories or immigrants such as female domentic servants, shepherds, mechanics, agricultural labourers, etc. , which were needed in the colonies. The system was financed from the sale of Crown lands.

Futher details see NSW State Records at Guide to Using Assisted (Bounty) Immigrants Records

Index of 22,574 records from the 1832-33 NSW Government Gazette of assignments (male & female), absconders, absconders apprehended and a small list of those with their Ticket of Leave cancelled. Also included are convict records from State Records NSW of assignments to assist in harvesting and surveying.

The index lists the name,age (where noted), occupation, whether convict or employer,native place (where noted),date of record,type of record (ie: assignments,absconders etc),location, reference, ship, and a remarks column for employer cross-indexing (when given).

Can use Toolbar Search button for Keyword search of name, place etc of pdf file. Alternatively, click bookmark tab on left to select letter, right click mouse for 'go to bookmark' for surname list at letter chosen.

This CD is one of a series of six produced by Paskeys and Gould Genealogy as part of the NSW Immigration Index Series. The State Library has the other five titles in this series. They are:

(1) Immigration Deposit Indexes;

(2) Free Railway Passes (NSW) index 1880-1892;

(3) Deane Index Re-Indexed 1823-1840;

(4) Paskeys Miscellaneous Indexes - Unclaimed Letters index 1836-1852, Unemployed Registers 1860, 1884 Index and Wages Paid to Orphans Index 1842-1856;

(5) Unassisted Arrivals (NSW) Index 1842-56 and Ships & Masters to Sydney Index 1842-56.

This database is an electronic version of the Convicts Permissions to Marry which is part of the Archives Office of New South Wales Genealogical Research Kit. It contains an alphabetical list of convicts and also lists their age, ship, sentence and status, and the name of their spouse, spouse's age, ship, sentence, status, as well as the year, name of clergy and district of the marriage.

Connecting Kin is a 383-page NSW Department of Community Services guide to NSW records from 1900 onwards aimed at helping people separated from their birth families (through adoption, fostering etc) to locate records about their separation and their families. The Guide was published in September 1998.

Since 1924, over 100,000 children, both Aboriginal and non - Aboriginal, have been made wards of the State of NSW. Thousands more have been placed with other families under adoption or other arrangements.

The guide includes : a brief history of child welfare in NSW; a chronology of key events in NSW child welfare; listing of records at NSW Government welfare agencies, non government agencies, public hospitals and NSW Government non-welfare agencies; Appendix 1 : Services and other sources of information; Appendix 2 : chronological summary of child welfare agencies in NSW; Appendix 3 : brief history of missions in NSW; Appendix 4 : brief history of Aboriginal reserves in NSW; Appendix 5 : definitions and abbreviations used in this Guide; and index.

The index is a key element of the guide as it indexes all the records in the guide by place name (eg: town or suburb name), name of agency (ie Department of Community Services) and name of home or program (ie Parramatta Training School for Girls) with extensive cross referencing. It also indexes the appendices which appear in the Guide.

Records referred to in the guide's 4 main sections ( NSW Government welfare agencies, non government agencies, public hospitals and NSW Government non-welfare agencies ) are grouped under the name, institution or program they relate to, and then are listed in 'series'. A series is a collection of records which usually have the same format ( eg:files, photographs, registers) and which were created for a particular function.

Before starting a search for your birth family, it would be useful to know your date and place of birth, where you were brought up (ie; the name of the children's home and/or the school you attended) and the name/s of your foster or adoptive parents. It is also important to know that for confidentiality reasons, there are a variety of conditions and procedures governing access to records.

A number of agencies which hold records offer support and counselling services. These include:

(1) Family Support Services, NSW Department of Community Services, (02) 9865 5961 or toll free 1800 049 956; (2) Anglican Adoption Agency (Careforce) (02) 9890 6855; (3) Barnardo's Adoption Agency (02) 9281 5510; (4) Centacare Adoption Service (02) 9744 7055; (5) Mercy Family Centre (02) 9487 3022; and (6) Salvation Army (02) 9266 9829.

In addition, there are a number of groups which offer advice, information, mediation and counselling. These include : (1) Adoption Triangle NSW Inc which has a number of country and interstate groups. Phone (02) 4965 5888 for the number of the nearest group to you; (2) Origins Inc (02) 9560 8808; (3) the Post Adoption Resource Centre (02) 9365 3444 or toll free 1800 024 256; and (4) Link-Up (NSW) Aboriginal Corporation (02) 4759 1911.

The online 'Connecting Kin' guide may be slow in downloading because it is a large pdf file. You could also go to related links on the righthand column of the NSW Department of Community Services webpage Are you a former ward?

Provides information about adoption services available through NSW Department of Community Services.

Index to NSW Divorce Case Papers which are held at State Records NSW (series NRS 13495) for the period August 20, 1873 to 1930 and 1970. Currently the index goes up to 1923 and has some 20,000 entries. NSW was the last Australian colony to implement divorce legislation with the Matrimonial Causes Act, 1873.

You can also obtain copies of divorce case papers held at the State Records via their Divorce Case Papers Service. To order copies you will need to provide:the names of the couple (petitioner and respondent); year of divorce; registered divorce number; and the Container/Box number (if known).

The State Records NSW index was created from the Supreme Court of NSW's Family Law (Divorce) Index which covers a longer period, from 1873 to 1976. This longer index is available at both the Supreme Court of NSW and State Records NSW ( microfiche 6130 to 6410 ). This 1873 to 1976 index is arranged chronologically and then by the first letter of the surname and provides the registered number for the divorce case papers. From 1873-1925 the index also records year, petitioner, respondent and co-respondent(s) if named. From 1926-1949 and 1955-76 the entries give date of registration and date of final decree. Entries for names Kon-Z in the period 1970-74 are missing.

The contents of the divorce case papers have changed markedly during the years since 1873, particularly during the 1960s and 1970s when less evidence was required to obtain a divorce decree. Files for the years 1873 to 1900, and to a lesser extent, those for 1901 to 1920, contain detailed petitions for the dissolution of marriage, statements of issues, affidavits of evidence and supporting documentation, as well as correspondence, applications for divorce, judicial separation or other matters matrimonial, copies of the decrees nisi (initial conditional grant of divorce), and copies of decrees absolute (final grant of divorce). In instances where property division and alimony were in question, financial documents relating to income and capital are included.

For access to divorce case papers not held by State Records NSW contact the Family Law Clerk, Supreme Court of New South Wales, GPO Box 3, Sydney, NSW 2001. For divorce records after 1976 contact the Family Court of Australia at Family Law Courts National Enquiry Centre, GPO Box 9991, Parramatta, NSW. 2124. Ph: 1300 352 000 or email: enquiries@familylawcourts.gov.au or fax: 02 8892 8585

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A detailed selection of scanned documents and books, including the Sands directories, some early NSW electoral rolls and land title records and miscelleanous occupations.

A commercial site which provides images of historical documents of NSW during the period 1850 to 1920. Includes records in the following categories - Directories, Electoral Rolls, Miners and Mining Leases, Land Purchasers and Lessees, Farmers, Graziers, Shearers and Station Hands, Other Occupations Including Civil Servants, Teachers etc., Voters, Petitioners, Friendly Society Members etc. Much of the material is available freely on viewing the site.

This database contains indexes of birth, death and marriage records for New South Wales from 1889 - 1918. You can search by place of registration and parents' names as well as surname and given name for flexible searching.

Index of 23,899 entries compiled from surviving registers of applications for free railway passes. These passes were generally issued to NSW immigrants seeking employment in outer metropolitan or country areas in NSW, although many were issued for charitable reasons.

The date ranges of the registers are not indicative of how long the applicants were in the colony. Most entries note the applicant's native place, age, married or single, how long in NSW and sometimes other detail such as ship of arrival.

The Registers were transferred from the Chief Secretary's Department to the Mitchell Library in June 1934 and they are now at State Records NSW.

This CD is one of a series of six produced by Paskeys and Gould Genealogy as part of the NSW Immigration Index Series. The State Library has the other five titles in this series. They are:

(1) Immigration Deposit Indexes;

(2) Convicts & Employers(NSW) Index 1828, 1832-33, Jan 1838-Jan 1844;

(3) Deane Index Re-Indexed 1823-1840;

(4) Paskeys Miscellaneous Indexes - Unclaimed Letters index 1836-1852, Unemployed Registers 1860, 1884 Index and Wages Paid to Orphans Index 1842-1856;

(5) Unassisted Arrivals (NSW) Index 1842-56 and Ships & Masters to Sydney Index 1842-56.

Produced by the Newcastle Family History Society in 2004, this CDROM is a reproduction of the 1892 book by William Hanson (former Govenment Printer of NSW) entitled 'Geographical Encyclopædia of New South Wales: Including the counties, towns and villages within the colony; with the sources and courses of the rivers and their tributaries, ports, harbours, light-houses and mountain ranges; postal, money order and telegraph offices and savings banks; the Railways and stations on each line; the public schools and the county in which each school is located; with a map and diagram of light-houses on the coast'.

This 112-year old title has become a valuable aid to family historians trying to decipher geographical information enshrined in many old family documents. Geographical place names evolve over the years such that many names, familiar to NSW citizens of 1892, can no longer be located on current maps.

A hardcopy 2004 edition of this title is in SRL at REF 10/N994.4003/1 and in ML at REF 1/994.4003/1A.

Immigration Deposit Journal records detail the money paid to the Colony to sponsor the transportation of people to NSW. This CD has 2 main indexes:

(1) Immigration Deposit Journals (NSW) Index 1853-1900: Immigration & Depositors - contains 67,199 records in separate indexes for depositors and immigrants. Many convicts and early immigrants established in the Colony sponsored relatives and employees and, in a large majority of entries, details such as location, parish, townland or address in the country of origin, ship etc are specified. This index lists the name and age of the proposed immigrant, sponsor(depositor), date of deposit, deposit number, State Records NSW microfilm reel number and, in a remarks column, codes for information where available in the original journal entry.

(2) Immigration Deposit Regulations Supplementary Index 1856-1857: Immigrants & Depositors - is an index of 4,297 records compiled from Embarkation Orders and Shipping Lists of arrivals between November 1856 to February 1858 with the actual lists for the period 1856-57 covering the period when only the Depositors' Journal survived in the Immigration Deposit Journal series. There are separate lists for both depositors and immigrants. Like the Immigration Deposit Journals these records provide that vital link between family and extended family, often cousins, uncles etc. with different surnames. Each immigrant's age is given and families are grouped. Five of the ships went direct to Moreton Bay.

This CD is one of a series of six produced by Paskeys and Gould Genealogy as part of the NSW Immigration Index Series. The State Library has the other five titles in this series. They are:

(1) Paskeys Miscellaneous Indexes - Unclaimed Letters index 1836-1852, Unemployed Registers 1860, 1884 Index and Wages Paid to Orphans Index 1842-1856;

(2) Convicts & Employers(NSW) Index 1828, 1832-33, Jan 1838-Jan 1844;

(3) Deane Index Re-Indexed 1823-1840;

(4) Free Railway Passes (NSW) Index 1880-1892;

(5) Unassisted Arrivals (NSW) Index 1842-56 and Ships & Masters to Sydney Index 1842-56;

The alphabetical surname index of pre-1900 NSW pioneers begins on page 305 and ends on page 368. Click on 'click here for index' in red at top of page 1 to go directly to this index.

