The guide 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.
The guide provides information on how to gain access to 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.
This website aims to cover the history of Australian Imperial Forces ( WW1 ) soldier settlement in NSW. A joint project of the Australian Research Council, the Aust. Department of Veterans’ Affairs, Monash University, State Records NSW and the University of New England, the resources page provides links to State Records NSW online soldier settlement indexes, including the following:
(1) Index to Closer Settlement Promotion files, 1913-
(2) Closer Settlement and Returned Soldier’s Transfer files, 1907-36, 1951
(3) Registers of Settlement Purchase, 1905-1929
(4) Returned Soldier Settlement Miscellaneous Files
A+ Education is an indexing and full text database that provides Internet access to the scanned images of journal articles from published material on all aspects of education.
From the American Association for the Advancement of Science this site seeks to engage religious communities in support of research on and education about evolution. Includes discussions of alternative views, such as intelligent design and creationism.
Australian Accounting & Taxation Database (AATD), produced by the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia, is a bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts published and unpublished material on accounting and related business topics.
This is the official site for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. It contains a guide to ABC services, information about ABC radio and television programs and contact details for ABC departments.
This site from ABC Programming includes its radio, TV and online networks. As well as transcripts and audio features, the site includes topical feature articles on religion and ethics and an online library of websites A-Z of the major world religions and spiritual movements.
This American online database indexes more than a thousand international journals which focus on business and management. Subjects covered include accounting, marketing, human resources, finance and taxation. Over 70% of the articles indexed are available in full text, text and graphics or page images. Hypertext links at the end of citations allow further searching under related subject headings as well as publisher information. A backfile is available for a number of articles published before 1985.
ABIX is an indexing service providing subject access to business information contained in the periodical literature of Australia and New Zealand, including key industry journals and newspapers. More than 200 titles are indexed dating from 1994 to the present.
These protocols are intended to guide libraries, archives and information services in appropriate ways to interact with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in the communities, and handle material with Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander content.
These protocols are intended to guide libraries, archives and information services in appropriate ways to interact with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in the communities, and handle material with Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander content.
These protocols are intended to guide libraries, archives and information services in appropriate ways to interact with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in the communities, and handle material with Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander content.
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.
Part of the WWW Virtual Library Project, this site has links to resources for about 50 of the more than 200 Australian Aboriginal languages. These are grouped by state, language name, and type of resource, such as dictionaries, courses and other categories.
Part of the WWW Virtual Library Project, this site has links to resources for about 50 of the more than 200 Australian Aboriginal languages. These are grouped by state, language name, and type of resource, such as dictionaries, courses and other categories.
Part of the WWW Virtual Library project, this site contains links to dictionaries for many of the more than 200 Australian Aboriginal languages. Also has links to vocabulary, wordlists and placenames.
Australian Museum website looking at indigenous peoples long association with the Habour and looks at the wildlife and natural environment. Includes placenames, clans ,language and foods.
Australian Museum website looking at indigenous peoples long association with the Habour and looks at the wildlife and natural environment. Includes placenames, clans ,language and foods.
Australian Museum website looking at indigenous peoples long association with the Habour and looks at the wildlife and natural environment. Includes placenames, clans ,language and foods.
The select list of 150 items provides a readily accessible compilation of some significant microfilmed records (mainly manuscript) concerning the Australian Aboriginal peoples.
The select list of 150 items provides a readily accessible compilation of some significant microfilmed records (mainly manuscript) concerning the Australian Aboriginal peoples.
The Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies holds computer-based information about Australia's Indigenous languages in the Aboriginal Studies Electronic Data Archive. The Archive is available to language community members and to researchers in the field of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies. This page describes material held by ASEDA.
The Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies holds computer-based information about Australia's Indigenous languages in the Aboriginal Studies Electronic Data Archive. The Archive is available to language community members and to researchers in the field of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies. This page describes material held by ASEDA.
A guide to evaluated websites for Aboriginal studies, maintained in conjunction with the Center For World Indigenous Studies' Indigenous Studies WWW Virtual Library.
A guide to evaluated websites for Aboriginal studies, maintained in conjunction with the Center For World Indigenous Studies' Indigenous Studies WWW Virtual Library.
American Book Prices Current on CD ROM contains two databases: Autographs and Manuscripts and Books (including broadsides, charts and maps). The databases represent the auction sales reported by American Book Prices Current.
Access note: CDROM ( RAV/DISC 10/267 ) - Book at Information Desk
A study resource for Shakespeare's plays, sonnets and other poems. Includes plot summaries, essays, character analyses, quotes, biography, and information about the Globe Theatre.
An index to over two thousand periodicals on a broad range of subjects including arts, business, humanities, social sciences, medicine and the sciences. Many of the articles are available in full text. It is produced in the USA.
Access note: Library database ( ProQuest ), also access from home for registered readers in NSW
Academic Search Premier is an academic multi-disciplinary database which provides full text for nearly 4,600 scholarly publications, including full text for more than 3,500 peer-reviewed journals, offering information dating as far back as 1975. This database is updated on a daily basis via EBSCOhost.
Catalogues of archives held across England, dating from the 900s to the present day. Over 250 repositories are covered, including local record offices and libraries, universities, museums and national and specialist institutions.
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.
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.
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.
This site provides links to government information of the Australian Capital Territory. It includes links to government departments and tourism and business information. The site also contains links to LAWnet (ACT legal information), the full text of the Legislative Assembly Hansard and budget papers as well as selected government reports.
This site allows comparison pricing on new and second-hand books which can be purchased over the Internet. Prices can be displayed in a range of currencies.
Provides international statistical data about more than 4200 religions, faith groups, tribes and movements. Includes indexes by country and religion as well as statistics such as major world religions by size and age.
An index to published and unpublished material at all levels of education and related fields including educational research, policy administration, teacher education, educational psychology, sociology and library and information science.
Australian Federal Police Digest (AFPD), produced by the Australian Federal Police Library, Canberra, is a bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles from published and unpublished material on policing, criminology, law enforcement and related fields.
This site consists of bibliographic databases covering Africana periodical literature, African women's literature, and a comprehensive bibliography on women travellers and explorers to Africa.
This site provides the daily news, features, IT and classified sections of the newspaper. It also contains a ‘breaking news’ section available from mid-morning on weekdays. The Age 150th snapshot provides a selection of articles and photographs from the last 150 years.
Agricola contains bibliographic records from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Library. This database contains more than 4.1 million citations from journal articles, book chapters, monographs, theses, patents, software, audiovisual materials, and technical reports related to agriculture.
Agricola encompasses all aspects of agriculture and allied disciplines, including animal and veterinary sciences, entomology, plant sciences, forestry, aquaculture and fisheries, farming and farming systems, agricultural economics, extension and education, food and human nutrition, agricultural engineering and technology and earth and environmental sciences.
AGRIS is an international information system to bring together world literature dealing with all aspects of agricultural sciences and technology. AGRIS is a cooperative system in which participating countries input references to the literature produced within their boundaries and, in return, draw on the information provided by the other participants. To date, 240 national, international and intergovernmental centres participate.
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.
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.
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 from Land and Property Information NSW provides aerial photographs of New South Wales towns and suburbs that can be searched, viewed and ordered.
This site provides a comprehensive search engine for Middle Eastern links, travel and business information and services, up-to-the-minute news reports and in-depth articles on a variety of Middle Eastern topics including business, politics, tourism, culture, health, entertainment and sports.
A detailed historical outline of the war from an Australian perspective, plus an extensive reference section and hundreds of biographies. All complemented by thousands of photos, many of Victorians who served.
This site provides the world's largest Internet bookstore which allows you to find and order books and CDs from overseas and includes reviews of new books. All prices are in American dollars.
This service indexes and selectively abstracts literature on the history of the USA and Canada published from 1954 to the present. All historical periods of American history are covered. Like its sister database, Historical Abstracts, the America: History and Life service covers over 2,000 key historical journals and general journals in social sciences and humanities from many countries
Access note: Library database (EBSCOhost) available onsite
This site provides access to a number of poetry anthologies including the Oxford book of English verse and Modern American poetry. Indexes to poems can be searched by author, title or first lines.
American National Biography offers portraits of more than 17,400 men and women -- from all eras and walks of life -- whose lives have shaped the American nation.It is updated quarterly, with hundreds of new entries each year and revisions of previously published entries to enhance their accuracy and currency. The ANB Online features thousands of illustrations, more than 80,000 hyperlinked cross-references, links to select web sites, and powerful search capabilities.
The American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) produces standards which cover areas such as energy, the environment, consumer products, medical services and devices, computerized systems and electronics. ASTM standards are developed voluntarily and used voluntarily.
AmphibiaWeb allows free access to information on the biology and conservation of amphibians. The site offers taxonomic information for every recognized species of amphibians in the world. Species descriptions, life history information, conservation status, literature references, photos and range maps are available for many species. The database can be searched by genus, species and vernacular name.From the University of California.
The official website of the Ulster Historical Foundation. The site includes free and subscription databases, research services, publications, events and a consultation service.
The Ancestry Library database currently includes electoral rolls for the following Australian states and years under its subject heading Census & Voter Lists :
The NSW State Library has a comprehensive collection of electoral rolls, particularly for NSW, and a guide to this collection at Getting Started : Electoral Rolls.
Ancestry Library holdings of Australian records include the following:
(1) Australia Census & Voter Lists - Australian Electoral Rolls, misc. 1901-1936; and 1828 NSW Census.
(2) Australia Immigration & Emigration - NSW and Tasmania Convict Musters 1806-1849; NSW and Tasmania Settler and Convict Lists 1787-1834; NSW and Tasmania Convict Pardons and Tickets of Leave 1834-1859; NSW Bounty Immigrants List 1828 - 1842; Australian Convict Transportation Registers – First Fleet 1787-1788, Second Fleet 1789-1790, Third Fleet 1791, and Other Fleets & Ships 1791-1868.
(3) Australia Military - ANZAC Memorial 1914-1918; and Rebellion of 1837 Upper Canada.
(4) Australia Directories & Member Lists - Sands Directories: Sydney and New South Wales 1861-1933; the Federal Directory of Newcastle and District for 1901; and Who’s Who in Australia, 1921-1950.
(5) Australia Court, Land, Wills & Financial - England & Wales Criminal Registers 1791 to 1892; Australian Convict Index 1788 to 1868; Maryborough, Queensland, Australia Immigrants from the British Isles & Germany 1861-91; and Convict Savings Bank Books 1824-1886.
(6) Australia Dictionaries, Encyclopedias & Reference - An Australian Biographical Dictionary; and the Dictionary of Australasian Biography
(7) Australia Stories, Memories & Histories - A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Colonial Gentry; Australia's Fighting Sons of The Empire. Portraits and Biographies of Australians in the Great War; the Australian Portrait Gallery and Memoirs of Representative Colonial Men; Benedictine Pioneers in Australia Vol. 1 & Vol. 2; and the Jubilee of the Law school of the University of Sydney 1890-1940.
Ancestry Library holdings of British (England & Wales) records include the following:
(1) England & Wales Family Trees - Millennium File
(2) England & Wales Census & Voter Lists - England & Wales census records for 1841, 1851, 1861, 1871, 1881,1891 and 1901; Suffolk Returns From the Census of Religious Worship of 1851; & U.K. Census Free Sample.
(3) England & Wales Birth, Marriage & Death - England & Wales FreeBMD Birth, Death & Marriage Index 1837-1983; England & Wales, Birth, Death & Marriage Index 1837-2005; England (General): Parish and Probate Records; also Parish and Probate Records for the counties of Gloucestershire, Hampshire, Herefordshire, Hertfordshire, Huntingdonshire, Kent, Lancashire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, London, Middlesex, Norfolk, Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Rutland, Shropshire, Somerset, Staffordshire, Suffolk, Surrey, Sussex, Warwickshire, Westmorland, Wiltshire, Worcestershire & Yorkshire; Croydon, Surrey County Gravestones; Furness Fells, England: Colton Parish Church Registers 1623-1812; Genealogical Gleanings in England Vol. I ; Halifax, Yorkshire Baptisms 1538-1593; Hampshire Allegations for Marriage Licences 1689-1837; Lee, Kent, S. Margaret Church Register 1579-1754; London Times Births and Christenings 1983-2003; London Times, Deaths 1982-1988; London Times, Marriages 1982-2004; London, England: St. Botolph, Bishopsgate Baptisms 1628-1690; Pallot's Baptism & Marriage Indexes for England 1780-1837; Register of Baptisms and Marriages at St. George's Chapel, Mayfair; Richmond, Yorkshire Civil Marriages 1653-1660; Somerset England: Evercreech Parish 1538-1890; St. Michael le Belfrey, York Parish Register 1565-1653; Wells, England Bishop's Transcripts; Westminster Marriage, Baptismal, and Burial Registers; Yorkshire: Adel Parish Register 1606-1812; Breconshire, Wales Marriages 1813-1837; Lleyn Hundred & Eifionydd Commot, Wales Churchyards; Radnorshire, Wales Marriages 1813-1835.
