Links to Free Online Family History Resources
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Getting started
NSW Births, Deaths & Marriages: www.bdm.nsw.gov.au
NSW State Records http://www.records.nsw.gov.au
National Library of Australia - a wonderful getting started guide: http://www.nla.gov.au/getting-started/family-history
Ryerson Index
www.grammarly.com/handbook Useful when writing up your Family History
NSW State Records http://www.records.nsw.gov.au
National Library of Australia - a wonderful getting started guide: http://www.nla.gov.au/getting-started/family-history
Ryerson Index
www.grammarly.com/handbook Useful when writing up your Family History
Australia
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Many free samples of Australian files and indexes
www.unlockthepast.com.au Australian Medical Pioneer Index. Colonial doctors to 1875. www.medicalpioneers.com Old Australian newspapers that are not all on Trove www.nla.gov.au/ferg/browselist.html Interesting obituaries published in newspapers, journals and magazines www.oa.anu.edu.au NSWNSW Family History Document Service:http://www.ihr.com.au/index.html
Public Service Lists. www.opengov.nsw.gov.au Type “Blue Book” in the search area and you will get many years of Public Service Lists with names 1870’s to 1890’s pdf files searchable - you can then choose the date you need. Wyong OnePlace Study site - information on early families and early settlements in the area www.wyongoneplacestudy.weebly.com South Australiahttp://www.familyhistorysa.info
Pioneer information for South Australia including shipping lists, census and bmd records http://www.jaunay.com Professional South Australian genealogist Graham Jaunay has lots of links on his website. Click on Free Help Pages http://www.hotkey.net.au/~jwilliams4/sa2.htm List of births, deaths and marriages listed in the South Australian Gazette & Colonial Register for the year 1838 www.library.unisa.edu.au/condon/teachers/ A service history of South Australian teachers from 1852 to 1960. Searchable by surname, school or year. State Records of S.A. has digitized a number of passenger lists arriving Port Adelaide 1847-1855 Go to Our Catalogue The Archive Official Passenger Lists |
TasmaniaVictoriaThe Age online to browse 1854 – 1980’s
https://sites.google.com/site/onlinenewspapersite/Home/aus/vic Port Phillip Directory of people arriving there before 1849 http://vic1847.comlu.com/ |
International
UKExcellent site for researching merchant seamen on British registered ships 1861-1913. Includes guidance and finding aids.
www.crewlist.org.uk www.connectedhistories.org British history sources 1500-1900 – a very sophisticated and informative site with many searchable records www.collage.cityoflondon.gov.uk Over 250,000 images of London from Metropolitan Archives and Guildhall Art Gallery This site includes maps, historical descriptions and much more between 1801 and 2001 http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/ www.genuki.org.uk example Lighthouse Personnel in England, Wales & Channel Islands c1790-1911 British History Online www.hearthtax.org.uk www.theweald.org Kent, Sussex and Surrey information and records New ZealandHistorical birth, marriage and death records
https://bdmonline.dia.govt.nz/ Newspaper search www.paperspast.natlib.govt.nz |
ScotlandResources listed by County – gazetteers, atlases, maps, etc.
http://www.scotlandsplaces.gov.uk/ See the Drop Files at the Cottage for more information England and WalesWe are currently collecting resources for each English county and collating them under the
English Special Interest Group - click here for more info |
IrelandDirectory of Dublin for 1803 with name, address and type of merchant with map
http://www.irishancestors.ie/search/dublin1803/index.php This site contains information about Irish genealogy, Pigot's Directory, Lewis Topographical Directory, Guy's Postal Directory for Cork, Griffiths Valuation Extracts www.failteromhat.com See the Drop Files at the Cottage for more information |
World Wide
“Gravestones Photographic Resource”
Currently they list 3683 cemeteries in 36 countries, they have over half a million graves listed and nearly one and a quarter million names.
(See a more complete description in this article by Martin Fisher)
http://www.gravestonephotos.com/
Currently they list 3683 cemeteries in 36 countries, they have over half a million graves listed and nearly one and a quarter million names.
(See a more complete description in this article by Martin Fisher)
http://www.gravestonephotos.com/
Includes WW11 refugees to Australia between 1947 and 1966. Many hundreds of names with ship name, date and place of arrival and mostly with Nationality. The Nationalities include Italian, Yugoslavian, Polish, Dutch, Lithuanian and Latvian.
http://immigrantships.net
http://immigrantships.net
Register of One Name Studies
https://one-name.org/register.html
Register of One Place Studies
http://oneplacestudy.org/world/
www.davidrumsey.com
http://mapco.net
Two brilliant sources of maps of every type
https://one-name.org/register.html
Register of One Place Studies
http://oneplacestudy.org/world/
www.davidrumsey.com
http://mapco.net
Two brilliant sources of maps of every type