An alphabetical list of all contributors, their address and sometimes email, can be found on pages 303 to 304.

Pioneer entries can provide information on births,marriages and deaths, children, family relationships, occupation etc. Each entry ends with the name and address of the contributor.The index was compiled by Julie Dern and published October 6, 2004.

This CD includes three indexes. These were originally published on separate microfiche, compiled by Pat Stemp & Aileen Trinder.

(1) Unclaimed Letters (Noting Ship or Regiment) Index for 1836-1852 - index of 2,790 unclaimed letters listed in the NSW Government Gazette. In many cases, as well as the addressee, the published lists included the expected locations of these persons in NSW and other colonies. Many of them also noted the ship of arrival of the addressee or current(or late) regiment.

A single microfiche version of Unclaimed letters is located at REF 10/RAV/FM6/607.

(2) Unemployment Registers 1860, 1884 Index - 494 entries listing name,age,occupation,marital status,date of interview,address,the State Records NSW reference,ship of arrival,where given, etc

A single microfiche version of Unemployed registers is located at REF 10/N331.1370994/14.

(3) Wages Paid to Orphans Index for 1849-1851 - 612 entries comprising Irish orphan girls,their employers & other relevant persons mentioned in the records and notes their status,event date, the event itself,the event location,source reference, ship name when given, etc

A single microfiche version of Wages Paid to Orphans Index is located REF 10/N362.7320994/4.

This CD is one of a series of six produced by Paskeys and Gould Genealogy as part of the NSW Immigration Index Series. The State Library has the other five titles in this series. They are:

(1) Immigration Deposit Indexes;

(2) Convicts & Employers(NSW) Index 1828, 1832-33, Jan 1838-Jan 1844;

(3) Deane Index Re-Indexed 1823-1840;

(4) Free Railway Passes (NSW) Index 1880-1892;

(5) Unassisted Arrivals (NSW) Index 1842-56 and Ships & Masters to Sydney Index 1842-56.

This database contains indexes of birth, death and marriage records for New South Wales from 1788 - 1888. You can search by place of registration and parents' names as well as surname and given name for flexible searching.

The NSW Registry provides a free Online Historical Index to births (1788-1908), deaths (1788-1978) and marriages (1788-1958) in NSW.

Anyone can apply for a birth, death and marriage certificate if the event occurred 100 years ago or more for births, 30 years ago or more for deaths and 50 years ago or more for marriages. If the event dos not meet these criteria the certificate has restricted access for confidentiality and potential identify fraud reasons. Restricted records are normally only available to the person named on the certificate and identification is always required.

An “Online Historical Index” search result provides the following information: First Name; Last Name; Year the event was registered; District (place the event was registered); Unique Registration Number; and parent’s given names. NSW Registry birth, death or marriage certificates are cheaper if the registration number is included on the application form. Costs of certificates are indicated on the application form. Currently, with a registration number you receive a discounted fee of $26.00 per certificate compared to the standard fee of $39.00.

NSW Registry Family History Birth, Death or Marriage Certificate application forms can be found at Application Forms. Applications cannot be submitted online. You can print the form and then mail or fax a completed printout to: NSW Registry of Births Deaths & Marriages, GPO Box 30, Sydney, NSW 2001 Fax: (02) 9699 5120. You can also deliver the completed application form in person to one of the NSW Registry office locations (opening hours: Monday to Friday, 8.00am to 4.30pm) at : (1) 35 Regent Street, Chippendale, Sydney, NSW, 2008; 92) 2/74 Kembla Street, Wollongong, NSW, 2500; (3) 95 Tudor Street, Hamilton, Newcastle, NSW, 2300.

Birth, death and marriage certificates will vary in appearance based on how the event was originally recorded at the time of the registration. The means of capturing this event data has varied over the year from quill and ink in leather bound registers to computerised date capture. Between 1788 and 1855 certificates will be converted to a computerised format from Registry transcriptions of the Early Church Records. From 1856 to 1951 certificates will usually be digital reproduction of the actual entries that were handwritten across large registers. In cases where the ink has faded or the record is deteriorated, the certificate is converted to a computerised format. From 1952 to the present certificates will either be computer generated or printed copies of the original types or handwritten registration on microfilm.

Early church records of baptisms, burials and marriages (1788-1855) only have limited information, usually names of parties, date and place of event. From 1788 until 1855 the churches assumed responsibility for recording the details of baptisms, burials and marriages which they had performed. Both the NSW State Records and the NSW State Library has transcriptions of these pre-1856 early church records but copies can only be obtained from the Registry for copyright reasons. In 1856 civil registration was introduced and the NSW Government took over the function of recording all births, deaths and marriages from the churches.

In general, more recent standard birth, death and marriage certificates include the following information:

Birth certificates - full name, sex, date and place of birth; mother's details including full name and maiden name, age, occupation, place of birth; father's details including full name, age, occupation, place of birth; date and place of parent's marriage ; and previous children of the relationship. By law, the words illegitimate or spinster cannot appear on any birth certificate issued, even if the original registration included them.

Death certificates - full name, sex and age, date and place of death, place of residence, usual occupation and marital status at date of death; place of marriage, age when married, full name of spouse; children's name and ages; parent's names including mother's maiden name; cause of death and duration of last illness; and burial or cremation date and place.

Marriage certificates - bridegroom's full name, occupation, place of residence, conjugal status, place and date of birth, age, father's name and mother's maiden name; bride's full name, occupation, place of residence, conjugal status, place and date of birth, age, father's name and mother's maiden name; and celebrant's name and witnesses.

The NSW State Library has an online guide to its birth death & marriage indexes at Getting Started : Births, Deaths & Marriages.

A Society of Australian Genealogists (SAG) index derived from NSW State Records ships musters of both passengers and crew on ships departing NSW from 1816 to 1825.

For crew, details of their position on the ship are provided, along wih details of their Ticket of Leave, Certificate of Freedom or Pardon in the case of convicts or ex-convicts. For example, 'James Allen, free by Pardon No. 361, date 5 July 1819'. Convict ship of arrival is also often given.

For passengers, too, details of their status or condition are provided. Free persons not identified as previously convict generally have their ship of arrival stated. Children travelling without parents are identified by the name and residence of one of their parents. In a few instances a passenger is referred to by official position (e.g. 'Judge Advocate') rather than by name.

This SAG index is by the initial letter of each person's last name. Some had no last name recorded, or the name given was illegible, and they are grouped together at the start of the index.

Searching for a particular name is usually easier than browsing for it and searches will be more effective if you use simple search terms, as with the following example:

Starting a search for 'Richard Abbott' will look for exactly that phrase, but most of our databases have the first and last names stored separately - Richard Abbott will simply not be found. If you search for just 'Abbott', or even just 'Richard', you'll quickly spot Richard Abbott in the hit list.

Indexes provide last name, ship, year, type, COD number and State Record shelf number and reel number. The type code indicates the status of the named individual : A - Master of vessel; B - Crew; C - Crew - convict or former convict; D - Apprentice; E - Owner of vessel; F - Passenger; G - Former convict passenger; H - Naval; J - Convict passenger; and K - Military.

Few records of passengers departing from NSW were ever kept, let alone survive. In fact, it was not until 1898 that systematic records of departure began to be created by public officials. Prior to that time, there are only a few series of official departure records.

For further details of NSW departure records view the NSW State Records leaflet Archives in Brief 45 - Passengers departing from NSW.

NSW State Records offers online indexes to the following assisted immigrants records it holds :

(1) Assisted immigrants arriving at Port Phillip, 1839-51

(2) Assisted immigrants arriving in Sydney and Newcastle, 1844-59

(3) Assisted immigrants arriving at Moreton Bay (Brisbane), 1848-59

(4) Assisted immigrants arriving in Sydney, 1860-79

(5) Assisted immigrants arriving in Sydney, 1880-96

(6) Index to Miscellaneous Immigrants, 1828-43

(7) Index to Vessels Arrived, 1837-1925

The term 'assisted immigrant' refers to those people whose passage was subsidised or paid for through one of the several assisted immigration schemes which operated to New South Wales from the United Kingdom and other countries.

The NSW State Library Family History Service holds the Assisted (Bounty) immigrants to New South Wales, 1828-42 on CDROM which is listed on this menu. The NSW State Library also has a guide to its holdings relating to NSW assisted passengers at Getting Started : NSW Assisted Passenger Lists

An index to correspondence of the Colonial Secretary, covering the early administration of the colony of NSW from 1788 to 1825. These papers are held by State Records NSW and include: petitions by convicts for mitigation of their sentences; requests for permission to marry; memorials attesting to the worthy character of potential settlers; applications for land grants or leases; reports on official visits; and information about court cases and lists of assigned servants.

This index itself is primarily a personal one, concentrating on the early inhabitants of Australia - the convicts, settlers, indigenous Australians and colonial officials. However, the index does contain many entries relating to ships, subjects, towns and localities.

There is a subject hierarchy for similar subject terms in the index, as follows: (1) Ships of that name; (2) Places/subjects; and then (3) Individuals. For example:

'RICHMOND'. Convict transport RICHMOND see also HAWKESBURY DISTRICT

RICHMOND

RICHMOND, Magistrates

RICHMOND, Watch House

RICHMOND, George

RICHMOND, John

RICHMOND HILL

RICHMOND ROAD

A 63-fiche version of this index, and copies of the actual Colonial Secretary Papers on 312 microfiche, are available at the ML Information Desk. Copies of the Colonial Secretary Papers are also available on 72 microfilm reels (reels 6001-6072) in the ML Reading Room (MAV/FM4/10243-10314). Copies of these records can also be obtained via the State Records NSW Colonial Secretary Papers copy service.

This NSW State Records index relates to vessels arriving in Sydney from 1837 to 1925 and records the name, type of vessel and date of arrival. There are 120,133 entries. If you know the name of the ship, this index will be useful to check or confirm the date of arrival.

Information has been transcribed from the State Records Authority of NSW Reels of the Shipping Master's Office, an Index of Vessels Arrived, 1837-1925 (NRS 13277 series; reels 2502-2503A).

There were a number of pages, or sections of pages, missing from the original records. Therefore this Index has been augmented with records from 'The Shipping Gazette and Sydney Trade Journal', the 'Sydney Morning Herald' Shipping Columns and vessel scans which are recorded on the Mariners and Ships in Australian Waters site. One complete section of vessels, with names commencing with letter A, was not on the reels. It will be possible to be reconstructed this information when the Mariners and ships in Australian Waters project has been completed.

This index was compiled by and published on the NSW State Records website with the permission of Ms Mary-Anne Warner, who also retains the copyright to this index.

NSW State Records holds many different types of shipping records, including sources on passengers arriving in and departing from NSW up to 1922. The National Archives of Australia holds post-1922 immigration records.

A number of online fact sheets or 'Archives in Brief ' on shipping records are available on the NSW State Records website, namely : No. 1 Shipping and arrival records; No. 24 Shipping and arrival records - additional resources; No. 21 Records relating to crew; and No. 45 Departing passengers from NSW.

This State Records NSW index comprises unassisted (or free) passengers who came to NSW at their own expense between 1842 and 1855. The index includes the ships' crew from 1854 and there are 136,100 entries in total.