(4) England & Wales Immigration & Emigration - American Migrations 1765-1799; A List of Emigrants from England to America 1682-1692 & 1718-1759; Emigrants from England to the American Colonies 1773-1776; More Emigrants in Bondage, 1614-1775; American Emigrant Ministers 1690-1811; Child Apprentices in America from Christ's Hospital, London 1617-1778; English Adventurers and Emigrants 1609-1660 & 1661-1733; Going to America; Omitted Chapters from Hotten's Original Lists of Persons of Quality etc; Persons of Quality Original Lists; & The Bristol Registers of Servants.
(5) England & Wales Military - British Army WWI Pension & Service Records 1914-1920; Stars and Stripes Newspaper, Europe, Mediterranean, and North Africa Editions 1942-1964; Indian Army Quarterly List for 1 Jan. 1912; British Naval Biographical Dictionary 1849; Babergh Hundred Military Survey of 1522; British & German Deserters, Dischargees & POW's Who May Have Remained in Canada & the USA 1774-1783; Charterhouse Register 1872-1910; Commissioned Sea Officers of the Royal Navy 1660-1815; & Great Britain Army War List January 1893.
(6) England & Wales Directories & Member Lists - British Phone Books 1880-1984; UK & U.S. Directories 1680-1830; UK directories for : Altrincham 1906; Birmingham - Warwickshire 1855; Burnley 1896; Canterbury 1889; Derbyshire 1857; Devon, Durham, Northumberland & Yorkshire 1855; Essex, Herts, Kent, Middlesex, Surrey & Sussex Counties 1851; Herefordshire & Shropshire 1917; Isle of Wight 1904; London & Country 1811; London 1829; Manchester & Salford 1800; Middlesex 1851; Monmouthshire, Wales 1844; Newcastle-Upon-Tyne 1778; Somersetshire & Bristol 1889; Suffolk 1875; & Warwickshire 1900; Catalogue of Knights 1660-1760; England Commercial Directory 1816-1817; England Directory 1811; England, Great Western Railway Magazine 1838-1943; England, Southern Railway Magazine: Jan 1840 - Feb 1942; Old Westminsters Up to 1927; Oxford Men 1880-1892; Cambridge University Alumni 1261-1900; Oxford University Alumni 1500-1886; & Ireland, The Royal Irish Constabulary 1816-1921.
(7) England & Wales Court, Land, Wills & Financial - British Chancery Records 1386-1558; American Colonists in English Records; American Wills Proved in London 1611-1775; English Estates of American Colonists, 1700-1799; Genealogical Gleanings in England, Vol 2; etc
(8) England & Wales Dictionaries, Encyclopedias & Reference - English & Welsh Surname Dictionary; General Armory of England, Scotland, Ireland & Wales; Chalmers' Biographical Dictionary; English Origins of American Colonists;etc
(9) England & Wales Stories, Memories & Histories - Dictionary of National Biography Vols 1-20, 22; English Origins of New England Families Vol. I; The English Ancestry & Homes of the Pilgrim Fathers; English Origins of New England Families, Second Series, Vol. I; Landed Gentry of Great Britain & Ireland; etc.
(10) England & Wales Newspapers & Periodicals - Railway Gazette Worldwide Historical Data1860-1930.
The Ancestry Library database currently holds numerous census records under its subject heading Census & Voter Lists. Major holdings are, as follows:
(1) England, Wales, Isle of Man & Channel Islands Census - 1841, 1851, 1861, 1871, 1891 and 1901
(2) Scotland Census -1851, 1861, 1871,1881, 1891 and 1901
(3) Ireland: 1841/1851 Census Abstracts (Northern Ireland) and County Cork, Ireland, a Collection of 1851 Census Records
(4) Slave Registers of former British Colonial Dependencies, 1812-1834
(5) US Federal Census - 1790, 1800, 1810, 1820, 1830,1840, 1850, 1860, 1870, 1880,1890 (fragment),1900, 1910, 1920 and 1930
(6) Other US records - 1890 Veteran's Schedules; 1850 & 1860 Slave Schedules; US Federal Census Mortality Schedules, 1850-1880; 1930 Merchant Seamen; and many US State census records.
(7) Canada Census - 1901 and 1911
(8) Australia - New South Wales 1828 Census; and muster and convict lists for New South Wales (1806, 1811, 1822-1825, 1837) and Van Diemens Land (Tasmania) (1808-1849).
(1) England & Wales, Criminal Registers, 1791 to 1892 - database of 1.4 million documents from the UK National Archives Series HO 26 and HO 27 covering criminal trials from England and Wales for the years 1791 to 1892, including documents relating to 97,000 transportations to Australia and other colonies.
Information listed on these criminal registers may include: name of criminal; age; birthplace (not often listed after 1802); crime; when and where tried; sentence (death, transportation, imprisonment, acquittal, etc.); where and when received; date of execution or release; by whom committed and to whom delivered. For more information on UK National Archives criminal records, see their research guide Tracing 19th and 20th Century Criminals.
(2) Australian Convict Transportation Registers – First Fleet 1787-1788: Second Fleet 1789-1790; Third Fleet 1791; and Other Fleets & Ships 1791-1868 - from the UK National Archives Series HO11. Information available in these registers includes: name of convict, date and place of conviction, term of sentence, name of ship on which sailed, departure date and name of colony sent to. For further details see the UK National Archives research guide Transportation to Australia 1787-1868.
(3) NSW Convict Ship Muster Rolls and Related Records 1790 to 1849 - database primarily of ship muster lists of convicts being transported from England to NSW between 1790 and 1849 held by NSW State Records Series CGS 1155, Reels 2417-2428 . Some of the records are of convicts being transported from other places throughout the British Empire (such as Canada, India, South Africa, and other areas of Australia) and to other parts of Australia (such as Van Diemen’s Land, South Australia, or Western Australia).
(4) Australian Convict Index 1788-1868 - database includes more than 48,000 names of convicts sent to Australia between 1788 and 1868, compiled from state archives convict indexes, from numerous publications, and also from convict websites. It gives the name of the convict, his/her age or birth year, birthplace or place of trial, occupation, marital status, ship, and year of arrival.
(5) Australia - Convict Savings Bank Books 1824 to 1886 - Information listed in these books includes date, name of convict, arrival ship, and money amounts. Further information at NSW State Records convict bank accounts.
Ancestry Library holdings of continental European records include the following:
(1) European records - Stars and Stripes Newspaper, Europe, Mediterranean & North Africa Editions 1942-1964 & Stars and Stripes Newspaper, WWI Edition, 1918-1919; World Foreign Gazetteer Vol. 1; and Millennium File-Dependency Database1 & 2.
(2) Austria - The House of Habsburg: a Genealogy of the Descendants of Empress Maria Theresia; Schnitzer's Allgemeiner Fuhrwerker-Kalender 1890 (in German); Addreßbuch der jetzt bestehenden Kaufleute und Fabrikanten in Europa, Zweiter Band: Östereichische Staaten und andere 1816-1817 (in German); Adressbuch für den Buch-, Kunst-, Musikalienhandel und verwandte Geschäftszweige der österreichisch-ungarischen Monarchie 1885 (in German); Botaniker-Adressbuch: Sammlung von Namen und Adressen der lebenden Botaniker aller Länder 1896 (in German); Botaniker-Adressbuch: Sammlung von Namen und Adressen der lebenden Botaniker aller Länder 1909 (in German); High-Life-Almanach: Adressbuch der Gesellschaft Wiens und der österreichischen Kronländer 1913 (in German); and Die Ältesten Todtenbücher des Benedictinerstiftes St. Lambrecht in Obersteier (in German).
(3) France - The Census Tables for the French Colony of Louisiana from 1699 Through 1732; The New Orleans French, 1720-1733; Courchaton, France Church Records, 1670-1852; Vesoul, France Marriages 1595-1700; Emigrants from France (Haut-Rhin Department) to America 1837-1844 &1845-1847; The Descendants of Louis XIII; & Jacobites of Lowland Scotland, England, Ireland, France & Spain 1745.
(4) Germany
* Germany Census & Voter Lists - Mecklenburg-Schwerin Census, 1819,1867, 1890 &1900 (in German).
* Germany Birth, Marriage & Death - Kapsweyer, Germany Baptisms 1879-1902; Kapsweyer, Germany Church Records 1693-1920 & 1792-1810; Kitchener, Ontario German War Graves; New York City, Lutheran Church Records 1834-1854; Steinfeld, Germany Baptisms 1769-88, 1788-1840 & 1824-49; & Steinfeld, Germany Deaths 1683-1793 & 1803-1922.
* Germany Immigration & Emigration - 19-Century Emigration of Old Lutherans from Eastern Germany to Australia, Canada & the USA ; 19th-Century Emigration from Kreis Simmern (Hunsrueck), Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany to Brazil, England, Russian Poland and USA ; 19th-Century Emigration from Kreis Simmern (Hunsrueck), Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany to Brazil, England, Russian Poland, and USA; A New Land Beckoned: German Immigration to Texas 1844-1847 & 1847-1861; Baden, Germany Emigration Index 1866-1911; Brandenburg, Prussia Emigration Records (in German); Emigrants from Fellbach (Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany) 1735-1930 ; Emigrants from France (Haut-Rhin Department) to America 1837-1844 & 1845-1847; Emigrants from Saxony (Grandduchy of Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach) to America 1854 & 1859; Emigrants from the Former Amt Damme, Oldenburg (Now Niedersachsen), Germany, Mainly to the USA 1830-1849; Emigrants from the Principality of Hessen-Hanau, Germany, 1741-1767; Emigrants from West-German Fuerstenberg Territories (Baden and the Palatinate) to America & Central Europe 1712, 1737, 1787; Hamburg Passenger Lists 1850-1934 (in German); Germans of Colonial Georgia 1733-1783; & Wuerttemberg Emigration Index.
*Germany Directories & Member Lists - Bremen, Germany Ships Crew Lists, 1821-1873 (in German); Bremen, Germany Sailors Registry 1837-1873 (in German); and another 109 German records listed.
* Germany Dictionaries, Encyclopedias & Reference - Encyclopedia of German-American Genealogical Research; Finding Your German Ancestors; Badischer Geschäfts-Kalender für 1925; Lüneburger Urkundenbuch, Funfzehnte Abteilung: Archiv des Klosters St. Johannis zu Walsrode, 1859 (in German); Sammlung sämmtlicher Drucksachen des Hauses der Abgeordneten aus der IX. Legislatur-Periode II. (außerordentlichen) Session 1867 (in German); and Staats-Handbuch für die Herzogthümer Schleswig-Holstein auf das Jahr 1849 (in German).
(5) Italy (all in italian) - La Nuova Italia Vol I-3; Falerna, Catanzaro, Italy Vital Records 1810-1936; Palermo Italy, Index of Birth Records: 1876-85; Nuovo Dizionario Dei Comuni Del Regno D'Italia; Nuovo Dizionario Geografico, Statistico, E Biografico Della Sicilia Antica E Moderna; Dizionario Corografico Della Svizzera Italiana Compresevi Le Frazioni Italiane Dei Grigioni.
(6) Netherlands - Tilburg, Netherlands Births 1811-1902, Deaths 1811-1940 & Marriages 1811-1924; & Scots-Dutch Links in Europe & America 1575-1825.
(7) Norway - Norwegian Connections
(8) Poland - Scots in Poland, Russia and the Baltic States 1550-1850; and Italians in Poland.
(9) Russia - Dictionary of Jewish Surnames in Russian Empire; East Prussians from Russia; Scots in Poland, Russia & the Baltic States 1550-1850.
