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Aboriginal/Indigenous Australians

**Australian Aboriginal Genealogy Resource Resources, extracts & transcriptions from a wide range of documents & records such as BDMs indexes, prison records & mission records www.mc2.vicnet.au/home/pmaskett/web/index.html

** Aboriginal Colonial Court Cases, 1788-1838 Search | More information There are approximately 250 entries in the index

** Aboriginal people in the Register of Aboriginal Reserves, 1875-1904 This index includes the names of approximately 80 Aboriginal people. It is not a complete list of Aboriginal people living on reserves in NSW in this period.
Search | More information |

** Documents relating to Aboriginal people and the law, 1797-1840
Available at the Centre for Comparative Law History and Governance of Macquarie University website
Original documents and transcriptions covering the period between 1797 and 1840. These are believed to have been collected by Justice William Burton of the Supreme Court of NSW.

**AIATSIS- Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Family History Unit specifically assists Link-Up caseworkers in family tracing and reunion for Indigenous people who were removed. The Institute also assists anyone of Indigenous heritage with their family history research AIATSIS

**Dawn Magazine online stories photos etc. www.aistsis.gov.au/lbry/dig_prgm/dawncontents.htm

Australian States & Territories

** New South Wales & ACT      click here

** Victoria                                      click here

** Australian Capital Territory  click here

** Northern Territory                  click here

** Western Australia                   click here

** South Australia                       click here

** Queensland                             click here

** Tasmania                                  click here

** Australian Archives & Libraries

Archives:

** Lutheran Archives Australia http://www.lca.org.au/lutherans/archives.cfm

** National Archives of Australia

** Archives Office of Tasmania

** Northern Territory Archives Service

** Public Record Office - Victoria's Archives

** Queensland Government State Archives

** State Records - New South Wales

** State Records of South Australia

** State Records of Western Australia

Libraries:

State and Territory Libraries hold family history collections specialising in resources for their state and a selection of material relating to other areas of Australia and Overseas.

** National Library of Australia http://www.nla.gov.au

** National Library of Australia Inter Library Loan Catalogue: Use this search facility to order books and microfilms from this library to your local library http://www.nla.gov.au/catalogue/ ( this service available to members at Casino & District Family History Group )

** ACT Heritage Library

** Northern Territory Library

** State Library of New South Wales - Family History Service

** State Library of Queensland - Family and Local Historians

** State Library of South Australia - Family History Service and Collection

** State Library of Tasmania - Family History Resources

** State Library of Victoria - Genealogists and family Historians

** State Library of Western Australia - Family History Service

Australia (General)

** Births Deaths Marriages & Obituaries all states of Australian click here

** Ryerson Index: An index to death notices appearing in current Australian newspapers. It also includes some funeral notices, probate notices and obituaries. http://www.ryersonindex.org/

** Cemeteries Australia click here

** Australian Armed Forces all conflicts & Service Personal Records  click here

** Convicts Transported to Australia (various websites) click here

** Sands Directories - Ancestry.com: Sydney and New South Wales, Australia, 1861-1933 

** England and Wales Criminal Registers, 1791-1892 (includes Convicts Aust)

 http://74.125.153.132/search?q=cache:gSaRmK6kqDQJ:landing.ancestry.co.uk/intl/uk/criminal.aspx+England+%26+Wales,+Criminal+Registers,+1791-1892&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk

 

** Convict Records Ancestry.com  Australian Convict Records

** Electoral Rolls - Ancestry.com - Australia, 1856,1903,1909,1914,1919,1924,1931,1936. http://content.ancestry.com/Browse/list.aspx?dbid=1207&path=

** Shipping Indexes : See Individual States of Aust

** Genealogy Search Australia, Australian Search Engine: www.searchwhateveraustralia.com.au Give this site a try.

** Picture Australia:  Enter name place see what comes up: http://www.pictureaustralia.org/

** Free Pictures  www.freefoto.com

** First Families 2001 covers families in all Aust states: (Great site but!!! choose letter from alphabet to search don't enter name in the box as it doesn't work ) http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/10421/20041220/www.firstfamilies2001.net.au/search.html

** Australian Family Tree Connections Bookshop: Check this site could have the info you've been looking for. http://www.aftc.com.au/Bookshop/BS.html

Australian Women's History

Lenore Frost's great site has links to many sites relating to women's history: http://www.members.optushome.com.au/lenorefrost/women.html

Asylums & Homes Australia

** Randwick Asylum for Destitute children 1852-1915  www.records.nsw.gov.au/asp/searchform.asp?id=26

** Mittagong Farm Home for boys 2xsites : Index @ http://www.records.nsw.gov.au/indexes/searchform.aspx?id=26 History@ http://renwick.cbdomain.com/index.php

** NSS Vernon & Sobraon 1865-1911 (Boys home) Index on micro fiche at Casino Family Hist Room

Convicts

** England and Wales Criminal Registers, 1791-1892 (includes Convicts Aust)

 http://74.125.153.132/search?q=cache:gSaRmK6kqDQJ:landing.ancestry.co.uk/intl/uk/criminal.aspx+England+%26+Wales,+Criminal+Registers,+1791-1892&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk

 

Electoral

**Electoral Commission (Aust) www.aec.gov.au/_content/What/publications/tallyboard/0704.pdf**

**Electoral Rolls - Ancestry.com - Australia, 1856,1903,1909,1914,1919,1924,1931,1936.

Family History Societies all states of Australian

** Genealogy, Family History and Historical Societies

** Australian Family History Compendium

** South Australian Family History and Genealogy

** Internet Family History Association of Australia (IFHAA)

** Cyndi's List of genealogy sites on the Internet - Australia

** Rootsweb - Australian and New Zealand Records

** Genealogy and Family Heritage

** VICNET Family Page with links to Family History and Genealogy

Gold Miners

** Looking for lost ancestorstry: Database of 20,000 goldminers who were mining for gold in New Zealand between Aug 1861 and Dec 1868 http://www.kaelewis.com/

Telephone Directories Australia

** White Pages  Residential & Yellow Pages Business http://www.whitepages.com.au/wp/index.jsp

War related Databases: Australian

** War Memorials in Australia contains locations, descriptions and images of war memorials in the states and territories of Australia. http://www.skp.com.au/memorials2/

** Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour is seeking photographs to accompany names of those listed on the Roll of Honour. Contact Assistant curator photographs section.  email photographs@awm.gov.au

**AIF Database Project search this database.330,000 men and woman who served overseas in the (First) Australian Imperial Force 1814-1818 http://www.aif.adfa.edu.au:8080/index.html great site

** Service Records WW1 www.naa.gov.au                 

** Service Records WW2 www.ww2roll.gov.au/       

** Australian Light Horse www.lighthorse.org.au/

** Australian War Memorial Australian War Memorial

** Commonwealth War Graves Commission Debt of Honour Register (Commonwealth War Graves Commission)

** Military Historical Society of Australia  http://www.mhsa.org.au/

** Abbreviations used in World War 1 & 2 Service Records http://www.naa.gov.au/the_collection/defence/conflicts/info_sheet.html

**Badges, Signs Army etc. http://www.diggerhistory.info/pages-adges/tac/0- signs-cat-index.htm

** Replica Medals ETC. at National Medals Pty Ltd: Email address natmedals@bigond.com Phone 07 32211217

**Uniforms of various countries www.diggerhistory.info/pages-uniforms/all-forces.htm

** Boer War Oz-Boer Database

** Boer War  Data base www.awm.gov.au/database/boer.as
** Boer War
Index http://www.genealogyworld.net/boer/index.html
** Boer War Forces
http://www.genealogyworld.net/boer/forces.html

* Australian War Graves In South Africa Australian War Graves in South Africa 1899 - 1902

** Soldiers & Marines Index  http://web.ecorner.com.au/epages/sag.storefront/?ObjectPath=/Shops/sag/Categories/Databases/Soldiers_and_Marine

** Aust Redcoat Settlers http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~garter1/index.htm

** NASHOS National Servicemans Association of Australia Nominal Roll 1951 - 1972 & More http://www.nashos.org.au/

** Vietnam Honour Roll (Aust) plus lots more http://www.hotkey.net.au/~marshalle/

** Vietnam Veterans Nominal Roll http://www.vietnamroll.gov.au/

**Korean War Records can print out a service certificate:www.koreanroll.au/

**Sudan Nominal Roll  www.awm.gov.au/database/sudan.asp

UK War related Indexes may be helpful for Australian ancestors

** Great War Index UK WW1 www.lightage.demon.co.uk/GREATWARINDEX.htm

** UK online War Memorials/ searchable databases   www.channel14.com/lostgeneration

** The Battle of Britain Roll of Honour other info: www.raf.mod.uk/bob1940/bobhome.html

** UK online War Memorials/ searchable databases   www.channel14.com/lostgeneration

** The Battle of Britain Roll of Honour other info: www.raf.mod.uk/bob1940/bobhome.html

**Uniforms of various countries www.diggerhistory.info/pages-uniforms/all-forces.htm

** British Military Cemetery "Brookwood" est.1917 and used for burial of service personnel who died in hospitals in the London Military District: www.tbcs.org.uk/military.htm

** British men and women who were born, married, died, served in the Royal Navy, Royal Air Force, Royal Marines, the British Army, were residents on the island, or in some manner are connected with Malta Malta Family History

Newspapers

** Australian Historical Newspapers 1803-1954 (great site) http://ndpbeta.nla.gov.au

** www.paperofrecord.com has a huge range of digitised newspapers from around the world, including Port Phillip Herald (Melb) from 1840-1902 others from USA, Canada and many parts of Europe for varying years and issues. Free to register and an email will be sent to you to enable you to log-in and search original newspaper images.

** Ryerson Index: An index to death notices appearing in current Australian newspapers. It also includes some funeral notices, probate notices and obituaries. http://www.ryersonindex.org/

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