The index was compiled from 3 State Records NSW record series (1) Colonial Secretary; CGS 1291, Reports of Vessels Arrived 1842-56 (reels 1269-1281); (2) Immigration; CGS 5326, Passengers Arriving at Sydney 1846 (reel 2457); and (3) Shipping Master's Office; CGS 13278, Passengers Arriving 1854-56 (reels 399-402). It is also supplemented by over 25,000 additional names from the 'Sydney Morning Herald' Shipping Intelligence columns. Until 1854, many unassisted passengers (particularly steerage passengers) were not listed individually on a ship's passenger list. Newspapers for this period often reported a ship's arrival and these can contain the list of passengers.

All passengers named in the NSW State Archive records ( including persons mentioned in health reports or having died on board etc) have been included and cross-checked with passengers named in the shipping intelligence columns of the Sydney Morning Herald. The passenger lists from the SMH have themselves, from 1844, been compared with the lists published in the Shipping Gazette and Sydney General Trade List, a weekly publication reproducing shipping information from the SMH as, on occasion, the passenger lists of the two papers differed. All variations have been noted in the index.

Occasionally, in the couse of cross-checking with the newspapers, other lists of names were found. For example, passengers who placed an advertisement thanking the captain for a safe voyage or passengers and crew involved in shipwrecks. Where these names were not otherwise in either the Archives Office reels or the shipping arrival column, they have been included.

Often it was found that the departure port stated in the original record was interstate only, whereas the SMH indicated that the voyage originated overseas. This information is shown in the remarks column.

In some instances, when a last name is common, such as Wright or Brown, and no first name initial is given, it can be hard to pinpoint which entry is your ancestor. If the SMH has provided a full forename where the original record had only an initial, the full name has been placed in the index and not in the remarks column. Often the entries on the records indexed will provide no more information than the details contained in this index.

The index is published on the State Records website with the permission of Ms Aileen Trinder and Ms Pat Fearnley (formerly Stemp) of Pastkeys, who compiled and retain copyright to this index.

The FH Service has a CDROM version of this index entitled ' Unassisted Arrivals (NSW) Index 1842-56 and Ships & Masters to Sydney Index 1842-56 ', one of Paskeys and Gould Genealogy's NSW Immigration Index Series (listed on this menu).

NSW State Records holds records of free settlers from 1792-1922, mostly records relating to free settlers arriving in Sydney. There are no comprehensive indexes to passengers arriving after 1855. If the name of the ship and the exact year of arrival are unknown, researchers will need to try to determine the date of arrival from other sources. There is the Mariners and Ships in Australian Waters website, listed on this menu, which focuses on unassisted passengers and crew arrivals from the 1870s. Otherwise, NSW State Records has an online Archives in Brief No.102 guide at How to find Unassisted Passengers and there is a NSW State Library guide to its holdings at Getting Started : NSW Unassisted Passenger Lists

After 1922, immigration became the responsibility of the Commonwealth Government and the records are held by the National Archives of Australia.

This index to registers of the Randwick Asylum for Destitute Children held by NSW State Records, covering the period from 4 June 1852 to 14 August 1915, has 5890 entries. Record series used to compile the Index come from NRS 13362, Registers of Inmates. For an historical background and further details on Randwick Asylum records held see Archives in Brief 66 - Randwick Asylum for Destitute Children.

As children who were apprenticed from the Asylum may have appeared before local Courts of Petty Sessions, these records should also be consulted. Records of the various Courts of Petty Sessions and Local Courts are listed in the NSW State Records Archives Investigator. References to former Asylum inmates may also be contained in the New South Wales Police Gazettes 1862-1930 and the CDROM version can be keyword searched at the NSW State Library's Family History Service.

The Society for the Relief of Destitute Children opened Ormond House in Oxford Street, Paddington, for needy children in 1852. The children were normally between the ages of three and ten years and not eligible for admission to the Orphan Schools. Every child admitted (including voluntary admissions) was to remain the responsibility of the Institution until aged 19 or, in the case of a female marrying earlier, until her marriage.

The Asylum for Destitute Children relocated to Randwick in 1858. A building to accommodate 400 children was constructed on the site. The Randwick site included a farm where the boys learnt farming skills. Many of the boys and girls became apprenticed to the Institution when they reached 12. The children received a basic education. From 1877 they received a State education from teachers from the Council of Education.

The NSW Children Relief Act, 1881 authorised any State child under the age of twelve to be removed from an asylum and boarded-out. The Randwick Asylum began boarding-out children in 1883. The NSW Government ceased funding the home after 1888 and no longer used it to accommodate State children. Some children who were supported by their parents remained in the Asylum.

The premises were increasingly under-utilised until it was taken over by the Federal Government during World War I as a military hospital for wounded and disabled returned servicemen. In April 1915 the children remaining at the Asylum were sent to cottage style institutions or boarded-out.

The Mitchell wing of the NSW State Library holds the following : annual reports of the Directors of the Society for the Relief of Destitute Children from 1853; Randwick Destitute Children's Asylum : Deaths & Burials 1853-1916 by Beverley Smith; and Destitute Children's Asylum, Randwick, 1852-1916 by Frank Doyle & Joy Storey.

The Mitchell Library also holds the records of Australia's oldest charity - providing for the destitute - namely the Benevolent Society of NSW records dating from 1813 to 1996, including the admission records, and further records are expected. There is a Guide to the records of the Benevolent Society of New South Wales, 1813-1995, in the Mitchell Library. Written permission from the Benevolent Society must be obtained to access these State Library records, fees apply and permission is granted for a 10-year use period only. Further access details are at Procedure on how to access Benevolent Society Records at the Mitchell Library.

This index is being compiled from State Records NSW Duty Paid files. This index is not yet complete but covers a number of years in this date range.

The National Archives has launched a set of more than 60 'research signposts' under the headings Life Events, Military Personnel and Civilians to simplify the process of researching an ancestor.

The short, clearly written guide points you to the most useful resources, whether these are online or original documents, held at The National Archives or elsewhere.

The National Archives of Australia holds material on immigrants and refugees, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, members of the defence forces, government employees, subjects of surveillance by security and intelligence agencies, or as prisoners of war or internees. Records held by the Archives were generally created after 1901. It does not hold records of convicts, of colonial migration, or of nineteenth century Australian history such as the gold rushes or colonial administration.

This site provides information about genealogical material held in the Archives, including the Ireland–Australia transportation database.

This database covers transportation records of convicts sent from Ireland between 1791 and 1868. Note that all transportation registers prior to 1836 were destroyed. Therefore if the convict was not the subject of a petition prior to this date, they will not appear. The names of the convict family members that came to Australia as free settlers may also be listed. This is an index only. Microfilm copies of the original records are held in the Family History Service at the State Library of NSW. These records were received in 1988 as a gift from Ireland to commemorate the bicentenary of white settlement in Australia.

Information on how to access the records of the Aborigines Protection Board, later renamed the Aborigines Welfare Board. The time period covered is 1833-1969. The Board's records include details of children removed as well as detailed information on all aspects of life on stations and reserves, such as financial statements, salary and employment details, tenancy agreements and applications to leave the reserve. The site also includes contact details for help with Indigenous family research.

This map links to Portable Document Format (PDF) files of individual Commonwealth electoral division maps for New South Wales and to an index map of Sydney electoral divisions.

This second volume of the AGCI (Australasian Genealogical Computer Index) contains 830,000 personal names indexed from the NSW Government Gazette from the Gazette's commencement in 1832 until the end of 1863.

Published in 2005 by the Society of Australian Genealogists at 120 Kent Street, Sydney, this is the data which could not be included on the first AGCI CDROM due to lack space. This second disc now completes the CD-ROM coverage of the original microfiche edition of the AGCI (see FH AGCI folder for fiche).

The NSW Government Gazette is a major published resource for NSW's early colonial history. This volume indexes the personal names found in Gazette notices about convicts, ship and military deserters, land transactions, unclaimed letters, government appointments, bankruptcies, etc. Keyword searches by surname, forename, year, locality and record type are possible.

A microfilm version of the NSW Government Gazette, for the period 1832-1892, is held in SRL at RAV/FM4/1154RR. A hardcopy NSW Government Gazette, for the period 1882-1900, is on the Mitchell Library reference shelves at REF/MDQ328.6/N for viewing only. There is also an index to the NSW Government Gazette for the period 1832-1883 and a searchable online online NSW Government Gazette for the period 1836 to 1851.

Digitised and searchable issues of the New South Wales Police Gazette and Weekly Record of Crime for the periods 1862 to 1875 and 1881 to 1910, in compendiums of 5 years per CDROM: 1862-1865, 1866-1870, 1871-1875, 1881-1885, 1886-1890, 1891-1895, 1896-1900, 1901-1905 and 1906-1910.

Issued by New South Wales Police Inspector-General, the Police Gazette was compiled to be distributed amongst the Police Force only and public access is only available 70 years after publication.

The Gazette includes court lists,lists of warrants issued, appointments and changes in the Police Service, lists of Justices of the Peace, lists of arrests and discharges and descriptions, escaped prisoners, and missing persons as well as notices of liquor, wine sellers, tobacco sellers, auctioneers and billiard licences. Notices from Police Gazettes from other states are also often included.

New South Wales Police Gazette and Weekly Record of Crime is also held on microfilm in Mitchell Library at REF 1/MAV/FM4/10916 for the period 1862-1985; 1887; 1889-1900; and September 1902-1930.The title changed to Police Gazette NSW on January 9, 1974, and it ceased publication in 1982.

From 1852 to 1862 the 'New South Wales Reports of Crime etc. for Police Information' was the forerunner of the New South Wales Police Gazette and was issued weekly to all police stations. It contains details of crimes committed, wanted criminals, descriptions of stolen property, and other police notices. NSW State Records reels AO 3128 and AO 3129 hold part of this series.

Police gazettes may include police appointments, names of victims of lost or stolen property and stock, deserting wives, military deserters, inquests, prisoner discharged from gaols or released on tickets of leave, prohibited immigrants, etc.

This is a joint project by the NSW Government and the Returned and Services League of Australia (NSW Branch) to document over 3,000 war memorials estimated to be in NSW, using the combined resources of local councils, RSL sub-branches and schools. Currently, 921 NSW memorials and 86,947 veteran names are documented. Instructions on how to contribute to this database are provided.

The NSW war memorial database allows you to click on the 'Browse' button to access a list of memorials documented within an alphabetical list of suburb/towns. Alternatively, you can undertake a 'Veteran Search' by last name (first name optional) or a memorial 'Location Search' by place and/or postcode.

Veteran details provided can include rank, conflict, status, service and gender. Memorial details include an image of the actual memorial and a description, the dedication date, the inscription, the total number of veterans names recorded and the conflicts commemorated.

There is a list of links to other relevant webpages, notably the Australian War Memorial (in Canberra), the National Archives of Australia, the Commonwealth Department of Veteran Affairs and the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Other related resources are also listed, notably, War Memorials in Australia, A Tribute to ANZAC, UK National Inventory of War Memorials and The Anglo-Boer War Memorials Project.

This website also provides details on the following military commemorative traditions: The Last Post; Laurel Wreaths; The Ode - For the Fallen; Poppies for Remembrance; Memorial Days - ANZAC Day and Remembrance Day; and The State Funeral.