(10) Sweden - Swedish Emigration Records 1783-1951; Värmland, Sweden, Parish Records 1661-1895; & Swedish Settlements on the Delaware.
(11) Switzerland - Swiss Emigrants in the 18th Century; & The Swiss in the United States.
Ancestry Library holdings of Irish records include the following:
(1) Ireland Family Trees - Millennium File
(2) Ireland Census & Voter Lists - Ireland: 1841/1851 Census Abstracts (Northern Ireland & Republic of Ireland); County Antrim, Ireland 1851 Census; County Cork, Ireland, a Collection of 1851 Census Records; Ireland 1766 Religious Census; and Ireland Householder's Index, County Antrim.
(3) Ireland Birth, Marriage & Death - Irish Records Extraction Database; Irish Marriages 1771-1812; England (General): Parish and Probate Records; Irish Gravestone Inscriptions; Knocktemple Old Cemetery Inscriptions, County Cavan, Ireland; and Louth, Ireland: Parish and Probate Records.
(4) Ireland Immigration & Emigration - A List of Emigrants from England to America, 1682-1692 & 1718-1759; Irish Passenger Lists, 1847-1871; Passengers from Ireland; Irish Emigrants in North America [1670-1830]; Child Apprentices in America from Christ's Hospital, London, 1617-1778; Emigrants from England to the American Colonies, 1773-1776; Emigrants from Ireland to America, 1735-1743; Emigrants from Ireland, 1847-1852; English Adventurers and Emigrants, 1609-1660 & 1661-1733; Going to America; Immigration of the Irish Quakers into Pennsylvania 1682-1750; Irish Emigrants in North America; Irish Emigration Lists, 1833-1839; Irish Emigration to New England through the Port of Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada, 1841 to 1849; Irish Passenger Lists, 1803-1806 & 1847-1871; Later Scots-Irish Links; More Emigrants in Bondage, 1614-1775; Omitted Chapters from Hotten's Original Lists of Persons of Quality; Passengers from Ireland; Persons of Quality Original Lists; Scotch-Irish Migration to South Carolina, 1772; Ships from Ireland to Early America, 1623-1850. Vol. II; The Bristol Registers of Servants; and The Wandering Irish in Europe.
(5) Ireland Military - British Army WWI Pension & Service Records 1914-1920; Stars and Stripes Newspaper, Europe, Mediterranean, and North Africa Editions, 1942-1964; Commissioned Sea Officers of the Royal Navy 1660-1815; British and German Deserters, Dischargees, and POW's Who May Have Remained in Canada and the USA, 1774-1783; and Indian Army Quarterly List for 1 January 1912.
(6) Ireland Directories & Member Lists - British Phone Books, 1880-1984; U.K. & U.S. Directories, 1680-1830; Ireland, The Royal Irish Constabulary 1816-1921; and London and Country Directory 1811.
(7) Ireland Court, Land, Wills & Financial - Irish Flax Growers List 1796; Index to the Prerogative Wills of Ireland 1536-1810; Return of Owners of Land in Ireland 1876; Indexes to Irish Wills 1536-1857 ; A Guide to Copies and Abstracts of Irish Wills; and Quaker Records, Dublin, Abstracts of Wills.
(8) Ireland Dictionaries, Encyclopedias & Reference - General Armory of England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales; Chalmers' Biographical Dictionary; Irish Names and Surnames; Peerage of the United Kingdom and Ireland Vols I-IV; Glossary of Terms Used in Heraldry; Great Britain and Ireland: Picturesque Views of County Seats, Vols I-VI; Heirlooms of Ireland; Peerage of Scotland and Ireland; Peerage of the British Empire; Surnames in Ireland; The Jacobites of Angus, 1689-1746; and Tracing Your British Ancestors.
(9) Ireland Stories, Memories & Histories - Irish Records Index 1500-1920; Dictionary of National Biography Vols 1-20, 22; Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland; Burke's Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland; Plantagenet Roll of the Blood Royal; A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland vols 1-4; Armorial Families: A Directory of Coat-Armour; Biographies of Remarkable Characters, Ancient and Modern; Burke's Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies of England, Ireland, and Scotland; Burke's Peerage and Barontage Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary; Ireland Visitation; Irish Landed Gentry; Irish Pedigrees; Irish Records Index 1500-1920; Jacobites of Lowland Scotland, England, Ireland, France, And Spain 1745; Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland; Pocket Peerage of Great Britain and Ireland; Queen Victoria's Descendants; Royalty for Commoners; Scots-Irish; Scots-Irish: The Scot in North Britain, North Ireland and North America, Vol. 2; Sons of the Utah Pioneers-Knight's History of Enngland, Vol. 1-8; and US & British Isle, Joseph Thomas Biographical Dictionary: 1890.
(10) Ireland Newspapers & Periodicals - Irish Genealogical Abstracts from the Londonderry Journal 1772-1784; Irish Independent Newspaper Obituaries: May 2001-June 2002; and Railway Gazette Worldwide Historical Data 1860-1930.
Ancestry Library holdings of military records are primarily from the USA, dating from its early colonial days to the Vietnam War. Many relate to the American Revolution and American Civil War and many are State based military records. States from which records derive include Connecticut, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Vermont and Virginia. However, there are some important military records other than from the USA. Record holdings include the following:
(1) British - British Army WWI Pension Records 1914-1920; British Army WWI Service Records 1914-1920; British Naval Biographical Dictionary 1849; British and German Deserters, Dischargees and POW's Who May Have Remained in Canada and the USA 1774-1783; Commissioned Sea Officers of the Royal Navy 1660-1815; and Great Britain Army War List, January 1893.
(2) Canadian Soldiers of World War I 1914-1918; and ANZAC Memorial 1914-1918.
(3) U.S. Pre World War I - The French and Indian War from Scottish Sources; U.S. Revolutionary War Miscellaneous Records (Manuscript File) 1775-1790s; U.S. Revolutionary War Rolls 1775-1783; The Pension Lists of 1792-1795; Scottish Soldiers in Colonial America; Index to U.S. Invalid Pension Records 1801-1815; Pension List of 1820; The Pension Roll of 1835, Vol. I - IV; U.S. Pensioners 1818-1872; U.S. War Bounty Land Warrants 1789-1858; Naval Pensioners of the United States of America 1800-1851; U.S. Army Historical Register 1789-1903 Vols 1-2; U.S. Civil War Soldiers 1861-1865; U.S. Colored Troops Military Service Records 1861-1865; Roll of Honor, Vol. X - XXVII; Officers of the Continental and U.S. Navy and Marine Corps, 1775-1900; and U.S. Military: Great White Fleet (Atlantic Fleet bound for the Pacific, 16 December 1907).
(4) U.S. World War I records - Stars and Stripes Newspaper, WWI Edition, 1918-1919; American Soldiers of World War I; U.S. Naval Deaths, World War I; U.S. World War I Mothers' Pilgrimage 1930; World War I Draft Registration Cards 1917-1918; and WWI Civilian Draft Registrations.
(5) U.S. World War II records - U.S. Rosters of World War II Dead 1939-1945; U.S. World War II Army Enlistment Records 1938-1946; U.S. World War II Draft Registration Cards 1942; U.S. WWII Military Personnel Missing In Action or Lost At Sea 1941-1946; World War II Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard Casualties 1941-1945; World War II Prisoners of War 1941-1946; Japanese Americans Relocated During World War II; World War II Young American Patriots 1941-1945; WWII U.S. Navy Aircraft Carrier Muster Rolls 1939-1949; and WWII United News Newsreels 1942-1946.
(6) U.S. Post World War II records - Stars and Stripes Newspaper, Pacific Editions, 1945-1963; Korean War Casualties 1950-1957; Korean War Prisoners of War 1950-1954; U.S. Army Personnel and Dependent Casualties 1961-1981; Vietnam War, Awards and Decorations of Honor 1965-1972; Vietnam War, Casualties Returned Alive 1962-1979; and Vietnam War: U.S. Military Casualties 1956-1998.
(7) Additional U.S. records - U.S. Marine Corps Muster Rolls 1798-1940; U.S. Military Burial Registers 1768-1921; U.S. Military Records 1925: Official National Guard Register; U.S. Veterans Gravesites, ca.1775-2006; WWI, WWII, and Korean War Casualty Listings; and U.S. War and Conflict Images 1765-1970.
The main Ancestry Library record holdings are from the USA. Major collections are as follows:
(1) Census Records
* US Federal Census - 1790, 1800, 1810, 1820, 1830,1840, 1850, 1860, 1870, 1880,1890 (fragment),1900, 1910, 1920 and 1930.
* Other census records - 1890 Veteran's Schedules; 1850 & 1860 Slave Schedules; US Federal Census Mortality Schedules, 1850-1880; 1930 Merchant Seamen; and many US State census records.
(2) Birth, Death & Marriage Records
* The US Social Security Death Index - contains information on millions of deceased individuals with United States social security numbers whose deaths were reported to the Social Security Administration. Birth years for the individuals listed range from 1875 to last year. Information in these records includes name, birth date, death date, and last known residence.
* US State BDM records such as the California Death Index 1940-1997; North Carolina Marriage Collection 1741-2000; Texas Birth Index 1903-1997; & Ohio Deaths1958-2000.
(3) Immigration & Emigration Records such as New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957; Boston Passenger Lists, 1891-1943; & Philadelphia Passenger Lists 1883-1945.
(4) Military and civil service records such as WWI Draft Registration Cards 1917-18; Civil War Collection; Civil War Service Records; & World War II and Korean Conflict Veterans Interred Overseas.
(5) Directories & Member Lists Records such as U.S. Public Records Index; U.S. Phone and Address Directories 1993-2002; Massachusetts City Directories; Connecticut City Directories; & U.K. and U.S. Directories, 1680-1830.
(6) Court, Land, Wills & Financial Records such as Texas Land Title Abstracts; Illinois Public Land Purchase Records; Middlesex MA Probate Index; & Chester County, Pennsylvania Wills 1713-1825.
(7) Reference Materials & Finding Aids Records such as The Source: A Guidebook of American Genealogy; Genealogical Library Master Catalog; Ancestry Map Center ; & U.S. Cemetery Address Book
(7) Family & Local History Collections such as the American Genealogical-Biographical Index (AGBI); Dawes Commission Index 1898-1914; & the Dictionary of National Biography.
(8) Photos & Maps - African American Photo Collection 1850-2000; France Historical Postcards Collection 1893-1963; Germany Historical Postcards Collection 1893-1963; Library of Congress Photo Collection 1840-2000; Library of Congress Photochrom Print Collection: Germany, Austria, & Switzerland 1890-1910; Passenger Ships and Images; Professional Baseball Players 1876-2004; U.S. Civil War Photos, 1860-1865; U.S. County Land Ownership Atlases, c. 1864-1918; U.S. Family Photo Collection 1850-2000; U.S. Headstone Photos; U.S. Map Collection 1513-1990; U.S. Panoramic Photos, 1851-1991; U.S. School Yearbooks; & WWII United News Newsreels 1942-1946.
(9) Maps, Atlases & Gazetteers such as US Population Density in 1890; & Slave Population in Southern States in 1860.
(10) Newspapers & Periodicals Records
(11) Canada Records such as Census - 1901 and 1911; Canadian Genealogy Index, 1600s-1900s;
NSW Unassisted Immigrant Passenger Lists 1826-1922 - “Unassisted immigrants” are individuals whose passages were NOT subsidized or paid for by another person or through another agency. This collection is comprised of two different series of records. They are:
(1) Inward Passenger Lists - these records consist of passenger list forms of ships arriving in Australia from 1854-1922. They are also known as “Passengers Arriving” or “Shipping Lists.” Information that may be listed in these records includes: Name and tonnage of ship; Port of departure; Name of master; Date of arrival; Information about seamen (e.g. names, positions, ages, birthplaces); Names of passengers (given names may not always be listed - people may just be listed as “Mr. and Mrs.”); Children passengers – children traveling with parents are usually not listed by name, but may be indicated by number and/or gender; Passenger’s occupation; Passenger’s class of travel (e.g. cabin, steerage, etc.); and Passenger’s race. These records are sourced from the State Records NSW Series 13278, Reels 399-560, 2001-2122, 2751.
