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Home Updated April 2009
Save time "Surfing the Net" go straight to the source
Web Sites are an ongoing project. Use the email link below to inform me of links which do not work
Just Click on the blue addresses
Alphabetical Categories: Scroll down
Adoption
** Adoption Registry Connect: http://www.adopteeconnect.com/index.htm
** Reach Out.com.au: http://www.reachout.com.au/default.asp?ti=1998
** Adoption Jigsaw: http://www.jigsaw.org.au
Ancestry.com
** All Data Bases / The world : http://www.ancestry.com/ to refine your search enter place or country into keyword box at bottom of page. This great website is available to view at Casino & District Family History Group's research room (Members only)
OR DIRECT LINK TO ANCESTRY PAGES BELOW
** UK BDMs page http://www.ancestry.co.uk/search/rectype/vital/freebmd/bmd.aspx
** UK Census 1841-1901, page http://www.ancestry.co.uk/
** England and Wales Criminal Registers, 1791-1892 (includes Convicts Aust)
http://search.ancestry.co.uk/iexec/?htx=List&dbid=1590
** At SEA Census for 1861, 1871, 1901 try the census Ships Lists www.thegenealogist.co.uk
** New!! Australian - Sands Directories: Sydney and New South Wales, Australia, 1861-1933
** New Australian - Australian Convict Records
** New Some Australian Electoral Rolls, this data base is being added too. ie. Victoria 1856,1903,1909,1914,1919,1924,1931,1936.
http://content.ancestry.com/Browse/list.aspx?dbid=1207&path=
Australia
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Convicts
(various websites)
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Clothing / Costumes
**Costumes/Clothing History: Pack with information useful to tose trying to date photographs by costume. http://www.costumes.org/history/100pages/costhistpage.htm
Canada
**
Canadian Genealogy Resources
http://genealogy.about.com/od/canada/
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Newfoundland and Labrador Genealogy
http://www.telusplanet.net/public/mtoll/nfl.htm
Census'
**UK & Scotland: Ancestry.com http://www.ancestry.com
** UK & Scotland Census' (FREE) : http://freecen.rootsweb.com/cgi/search.pl
China
** Aust Chinese heritage: http://chaf.lib.edu.au/index.htm
Criminal Records
Denmark
see Europe link
click
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England Counties
&
England
/ UK (General)
click here
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Europe Genealogy Links :
All
sorts of links to choose from :
click
here
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Family Search/IGI : Mormon Church records Births & Marriages & much more www.familysearch.org
Findmypast : Family tree explorer , UK BMD , 1841 census , 1861 census , 1871 census , 1891 census , military records, parish records, UK passenger lists: Subscription needed http://www.findmypast.com/
The last decade of the Passenger Lists has now been added, allowing you to search from 1890 all the way up to 1960, for ancestors leaving the UK. There are now more than 24 million passengers, across 164,000 exclusive passenger lists.
France
see Europe link
click
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Germany
see Europe link
click
here
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Gypsy / Romany
** Try this site it has Romany / Traveller links on it: http://www.entertainer-genealogy.org.uk
IGI / Family Search : Mormon Church records Births & Marriages & much more www.familysearch.org
Immigration / Shipping Australia & Other
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India
** India Office Family History Search. This site offers access to 300,000 births, baptisims, marriages, deaths, burials, in the India Office Records. It covers mainly British and European people in India from 1600-1949 http://indiafamily.bl.uk/UI/
Ireland
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Isle of Wight
** BDMs Search thousands of BDM records or free on the IOWFHS website www.isle-of-wight-fhs.co.uk
Italy
Italy Free Births Deaths Marriages online this is a work in progress, not all regions covered to date (Dec 2008) http://italyfreebdm.org
Maps
** GOOGLE EARTH : Look to see were your own house or look at the street where your ancestor lived , this site is fantastic. http://www.google.com and down load Google Earth and let the fun begin.
Mailing Lists Australia & Overseas etc.
** Join any of the hundreds of mailing lists available.
Get your questions answered: No costs involved http://lists.rootsweb.com/
Medical Terms, Diseases and Causes of Death http://www.antiquusmorbus.com/English/English.htm
Money Exchange Calculations
*8 Aus dollars to other currencies & visa versa http://www.commbank.com.au/Tools/fxcalc.htm
Military Records :
Australia, England & various other countries
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Naturalization Records
Index to Naturalization, 1834-1903 State Records NSW http://www.records.nsw.gov.au/archives/index_to_naturalization_1834-1903_1681.asp
National archives (click search then click enter as a guest): http://naa12.naa.gov.au/
Navy / Maritime
** Navy Training Ships: http://www.trainingships.royalnavy.co.uk/ lots to look at.
** Royal Naval Seamen online searching available http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documentsonline/
Newspapers
** National Library of Australia : Historic Australian Newspapers, 1803 to 1954 http://newspapers.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/home
** Melbourne Argus on line index 1870-1879 www.nla.gov.au/argus
** West Briton & Cornwell Advertiser http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/%7Ewbritonad/
** Port Macquarie News Paper 1911-1915 Index www.ceinternet.com.au/~rgow
** Ryerson Index : Free web data base of recent Deaths in Australia mainly NSW http://www.ryersonindex.org
New Zealand
click here
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Occupations / Old Trades
** Comprehensive listing of old trades and occupations http://genealogy.about.com/library/glossary/bl_occupations.htm
** Britain's Waterway History -
hundreds of years of British
waterway history brought together in one online catalogue.
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