This site provides information on how to gain access to the Aborigines Welfare Board, Aboriginal Lands Trust and Department of Community Services and Aboriginal Services branch records. The guide also lists holdings of records of the Aborigines Welfare Board 1883–1969 and state archives from other government agencies relating to Aboriginal peoples.

New Zealand Electoral Roll 1881

Produced by the New Zealand Society of Genealogists in 2004, this CDROM lists voters in the New Zealand general election of 1893. The election was held on November 28 to elect a total of 74 MPs to the 12th session of the New Zealand Parliament. The official turnout was 302,997 voters, representing 75.3% of the electorate. Elections for the 4 Maori seats by the Maori vote were held on 20 December. There were no actual electoral rolls for the Maori seats until 1948-9.

When Governor Glasgow signed the New Zealand Electoral Bill on 19 September 1893, New Zealand became the first self-governing nation in the world where women had won the right to vote (over 21 and including maori women) and women voted for the first time in the 1893 election. The election was won by the Liberal Party and Richard Seddon became Prime Minister.

For New Zealand's first parliamentary elections in 1853, voting was restricted to any male British subject aged 21 years or older who owned freehold property worth £50 or more; or paid at least £10 a year to lease property; or lived in a house with an annual rental value of at least £10 (in a town) or £5 (outside a town). 'Aliens' (that is, people who were not British subjects, such as Chinese) were specifically excluded. In 1860 the right to vote was extended for the first time - to gold miners. Any male British subject over 21 who held a miner's right (that is, a licence, which cost £1 per year) was entitled to vote without having to enrol.

In 1859 the British Crown Law office confirmed that Maori could not vote unless they had individual title granted by the Crown. Very few Maori could qualify to vote under the property requirement because they possessed their lands communally (as iwi, hapu or whanau groups) and not under individual freehold or leasehold title like Europeans.

In 1867 Parliament established, as a temporary measure, 4 Maori seats in the House of Representatives in which all Maori men over 21 could vote for their own representatives. As a result of the 1867 legislation, Maori men achieved universal manhood suffrage 12 years before European men. However, since the Maori population in 1867 was about 50,000 and the European population about 250,000, Maori were significantly under-represented with only 4 seats compared with the European 72 seats. In 1876 these 4 seats became permanent. The seats were allocated on a geographical basis (North, South, East, West). The number of reserved seats remained fixed until the recent change in the New Zealand electoral system in 1993.

In 1879 the franchise was extended to all adult European men, regardless of whether they owned or rented property. In 1889 plural voting was abolished, which confirmed the principle of 'one man, one vote'. This ended the practise of men who owned or leased property in several different electorates being able to enrol and vote in each of them. Plural voting had been made easier by the fact that until 1881 elections in different seats were usually held on different days.

A separate Maori electoral roll was not established until 1949 but Maori were not legally obliged to enrol until 1956. From 1975 Maori could choose to enrol on either the General or Maori roll: the only qualification for enrolment on the Maori roll was self-identification as Maori. Prior to 1975 Maori with at least one full-blood parent were obliged to enrol on the Maori roll, whilst those with a lower proportion of Maori blood could choose to enrol on either the European (now General) or Maori roll. In 1986 there were 1,920,256 people (both Maori and non-Maori) on the General roll and 70,564 on the Maori roll.

Futher details on the history of the New Zealand vote at the Elections New Zealand website at Elections New Zealand - History of the Vote .

The NSW State Library Family History Service holds New Zealand electoral rolls on microfiche for the period 1865-1900; 1902-1903; 1905-1906; 1908; 1911; 1914; 1919; and 1922-1981.

This New Zealand Society of Genealogists index contains approximately 1.7 million names.Its principal purpose is to help identify the matching entry to a marriage in the Registrar General Office's index of marriages 1856-1956.

A small number of entries (fewer than 500) do not have a corresponding match. The non-matched entries, in most cases, reflect errors in the NZ Registrar General Office index.

No further years will be added as the name of the matching spouse can be found beside each entry in the microfiche indexes from 1957 (see FH cabinets - to 1990).

Each entry will give the NZ Registrar General offices's Folio number, spouse's surname and year of marriage.To find the full name of the spouse, re-enter the Folio number and the corresponding entry should be found.

There are some 22,500 names for marriages before 1856 and for these early marriages only names, year and a reference number are given. The reference number provides access to the names of both bride and groom in the same way as the RGO's Folio number.

The index does not contain details from the marriage certificate.Copies of a certificate can be obtained from the NZ Registrar General's Office, quoting name(s),year & place of marriage, at: Central Registry, Births, Deaths and Marriages, PO Box 10 526, Wellington, New Zealand.

Freephone:0800225252 Email:bdm.nz@dia.govt.nz website:www.bdm.govt.nz

Published by the New Zealand Society of Genealogists in 2005, this index contains information from the following sources:

(1) NZ Expeditionary Force Nominal Rolls 1914-19

(2) 1st and 2nd Division Rolls of the Expeditionary Force Reserve

(3) New Zealanders who served with the Australian Imperial Force

(4) Military Defaulters Lists 1919-21

(5) Native Reserve Lists

(6) New Zealanders who served with the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve

(7) Index of New Zealanders who served with Allied Forces

(8) Roll of Honour, Section 3

(9) British Section, New Zealand Expeditionary Force

(10) Fijian Contingent, New Zealand Expeditionary Force

(11) Terry Stock's Index.

The ‘Blue Books’ detailed statistical information from New Zealand’s early Colonial period (1840-1855). They contain information about population, revenue, military, trade, shipping, public works, legislation, civil servants, foreign consuls, land transactions, churches, schools, and prisons.

This site provides access to mailing lists for various aspects of New Zealand family history.

This site provides access to an index for the Newcastle Morning Herald from 1869 to 1943. Maintained by the Newcastle Regional Local Studies Library.

Produced by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1998, this 8-disc CDROM set contains information on more than 4.6 million christenings, births, and marriages that occurred in the United States and Canada from about 1631 to 1888.

The 8 discs contain the following: (1) Family history resource file viewer; (2) Births and christenings: A-Z; (3) Marriages: A-Cn; (4) Marriages: Co-G; (5) Marriages: H-K; (6) Marriages: L-O; (7) Marriages: P-Ss; (8) Marriages: St-Z. The Family History resource file viewer 4.0 software should be loaded onto the computer before you access the 7 data discs. An additional update from a series data disc also has to be uploaded for access purposes.

Records that appear in the index generally contain names of the individuals, parents’ names, the date and place where the birth, christening or marriage took place, the name of a person's spouse, and reference information which allows you to locate the original record on a microfilm from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) world-wide network of Family History Centers. You can locate your nearest center on the LDS web directory at Find a Family History Center Near You .

Names in this index have been standardized. This means that variant name spellings are listed under a common name. For example, Smyth, Smithe, Smeith, would all be indexed under the name Smith. This allows you to search a name without knowing the exact spelling. However, you are still able to search under the exact spelling of an individual's name if you wish.

The records that comprise the index are extracted records, which means that someone copied selected pieces of information from the original record. However, not all of the genealogically important information was extracted. Therefore, you should use the reference information provided in this index to locate the original record on microfilm and evaluate the original record yourself.

It is not a complete index. Your ancestor may not appear in this CDROM set even though you know that he or she lived in a time and place covered by the index.The amount of information available varies greatly by time period and locality.

Details of records held by Northern Ireland's General Register Office, including birth, death and Roman Catholic marriage registers from 1864, and non-Roman Catholic marriage registers from 1845. Other records held include adoption registers, marine births and deaths, consular births deaths and marriages, and war deaths. The site includes an online application service for birth, death, marriage and adoption certificates.

31,000 records of Northern Territory related Deaths for the period 1824 to 2004, extracted from cemeteries,registers, headstones, newspapers, probates and police journals. Includes some Territorians who died or where buried outside of the Northern Teritory.

Index of Northern Territory combines information from census records, directories and electoral rolls and includes lists of government officials. The surviving census of the Northern Territory 1881 to 1921; the electoral rolls 1884 to 1940; and the directories 1908 to 1930 are transcribed in to this publication.

Produced by the Department of Justice, Northern Territory of Australia, Office of the Registrar General, in 2004.

The NT Attorney-General's Dept., Office of the Registrar- General,produced a more limited version in 2000, on microfiche, entitled Northern Territory births index 1903 - 1918, deaths, marriages indexes 1903 - 1913 (see REF 10/N929.39429/33).

An alphabetical list of old occupations and their meanings.

One stop access point for English Origins, Scots Origins and Irish Origins. Several databases are included such as Boyd's Marriage Index, Griffith's Valuation and enhanced IGI searching for Scottish Records.

Origins Network offers a subscription packages to Irish records such as the Griffith's Primary Valuation of Ireland, the 1851 Dublin City Census, the unique Irish Wills Index and rare 19th century directories, and much more exclusive data. Subscription also includes access to rare vintage images for download plus a free Irish genealogy guide.

Compiled by Lorraine Larment and Marylin and Steve Jones, the ozburials index provides a searchable database of cemetery inscriptions in NSW, SA, Tasmania, Victoria and Western Australia. Particularly strong in South Australia and Western Australia.

A practical online tutorial to assist in reading handwriting found in documents written in English between 1500 and 1800. Provided by the National Archives of the UK.

Online access to digitised newspapers at the National Library of New Zealand. The collection covers the years 1839 to 1920 and includes publications from all regions of New Zealand.The range of periodicals and the number of pages available will increase as the project develops. Examples of some searchable titles: New Zealand Illustrated Magazine (1899-1905), New Zealand Tablet (1873-1909), New Zealander (1845-1852).

Compiled and published by Nick Vine Hall, the CD provides a list of originals, transcripts, microforms, & indexes of 5,524 parish registers from 42 different religions, held at 153 record centres around Australia for the period 1787 to 1990.

It also contains a list of corrections to the hardcopy version published in 1990.(see REF 10/N929.394016/5).

A partial index of ships arriving in NSW (1837-1899), Queensland (1840-1915), Victoria (1837-1899), South Australia (1836-1860), Western Australia (1829-1889)and New Zealand (1839-1905). Includes convict transports (1788-1868). Produced by Margaret Bauer and Nancy Campbell.

The Collection Preservation and Storage Branch of the State Library of NSW has created Fact Sheets about caring for particular materials.

ProQuest Historical Newspapers offers full-text and full-image articles for newspapers dating back to the 18th century. This ongoing project already includes The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Christian Science Monitor, The Los Angeles Times, The Chicago Tribune, The Atlanta Constitution, The Boston Globe, and The Hartford Courant.

Contains full-text transcripts of 101,102 criminal trials, from April 1674 to October 1834 held at London's central criminal court. Many convicts sent to Australia were tried at the Old Bailey. The site includes English social history of the period.

Monumental inscriptions of 250 Queensland cemeteries, with over 85,000 entries, transcribed by David and Julie Dern in 1999. Each entry gives surname, first names, date, age, comments, type & cemetery.There is a guide to abbreviations used.