(2) Reports of vessels arrived (or Shipping reports) - these records consist of vessel and shipping reports of vessels arriving in NSW, Australia from 1826-1859. Information that may be listed on these records includes:Name and tonnage of ship; Number of crew; Name of master; When sailed; Cargo; Names of first class passengers; Names of number of steerage passengers; Passenger’s trade or occupation; and Passenger’s nativity. These records are sourced from State Records NSW Series 1291, Reels 1263-1285, 2851.
Shipping reports dating from 1839 and forward, may also have Health Officer’s Reports filed along side them. The health reports may also show: Ports touched on during passage; Bill of Health; Awareness of diseases prevailing at ports visited; Details of sickness during voyage; Number of persons sick; Number of deaths; Number of sick now on board and their diseases; Date of first and last cases of sickness during voyage; and Date and cause of deaths during voyage.
NSW Assisted Immigrant Passenger Lists 1828-1896 -'Assisted immigrants” are individuals whose passages were either subsidized or paid for by another person or through another agency. This collection is comprised of four different series of records. They are:
(1) Returns of convicts’ applications for wives and families - These records were prepared by the Principal Superintendent of Convicts or the Colonial Secretary for the Governor’s approval and cover the years 1837-1850. Information shown in these records includes:Convict’s name; Ship of arrival; Year of arrival; Wife’s maiden name; Number of children; and Residence of wife and to whom known. These records are sourced fro State Records NSW Series 1190, Reel 699.
(2) Persons on bounty ships (Agent’s Immigrant Lists) - These records contain immigrant lists to New South Wales from 1838-1896 and Moreton Bay from 1848-1859. Records are arranged chronologically according to ship arrival date. Thereafter, entries are organized into sections according to marital status or family relationships – families, widowers, widows, wives and families of individuals already in the colony, single men, and single women. Information shown on these records generally includes:Name of immigrant; Age; Gender; Calling; Marital Status; Native place; and Education or literacy. Records dating from 1848 and later may contain more information. These records are sourced from State Records NSW Series 5316, Reels 2134-2143.
(3) Persons on bounty ships to Sydney, Newcastle and Moreton Bay (Board’s Immigrant Lists) - These records contain immigrant lists for Sydney, Newcastle, and Moreton Bay from 1848-1891. The majority of the ships in these records sailed from British ports to Sydney. However, a few went to Moreton Bay, which was part of New South Wales until 1859, and Newcastle. A few ships also sailed from some non-British ports, such as Hamburg, Madras, and New York.
Records are arranged according to arrival year, and thereafter alphabetically by name of ship. Information provided on these records generally includes:Name of immigrant; Age; Marital status; Calling; Native place; Religion; Education; Names of relations in the colony; Names and addresses of parents; and Complaints regarding treatment on board the ship. These records are sourced from State Records NSW Series 5317, Reels 2458-2498.
(4) Persons on early migrant ships (fair copy) - These records were prepared by the Colonial Secretary and cover the years 1828-1832. Information shown in these records includes: Name of immigrant; Age; Gender; Country; Calling; and Status as a passenger (i.e. cabin or steerage). These records are sourced from State Records NSW Series 5310, Reel 1286.
This database contains a collection of the Sand’s postal directories for Sydney and NSW from 1861-1933. Directories were NOT issued in 1862, 1872, 1874, 1878, or 1881.
There are usually several sections in each directory. These can include: Alphabetical name directory, Advertisements, Commercial directory, Professional directory, Street directory and Index.
The alphabetical name section lists the names of each head of household and their districts of residence. Often their occupations and/or street addresses will also be listed.
The commercial and professional directories contain information on businesses and companies and may be useful to learn more about your ancestor’s occupation. The street directory lists individuals and businesses alphabetically by name of street and number. The index will tell you what page number in the directory a particular individual or business is listed on.
Directories are extremely useful for locating people in a particular place and time. They are excellent census substitute records.
Directories can also be used to track migration and determine approximate dates of death. If you’ve traced an ancestor through several years of directories and then they don’t appear anymore, it likely means that the individual either moved or died.
Ancestry Library holdings of Scottish records include the following:
(1) Scotland Family Trees - Millennium File
(2) Scotland Census & Voter Lists - Scotland Census records for 1841, 1851, 1861, 1871,1881, 1891 and 1901
(3) Scotland Birth, Marriage & Death - Parish and Probate Records for Aberdeenshire, Angus (Forfar), Argyll, Ayrshire, Banffshire,Caithness, Clackmannanshire, Dumfries-shire, Dunbartonshire, Fife, Inverness-shire, Kincardineshire, Kinross-shire, Kirkcudbrightshire, Lanarkshire (Glasgow), Midlothian (Edinburgh), Moray, Nairnshire, Orkney, Perthshire, Renfrewshire, Roxburghshire, Selkirkshire, Shetland, Stirlingshire, Sutherland, West Lothian, Wigtownshire and England; also Perth Newspaper Index Cards, 1809-1990; Fife Cupar Library Newspaper Index Cards, 1833-1987; Scots in the USA and Canada, 1825-1875; Scots in the West Indies, 1707-1857; and Scottish-American Gravestones, 1700-1900.
(4) Scotland Immigration & Emigration - Lists of Emigrants from England to America for the periods 1682-1692, 1718-1759 and 1773-1776; Child Apprentices in America from Christ's Hospital, London, 1617-1778; Directory of Scots Banished to the American Plantations, 1650-1775; Directory of Scots in the Carolinas, 1680-1830; English Adventurers and Emigrants, 1609-1660 and 1661-1733; Going to America; Later Scots-Irish Links, 1575-1725 and 1725-1825; More Emigrants in Bondage, 1614-1775; Omitted Chapters from Hotten's Original Lists of Persons of Quality; Scotch-Irish Migration to South Carolina, 1772; Scots On the Chesapeake, 1607-1830; Ships from Scotland to America, 1628-1828; The Bristol Registers of Servants; The Original Scots Colonists of Early America, 1612-1783 and Supplement 1607-1707.
(5) Scotland Military - British and German Deserters, Dischargees, and POW's Who May Have Remained in Canada and the USA, 1774-1783. Part One and Two; British Army WWI Pension and Service Records 1914-1920; Commissioned Sea Officers of the Royal Navy, 1660-1815; Great Britain Army War List, January 1893; Indian Army Quarterly List for 1 January 1912; The French and Indian War from Scottish Sources.
(6) Scotland Directories & Member Lists - British Phone Books, 1880-1984; Catalogue of Knights, 1660-1760; Ireland, The Royal Irish Constabulary 1816-1921; London and Country Directory, 1811; Scotland, Highland Railway Company, January 1854 - 1900; Tudor Roll of the Blood Royal; U.K. and U.S. Directories, 1680-1830.
(7) Scotland Court, Land, Wills & Financial - Aberdeen, Scotland, Register of Testaments, 1715-1800; American Data from the Records of the High Court of the Admiralty of Scotland, 1675-1800; Dundonald, Scotland Charter Chest, 1219-1672; Scottish-American Court Records, 1733-1783; Scottish-American Heirs, 1683-1883; Scottish-American Wills, 1650-1900; Wigtown, Scotland Charter Chest, 1214-1681.
(8) Scotland Dictionaries, Encyclopedias & Reference - Directory of Scottish Settlers in North America, 1625-1825. Vol. I to Vol. VII; Edinburgh, Scotland Almanac, 1853; General Armory of England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales; Glossary of Terms Used in Heraldry; Great Britain and Ireland: Picturesque Views of County Seats, Volume I-VI; Peerage of Scotland and Ireland; Peerage of the British Empire; Peerage of the U K and Ireland, Vols I-IV; Scottish Covenanters Index; Scottish Maritime Records, 1600-1850; The Jacobites of Angus, 1689-1746; The Original Scots Colonists of Early America. Caribbean Supplement 1611-1707; The Scottish Surnames of Colonial America; Tracing Your British Ancestors; United Kingdom, Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts, Fifth Report.
(9) Scotland Stories, Memories & Histories - An Ordinary of Arms; Armorial Families: A Directory of Coat-Armour; Biographies of Remarkable Characters, Ancient and Modern; Burke's Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies of England, Ireland, and Scotland; Burke's Family Records; Burke's Peerage and Barontage Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary; Dictionary of National Biography, Vols 1-20, 22; England, Scotland, and Wales Royal Families; Galloway, Scotland History; Great Britain, Portraits of Illustrious Personages, 1502-1852; Historic Families of Scotland, Vol. 1&2; History of the Ancient Province of Ross, Scotland ; Jacobites of 1715 North East Scotland and Jacobites of 1745 North East Scotland; Jacobites of Lowland Scotland, England, Ireland, France, And Spain 1745; Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland; Plantagenet Roll of the Blood Royal; Queen Victoria's Descendants; Royalty for Commoners; Scots in Latin America; Scots in New England, 1623-1873; Scots in Poland, Russia and the Baltic States, 1550-1850; Scots in the American West, 1783-1883; Scots in the Mid-Atlantic Colonies, 1635-1783 etc
(10) Scotland Newspapers & Periodicals - Railway Gazette Worldwide Historical Data, 1860-1930; American Data from the Aberdeen Journal, 1748-1783; Dunfermline Journal, 1851-1931.
Family history database offering onsite access to many documents and covering such genealogical areas as : Census & Voter Lists; Birth, Marriage & Death; Immigration & Emigration; Military; Directories & Member Lists; Court, Land, Wills & Financial; Dictionaries, Encyclopedias & Reference; Stories & Publications; Newspapers & Periodicals; Photos & Maps; Maps, Atlases & Gazetteers; Ancestry World Tree and Message Boards.
Founded in 1856 and originally known as 'The Church Society', and later the 'Home Mission Society', Anglicare is the urban mission and welfare arm of the Sydney Anglican Church. The site includes information on the social service programs of Anglicare, as well as reports and press releases on issues of social concern such as children at risk, homelessness, social exclusion and the availability of refuges for those in need.
The Annual Report Collection contains a selection of annual reports from the top 500 companies listed on the Australian Stock Exchange. Companies are chosen based on market capitalisation. Each report includes a Corporate Directory, Executive Officer Statements, Company Review, Financial Statements and Notes to the Accounts. Reports can be accessed individually or all of the information can be cross-referenced. Updated information is available from the Connect 4 Australian Company Information Web site - click here to access that site.
Answers.com is a search service which links directly to sites that provide reference information, such as encyclopedias, dictionaries, glossaries and atlases.
The Australian Antarctic Division is the lead agency for Australia's Antarctic program. This site provides details about the Australian Antarctic scientific research program, information on going south, virtual tours for the armchair traveller and resources on the Antarctic environment including information on Antarctic wildlife.
Provides practical information and guidance for women who have breast cancer or are concerned they have breast cancer, their families, partners and friends. Includes personal stories and expert information.
Australian and New Zealand Books in Print (ANZBiP), produced by D. W. Thorpe, is a bibliographic database that provides booksellers and librarians with information about Australian and New Zealand books, series of books, imprints and publishers.
Australian Public Affairs - Full Text (APA-FT), is an indexing and full text database. Source documents include a wide range of periodicals, newspapers, scholarly journals, conference papers and books. Subject coverage includes business, health, current affairs, economics, humanities, law, literature, politics and social sciences.
This database contains 4.5 million articles from more than 2,000 periodicals. Use this database to find information by innovators, personal and corporate names, development of a particular technology, etc.
Subjects covered by this database include aeronautics, artificial intelligence, chemistry, civil engineering, engineering and biomedical materials, food and food industry, geology, marine technology, optical and neural computing, waste management and other industrial and mechanical arts. Sources include trade and industrial publications, journals issued by professional and technical societies, directories, and conference proceedings.
Indexing begins in 1983, abstracting begins in 1993, full text coverage begins in 1997.
A list of valuers approved to participate in the Cultural Gifts Program, which encourages gifts of significant cultural items to public institutions by offering donors a tax deduction. The Federal Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage & the Arts administers the program with the advice of the Committee on Taxation Incentives for the Arts.
A searchable database of employment vacancies in the Australian Public Service. This replaces the publication Commonwealth of Australia Gazette: Public Service..
The Australian Architecture Database (ARCH), produced by Stanton Library, North Sydney Council, is a bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles from material held by the Stanton Library, North Sydney Council.
Source documents include journal articles, exhibition reviews, obituaries, editorials, conference proceedings, news items, project articles and award features.
This site contains guides to the public records of Tasmania. Several of the guides, which cover the Colonial Secretary's Office, the Governor's Office and the Convict Department, can be downloaded. The guides also provide references to a number of original documents which are held in the Mitchell Library at the State Library of New South Wales.
