Electronic resources beginning with ‘G’

This site provides resources including gardening forums, directories, a glossary of gardening terms and links to overseas gardening sites.

Compiled by the US Geological Survey, this site contains the names of all topographic features on planets and satellites. Features are approved by the International Astronomical Union.

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

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

The material is presented in five parts:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This site provides a list of genealogy mailing lists.

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

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

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

Links to higher education institutions worldwide.

The abstracts version of General Science Full Text compiled by Wilson databases.

This bibliographic database provides the full text of over 60 journals published in Great Britain and the United States. In addition, popular science magazines as well as professional journals are indexed. Types of materials covered include feature articles, biographical sketches, reports of symposia and conferences, review articles and book reviews. Abstracting begins in 1993, full text coverage begins in 1994.

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

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

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

Geology.com is visited by thousands of geologists, earth scientists, students, teachers and others who are interested in geology or searching for geological information.

Get the Picture is the Australian Film Commission's comprehensive reference publication on the Australian film, video, television and interactive digital media industries, with six editions printed since 1989, the latest in January 2002.

getCITED is an online academic database, directory and discussion forum. Content is edited and controlled by members of the academic community. Articles, book chapters, conference papers, working papers, reports, and other research outlets can be searched or added to the database. getCITED can also be used to produce citation reports.

A database of place names throughout history. Contains information on places of significance in art and architecture, and provides geographic coordinates and variant names.

A website dedicated to bushranger Ned Kelly's last stand at Glenrowan, Victoria. Includes original newspaper reports, police documents & eyewitness accounts of the events of late June, 1880.

Global Books in Print Plus (Online) contains bibliographic information on publications from Australia, New Zealand, Europe and North America. Subjects covered include Books in Print, Subject Guide to Books in Print and Children's Books in Print.

A portal to information on global business activities. The site provides access to international resources such as banking and financial information, trade information, statistics, country data and business news. Also covers current issues in international business, research and teaching resources, decision-support tools for managers, and an interactive forum for business professionals. Created by the Center for International Business Education and Research at Michigan State University.

(Kaiser Family Foundation, USA)

International statistics and news on major health care issues such as HIV/AIDS, TB and malaria.

GoAbroad.com is an education and alternative travel resource. Provides directories of opportunities including study abroad, internships, volunteering, teaching abroad, language schools and ecotourism.

GoAbroad.com is an education and alternative travel resource. Provides directories of opportunities including study abroad, internships, volunteering, teaching abroad, language schools and ecotourism.

Business directory from Israel, in english.

Search full text and extracts of books, contents lists, and locations of books from around the world. Registration required to access some areas of the site.

Select 'Public domain only' under Search: to search and view books under public domain.

The site allows users to browse through all 37 of Shakespeare's plays and was introduced in conjunction with Google's sponsorship of New York's 'Shakespeare in the Park,'. Also provides links to related scholarly research, internet groups, and even videos of theater performances of Shakespeare plays.

Google Earth combines satellite imagery, maps and the power of Google Search to put the world's geographic information at your fingertips. Note: May not operate with some computer systems. Please check system requirements. Subscription fee required for advanced version.

This site allows you to search thousands of newspapers and some magazines and find excerpts of articles dating back as far as the 18th century. Search results provide the name of the newspaper, date and cost of purchasing the article. Note that some newspapers are held at the State Library of New South Wales or may be available, full text, on our databases.

This site provides links to Western Australian Government information. It includes links to government agency and local government sites and information about the ministry, tourism and business in Western Australia. The site also includes a listing of job vacancies in the public sector.

This site provides a list of Governors-General of Australia since the inception of the Commonwealth of Australia in 1901.

A guide to selected types of Australian Government publications, such as acts, Hansards, gazettes and parliamentary papers located in Australia's national, state and territory libraries or available on the Internet. A historical description of each publication is provided, with holdings information to locate resources in each library or online.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This Boer War website contains 2 maps of South Africa in 1900 and 1905 as follows:

(1) Relief Map of South Africa to show Topographical Features & Theatre of War (1905) Prepared from a Map drawn by Major H.T. Crispin, Northumberland Fusiliers ( National Library of Australia)

(2) Map of South Africa specially from The Times History of The War in South Africa 1899-1900 Vols I-VI. (Ed. L.S. Amery, Sampson Low, Marston & Co. Ltd, London,1900) (Lent by Colin Roe)

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

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

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

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

This website contains detailed historical information, timelines, and personal essays by key innovators for each of 20 major engineering accomplishments of the 20th century.The inclusions were decided upon by a selection committee formed by the American National Academy of Engineering and the chief criterion for nominations was the impact of the engineering achievement on the quality of life during the 20th century.

Official website of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia. Includes full text articles about Greek Orthodox practices and beliefs, information about saints, the full text of Patriarchal Encyclicals and links to other orthodox sites.

A directory of environmental technology, covering environmental products & services from suppliers around the world.

An online directory of environmentally sustainable products and services in Australia.

This site provides a calendar of green events celebrated in NSW.

It includes:

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

A guide to locations of historical records of Australian companies, currently encompassing 2,337 entities with references to 1,396 archival resources and 894 published resources. Changes of company name are provided for some companies.

There is an alphabetical Browse List of all entities or through one of the following 7 categories : Corporate Bodies; Industry Bodies; Partnerships; Pastoral Stations; People; Statutory Authorities; Repositories.

The repository browse allows you to see which business records are held in a particular archive, including Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales.

A guide to more than 80 collections of Australian literary manuscripts in archival institutions.

Links to Find Legal Answers website, providing links to plain language information about the law on the web and in public libraries across NSW.

This State Library of NSW project for the Sesquicentenary of Responsible Government in NSW (1856-2006) provides an online guide to the personal papers of NSW MPs that are held by the Mitchell Library - from the first NSW Parliament after Responsible Government (which first sat on 22 May 1856) through to the present.

The guide describes the personal papers of: (a) 202 individual parliamentarians, comprising 197 males and 5 females; (b) 21 Premiers of NSW; (c) 11 State parliamentarians who were also elected to the Federal Parliament; (d) 3 Prime Ministers of Australia; and (e) 1 Governor General of Australia.

You can search by name, date and political party and search results include biographical notes, portraits and links to the State Library's manuscript catalogue and parliamentary service details on the NSW Parliament's website.

Collections listed in the Guide may include papers, photographs, printed material, newspaper cuttings, ephemera, audio tapes, video tapes and realia. The Mitchell Library pictures collection includes an extensive collection of NSW MP portraits, many of which have been digitised for inclusion in the Guide. Some papers of political parties and related organisations are held by the Mitchell Library but these are not described in this Guide.

Official - as opposed to personal - MP records generated by the NSW Government are held by State Records NSW. See Records of a NSW Ministers' Office.

On this site you will find the British Library's two copies of Johann Gutenberg's Bible, the first book to be printed using the technique of printing which Gutenberg invented in the 1450s. The University of Texas has also digitised its copy of the Gutenberg Bible.