The 250 QLD cemeteries covered are as follows:

ALLORA; AMBY; ARATULA St. Paul's Lutheran Churchyard; AUBIGNY St John’s Evangelical Lutheran Churchyard ; AUBIGNY R.C. ; AUGATHELLA ; BACK PLAINS ; BAJOOL; BALLANDEAN ; BANANA; BARALABA; BARNEY VIEW Anglican Churchyard; BEAUDESERT GENERAL; BEERBURRUM; BEERWAH; BELL; BENAIR Trinity Lutheran; BENARKIN see BLACKBUTT; BERGEN/DJUAN; BILOELA Old; BINJOUR PLATEAU Apostolic Churchyard; BLACKALL; BLACKBUTT/BENARKIN; BLACKLEY Private; BLAIR ATHOL; BOLLON; BOOIE; BOONAH; BOONARA see TANSSEY; BOROREN; BRIGALOW Lutheran; BRIGHTVIEW Apostolic Churchyard; BROOWEENA St. Mary’s Anglican Church; BRYDEN R.C. ; BURNETT; CABARLAH; CABOONBAH Churchyard; CAFFEY; CALLANDOON Pioneer; CALLIOPE; CALOUNDRA; CANUNGRA; CAPELLA; CECIL PLAINS New; CHAMBERS FLAT; CHARLEVILLE ; CHINCHILLA New; CHINCHILLA Pioneer; CHINCHILLA Tanderra Lawn; CHRISTMAS CREEK R.C. Churchyard; CLERMONT; CLIFTON; COLEYVILLE; COMET Pioneer; CONDAMINE; COOLANA St. John’s Lutheran Churchyard; COOROY; COPPERFIELD; COULSON [formerly TEVIOTVILLE]; CRACOW; CROWS NEST; DALBY Myall Remembrance Park Lawn; DALBY OLD; DEBORAH; DICKABRAM see MIVA; DIRRANBANDI; DJUAN see BERGEN; DOGWOOD CREEK; MILES; DOUGLAS; DOWNFALL CREEK St. John's Lutheran Churchyard ; DUARINGA ; DUGANDAN Trinity Lutheran; EBENEZER see STONE QUARRY; EMU CREEK ; ESK; EUMUNDI; EVERGREEN; FERNVALE General; GATTON; GEORGETOWN; GHEERULLA; GIBBONS Navy CAMP; GLAMORGANVALE; GLENCOE Bethlehem Lutheran Churchyard; GLENEAGLES St. Mary’s R.C.; GOOMBUNGEE; GOOMERI; GOONDIWINDI; GOOVIGAN; GRANDCHESTER ; GREENMOUNT; GREENWOOD St. Paul's Lutheran Churchyard; GUNALDA; HARRISVILLE; HATTONVALE Lutheran; HATTONVALE St. Pauls Lutheran; HELIDON General; HELIDON St.Joseph’s R.C.; HERVEY BAY/POLSON General; HIGHFIELDS Baptist Churchyard; HODGSON; HOWARD; HOYA Baptist; HOYA Lutheran; ILFRACOMBE [formerley WELLSHOT]; INGLEWOOD; INGOLDSBY; INJUNE; ISISFORD; JACKSON; JAMBIN; JANDOWAE; JERICHO; JOLIMONT; JONDARYAN; KAIMKILLENBUN; KALBAR Baptist; KALBAR General; KALBAR Methodist; KALBAR R.C. ; KALBAR St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Churchyard; KALBAR St. Mark's Lutheran [Old Lutheran] ; KANDANGA; KERRY St. John's R.C. Churchyard ; KILCOY; KILKIVAN; KILLARNEY; KINGAROY; KOOROONGARRA ; KUMBIA; LAIDLEY; LANDSBOROUGH see MELLUM CREEK; LEYBURN; LEYBURN; LINVILLE see MOORE; LOCKROSE Lutheran Churchyard; LOGAN RESERVE; LOGAN VILLAGE; LONE GRAVES LONGREACH; LOWOOD General; LOWOOD Trinity Lutheran St. Marks Section; MA MA Creek St. Stephen's Anglican Churchyard; MACLEAN NORTH; MAPLETON; MARLBOUROUGH Old; MAROON; MEANDARRA; MELLUM CREEK [changed to LANDSBOROUGH 1890]; MEMERAMBI; MERINGANDAN; MILBONG General ; MILBONG St. Lukes Lutheran; MILES [OLD]; MILES; MILLMERRAN; MINDEN Baptist Churchyard; MINDEN Zion Evangelical Lutheran Churchyard ; MIRIAM VALE; MITCHELL; MIVA/DICKABRAM; MONDURE St. Faiths Anglican Churchyard; MOOLOOLAH; MOOLOOLAH; MOORE/LINVILLE General; MORVEN; MOURA Lawn; MT ALFORD Anglican [Now BOWDEN Park]; MT MORT: MT. BEPPO Apostolic Churchyard; MT. BEPPO Old; MT. LARCOM; MT.MEE; MT.WALKER Public; MUNDOOLUN, St. John's Anglican Churchyard; MUNDUBBERA; MUNGALLALA; MUNNA CREEK; MURGON; MURPHY'S CREEK; MUTDAPILLY; NAMBOUR OLD; NANANGO; NERANG; NIKENBAH Danish; NOBBY; NORTH BRANCH; OAKEY; O'BIL BIL Old Apostolic Churchyard ; PALEN CREEK St. James Roman Catholic Churchyard; PEACHESTER : PITTSWORTH; PLAINLAND Lutheran; POLSON see HERVEY BAY; POMONA; PRATTEN; PROSTON; QUILPIE; RAGLAN; RAVENSBOURNE; RIVERLEIGH New Apostolic Churchyard; ROLLESTON; ROPELEY Lutheran Churchyard; ROPELEY Zion Lutheran; ROSEVALE Church of Christ; ROSEVALE St. Patrick's R.C. Churchyard; ROSEVALE St. Paul's Lutheran ; ROSEWOOD Columbarium Inscriptions; SAMSONVALE; SILVERLEIGH Christ Lutheran Churchyard; St. LAWRENCE; STANTHORPE; STONE QUARRY/EBENEZER; SWAN CREEK Anglican; TAABINGA Peace [Formerly St. Paul's]Lutheran Churchyard; TALLABUDGERA - ANDREWS Private; TALLEBUDGERA Presbyterian Church; TALLEGALLA; TAMBO; TAMBORINE MOUNTAIN; TAMROOKUM All Saint’s Anglican Churchyard; TANSEY/BOONARA; TARA; TARAMPA Apostolic Churchyard; TARAMPA Baptist; TAROMEO Station; TAROOM; TEUTOBERG see WITTA; TEVIOTVILLE see COULSON; TEXAS; THE GUMS; THEODORE; TIARO; TINGOORA VILLAGE; TOOGOOLAWAH; TUMMERVILLE Church Of England Churchyard; UPPER FREESTONE [Holy Cross]; VERESDALE see WOODHILL; VERNOR Baptist; WALLANGARRA; WALLUMBILLA; WANDOAN; WARRA ; WARWICK City Council; WELLSHOT see ILFRACOMBE; WESTERN CREEK Homestead ; WHEATLANDS Lutheran ; WITTA/TEUTOBERG; WIVENHOE POCKET; WONDAI; WONGLEPONG; WOODHILL/VERESDALE; WOOMBYE; WOWAN; YAAMBA; YANDILLA All Saints Church Of England Churchyard; YANDINA; YANGAN General; YANGAN Presbyterian; YARRAMAN; YELARBON; YULEBA

Monumental inscriptions of 250 Queensland cemeteries, with over 85,000 entries, transcribed by David and Julie Dern in 1999. Each entry gives surname, first names, date, age, comments, type & cemetery.There is a guide to abbreviations used.

The 250 QLD cemeteries covered are as follows:

ALLORA; AMBY; ARATULA St. Paul's Lutheran Churchyard; AUBIGNY St John’s Evangelical Lutheran Churchyard ; AUBIGNY R.C. ; AUGATHELLA ; BACK PLAINS ; BAJOOL; BALLANDEAN ; BANANA; BARALABA; BARNEY VIEW Anglican Churchyard; BEAUDESERT GENERAL; BEERBURRUM; BEERWAH; BELL; BENAIR Trinity Lutheran; BENARKIN see BLACKBUTT; BERGEN/DJUAN; BILOELA Old; BINJOUR PLATEAU Apostolic Churchyard; BLACKALL; BLACKBUTT/BENARKIN; BLACKLEY Private; BLAIR ATHOL; BOLLON; BOOIE; BOONAH; BOONARA see TANSSEY; BOROREN; BRIGALOW Lutheran; BRIGHTVIEW Apostolic Churchyard; BROOWEENA St. Mary’s Anglican Church; BRYDEN R.C. ; BURNETT; CABARLAH; CABOONBAH Churchyard; CAFFEY; CALLANDOON Pioneer; CALLIOPE; CALOUNDRA; CANUNGRA; CAPELLA; CECIL PLAINS New; CHAMBERS FLAT; CHARLEVILLE ; CHINCHILLA New; CHINCHILLA Pioneer; CHINCHILLA Tanderra Lawn; CHRISTMAS CREEK R.C. Churchyard; CLERMONT; CLIFTON; COLEYVILLE; COMET Pioneer; CONDAMINE; COOLANA St. John’s Lutheran Churchyard; COOROY; COPPERFIELD; COULSON [formerly TEVIOTVILLE]; CRACOW; CROWS NEST; DALBY Myall Remembrance Park Lawn; DALBY OLD; DEBORAH; DICKABRAM see MIVA; DIRRANBANDI; DJUAN see BERGEN; DOGWOOD CREEK; MILES; DOUGLAS; DOWNFALL CREEK St. John's Lutheran Churchyard ; DUARINGA ; DUGANDAN Trinity Lutheran; EBENEZER see STONE QUARRY; EMU CREEK ; ESK; EUMUNDI; EVERGREEN; FERNVALE General; GATTON; GEORGETOWN; GHEERULLA; GIBBONS Navy CAMP; GLAMORGANVALE; GLENCOE Bethlehem Lutheran Churchyard; GLENEAGLES St. Mary’s R.C.; GOOMBUNGEE; GOOMERI; GOONDIWINDI; GOOVIGAN; GRANDCHESTER ; GREENMOUNT; GREENWOOD St. Paul's Lutheran Churchyard; GUNALDA; HARRISVILLE; HATTONVALE Lutheran; HATTONVALE St. Pauls Lutheran; HELIDON General; HELIDON St.Joseph’s R.C.; HERVEY BAY/POLSON General; HIGHFIELDS Baptist Churchyard; HODGSON; HOWARD; HOYA Baptist; HOYA Lutheran; ILFRACOMBE [formerley WELLSHOT]; INGLEWOOD; INGOLDSBY; INJUNE; ISISFORD; JACKSON; JAMBIN; JANDOWAE; JERICHO; JOLIMONT; JONDARYAN; KAIMKILLENBUN; KALBAR Baptist; KALBAR General; KALBAR Methodist; KALBAR R.C. ; KALBAR St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Churchyard; KALBAR St. Mark's Lutheran [Old Lutheran] ; KANDANGA; KERRY St. John's R.C. Churchyard ; KILCOY; KILKIVAN; KILLARNEY; KINGAROY; KOOROONGARRA ; KUMBIA; LAIDLEY; LANDSBOROUGH see MELLUM CREEK; LEYBURN; LEYBURN; LINVILLE see MOORE; LOCKROSE Lutheran Churchyard; LOGAN RESERVE; LOGAN VILLAGE; LONE GRAVES LONGREACH; LOWOOD General; LOWOOD Trinity Lutheran St. Marks Section; MA MA Creek St. Stephen's Anglican Churchyard; MACLEAN NORTH; MAPLETON; MARLBOUROUGH Old; MAROON; MEANDARRA; MELLUM CREEK [changed to LANDSBOROUGH 1890]; MEMERAMBI; MERINGANDAN; MILBONG General ; MILBONG St. Lukes Lutheran; MILES [OLD]; MILES; MILLMERRAN; MINDEN Baptist Churchyard; MINDEN Zion Evangelical Lutheran Churchyard ; MIRIAM VALE; MITCHELL; MIVA/DICKABRAM; MONDURE St. Faiths Anglican Churchyard; MOOLOOLAH; MOOLOOLAH; MOORE/LINVILLE General; MORVEN; MOURA Lawn; MT ALFORD Anglican [Now BOWDEN Park]; MT MORT: MT. BEPPO Apostolic Churchyard; MT. BEPPO Old; MT. LARCOM; MT.MEE; MT.WALKER Public; MUNDOOLUN, St. John's Anglican Churchyard; MUNDUBBERA; MUNGALLALA; MUNNA CREEK; MURGON; MURPHY'S CREEK; MUTDAPILLY; NAMBOUR OLD; NANANGO; NERANG; NIKENBAH Danish; NOBBY; NORTH BRANCH; OAKEY; O'BIL BIL Old Apostolic Churchyard ; PALEN CREEK St. James Roman Catholic Churchyard; PEACHESTER : PITTSWORTH; PLAINLAND Lutheran; POLSON see HERVEY BAY; POMONA; PRATTEN; PROSTON; QUILPIE; RAGLAN; RAVENSBOURNE; RIVERLEIGH New Apostolic Churchyard; ROLLESTON; ROPELEY Lutheran Churchyard; ROPELEY Zion Lutheran; ROSEVALE Church of Christ; ROSEVALE St. Patrick's R.C. Churchyard; ROSEVALE St. Paul's Lutheran ; ROSEWOOD Columbarium Inscriptions; SAMSONVALE; SILVERLEIGH Christ Lutheran Churchyard; St. LAWRENCE; STANTHORPE; STONE QUARRY/EBENEZER; SWAN CREEK Anglican; TAABINGA Peace [Formerly St. Paul's]Lutheran Churchyard; TALLABUDGERA - ANDREWS Private; TALLEBUDGERA Presbyterian Church; TALLEGALLA; TAMBO; TAMBORINE MOUNTAIN; TAMROOKUM All Saint’s Anglican Churchyard; TANSEY/BOONARA; TARA; TARAMPA Apostolic Churchyard; TARAMPA Baptist; TAROMEO Station; TAROOM; TEUTOBERG see WITTA; TEVIOTVILLE see COULSON; TEXAS; THE GUMS; THEODORE; TIARO; TINGOORA VILLAGE; TOOGOOLAWAH; TUMMERVILLE Church Of England Churchyard; UPPER FREESTONE [Holy Cross]; VERESDALE see WOODHILL; VERNOR Baptist; WALLANGARRA; WALLUMBILLA; WANDOAN; WARRA ; WARWICK City Council; WELLSHOT see ILFRACOMBE; WESTERN CREEK Homestead ; WHEATLANDS Lutheran ; WITTA/TEUTOBERG; WIVENHOE POCKET; WONDAI; WONGLEPONG; WOODHILL/VERESDALE; WOOMBYE; WOWAN; YAAMBA; YANDILLA All Saints Church Of England Churchyard; YANDINA; YANGAN General; YANGAN Presbyterian; YARRAMAN; YELARBON; YULEBA