AATA online is a comprehensive database of 100,000 abstracts of literature related to the preservation and conservation of material cultural heritage. Registration, which is free, enables visitors to access all the features of this site.
This bibliographic database indexes and abstracts articles from English language periodicals, yearbooks and museum bulletins, as well as periodicals published in French, Italian, German, Japanese, Spanish, Dutch, and Swedish. The database also indexes reproductions of works of art periodicals. Subjects covered include advertising art, antiques, archaeology, architecture and architectural history, art history, computers in art, crafts, fashion design, folk art, graphic arts, interior design, landscape architecture, films, painting, photography, pottery, sculpture, and textiles.
Full text coverage for selected periodicals begins in 1997.
Access note: Library database (Wilson) available onsite
AICT is intended primarily to disseminate images of art and architectural works in the public domain on a free-access, free-use basis to all levels of the educational community, as well as to the public at large. The images displayed on this site have been photographed on location by the author, who consents to their use in any application that is both educational and non-commercial in nature.
Art News Australia is a comprehensive collection of gallery links and other arts resources. These include: gallery review databases presented by state or territory, interactive gallery maps based on Aboriginal representations of the land, artist's sites and arts media contact databases.
Art Retrospective Index 1929-1984 is an important online resource for research in the fields of fine arts, architecture, the decorative arts and related disciplines and complements and extends the coverage provided by the Library’s existing subscription to Art Full Text (1984 onwards).
Access note: Library database (Wilson) available onsite
ARTbibliographies Modern is a leading bibliography for the study of modern art, including photography, from the late nineteenth century to the present. References are given to journal articles, books, catalogues, dissertations and exhibition reviews covering famous and lesser-known artists, movements and trends in modern art.
Access note: Library database ( CSA ) available onsite
The Artcyclopedia is primarily an index to where paintings, sculptures and other great works of fine art can be viewed online, at hundreds of art museum sites and online archives worldwide. Links are classified by artist, and where possible by categories such as movement (for example, impressionism, cubism), medium (for example, photography, painting), subject matter (for example, landscapes, still life), and by nationality. The site also includes a comprehensive list of art museum sites worldwide, and a guide to visual search engines on the Internet.
The NSW Government offers financial assistance for arts and cultural activities in NSW through Arts NSW which is the NSW Government’s arts policy and funding body. Assistance includes: (1) the 2010 Arts Funding Program; (2) Fellowships and Scholarships; (4) Residencies; and (4) Awards.
As the Cocky Flies from Geoscience Australia calculates the distance between two places in Australia. It uses the Gazetteer of Australia 2004 a compilation of over 310 000 geographic names provided by members of the Committee for Geographic Names in Australasia.
A detailed list of electronic journals dealing with Asia and the Pacific. Part of the Asian studies WWW virtual library at the Australian National University.
This site provides information on the Asian Development Bank and its mission to reduce poverty in the Asia-Pacific region. It contains country and regional reports, press releases, statistical data and the full text of publications which the State Library of NSW receives on deposit in hard copy.
Asia-Pacific in figures is compiled by the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific to provide statistics on basic features and trends in the region.
News, profiles and reports relating to the countries of Asia. Divided into four categories: arts and culture, business and economics, policy and government and society and history. Under Profiles, the Country Comparison allows one to compare Australia statistically with other countries in the Asia-Pacific. Compiled and updated daily by the Asia Society ( www.asiasociety.org).
Comprehensive financial information on ASX listed companies updated daily. Corporate details, Share market data, Company & operational history, dividend history, current capital table & growth of capital history, substantial shareholders, directors' interest, company financials for 10 years and full reports on all companies that have been delisted since 1990.
NSW State Records online index to passengers who arrived at Port Phillip - then part of the colony of NSW - between 1839 and 1851 under assisted immigration schemes.
Victoria ( known as Port Phillip prior to separation) became a separate colony from NSW on 1st July 1851.
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 Record series used to compile this Port Phillip index is: NRS 5318 (Reels 2143A-2145, 6 vols.) Persons on Bounty Ships (Agent's Immigrant Lists), Arriving at Port Phillip 1839-51 - each entry records the names of the shipping agent, master and medical superintendent; and for each immigrant, name, age, calling, religion, education, native place and bounty paid on his or her behalf.
In the first three volumes, the lists are subdivided into married persons, unmarried males and unmarried females. They also contain Recapitulations of tables of the marital status, callings and native places of immigrants.
Official website of the Atheist Foundation of Australia. Provides articles and news about religion, science, philosophical and social issues from an atheistic perspective.
Detailed profiles of Australia’s leading track and field athletes including podcasts and blogs. Also includes detailed statistical tables containing records and rankings for Australian athletes both able bodied and athletes with a disability (AWD).
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.
Australian Sport Database (AUSPORT), produced by the National Sport Information Centre, Australian Sports Commission, is a bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles from published and unpublished material on all aspects of Australian sport.
A directory of resources for Australian performing arts research, including a comprehensive listing of live events since white settlement, and a comprehensive listing of places such as museums and libraries were source material may be found.
AustArt is an index of Australian art journals held in the College of Fine Arts Library, the University of New South Wales. Coverage is from 1987 to the present. This version of AustArt is temporary. The aim is to provide interim access to the AustArt data whilst a more user friendly version is under development.
Access note: Internet database provided by the College of Fine Arts Library
AUSTGUIDE contains all the GUIDELINES and EDUCATION GUIDELINES data from January 1986 onwards.
GUIDELINES and EDUCATION GUIDELINES give complete subject access to the contents of more than 120 periodicals, of both general and educational interest. The majority of these periodicals are Australian, but there are a considerable number of overseas publications indexed, such as 'Scientific American', 'History Today', 'Far Eastern Economic Review' and 'Unesco Courier'. A complete listing of the periodicals indexed is included in the AUSTGUIDE on-screen guide.
Provides access to the Australian Literary Database which covers Australian creative writing and Australian writers. Subjects covered by the database include books, poems, short stories, articles and reviews and can be searched by author title, genre or award. The database contains records from 1880s to the current day, with comprehensive coverage from 1988.
This site provides a database of Australian companies, their products and services and contact details. Also provided is information on Austrade's services, getting ready to export, export assistance and Internet marketing advice.
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.
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.
Access note: Ask at the Family History Desk - can only be loaded on Standalone PC (use desktop icon)
Over 2.5 million names indexed from the collections of the SAG as well as other Australian family history societies and libraries. Data on this CD is new - it does not replace AGCI 1 & AGCI 2 which have already been published.
Includes 88,000 burial transcripts, 850,000 names from newspapers, 270,000 names from the NSW Government Gazette 1864-1868 and over 1.2 million NSW shipping arrivals (many provided in association with the Mariners in Australian waters website.
Fully searchable - the database shows name, date, place, event and source of the information.
Access note: Ask at FH Desk - can only be loaded on Standalone PC (use desktop icon)
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.
Originally compiled by Martin Dyson and published by Gould Genealogy in 2007, this CDROM is a reproduction of the second print edition Australasian Methodist Ministerial General Index published in 1896. It is a clerical directory containing the names of ministers in the Australasian Wesleyan Methodist Church from the first General Conference in 1855 to 1896.
It lists all the ministers with all of their appointments arranged alphabetically by each conference and covers Australia and New Zealand.
Other features include:
(1) past presidents and secretaries, nationally and for each regional conference;
(2) more extensive biographical sketches, many with photos, of twenty deceased and distinguished ministers.
(3) In Memoriam - a list of ministers who have died since the first conference, giving name, birthplace, dates of birth, commencement of ministry and death.
This CDROM contains high quality scanned images of the whole of the original book, and has been bookmarked for easy navigation. The whole text is keyword searchable - names, places and more.
The first print edition, published in 1889, is held in ML at DSM/287.003/1.
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.
Site from the Australian Sports Commission, provides information on Australian performances at the Olympic Games 1896-2006 including medal tallies, medallists and Australian Institute of Sport peformances.
A directory of Australian dance resources held in some of Australia's major research collections. Each entry includes an historical note or brief biography and a descriptive list of individual items.
This site, from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), provides detailed statistics about Australia's economy and social conditions. It also serves as a directory to other ABS statistics and contains descriptive information about Australia's government, international relations, defence, geography and climate.
Australia on the Map is a division of the Australasian Hydrographic Society. with a special focus on the early Maritime Contact History of Australia and New Zealand, particularly those parts that are not very well known
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 guide to Federal Government information and services for individuals and businesses. The site is designed to direct customers to all government departments relevant to their topic of interest. All known web sites funded by the Commonwealth Federal Government are indexed.
The Australia/New Zealand Reference Centre contains Australia/New Zealand magazines, newspapers and newswires, reference books, biographies, photographs, maps and flags.
Titles include: Architecture Australia, Australian Geographic, Australian Women's Weekly, Inside Rugby, The Australian (National), The Daily Telegraph (Sydney), The Sunday Telegraph (Sydney), The Sydney Morning Herald (Sydney), Encyclopedia of Australia, History of Australia, etc.
The largest and most extensive database of Australian & New Zealand paintings sold at auction since 1973, including sale records from over 50 auction houses and artist's biographies.
A collection of texts about Aboriginal spirituality, myths and legends. Because this site only provides texts in the public domain, the texts about Australian Aboriginal religion are mainly historical (nineteenth and early twentieth century) texts by white Australians. Part of the Internet Sacred Text Archive.
The Academy was founded in 1954 by Australian Fellows of the Royal Society of London with the distinguished physicist Sir Mark Oliphant as founding President. It was granted a Royal Charter establishing the Academy as an independent body but with government endorsement. The objectives of the Academy are to promote science through a range of activities. It has defined four major program areas, recognition of outstanding contributions to science,education and public awareness,science policy and international relations. The website includes articles on topical issues, basic science concepts and includes curriculum resources for students.
Produced in 2007, these 3 CDROMs provide copies of the 6-volume Aldine histories set written by W. Frederic Morrison between 1888 and 1890 also held by the State Library NSW. They provide a history of Queensland, NSW & SA , extensive biographies and photographs and sketches of scenes and buildings.
(1) New South Wales (1365 pages) - Volume 1 comprises the history of NSW and includes topics such as the early explorers, geography, aborigines, flora and fauna, governors of NSW as well as the Constitution. Volume 2 has another four chapters which complete the history section. The biographical section, grouped by town, consists of nearly half of the whole set.
(2) Queensland (1083 pages) - includes chapters on Australian and Queensland history from the exploration of Australia through to the different districts of the colony of Queensland in 1888. It contains information on the different governors, the national constitution, interior exploration, resources, religious work, education, recreation, and 320 pages of biographies and photographs, grouped by towns.
(3) South Australia (1089 pages) - Volume 1 is divided into thirty-two chapters and covers topics including the early explorers, geography, aborigines, flora and fauna, education, religion, recreation, as well as primary and secondary resources, governors of SA and the Constitution. Volume 2 has one more chapter which concludes the history section. This is then followed by about 400 pages of biographies and 143 illustrations.
Representing the Unitarian churches of Australia and New Zealand, ANZUA is a member of the International Council of Unitarian Universalists (ICUU) The ANZUA site provides an overview of Unitarianism in Australia, including links to websites of each congregation.
The Australian Art Sales Digest contains past auction results of over 300,000 works by more than 11,400 artists who have either lived or worked in Australia or New Zealand, and offered for sale in both countries of last 35 years.
The data covers over 1,500 auction sales from over 50 auction houses dated back to the early 1970s.
Access note: Subscription database. Get username and password at Information Desk
Australian Astronomy is an official web site of the Astronomical Society of Australia featuring extensive links to astronomical research, teaching, and public education facilities and activities in Australia.
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.
ABARE is an independent research agency which provides economic forecasts on Australian rural and resource industries. Subjects covered include commodity forecasts, services and infrastructure in the rural sector and risk management in farm businesses.
This is an Australian government website for businesses. It got a lot of very useful links to different government business web pages. It also has a section on 'Doing business with Australia'.
Compiled by Reg McDonell, the Australian Cemeteries Index provides a searchable database of cemetery inscriptions in over 300 Australian cemeteries. Particularly strong in regional NSW cemeteries, each index entry is accompanied by a digital image of the headstone.
