Links to Free Online Family History Resources
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Getting started
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National Library of Australia - a wonderful getting started guide: http://www.nla.gov.au/getting-started/family-history
Useful when writing up your Family History www.grammarly.com/handbook |
Australia
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Australian Maps-MAPCO
https://mapco.net/aust.htm Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander site aiatsis.gov.au Ryerson Index - an free index to death notices appearing in Australian newspapers www.ryersonindex.org Australian Medical Pioneer Index. Colonial doctors to 1875. www.medicalpioneers.com NSWNSW Births, Deaths & Marriages: www.bdm.nsw.gov.au
NSW State Records http://www.records.nsw.gov.au NSW Family History Document Service:http://www.ihr.com.au/index.html Public Service Lists. www.opengov.nsw.gov.au Wyong OnePlace Study site - information on early families and early settlements in the area www.wyongoneplacestudy.weebly.com Western Australia
Historical BDM research https://www.wa.gov.au/organisation/department-of-justice/online-index-search-tool |
TasmaniaSt Johns Park, New Town – most names on list are children of convicts
www.orphanschool.org.au Female Convicts femaleconvicts.org.au Victoria1853 Bendigo Goldfields Petition
Bendigo Goldfields Petition - eurekapedia Port Phillip Directory of people arriving there before 1849 http://vic1847.comlu.com/ Historical BDM research https://www.bdm.vic.gov.au/research-and-family-history/search-your-family-history South AustraliaBurra Genealogy,This includes books, unpublished research, cemetery records, booklets and other publications
Burra Resources (burrasa.info) Genealogy SA,Genealogy SA is the leading resource for South Australian family history information.Search Online Databases which lists much more than just BDMs genealogysa.org.au Professional South Australian genealogist Graham Jaunay has lots of links on his website. Click on Free Help Pages http://www.jaunay.com Open State Records of South Australia (archives.sa.gov.au) Scroll down to Passenger Lists, open and there are the original passenger records online listed year by year |
International
UK - Generalfreereg.org.uk
Free BMD records that may not be available anywhere else The following three sites hold an interesting variety of records, some overlapping. The paid sites are at the top, but scroll down and you may find a site you have never heard of before. UKBMD UKGDL Directories and Lists UKMFH Military Family History Excellent site for researching merchant seamen on British registered ships 1861-1913. Includes guidance and finding aids. www.crewlist.org.uk British history sources 1500-1900 – a very sophisticated and informative site with many searchable records www.connectedhistories.org Over 250,000 images of London from Metropolitan Archives and Guildhall Art Gallery www.collage.cityoflondon.gov.uk This site includes maps, historical descriptions and much more between 1801 and 2001 http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/ GENUKI provides a virtual reference library of genealogical information of particular relevance to the UK and Ireland. It is a non-commercial service, maintained by a charitable trust and a group of volunteers www.genuki.org.uk Hearth Tax Google the words Hearth Tax Digital and you will get into the beta version. Click on Records and a list of all available will come up. Click on any that are from the areas you are researching ignoring the icons on the right. Scroll down and find a list of the names of all persons who were taxed in that year. The number on the right next to the name searched tells you how many hearths they had therefore how large their house was at that time and that they lived there in that particular year. Kent, Sussex and Surrey information and records www.theweald.org |
ScotlandHere is a link kindly provided by a young lady who, along with a Girl Scout Troop, is working on a project entitled Family Heritage Fun Patch "Family Heritage Fun Patch"
https://www.lulus.com/blog/fashion/a-guide-to-scottish-tartans/ Resources 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 Finding Wills in the UK. English & Welsh Wills. For the period 1384-1858 original Wills are available on Ancestry under the Prerogative Court of Canterbury and can be printed out. They cover the south of England and Wales. The Prerogative Court of York covers the northern counties plus the Isle of Man. These Wills must be sourced through the Borthwick Institute in York and then be ordered and paid for. From 1858 to 1996 Ancestry has a National Probate Calendar of Wills index but copies must be ordered from GOV.UK where they have a beta site with information. Ancestry also has the following site - UK, Extracted Probate Records, 1269-1975 This site has a small amount of information with each entry. Find My Past has a small selection of Wills online. Pre 1858 Welsh Wills can also be obtained free online from NLW Wills Online. Scottish Wills are able to be purchased through Scotlands People. The Old Bailey Proceedings The Old Bailey Proceedings Online makes avialable a fully searchable, digitised collection of all surviving editions of the Old Bailey Proceedings from 1674 to 1913, and of the Odinary of Newgates`s Accounts between 1676 and 1772. It allows access to 197,752 trials and biographical details of approx 2,5500 men and women executed at Tyburn. Free of chrge for non commercial use. https://www.oldbaileyonline.org City of London Burial Register https://col-burialregisters.uk/ |
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 https://www.askaboutireland.ie/search.xml Griffith’s Valuation, articles, images, maps, ebooks, etc. https://www.militaryarchives.ie/en/home/ Military records can be a rich source of information for genealogical research. If your relative served in the Defence Forces in Ireland from 1922 onwards, or received a medal or pension for service during the Easter Rising or War of Independence, there may be reference to them within our collections See the Drop Files at the Cottage for more information New ZealandHistorical birth, marriage and death records
https://bdmonline.dia.govt.nz/ Newspaper search www.paperspast.natlib.govt.nz China
Welcome to China Families. This site offers an expanding collection of information about individuals of various nationalities, professions, and ages who lived and worked in China from the 1850s to the 1940s.
https://www.chinafamilies.net/ Dutch
Dutch Families
WieWasWie presents millions of records about persons in the past, aggregated from a large number of Dutch archive organizations participating in wieWasWie. You will find civil registration records, population registers, church registers and more! In addition WieWasWie offers so called user generated content,family trees and biographies created by other users. User Generated content is visible to othres only if it has been made public by the user. www.wiewaswie.nl/en/ |
World Wide
FamilySearch
Our vision is carried out by a dedicated team of employees and volunteers who work tirelessly to preserve and share the largest collection of genealogical and historical records in the world. We strive to create and link the best and most valuable research resources to help people discover who they are by exploring where they come from.
www.familysearch.org
Our vision is carried out by a dedicated team of employees and volunteers who work tirelessly to preserve and share the largest collection of genealogical and historical records in the world. We strive to create and link the best and most valuable research resources to help people discover who they are by exploring where they come from.
www.familysearch.org
“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
Guild of One-Name Studies
Look up your surnames in the Search box and see if there are any records apart from a One Name Study.
https://one-name.org/
Society of One Place Studies
One Place Studies.org
www.davidrumsey.com
http://mapco.net
Two brilliant sources of maps of every type
Look up your surnames in the Search box and see if there are any records apart from a One Name Study.
https://one-name.org/
Society of One Place Studies
One Place Studies.org
www.davidrumsey.com
http://mapco.net
Two brilliant sources of maps of every type