Entries cover name, sex, place of living, occupation, roll number, subdivision and division. Electoral redistribution changes and Divisional boundaries of the day are also included.

Entries cover name, sex, place of living, occupation, roll number, subdivision and division. Electoral redistribution changes and Divisional boundaries of the day are also included.

Contains records of births, deaths and marriages registered in Queensland.

This index contains over 39,000 entries for Queensland arrivals.

Highlights of the main index: approx. 87,000 entries listing name, residence, occupation, type of notice, court, date and Gazette reference. All persons in each notice have been indexed, including executors, administrators and trustees, to provide as complete a coverage as possible of those involved. Gazette notices may contain further information, eg relationships to others mentioned in the notice and, for insolvencies, the dividends declared. The intestacy returns index of approx. 31,000 entries lists name, where died, where born, court, and Gazette reference. The notices also indicate the total amount received, paid and invested for the estates of the listed persons. The Supreme Court index of approx. 4,000 entries includes residence, occupation and notes on the nature of the summons.

This index has been compiled using the records of the Queensland Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages.

Police gazettes may include police appointments, names of victims of lost or stolen property and stock, deserting wives, military deserters, inquests, prisoner discharged from gaols or released on tickets of leave, prohibited immigrants, etc.

Police gazettes may include police appointments, names of victims of lost or stolen property and stock, deserting wives, military deserters, inquests, prisoner discharged from gaols or released on tickets of leave, prohibited immigrants, etc.

Provides 3 indexes to: (1) 65,000 entries in the lists of QLD Public Service Employees,published periodically in the QLD Government Gazette from 1864 to 1948 ( or QLD Blue Book for 1870 to 1879); (2) 35,000 names of teachers mentioned in the Education Office Gazette from 1907 to 1920; & (3) 12,500 names from School Committee notices in the QLD Government Gazette between 1876, when they began, and 1899.

The main index gives name, present office, location,date of birth,date of initial appointment, and the date,page and volume of the Government Gazette reference.Further information in the Gazette or Blue Book may include salary, allowance, qualifications and appointment details. The teachers index covers teacher admissions, promotions, transfers, and resignations, listing the name, type of entry, standing, school(s), date and page reference in the Education Office Gazette.The school committee index covers notices of appointments and resignations for over 300 schools from all regions of QLD.

A free online historical index of births (1829-1914) and deaths and marriages that occurred in Queensland from 1829 to 1929.

Early church records for births and deaths exist which are not within the above ranges as the date of event is not known. These records are stored with a year of event of 1800. To retrieve these records perform a search with a 'year from' of 1800 along with any other required fields filled.

Searches are not case sensitive so you can use upper and lower case and get the same search result.

To search for an BDM event the following fields need to be filled:

family name or given name(s)

year to search from

To refine your search fill as many fields as possible.

When entering the year to be searched, you must enter a four-digit year in the 'from' field. The 'to' field can be left blank. This will result in a search of the range bounded by the year entered in the 'from' field. and the latest year for which records can be searched (1914).

The year of registration is not necessarily the same year as the event. Events that occur in December may not be registered until January of the following year. For example, where the date of birth is 22 December 1928 and the registration date is 8 January 1929, the year of registration is 1929.

A late registration will also have a different registration year to the date of the event. For example, the date of birth is 12 November 1829 and the registration date is 28 June 1850.

Includes indexes to immigration, companies, divorces, inquests, justices of the peace, teachers, wills and many more for various years. Queensland State Archives Volunteers are currently compiling more Indexes.

This index was compiled from the original passenger lists in the collection of the Queensland State Archives. The passenger lists are primarily for assisted passengers from the United Kingdom and Europe. Please note that this list does not include passengers from New Zealand, the Americas, Asia, Africa, other Australian ports or those passengers who paid their own fare. The 'M' microfilm numbers refer to the films in the Historical Resource Kit - Immigration which is located at the State Library of NSW and other locations around Australia.

This CD presents a collection of 750 contributed stories of families living in QLD before its separation from NSW in December 1859.

This 2007 CDROM is a fascimile of the 1919 book by Owen Wildman of the same title. It is a record of 2,468 men and some women involved in WW1, mainly those who actually served overseas.

The biographical particulars were supplied by the relatives and personal friends of the men who proceeded on active service abroad. Some 2,334 photographs included have also been furnished either directly or indirectly by the relatives and friends.

The following information is often given: record of military service; where and when enlisted; training and battalions; where and when sailed; details of service overseas; medals awarded; parents, wives, and often children; birth place and school/s attended - often in other states or countries; occupation before enlisting; other service and personal details may be given.

A sample biography: ANDERSON, John William Gordon, Private, No. 2615, 42nd Battalion. Born at Bundaberg. Educated at Barolin State School and Maryborough Grammar School. Son of Andrew and Christina Anderson. Prior to enlisting was on the office staff at Moreton Central Sugar Mill, at Nambour. Enlisted on 1st July, 1915, and was rejected. Again enlisted September 9th, 1916. Went into camp in October, 1916. Sailed with 6th Reinforcements, 47th Battalion, on October 27th, 1916. Arrived in England, and was attached to 12th T.B. Band. Went to France on 7th December, 1917, and joined 42nd Battalion January 3rd, 1918. Served with battalion till May 25th, when he was severely mustard gassed at Villiers Brettoneaux. Rejoined his battalion on July 13th, and went through the 'Big Push,' starting 8th August, and was again gassed on August 25th. Sent to England, and was in training when the Armistice was signed. Left England 18th December, 1918, and arrived in Brisbane on 14th February, 1919.

The original book is held in the Mitchell Library at QA920.35/1A1

This site provides access to more than 100 000 message boards and mailing lists on family history. In addition, you can search the surname list to contact other genealogists who are researching the same family.

The Ryerson Index is an ongoing project that indexes death, funeral and probate notices and obituaries in current Australian newspapers. The index covers 1,937,847 notices from 142 different Australian newspapers (as of January 2009).

To search the database, enter a full or partial surname, and/or given name(s), and/or location name, plus optional year range. Any search will return a maximum of 200 results. If you get a message indicating there may be more than 200 notices that match your search, then use a more specific search by entering more specific given name(s), location and/or date range. See Search Tips.

Because the Ryerson Index was originally created by the Sydney Dead Persons Society, it concentrates on notices from NSW papers, although some papers from other states are included. Within NSW, the bulk of the entries are from two Sydney papers, the Sydney Morning Herald (929,903 notices) and the Daily Telegraph (88,945 notices). Other major indexing includes the Newcastle Herald (77,345) the Wollongong Illawarra Mercury (25,976), Melbourne's Herald Sun (218,655) and Age (69,419), the Brisbane Courier Mail (106,853), the Adelaide Advertiser (81,355) and the Canberra Times (15,464). Go to Full List for details of other newspapers indexed.

ScotlandsPeople holds digital images of Scottish records of births (1855-2006), deaths (1855-2006) and marriages (1855-1933), the open census records from 1841 to 1901, wills and testaments from 1513 to 1901 and Coats of Arms from 1672 to 1907.

ScotlandsPeople also contains the Old Parish Registers of Scotland (OPRs) entries for births/baptisms, banns/marriages and deaths/ burials for 1538-1854.

The index is free to search but costs to download and view images.

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The Scottish Archive Network (SCAN) provides an electronic catalogue of the holdings of more than 50 Scottish archives, and access to digitised historical records such as court records, tax records, emigration records, and poor relief records. Also provides family history guides and research tools.

The National Library of Scotland's digital collection of over 1,900 sheets of surveys covering 62 towns surveyed between 1847 and 1895.

This site provides a picture and information on each ship that sailed with the First Fleet. Images have been constructed from written descriptions of the ships. Produced by the First Fleet Fellowship.

Robert H. Smith's annotated listing of maritime museums worldwide which have websites. Searchable by region.