This site provides information on charitable organisations in Australia. You can search by an organisation's name, by state or by category including religion. The site includes a calendar of events related to charitable organisations.
This site provides information on charitable organisations in Australia. You can search by an organisation's name, by state or by category. The site includes a calendar of events related to charitable organisations.
The Australian Hydrographic Service of the Royal Australian Navy is responsible for publishing and maintaining the Australian national chart series. You can view thum-nail images of Australian charts with the Australian Chart index as well as find out some detail about each chart.
For an index of placenames refer to the Maritime Gazetteer of Australia
(Clinical Trials Centre, University of Sydney, Australia)
A list of clinical trials being undertaken in Australia and New Zealand. Covers a range of therapeutic areas including trials of pharmaceuticals, surgical procedures, preventive measures, lifestyle, devices, rehabilitation strategies and complementary therapies.
The ACCC promotes and enforces competition, fair trading and consumer protection laws. This site contains information and news about consumer rights, industry regulation and price monitoring.
This site provides copyright information via information sheets, books and other publications. It contains details of seminars and training and information on how to obtain copyright advice.
The ACTU provides information about industrial and employment issues, advice for employers and employees, campaigns about current issues, a directory of union organizations and historical information about the union movement. Includes the Your rights at work website.
Produced by Gould Genealogy in 2007, this fully searchable 2-volume CDROM set of 11 CDROMs contains some 10,500 pages.
Volume 1 - Cyclopedia of New South Wales 1907 -- Cyclopedia of Victoria 1903 -- Fox's History of Queensland 1919-23.
Volume 2: Cyclopedia of South Australia 1907-09 -- Cyclopedia of Western Australia 1912-13 -- Cyclopedia of Tasmania 1900 -- Tasmanian Cyclopedia 1931.
The Cyclopedias that were published for most states of Australia around the beginning of the 20th Century are a significant resource of historical and biographical information on the state concerned. Information included ranges from flora and fauna to industry, from geology and history to politics as well as information relevant to the day on schools, hospitals, infrastructure and farming. There are sections on the major towns, regions and homesteads throughout each state as well as a large number of biographies on influential and ordinary citizens. Also included are illustrations and photographs of people, places, buildings and scenes from the time.
Cyclopedia of New South Wales 1907 is a fascimile of the 766-page, 1907 edition entitled The Cyclopedia of N.S.W. (illustrated) : an Historical and Commercial Review, Descriptive and Biographical, Facts, Figures and Illustrations ; an Epitome of Progress. The original print editions did not have an index so the full text searching on this CDROM is invaluable.
Contents list is as follows:
History of N.S.W; Constitutional Parliamentary; Federation; Geographical and Topographical; Treasury; Mint; Taxation; Lands; Agriculture; Forestry; Water Conservation and Irrigation; Mines and Mining; Public Works; Water Supply; Education; Technical Instruction; University; Colleges; Schools; Museums; Libraries;Post and Telegraph; Railways and Tramways; Law; City and Port of Sydney; Customs; Harbour Trust;Navigation; Harbours and Lighthouses; Fisheries; Observatory and Meteorological; Ecclesiastical; Architecture and Engineering; Naval and Military; Consuls; Local Government; Fire Brigades; Public Charities; Medical Institutions; Banking; Pastoral; Insurance; Shipping and Shipbuilding; Trade and Manufactures; Wine Growers, Merchants; Racing Clubs;Merchants; and special sections on Newcastle & Maitland.
This publication also has hundreds of biographies and nearly 900 photos, mainly of people whose biographies are included. Since the entire text is searchable - names, places and any other words in the text or advertisements - the following sample searches are possible:
(2) Places - (including interstate and overseas) - Albury (31); Broken Hill (49); Goulburn (86); Parramatta (199); Melbourne (262); Queensland (209); London (459); England (528); Scotland (68).
(3) Other - solicitor (274); cricket (54); dentist (24); hotel (42); Presbyterian (51); railway/s (395).
A 1904 and 1907 print edition of Cyclopedia of New South Wales is located in the Mitchell Library at Q994.4/43 and REF 1/Q991/C respectively. The Cyclopedia of Victoria 1903-1905 is on 24 microfiche in the Mitchell Library at MAV/FM6/486. The Cyclopedia of South Australia 1907-1909 is located in 2 print volumes in SRL at DQ993A/1-2 SET. The Cyclopedia of Western Australia 1912-1913 is located in 2 volumes in the Dixson Reading Room Q91/180-181 SET.
The Cyclopedia of Tasmania 1900 is available on 13 microfiche and 2-volume print in the Mitchell Library at MAV/FM6/408 and Q986/M respectively. It is also available online as part of the State Library of Tasmania's Digital Collection
This site provides information about the Department of Foreign Affairs & Trade. It contains information about trade and policy areas, travel information (including travel warnings) and information about obtaining and replacing Australian passports.
A division of Standards Australia, the Australian Design Awards aim to present the best examples of Australian design and innovation. This site provides detailed descriptions of all entries from 1997 to the present.
This is the online version of the multi-volume reference work. It contains authoritative biographical entries on over 10,000 significant Australians who died before 1980. It can be searched by name, gender, religion, cultural heritage, and occupation.
This is the online version of the multi-volume reference work. It contains authoritative biographical entries on over 10,000 significant Australians who died before 1980. It can be searched by name, gender, religion, cultural heritage, and occupation.
Access note: Internet database by the Australian National University
The Australian Digital Theses (ADT) program aims to create a national database of digitised theses produced at Australian universities. The ADT database provides access to PhD and Masters by Research theses only.
Source: Australian Drug Foundation, Australia.
Independent non-profit organisation working to prevent and reduce alcohol and drug problems in the Australian community. The site includes drug facts and figures, details of up and coming drug and alcohol related conferences and events, and information for teachers and parents.
This site provides information about Australia's electoral history, the results of past elections and how to enrol to vote. It also provides a list of frequently asked questions about elections and voting as well as a searchable index of electorates.
This site provides contact details of Australian embassies and other representative offices throughout the world. The site also includes links to Australian embassy web pages where available.
This site provides contact details of Australian embassies and other representative offices throughout the world. The site also includes links to Australian embassy web pages where available.
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.
A Centenary of Federation in 2001 funded project by the University of Sydney to digitise key texts that record the making of the Australian Commonwealth.
This site provides information about a particular film or film maker, how to become an AFI member, the winners of last year's awards, and a searchable catalogue of new releases, which lists some of the 1100 film titles distributed.
Provides election results for state lower houses of parliament since 1890, and for Commonwealth Parliament since 1901. It also provides information about politicians and political parties and how they performed in elections. Produced by the University of Western Australia.
Includes databases and full-text resources on atmosphere, biodiversity, land, coasts and oceans, inland waters, natural and cultural heritage and other environmental topics.
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.
Access note: Library database ( via Informit ), also access from home for registered readers in NSW
A database of more than 20 000 historic, natural and Indigenous places in the Register of the National Estate, the National Heritage List, the Commonwealth Heritage List, the World Heritage List, and places under consideration for any one of these lists. Information includes a place's values, its legal status, its significance, physical condition, history and photographs if available.
This website of the Australian Heritage magazine provides a directory of website links to local family history, historical, museum and visitor information centres from across Australia.
A collection of more than 120,000 images, 15,000 of which are available online. Images include natural and historic places listed in the Register of the National Estate and the Australian Heritage Database.
The AHRR database describes records held in private ownership in Australia, and relating to all parts of Australia, including such territories as the Cocos (Keeling) Islands and Norfolk Island. They record Australian life from the early years of European settlement until 1988. The AHRR database is limited to records identified during the Australian Bicentennial Historic Records Search in 1987-88 and no new records have been added since then.
The AHRR is a guide to sources on Australian social, economic, business, labour and cultural history at the local level. Strengths of the database include family history, women and children’s history, local history, rural properties, businesses, personal World War I & II histories, migrants and migration, sports and sporting clubs and festivals and celebrations.
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.
An education website for Australia, the Australian History section covers the following areas : Indigenous History; Convicts & The Colonies; Settlers & Immigration; Australian Culture & Identity; Exploration (Before & After Settlement); The Beginnings of Self-Government; Nationalism & Federation; Australians at War; The Depression; Australia since 1945; Mineral Wealth and Industrialisation; Australian History - General Information; and Primary Documentation Sources.
Includes publications from a wide range of sources such as the Australian Bureau of Statistics and the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare and covers a wide range of issues of relevance to Indigenous health.
The Australian Indigenous Index or INFOKOORI is a State Library of NSW index to the Koori Mail: the fortnightly national indigenous newspaper, published in Lismore, NSW, since May 1991, that focuses on the Indigenous people of Australia.
You can access Dawn and New Dawn, for full-text online versions of these 2 periodicals. Published by the NSW Aborigines Welfare Board, they contain 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 inflation calculator uses data on consumer and retail prices to calculate changes in the cost of purchasing a representative basket of goods and services. This calculator is provided by the Reserve Bank of Australia.
A national vacancy database containing jobs listed with the Job Network Service, some national newspapers, the Commonwealth Public Service gazette, jobs lodged directly by employers, and jobs from the Recruitment and Consulting Services Association. The site can also be used to find Job Network Service and New Apprenticeships centres.
This site provides a current listing of more than 1700 Australian electronic journals, magazines, webzines, email fanzines and more — including overseas works with Australian content, authorship and/or emphasis.
The Australian Libraries Gateway is a directory of more than 5400 Australian libraries. Each listing includes contact details, information about services and links to online catalogues where available. Use this site to find libraries in a geographical area, libraries of a particular type (for example public, university, health), and cultural heritage via on-line exhibitions, events and image collections. Each library listed on the site manages its own details, thus ensuring that information is up-to-date and reliable. The Australian Libraries Gateway is a service of the National Library of Australia.
This bibliographic database indexes and abstracts articles from published and unpublished material on library and information science. ALISA attempts to cover comprehensively all current Australian literature on library and information services and the library workforce including education and training; information technology including CD-ROM; networking; electronic publishing; and telecommunications. There are also records relating to Australian children's literature, and archives.
Access note: Via Informit, also access from home for registered readers in NSW
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.
The Australian Maritime Safety Authority's list of all ships currently registered as Australian. Vessel details include length, type of ship, year completed and home port.
The Australian Shipping Registration Office was established in 1982 under the provisions of the Shipping Registration Act 1981 . Since the formation of the Australian Maritime Safety Authority in 1991, the office has been a part of the Authority.
The main purpose of the Act is to fix the conditions for the registration of ships in Australia and to grant ships Australian nationality. It also provides for Australian ships to fly the Australian National Flag or the Australian Red Ensign in accordance with Australia's obligations under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea 1982 , to which Australia is a party.
The business of the Australian Shipping Registration Office includes the establishment of the ownership of ships, the registration of mortgages and caveats, the granting of certificates and providing public access to the information held in the Australian Register of Ships.
It should be noted that the Australian States also keep records of ships and small craft that are subject to their jurisdiction. The State records, however, are not registers of ownership or nationality.
Historical ship registration records are held by the National Archives of Australia. The most important of them are the Australian Registers of British Ships (1834-1982). Microfilm copies of the registers are available for reading at all regional offices of Australian Archives.
A database of over 3000 pioneer doctors from the 1700s through to 1875. The site covers Australian medical history with a database of medical pioneers and educational background material. It includes doctors who were registered or qualified in Australia, were resident in Australia, or visited here in a professional capacity, before 1875. Ships' surgeons, convict doctors, general practitioners and medical specialists are included.
A register of documents vital to Australia's history. This is one of 40 similar programs run by UNESCO for various countries of the world. It aims to preserve key documents in archives and library collections around the world and ensure that they are always available.
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.
Comprehensive museum site covering all aspects of Australia's biology, ecology and physical sciences. Features exhibitions, research, educational material and images.
This site provides a directory of more than 900 Australian museums, a searchable collections database of over 350 000 item records from 51 Australian museums and links to Australian and international museums sites. Content from this site is being relocated to Collections Australia network, after which AMOL will be archived and discontinued.
This site provides links to information about the Australian music industry. It contains a searchable database which lists more than 1600 Australian artists and links to information about the music charts, a major gig guide and the Australasian music industry directory.
The National Archives has created the Bringing Them Home (BTH) name index which aims to help Indigenous people find information about themselves, their families and their country from National Archive records relevant to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and their history. This index was created in response to the recommendations of Bringing Them Home, the report of the National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from Their Families, released in 1997.
