Electronic resources beginning with ‘J’

Includes information about the beliefs and practices of Jainism, texts, songs and prayers, a Jain encyclopedia, glossary of terms, news items as well as directories to temples, researchers and Jain organisations.

Political movements, revolutionary and labour history, and organisations.

Provides information about all aspects of life in the Jewish communities of Australia, including a directory of synagogues, schools and groups, events calendars and information about culture, music and food.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Further details in the third edition of British Jewry News.

An Internet source connecting researchers of Jewish genealogy worldwide.

Produced by the Jewish Cemetery Trust, this database gives the location and burial records for the Jewish section of Rookwood Cemetery, Sydney from 1830 onwards. Includes maps and some photos of headstones.

Occupational profiles are available at this website of the Commonwealth Department of Education, Science & Training.

A joint State Library of NSW and Sydney University project providing digitised access to the following journals concerning the early exploration of inland Australia:

(1) Blaxland - Journal of a Tour of Discovery Across the Blue Mountains

(2) Eyre - Journals of Expeditions of Discovery into Central Australia (1845)

(3) Leichhardt - Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia (1847)

(4) Mitchell - Journal of an expedition in the interior of tropical Australia (1848)

(5) Mitchell - Three Expeditions in the Interior of Eastern Australia (1839)

(6) Oxley - Journals of two expeditions into the interior of New South Wales

(7) Stuart - Explorations in Australia (1864)

(8) Sturt - Two Expeditions into the Interior of Southern Australia (1833)

(9) Sturt - Narrative of an Expedition into Central Australia (1849)

(10) Spencer and Baldwin - Native Tribes of Central Australia

Published by the Judicial Commission of NSW.

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