Established in 1932, the Society of Australian Genealogists is the oldest society of its kind in Australia. SAG is a non-profit company, has over 6,500 members throughout the world, produces a quarterly journal titled 'Descent' and has a library at 2/379 Kent Street, Sydney, 2000. The library is open 10am-4pm Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday. PH: (02) 9299 5151.

SAG offers Family History seminars, has a Research Service and runs a Diploma in Family Historical Studies Course (Dip FHS). There is an online list of theses & essays submitted for this Dip FHS.

The SAG website has an online database to SAG Members' Research Interests and SAG members have formed Special Interest Groups for : Family Tree Maker Users; Irish ; London & Home Counties; Scottish; South Asia; the Sydney Dead Persons Society (computers & Internet); and The Master Genealogist (TMG).

SAG has also produced the following online indexes : Soldiers & Marines 1787-1830, NSW Ships' Musters 1816-1825, NSW Tickets of Leave 1810-1875 and Sydney Streets & Electoral Rolls 1903-1984. The SAG website has an online Library Catalogue to its family history resources and is currently working on a Primary Records Index for its manuscripts (original materials) collection, which is housed at Richmond Villa, 120 Kent Street, Sydney, 2000. Richmond Villa is open 10am-4pm Thursday and Saturday and pre-booking is recommended. PH: (02) 9247 3953.

Highlights of SAG's manuscript collection are: (1) Photographs from the 1840s onwards, including the Houison collection; (2) the Australian Biographical and Genealogical Record archive; (3) St Joseph's Building Society material, primarily for 1880 to 1940; (4) Monumental masons' ledgers of both Andrews and Larcombe; (5) The Gordon Dennes collection, focusing on Manning River settlers; (6) John Arthur Perkins Papers' collection on the social history of Eden-Monaro, Tumut and Adelong from 1823 to 1948; (7) The Valerie Ross collection, focussing on the Everingham family; (8) Sydney sewerage plans from 1856 and 1867 & Percy Dove's 1880 survey plans of Sydney; (9) Papers of the Beale family, which was involved in piano manufacture and running music shops; (10) Papers of 19th century Sydney merchant Quong Tart; and (11) Camperdown Cemetery Plans.

The website also provides online Research Guides for : Adoptions in NSW; Australasian Genealogical Computer Index (AGCI); Australian Biographical and Genealogical Record (ABGR); Australian Joint Copying Project (AJCP); Bankruptcy records (NSW); Biographies and family histories; Births, Deaths and Marriages (Australia and New Zealand); Births, Deaths and Marriages (England and Wales); Cemeteries; Census - UK; Chapman County Codes; Church records (Australia); Colonial Secretary's Correspondence (NSW); Convict Hulks; Convicts to NSW; Directories; Divorce; Education records; Electoral Milestones (Australia); Electoral Rolls (Australia); Electoral Rolls (Sydney); Hospital and asylum records (Australia); Houison collection of photographs; Huguenots; Inquests (Australia); Land records in NSW; Land tenure in NSW (history); Military and Naval ancestors; Musters and Censuses - Australia; Naturalisation records; Newspapers; Occupations, trades and apprenticeships; Parish Registers (England and Wales); Perkins Papers; Photographs; Placenames, gazetteers and maps; Probate records; Pubs and publicans (Australia); St Joseph's Building Society records; Shipping records; and Ships and voyages.

A Society of Australian Genealogists index to musters and pay lists of British soldiers and marines in the early colonial period of 1788 to 1830. The SAG index includes: name, rank, regiment, pay list/muster roll, PRO Reel/source and notes. This index largely refers to PRO (UK Public Records Office) microfilm reels of the Australian Joint Copying Project which was a national/state libraries project to copy UK records relevant to Australia. AJCP reels are available in all state libraries (including the Mitchell Library) and the National Library.

The original material for the later regiments is to be found in The National Archives, Kew, London and forms part of the War Office records which are identified as series WO12. The sources of some of the earlier quarterly regimental pay lists and muster rolls have been very difficult to determine and users may come across the annotation 'source unknown' for this early material. This relates to the 1787 Muster Roll and some entries for the 1788 Muster Roll.

From the beginning of the Colony of New South Wales in 1788 until 1870 various British Military Regiments including the Marines arrived on this continent. Their role was to protect the inhabitants by acting as a police force and to keep law and order, especially when it came to bushrangers. The 3rd Regiment was the first to provide men for the Mounted Police.

It was not only New South Wales which felt the military presence, as their command spread over the other colonies - Van Diemen's Land, Victoria, South Australia, Western Australia and Moreton Bay (now Brisbane). In 1860 the 40th Regiment saw service in one of the Maori Wars in New Zealand.

At the end of their term in the colony the Regiments usually travelled on to the various British India establishments such as Madras and Calcutta. A soldier was usually given the option of staying on in the colony if he wished to settle here. Thus there are many Australians who have British Military ancestors.

The following is a listing of the pay lists and muster rolls included in the index and notes about their sources:

* Regiment/Pay List/Muster Roll - Date of List - Source

(1) Listed Officer of Marines - 1 Jul 1788 - 30 Sep 1788 - HRNSW, Volume 2, pp. 415-419

(2) 1787 Muster Roll - Source unknown

(3) 1788 Muster Roll - PRO Reel 412

(4) 1788 Muster Roll - Source unknown for some entries

(5) 1789 Muster Roll -5 Jun 1789 - 24 Dec 1789 -Historical Records of NSW (HRNSW), Vol. 2, pp. 432-435

(6) 1798 Pay List - PRO Reel 412

(7) 1799 Pay List - PRO Reel 412

(8) 73rd Regiment of Foot, 1st Battalion - 25 Jun 1812 - 24 Sep 1812 - PRO Reel 3869

(9) 73rd Regiment, Invalid Company - 25 Jun 1812 - 24 Sep 1812 - PRO Reel 3869

(10) 46th Regiment of Foot (South Devon) - 25 Mar 1815 - 25 Jun 1815 - PRO Reel 3795

(11) 48th Regiment of Foot - 25 Mar 1818 - 24 Jun 1818 - PRO Reel 3797

(12) 3rd Regiment of Foot (Buffs) - 25 Dec 1824 - 25 Mar 1825 - PRO Reel 3695

(13) 40th Regiment of Foot - 25 Sep 1827 - 24 Dec 1827 - PRO Reel 3774

(14) 39th Regiment of Foot - 25 Jun 1830 - 24 Sep 1830 - PRO Reel 3772

Published by Archive CD Books Australia in partnership with the South Australian Genealogy & Heraldry Society in 2005, this 2 CDROM set is a facsimile of the original 6-volume publication which is now out of print.

In 1980 the Society decided to publish a permanent record of people who lived in SA during the first 50 years of colonisation (1836-1885), to coincide with the State’s Jubilee 150 year in 1986. The result was the 1,958-page, 4-volume, Biographical Index of South Australians 1836-1885, edited by Jill Statton, with some 100,000 entries.

Material sources included Society members and individuals, archives and public records, church registers, ships’ passenger lists, burial records and private papers (ie: wills, family bibles, birthday books & letters of administrations).

Entries recorded basic biographical information about an individual such as parents, spouse and children, birth date, marriage date, death date and place, arrival in South Australia (including ship if known), plus residence, religion, occupation and more. A sample page can be seen at Sample Page.

A 2- volume, 1,069 page, supplement, entitled South Australians 1836-1885 and edited by Jan Thomas, was published in 1990. This set had:

* Over 7500 biographies of South Australian colonists. These listings concentrate on the male line with a detailed index of maiden or former surnames of spouses

* All the material included in the previous issued ‘Bicentennial Bulletins 1-8’ with updates,

* additional information added to a significant number of entries.

* New avenues of research as each entry lists the sources from which the data has been obtained and includes the name of the contributors, to enable contacts to be made.

* Additional information which complements that published in the ‘Biographical Index of South Australians’

A sample page can be seen at Sample Page.

The CD-ROM version allows full text searching and has the following advantages over the 6-volume print version:

* find many more names that can be found in the original alphabetical arrangement or printed index - especially the mother's maiden names and married names of daughters. For example there are 74 biographies of people with the surname 'Dawson' in the 2 sets, but a search for that name returns 294 occurrences.

* search by place and find all people associated with that place, a great local history resource. For example, a search for 'Gawler' returns 4,682 occurrences. No index to places is in the original.

* search for places of origin - how many and who are listed as coming from say Norfolk or Truro in Cornwall? For example, a search for Truro (Cornwall) returns 137 occurrences. No index to places of origin is in the original.

* find out who else is listed as coming on your ancestor's ship (same or another voyage)—just search by name of vessel. For example, a search for the Ship Trafalgar returns 347 occurrences. No index to ships is in the original.

* search by any other word for any other purpose of interest, e.g. occupation — how many are listed as solicitors (a search gives 205) or religion — all those identified as say Presbyterians (a search gives 2682).

* enlarge the image on screen to easily read what is very small type in the original.

The 6-volume print version is available in the Mitchell Library at REF 1/929.39423/1+3.

Produced by Di Cummings in 2005,this CD contains nearly every passenger list for the 3,000 overseas and local ships that came to South Australia between 1836-1851,creating a database of nearly 60,000 local and overseas families (including names,ages,occupations etc) .

Passengers came from England, Scotland, Ireland and Germany, as well as inter-colonial arrivals from Sydney, Melbourne, Hobart, Western Australia and New Zealand.

The newspaper 'South Australian Register' (located at RAV/FM4/1110) sent a special reporter to each ship arriving in SA, to list the passengers on board that ship from the passenger list held by the Captain.The reporter's list was published in the next publication of the newspaper.

These published lists are often the only source available of a passenger list for a particular ship. Where possible, the compilers have compared these lists with photocopies of the actual passenger list(many of which are difficult to read).As a result, the information on some images may not be 100% accurate.

The CD also has some shipping reports from newspapers of the day,including published reports of pioneers interviewed about their journeys to SA, photographs of some early pioneers and over 20 ship diaries.

Further information at We're Bound for SA.

Published by Gould Genealogy in 2004 and authored by Robin Haines,Judith Jeffery and Greg Slattery, this CDROM details births and deaths that occurred on the 323 voyages to SA on SA Government-assisted immigration ships between 1848 and 1885.

Information for each voyage includes the port and date of departure, port and date of arrival, number and nationality of emigrants and the ship's surgeon.

A sample voyage report can be found at Gould Genealogy : Sample Voyage Report. Information has also been drawn from surgeon's reports and other sources.

Information on deaths on board include age,sex,date and cause of death. Birth details include date and parents.

Contents also include:

* an introduction by Robin Haines;

* a bibliography;

* an alphabetical list of 323 government-assisted ships arriving in South Australia 1848-1885, summarising births, deaths, and surgeons’ names;

* Summary of voyages (1848-1885), arranged by vessel;

* Summary of voyages (1848-1885), arranged by surgeon;

* 40 pages of illustrations;

A gazetteer setting out histories of towns, suburbs,landscape features and other names localities in South Australia.

Most entries describe the circumstances of the naming as well as the derivation of the name itself, and if this is not available, other historical detail is provided.

Contains over 200 photos from the South Australian Glass Negatives Collection held by the History Trust of South Australia and a facsimile of Rodney Cockburn's 'Nomenclature of South Australia'.