The BTH name index index contains: names of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people; names of non-Indigenous people related to or associated with Indigenous people; names of missions and institutions where Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people were placed; and places where Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have lived or visited. The index does not contain information about the people named. To see this information you will need to view the original records (files, papers and photographs) or photocopies of them.
If the reason for seeking access is to obtain information for the purpose of re-establishing family and community links, under the Memoranda of Understanding between the Archives and Northern Territory, Victorian and South Australian Indigenous communities you may look at information normally restricted from public access. For further information see Fact Sheet 114 – Memorandum of Understanding with Northern Territory Aboriginal people, Fact Sheet 205 – Memorandum of Understanding with the Victorian Aboriginal Child Care Agency or Fact Sheet 209 – Memorandum of Understanding with SA Indigenous people.
You can ask for the BTH name index to be searched by contacting the Archives’ National Reference Service at ( ph:1300 886 881; fax: 1300 886 882; email : ref@naa.gov.au ). To assist reference officers undertake a thorough search, it helps if you provide as many details as possible, including: name of the person you are researching – this includes any variations in the spelling of given names, nicknames, forgotten names, or Indigenous names; family connections – the names of any siblings, children or other relatives; language group, country or homeland – which were sometimes used to identify people; place – where the person was born, lived, worked, or was sent to; date of birth, age at events, or date of death of the person; date ranges – year or period the person was in a certain place or area, such as the period they worked on a particular cattle station; and significant events that may have occurred in the person’s life, such as being evacuated because of natural disaster or war.
The BTH name index is not the only information resource available to researchers of Indigenous family history. While most government records relating to Aboriginal affairs before 1970 were created and maintained by state governments, the National Archives holds large quantities of records relevant to Northern Territory and Victorian Indigenous people.
The National Archives holds many Northern Territory records because from 1911 until self-government in 1978, the Commonwealth administered the Territory. Northern Territory records are held in the Darwin and Canberra offices. National Archive holdings on Victoria are large because the Victorian government handed the responsibility for Aboriginal affairs and associated records to the Commonwealth in 1975. Victorian records dating from 1860 are held in the Melbourne office. Finally, the National Archives holds more recent records for all states because in 1967 the Constitution was amended to allow the Australian Government to legislate for all Aboriginal people.
There are a number of other online National Archive fact sheets concerning records on Indigenous people, including : Fact Sheet 113 – Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people; Fact sheet 150 – The 1967 Referendum; Fact sheet 108 – The pastoral industry in the Northern Territory; and Fact sheet 112 – Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody. Go to Fact sheets on Indigenous Australia.
The Australian National Archives (ANA) has a substantial holding of military records. Major holdings include records for the Australian Army, Navy, Merchant Navy and Air Force, conscription and national service and records relating to the Boer War, WW1, WW2 and the Vietnam War. The ANA also holds Victorian colonial defence force personnel records which were transferred to the Commonwealth following Federation in 1901.
Deaths on war service are generally not registered by the state authorities but by the Army, Navy or Air Force. You would need to write to the relevant service to obtain copies of death certificates.
You can undertake an online name search of the following ANA records via RecordSearch :
(1) Australian Defence Forces personnel records including - personnel records for the Army (1901 -1977), Navy (1911 - 1977) and Air Force (1921-1977); the Boer War; and World War 1 and 2.
(2) Other defence records - service pay records; RAAF accident records; Australian Prisoners of War records; Court martial records; Repatriation cases (Boer War & WW1); War gratuity records; Civilian service records; Army Inventions Directorate; and Papua New Guinea evacuees records.
The National Archives has a number of fact sheets on its military records, including: Fact Sheet 63 – Sources of information about military service; Fact sheet 67 – Boer War records; Fact sheet 134 – (Victorian) Colonial defence; Fact Sheet 136 – Army service records; Fact sheet 30 – Navy service records; Fact sheet 31 – Navy crew and ships records; Fact sheet 32 – RAAF service records; Fact sheet 160 – Universal military training in Australia, 1911–29; Fact sheet 161 – Conscription referendums, 1916 and 1917; Fact Sheet 177 – Defence service records for WWI and WWII; Fact sheet 162 – National service and war, 1939–45; Fact sheet 39 – Civilian service in World War II; Fact sheet 234 – United States forces in Queensland, 1941–45; Fact sheet 163 – National Service, 1951–59; Fact sheet 164 – National service, 1965–72; Fact sheet 54 – Veterans’ case files; and Fact sheet 89 – Births, deaths and marriages.
Naturalisation had been a responsibility of the individual colonies until 1903 when it was taken over by the Commonwealth. As a consequence, the National Archives holds citizenship records for all states from 1904, when the citizenship function was passed to the Australian Government. However, the National Archives also holds naturalisation records for the Colony of Victoria and the Province of South Australia for the period from 1848 to 1903. Naturalisation records for New South Wales, Queensland, Western Australia and Tasmania before 1904 are held by the respective State government archives.
At Federation in 1901, ‘British subject’ was the sole civic status noted in the Australian Constitution. An administrative concept of citizenship arose from the need to distinguish between British subjects who were permanent residents and those who were merely visitors to Australia. This was necessary for the Commonwealth to exercise its powers over immigration and deportation. This administrative concept of citizenship was formalised in the Nationality and Citizenship Act 1948. In 1958 the Act was amended so that naturalisation could only be revoked if obtained by fraud. This prevented a naturalised person being stripped of citizenship and deported.
Throughout the 1960s, Australian citizens were still required to declare their nationality as British. The term ‘Australian nationality’ had no official recognition or meaning until the Act was amended in 1969 and renamed the Citizenship Act. In 1973 the Act was renamed the Australian Citizenship Act. It was not until 1984 that Australian citizens ceased to be British subjects.
The two main types of citizenship records are naturalisation certificates and case files. Naturalisation case files, which include the application for citizenship, oath of allegiance and other correspondence, generally give more detail than the certificate. Citizenship records provide much information about the migrant including date of arrival in Australia, ship (or flight) travelled on, town and country of birth, names of other family members, education, profession and address in Australia at the time of naturalisation.
Pre-Federation records normally consist of Memorial for Letters of Naturalization (the application), Oath of Memorialist (ie the applicant) and Certificate and Oath of Allegiance. Post-Federation records may also include a Statutory Declaration, Application for Certificate of Naturalization and some routine correspondence.
The naturalisation file may already be indexed on the National Archives RecordSearch. Conduct searches using surname as a keyword term.
If the file you are seeking is not listed on RecordSearch the Department of Immigration Citizenship Index may be consulted. A microfiche version of the Citizenship Index is held by all offices of the National Archives. Arranged alphabetically, the index lists all applicants for naturalisation from 1904 to the present.
Because it contains information not yet in the open access period the Citizenship Index cannot be made publicly available. National Archives reference staff will consult it on your behalf to identify the file number and location of records of naturalisations that took place more than 30 years ago. In general records relating to naturalisation become publicly available once they are more than 30 years old. Additional sources that may be consulted include the nominal index card series A1652, A3907 and A3908. A search is more likely to be successful if the following information can be supplied: full name (include any known alias or alternate spelling of the name); date of birth; date of arrival in Australia; and State of residence at time of naturalisation.
For more information on naturalisation records see the following National Archive online fact sheets: 68 – Naturalisation records held in Canberra; and 187 – Citizenship in Australia.
Before Federation, each of the Australian colonies was responsible for its own immigration policies and schemes. In 1901, control of immigration restriction was passed to the Commonwealth, but the practical responsibility for immigration and its encouragement did not pass from the state governments to the Commonwealth until the Joint Commonwealth and States Scheme of 1921.
Before 1921 then, the role of the Australian government in immigration was mostly to control prohibited migration, monitor illegal immigrants and to advertise the nation’s resources overseas. From the 1920s there were new immigration agreements between the Commonwealth and state governments and between Britain and Australia, and the Australian government took control of assisted migration schemes.
Until World War II, immigration policy and administration were looked after by a number of different Commonwealth Government departments, primarily: Department of External Affairs 1901–16 (CA 7); Department of Home and Territories, 1916–28 (CA 15); Department of Home Affairs, 1928–32 (CA 24 and CA 28); and the Department of the Interior, 1932–39 (CA 27 and CA 31). In 1945, the newly created Department of Immigration (CA 51) took over control of all immigration matters, although the Department of Interior continued to play an important role.
Before 1948, the captain or master of all passenger ships and aircrafts was required to provide Custom authorities with a list of passengers arriving in or leaving from a port. From 1948, cards filled in by the passengers were introduced and from the 1960s cards increasingly replaced lists, especially for those arriving by air.
Documents may include applications forms, passenger lists, entry permits and accommodation records and naturalisation. Records may include the following information: name, nationality, birth date and place, education, occupation, family details and even passport photos.
Records are available if they are more than 30 years old. This website allows you to search the catalogue to many of these records and then apply, using the location numbers found. Unfortunately, there are no comprehensive name indexes for passenger records. To effectively search for family members you need know how and when they arrived.
For arrivals by sea betwen 1926 and 1947, you can search the National Archives passenger arrivals index which includes the names from passenger lists in the National Archives series K269, Inward passenger manifests for ships and aircraft arriving at Fremantle, Perth Airport and outports, chronological series, 1898–1978. This index is useful because the passenger lists lodged in Fremantle included all passengers disembarking in Fremantle, and usually passengers travelling on to other Australian ports (such as Melbourne or Sydney) or overseas ports (such as Auckland or Colombo). Most passenger vessels from Europe made Fremantle, Western Australia, their first port. At July 2005, the index included names from passenger lists for the period of January 1926 to 1947. The current coverage of the index can be found at the top and bottom of the 'Index to passenger arrivals’ screen. To access this database click on the Passenger index button at the top of the RecordSearch search screen at: http://www.naa.gov.au/collection/recordsearch.aspx .
For other arrivals, you need to know the port or airport of arrival, the name of the vessel or aircraft number, as well as the month and year the vessel arrived. If you are unable to identify the date of arrival within two months, your search could be very time-consuming.
For further passenger information, you can check the following National Archives online fact sheets : Fact Sheet 220 – Index to passenger arrivals (such as Fremantle arrivals); Fact Sheet 38 – Passenger records held in Canberra; Fact Sheet 56 – Passenger records held in Perth; Fact Sheet 64 – Passenger records held in Sydney; Fact Sheet 172 – Passenger records held in Melbourne; Fact Sheet 184 – Passenger records held in Hobart; and Fact Sheet 190 – Passenger records held in Brisbane.
Robert Le Maistre, a National Archives volunteer, has created an alphabetical index to all the microfilm shipping registers the National Archives hold. The most important of these registers are the Australian Registers of British Ships (1834-1982). The online index is searched by entering the whole or part of a ship's name and/or year of voyage and basic information is then provided about the ship, namely, the official number, the year built, the port number, the National Archive microfilm roll number and which National Archive office in Australia holds the record.
The National Archives also provides some online Fact sheets on migration, citizenship and travel which includes shipping records. Fact sheet 37 – Maritime records held in Hobart outlines the collection of maritime records held by the National Archives in Hobart, includes many records dating from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. These records were created by the Tasmanian colonial government and the Commonwealth Government from 1901. They include records relating to functions such as customs administration, vessel registration, passenger arrivals and departures, lighthouses and navigation, and a range of other matters associated with shipping activities in and around the island State of Tasmania. Fact sheet 65 – Customs shipping records held in Sydney outlines customs shipping records held by the National Archives in Sydney, including Registers of ships, arrivals and departures, Sydney (arranged chronologically).
The Australian National Archives also has an online photographic database, PhotoSearch, which currently contains 160,000 images, including 1,409 related to ships. See Fact sheet 19 – PhotoSearch for more information.
The Australian National Botanic Gardens maintains a scientific collection of native plants from all parts of Australia. This site includes details on coming events, plants in the Botanic Gardens, maps and information for students and teachers. Includes the databases Australian Plant Name Index and Australian Plant Image Index.
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.
The Australian National Shipwrecks Database covers all known shipwrecks in Australian waters and can provide details of the ships voyage, the wreck location, the features of the vessel, crew and passengers. The number of shipwrecks listed totals 7664 including: NSW (2047), VIC (797), TAS (1116), QLD (1244), SA (774), WA (1466), NT (153) and Cocos Islands (2).
Shipwrecks and their associated relics - that are older than 75 years - are protected through the Historic Shipwrecks Act 1976. The Act applies to Australian waters that extend from the low tide mark to the end of the continental shelf and is administered in a collaboration between the Commonwealth and the States, Northern Territory and Norfolk Island. Some Australian shipwreck sites lie within protected or no-entry zones - see Historic shipwreck protected zones map.
An extensive page of links concerning the protection of Australia's botanical resources. Includes endangered species, research institutions, botanic gardens and government agencies.
The Australian Newspaper Plan is a cooperative initiative of National and State Libraries - set up in the early 1990s - which aims to find, collect and preserve access to Australia's missing historic newspapers.
Some of Australia’s most wanted newspapers include: Cairns Advocate (1897-1900); Croydon Miner (1887-1888); Mundic Miner and Etheridge Gazette (1889-1917); Pilbarra Goldfields News (1901); and the Renmark Pioneer (1893-1895). A full list of wanted newspapers can be found at Lists of missing titles.
Posters and flyers about the 'Search and Rescue' campaign for missing newspapers are available at the National Library's Media Zone and missing newspaper information can be directed to Library Contacts.
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.
Australian Orchid Genera is a complete information and identification system for Australian orchids. It includes 192 Australian orchid genera with a full botanical description of each genus as well as ecological, biological and geographic information. Includes over 2,500 images.
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).
If you are researching ancestors who were stockowners in Australia, the Pastoral Directories are a great resource. This compendium contains facsimiles of the years 1913, 1923, 1925, 1931, and 1954.
Australian Pastoral Directories were published yearly, and each edition lists thousands of stockowners and agents for most states in Australia. The information listed contains the name of the station and the owner, however the larger states (New South Wales and Queensland) contain more detail including numbers of cattle and sheep.
Australian Periodical Publications 1840 to 1845 is a digital library of Australian journals that began publication between 1840 and 1845 and are listed in John Alexander Ferguson's Bibliography of Australia ( hence the alternative project name: the Ferguson Project ).
Some 74 of the 90-odd serial titles listed for the 1840 to 1845 period in the Ferguson Bibliography will eventually be digitised. 11 titles could not be located in Australia and another 5 titles were withdrawn from the project because they proved to be impossible to digitise adequately. Publications range from local newspapers, shipping and trade news, religious, colonial and political journals and are of relevance to research into 19th Century Australian colonial life. Some titles go up to 1855.
You can BROWSE the list of journal titles alphabetically, by year or by subject and you can keyword SEARCH journal titles and table of contents.
This project began in 1996 as part of the Australian Cooperative Digitisation Project and is a collaborative project between the University of Sydney Library, the State Library of NSW, the National Library of Australia and Monash University Library, with the support of the Australian Research Council.
Produced by the Australian Co-operative Digitisation Project, this website includes digitised runs of journals and newspapers of relevance to Australia and colonial life. Some runs go up to 1855. Publications range from local newspapers, shipping and trade news, religious, colonial and political journals.
This is a draft site to be further developed by a team headed by Professor Elizabeth Webby at the English Department of the University of Sydney and Creagh Cole at the University of Sydney Library, and involving Ross Coleman at the University of Sydney Library, the Copyright Agency Limited (CAL) as a Linkage Partner, John Tranter, and postgraduate students and research assistants.The project will focus on the presentation of original literary material from Australian poets. A secondary focus will be on the presentation of biographical, bibliographical and critical secondary material. The project will eventually provide original texts and basic background information on thousands of Australian poets selected by an advisory committee made up of writers, academic scholars, reviewers, librarians and publishers.
Images and information about prints and printmaking, posters, and book arts from Australia, Aboriginal Australia, the Torres Strait Islands, Papua New Guinea, Maori and Pakeha Aotearoa New Zealand and the Pacific region including Nuie, Samoa, Kiribati, and the Solomon Islands.
A free search by postcode for the latest residential property price information. The postcode price snapshot includes median and average prices and percentage change for houses and units, and postcode and region price comparisons.
Australian Public Affairs - Full Text (APA-FT), is an indexing and full text database that provides Internet access to the scanned images of journal articles from published material on the social sciences and humanities. Australian Public Affairs - Full Text is based on the journal indexing of the database Australian Public Affairs Information Service (APAIS), which is produced by the National Library of Australia and published by RMIT Publishing.
Of the 320,000+ records indexed from 2,000+ journals in APAIS, approximately half are derived from 223+ comprehensively indexed journals. The scanned images of journal articles in Australian Public Affairs - Full Text are sourced mostly from these comprehensively indexed journals. Images are provided in PDF format.
Access note: Library database ( via Informit ), also access from home for registered readers in NSW
Australian Research Online is provided by the National Library of Australia. It contains over 310,000 Australian research outputs, such as theses, preprints, postprints, journal articles, book chapters, music recordings and pictures.
This site provides basic information about business organisations. Search by company name, business, association, ACN or ARBN. Results of searches display information such as company classification, locality of office and a list of documents lodged.
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.
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).
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.
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Source: Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority, Australia.
Provides information on the medical, legal and social issues around drug use in sport. Includes information on banned and restricted substances, drug testing, trends, news and media releases.
ASADA was established in 2006 by the Australian Government as a sign of its commitment to delivering its Tough on Drugs in Sport Strategy. ASADA has the power to investigate suspected Anti-Doping Rule Violations and present cases against alleged offenders. Site includes the 2008 ASADA Anti-Doping Handbook : http://www.asada.gov.au/resources/publications/asada_publication_anti_doping_handbook_2008_full_0804.pdf designed to assist Australian athletes and their support personnel understand anti-doping rules, policies and procedures.
This site provides information about Australian sport. It includes details about the organisation of sport in Australia, event calendars, information about the structure of sport in Australia and topics and issues in sport.
This online database contains the full text of Australian and New Zealand standards,as well as indexing standards from the International Standards Organization (ISO, British Standards and International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) records. Search by Standard title, number, keywords or phrases.
The Wise's Post Office Directories are divided into three main sections: Towns, Alphabetical and Trades and Professions. These three classifications enable the enquirer to see at a glance the Householders or Traders in any one Town; the Business and Address of any resident in the State; and the Firms engaged in any trade or profession.
Resources in Australian history and literature at the University of Sydney Library's Scholarly Electronic Text and Image Service (SETIS). SETIS is the creator of digital editions of Australian literary and historical texts and hosts a number of other Australian studies resources.
The official site of the governing association for competitive swimming in Australia. Includes meets and results, profiles, records and rankings, and manuals and publications to assist swimming clubs.
This official federal government site provides a searchable database of information for travellers in various languages about Australia, on places to visit, events, trip planning and latest deals.
An online gateway for researchers and scholars of labour history, designed to link together historical detail, archival resources, published material and current information about Australian industrial organisations.
Current statistics relating to Australian transport by rail, road, air and sea. Compiled by the Bureau of Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Economics (Australia).
Federal Department of Veterans' Affairs website providing access to the following military nominal rolls:
(1) First World War Nominal Roll - prepared by the Australian War Memorial, this is a single alphabetic listing of approximately 324,000 names of members of the Australian Imperial Force (AIF) who served overseas during the First World War. The WW1 Roll consists of digitised images of the Official Records series AWM133 entitled 'Nominal Roll of Australian Imperial Force who left Australia for service abroad, 1914-1918 War'.
The WW1 roll was compiled before October 1919, probably at AIF Administrative Headquarters, London. It is believed that the roll was compiled to assist with the administrative arrangements necessary to repatriate members of the AIF to Australia. The sources on which the roll was based are not known. The roll includes the names of those who served with the Australian Flying Corps and Australian Medical Corps, but not the names of those who served with the Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force.
The WW1 index is searched by surname and the contents is as follows: Service number (Officers and nursing sisters were not allocated service numbers); Final rank; Surname, first name (including some but not all honours); Unit of service at the time of death or at the end of the war; Date of enlistment; Non-effective entry (i.e. how that person became no longer effective, for example Returned to Australia) also referred to as 'fate'. A blank indicates that the person was still effective abroad at the time of compilation of the roll; and Date of death or start date of non-effect.
The authoritative source of information on individual service men and women is the personal service record. Copies of First World War service records can be obtained from the National Archives of Australia.
(2) World War Two Nominal Roll - contains the service details of some one million individuals who served with Australia's defence forces and the Merchant Navy during the period 3 September 1939 to 2 September 1945. The number of individuals collected for the Nominal Roll include some 50,600 members of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN), 845,000 from the Australian Army, and 218,300 members of the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) as well as approximately 3,500 merchant mariners. Australians who served with other Commonwealth or Allied Forces are not included in this Nominal Roll. Respective overseas countries may hold the World War Two service records for those Australians. In addition, those who served in the Australian Women's Land Army, the Australian Red Cross and philanthropic organisations, are not included in this Roll.
You can search the WW2 index by name, service number, honours and place (of birth, of enlistment, or residential locality at enlistment). Service record information provided includes: name, service, service number, date of birth, place of birth, date of enlistment, locality on enlistment, place of enlistment, Home Port, next of kin, date of discharge, date of death, rank, posting at discharge or death/last ship, honours and gallantry, prisoner of war, and roll of honour.
The WW2 index was compiled from Defence Department service service records. Data for merchant mariners was retrieved from National Archives of Australia service records. Additional information concerning those who died was obtained from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. For more detailed information on an individual, refer to complete service records held by the National Archives of Australia.
For WW2 military ranks and their abbreviations check the glossary at Glossary of Ranks.
(3) Nominal Roll of Australian Veterans of the Korean War - contains information from the service records of more than 17,000 individuals - 5,700 members of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN), 10,800 from the Australian Army and 1,200 members of the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) - who served in Korea, or in the waters adjacent to Korea, during the conflict and after the ceasefire, between 27 June 1950 and 19 April 1956.
(4) Nominal Roll of Vietnam Veterans - lists approximately 61, 000 men and women who served in the Royal Australian Navy (RAN), Australian Army and Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) in Vietnam, or in the waters adjacent to Vietnam between 23 May 1962 and 29 April 1975. Also listed are some 1,600 Australian civilians awarded or eligible to receive the Vietnam Logistics and Support Medal (VLSM).
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.
Access note: Networked CDROM (but can use only on 1 computer at a time)
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).
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.
The Australian Wetlands Database contains information on Australia's Ramsar sites, wetlands of international importance listed under the Ramsar Convention, and the nationally important wetlands listed in A Directory of important wetlands in Australia.
A composite database comprised of a number of smaller indexes - such as the Local History, Biography and Australian Book Review indexes - which have been compiled over a long period of time by staff working in the Australian History & Literature area of the State Library of Victoria.
The index has references to published sources such as newspapers, journals and books. Published items will often be available at other large libraries, such as university and state libraries.
There are also references to unpublished files, such as: Local History; Biography, Subject; Family history letters; and Shipping letters files. These files contain items such as answers to previous enquiries and ephemeral material such as leaflets and pamphlets. The amount of information varies from one or two lines to several pages. There are also references to items containing newspaper cuttings on various topics. These unpublished items are only available at the State Library of Victoria.
An educational site about Australian politics, democracy, elections, parliament and the Constitution. Run by secondary school teacher Malcolm Farnsworth.
The Noel Butlin Archives Centre is a nationally significant collection of primary source material relating to business and labour. The NBAC holds archives of industrial organisations, businesses, professional associations, industry bodies and the labour movement.
Access note: Internet website by the Australian National University
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.
From the Australian Museum's website,'take an exciting journey through time from 100 million years ago to the present. Find out more about the reptiles, birds and mammals from the past' Includes geological snapshots,animal facts and figures, games and movies and links to palaeontology fossil and reptile websites.
A searchable bibliographic database of thousands of hours of oral recordings from 460 oral collections documenting Australian life, customs, politics and traditions and covering a wide range of subjects.
An educational website developed by the Office of the Board of Studies for the Commonwealth Department of Veterans' Affairs. This site charts the course of Australians' involvement in World War Two.
This database is an important resource for research on architecture and design, covering a wide range of international scholarly and popular journals including the publications of professional associations and the major serial publications of Europe, Asia, America and Australia. Coverage is from 1934 to the present with selective indexing of earlier publications, such as the Journal of the Royal Institute of British Architects back to 1865.
Access note: Library database ( CSA ) available onsite