The author is Geoffrey H. Manning, superceding his book' Romance of place Names of South Australia'.

Compiled by Graham Jaunay and produced by Gould Genealogy in 2005, the 1840 Cultivators is a return of all property outside of Adelaide proper as conducted in the latter part of 1840.

No records survive giving the precise date of the survey and it may have been partly done in conjunction with the 1841 SA census. Regardless, it gives a picture of rural life in the early days of the colony and names the owners and tenants of cultivated property together with a description of the improvements made to the property.

Consisting of several hundred entries, the information listed contains: District; Section Number/s; Place; Surname; Given Name; Wheat, Barley, Oats, Maize, Potato, Garden (qty in acres); Additional Information (which can consist of dwellings such as house, cottage, hut, barn, stable, pens, dairy, school, brickworks, hotel, brewery, mill, quarry, lime kiln, shop, police, cemetery, fishery or church). The database has added features such as a copy of the population figures for the 1840 census. The information can be browsed or searched, and entries can be looked at in a listing or individually.

The material is divided into the districts proclaimed in the province at the time. These administrative districts were also used for the 1841 Census, as follows:

(1) District A: north of Bay Road (now Anzac Highway) & Greenhill Road excluding Adelaide but including Port Adelaide and west of Mt Lofty.

(2) District B: south of Bay Road and Greenhill Road to 35ƒ10í and west of Mt Lofty.

(3) District C: from 35°10’ [i.e. mouth of the Onkaparinga River] to 35°20’ [i.e. base of Sellicks Hill] and west of Mt Lofty.

(4) Encounter Bay District (including Crrency Creek and Inman valley.

(5) Mount Barker District (including Mr Smillie and Mr Hack and the Angas Surveys).

(6) Northern Districts: included Houghton area, Gawler and the Barossa Valley.

A free, searchable, database of the names in the official returns of the country sections of the colony under cultivation is available at the compiler's website, along with a sample survey entry and a map of the administrative districts. See SA 1840 Cultivators Return.

This CDROM is 1 of 5 in a series on the earliest days of the SA colony, namely, 1841 SA Census, 1840 SA Cultivators and SA Pre-civil registrations for births, deaths and marriages.

Compiled by Graham Jaunay and produced by Gould Genealogy in 2002, this CDROM provides the full 1841 SA Census with a searchable index, biographies of many listed people and scanned enumerators' sheets.

It has just over 7000 listings, accounting for nearly 15,500 people. The young colony was 5 years old and this ambitious project was well beyond the resources of the fledgling cash-strapped bureaucracy trying to administer a small population scattered across a huge territory.

A typed index created in 1949 was the only access available to researchers until this CDROM, which has re-indexed the original material as some of the interpretations of hand-written originals were wrong. It has also enhanced the data with many biographies on the persons listed.

The 1841 SA Census, like its English counterpart, only names the heads of households in the closely settled areas and so the biographies often identify individuals by name rather than just a number in an age column. The presentation features a thermometer which gauges the veracity of the collated material, giving the user some idea of how accurate the biography is to the person identified.

The census material is arranged into the districts proclaimed in the province at the time, as follows:

(1) District A: north of Bay Road (now Anzac Highway) & Greenhill Road excluding Adelaide but including Port Adelaide and west of Mt Lofty.

(2) District B: south of Bay Road and Greenhill Road to 35ƒ10í and west of Mt Lofty.

(3) District C: from 35ƒ10í [i.e. mouth of the Onkaparinga River] to 35ƒ20í [i.e. base of Sellicks Hill] and west of Mt Lofty.

(4) Adelaide Metropolitan villages: Albert Town (Alberton); Bowden; Goodwood; Hindmarsh; Islington; Kensington; Klemzig; Macgill (Magill); Port Adelaide; Prospect; Thebarton; Unley; Walkerville.

(5) Encounter Bay District including Currency Creek and Inman valley.

(6) Mount Barker District including Mr Smillie and Mr Hack and the Angas Surveys.

(7) Northern Districts: included Houghton area, Gawler and the Barossa Valley.

(8) Port Lincoln

A free searchable database will disclose the names listed in the SA 1841 Census at the compiler's website, along with a map of the census districts listed above, at SA 1841 Census.

This CDROM is 1 of 5 in a series on the earliest days of the SA colony, namely, 1841 SA Census, 1840 SA Cultivators and SA Pre-civil registrations for births, deaths and marriages.

This is an index of all birth registrations held by the South Australian Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Office. More details are given than in previous South Australian birth indexes, with the inclusion of information on parents being a major feature.

A fiche version of the SA birth index is available for the period 1842 to 1922, as well as a book version for the period 1842 to 1906 (at NQ929.39423/11), in the Family History Service.

220,000 records of births registered in South Australia, under a compulsory registration system introduced in 1842.

Records provide birth surname (usually father's), given names, birth date, sex, father, mother's maiden name (and sometimes her other married names are added),birth place/residence, district code, book and page reference and sometimes a cross reference to an alternative name (due to legal name change or registration ambiguity).

Search fields include surname, given name, year of birth or year range (ie put 1907 to 1909). Can use asterix (*) to replace portions of names and places when you are unsure of a spelling.Using upper or lower case does not effect the search (ie: not case sensitive).

Results can be displayed as a list using the 'results list'button in the top toolbar menu or one by one using the neighbouring 'results record' button.

The 'print order for certificate' button allows you to print an application for the full certificate from the Birth, Deaths and Marriages Registration Office in SA.

A 'Digger' product, published by the SA Genealogy and Heraldry Society Inc. and Macbeth Genealogical Services Pty Ltd.

A fiche version of the SA birth index is available for the period 1842 to 1922, as well as a book version for the period 1842 to 1906 (at NQ929.39423/11), in the Family History Service.

Produced by the South Australian Genealogy and Heraldry Society in conjunction with Macbeth Genealogical Services in May 2000, this database indexes 225,000 death registrations held by the SA Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Office under a compulsory registration system introduced in 1842.

It includes all death registrations prior to the end of the year 1915, one registration prior to the year 1842, and 604 registrations in January 1916.

Details included are: Name of the deceased, sex, age, date and place of death, informant if a relative and relationship, Registration District, BDM Registry reference.

A fiche version of the SA death index is available for the period 1842 to 1970, as well as a book version for the period 1842 to 1915 (at NQ929.3944/26), in the Family History Service.

Published in 2006, this CDROM indexes over 381,000 SA deaths for the period 1916 to 1972, as well as 131 registrations of people whose deaths occurred before 1916 but were registered later (including one from 1885). It also covers the wars from World War 1 to the Vietnam War, with more than 3,700 designated as war deaths.

Information provided includes:

* the deceased's surname and given names, sex, age and marital status.

* usual residence, death date, and place of death.

* relative's surname and given names and relationship to the deceased.

* registrations district and registrations book and page reference numbers.

* explanatory and supplementary information

The Digger software offers the following search tools:

* it allows the user to search using one or more fields of information

* wildcard searches (ie Je*cott retrieves Jephcott, Jefcott and Jeffcott)

* truncation searches (ie Hall* retrieves Halls, Halloran, Haller)

* reverse truncation searches (ie *Donnell retrieves Donnell, O'Donnell, MacDonnell)

* 'like' (phonetic) searches (ie 'like' Myer locates Mier, Meyer etc)

A fiche version of the SA death index is available for the period 1842 to 1970, as well as a book version for the period 1842 to 1915 (at NQ929.3944/26), in the Family History Service.

This database indexes marriage registrations held by the South Australian Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Office. It includes all marriage registrations prior to the end of the year 1916.

A fiche version of the SA marriage index is available for the period 1842 to 1937, as well as a book version for the period 1842 to 1917 (at NQ929.39423/9), in the Family History Service.

This database indexes marriage registrations held by the South Australian Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Office.

A fiche version of the SA marriage index is available for the period 1842 to 1937, as well as a book version for the period 1842 to 1917 (at NQ929.39423/9), in the Family History Service.

The information contained in the Police Gazettes can vary from year to year, but overall you will find details of any changes within the police force, such as promotions, demotions, discharges, resignations and deaths, as well as lists of Justices of the Peace.

Information is also given on house break-ins, robberies, arson, murders,lost horses and cattle, deserters from service or from families, court lists, warrants issued, escaped prisoners, prisoners discharged and reports on those released, missing friends, lost and found items etc. Notices from interstate police gazettes are sometimes included.

Compiled by Graham Jaunay and produced by Gould Genealogy in 2005, this CDROM covers pre-civil registration SA births up to June 1842.

With over 2100 entries, the information listed contains: Date of Birth/Date of Baptism (sometimes both are given); Parents (father & mother); Surname; First Names; Occupation Father; Residence/Birthplace; Source. The information can be browsed or searched, and entries can be looked at in a listing or individually.

Civil registration began in SA on 1 June 1842, six years after European settlement began in the State. When civil registration commenced, parents were invited to register children born previously and some 468 born in the colony were thus registered.

While the colony never recognised any Established Church, the Colonial Chaplain was Anglican and very few other churches were represented in the Colony prior to June 1842.

The known surviving church registers include:

* Anglican:Adelaide (Holy) Trinity from 1836

* Catholic:Adelaide circuit from 1839

* Church of Scotland:Adelaide Holy Trinity from 1837

* Presbyterian:Gouger Street Adelaide from 1839

* Society of Friends:Pennington Tce Meeting House from 1841

Other sources include newspaper personal columns, BISA (Biographical Index of South Australians 1836–1885) and published family histories.

This CDROM is 1 of 5 in a series on the earliest days of the SA colony, namely, 1841 SA Census, 1840 SA Cultivators and SA Pre-civil registrations for births, deaths and marriages.

Compiled by Graham Jaunay and produced by Gould Genealogy in 2005, this CDROM covers some 1,200 pre-civil registration SA deaths up to June 1842. Civil registration began in SA on 1 June 1842, six years after European settlement began in the State.

The earliest burial records at West Terrace Cemetery were lost and prior to this cemetery burials were not recorded.

Burial sources are as follows:

* Anglican:Adelaide (Holy) Trinity from 1837

* General:Kingscote from 1836

Other sources include newspaper personal columns, BISA (Biographical Index of South Australians 1836-1885) and published family histories.

The information listed contains: Death Date/Burial Date, Surname, First Name/s, Occupation, Age, Cause, Residence, Death Place, Cemetery Celebrant, and Source. The information can be browsed or searched, and entries can be looked at in a listing or individually.

This CDROM is 1 of 5 in a series on the earliest days of the SA colony, namely, 1841 SA Census, 1840 SA Cultivators and SA Pre-civil registrations for births, deaths and marriages.

Compiled by Graham Jaunay and produced by Gould Genealogy in 2006, this CDROM covers some 600 pre-civil registration SA marriages up to June 1842 obtained mainly from the Holy Trinity Adelaide Register, the SA Gazetter & Colonial Register, the Biographical Index of South Australians 1836-1885 and published family histories. A few entries are registered (in the GRO Marriage Register), even though the marriage occurred before introduction of civil registration.

Information listed contains: Marriage Date, Couple (Groom/Bride), Age, Occupation, Residence (Groom/Bride), Fathers, Mothers, Marriage Place, Celebrant, Status (Bachelor/Widower, Spinster/Widow), and sources.

The information can be browsed or searched, and entries can be looked at in a listing or individually. The residence column lists many from