As with all links on past meetings pages, these represent a "snapshot" of the web at
the time of the meeting and will not be updated. It is inevitable that over time some of these
links will "break" as web sites change. In such cases you may be able to use the Interent Archive
web site ("Way Back Machine") at http://archive.org/web/
to view the site as it was in August 2014.
| Australian and New Zealand Resources |
| All Colonies / States |
| National Archives of Australia |
For immigration after 1922; includes interviews with & comments made about prospective immigrants & even photos; war records; lots here |
www.naa.gov.au/collection/a-z/index.aspx |
| Convicts |
For background to convict transportation & some links to records |
http://australia.gov.au/about-australia/australian-story/convicts-and-the-british-colonies |
| National Library of Australia Newspaper Archive |
1803 until 1950s have been digitised so far. Uses OCR to find names |
http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper |
| CoraWeb |
Good general advice with links to various websites for Australian genealogy |
www.coraweb.com.au/about |
| Shipping |
Lists links to shipping records eg convict & free settlers’ ships, ships’ logs, pictures of ships |
http://members.optushome.com.au/lenorefrost/shipslog.html |
| Ryerson Index |
An index to death notices in newspapers around Australia |
www.ryersonindex.org/ |
| National Library of Australia |
List of websites for Australian records |
www.nla.gov.au/family-history/genealogy-selected-websites |
| Society of Australian Genealogists |
Mainly members’ family history research |
www.sag.org.au/ |
| Society of Australian Genealogist - Primary Records |
Interim Catalog to Online Records Collection |
www.sag.org.au/collections/online-manuscript-index.html |
| New South Wales |
| Ships & Mariners in Australian Waters |
Ship Arrivals & passenger lists. (not complete.) Use with NLA Newspapers website |
http://mariners.records.nsw.gov.au/ |
| Assisted Passengers |
Index to names of passengers whose passage to NSW was subsidised or fully paid for by a company or one of the assisted immigration schemes; good amount of information about assisted passengers which includes their parents’ names, place of birth, who provided a reference for them etc; in return for the payment, the passenger was bonded to work for the scheme until he had repaid the cost of the passage plus expenses; the schemes encouraged families to migrate to counter balance the large number of adult men in the colonies. |
www.records.nsw.gov.au/state-archives/indexes-online/indexes-to-immigration-and-shipping-records/indexes-to-assisted-immigrants |
| Unassisted Passengers |
1826-1900; passengers who paid their own way to the Australian colonies; less information about them than about assisted passengers. |
www.records.nsw.gov.au/state-archives/guides-and-finding-aids/nrs-lists/nrs-13278-unassisted-passengers-1826-1900 |
| Tasmania |
| LINC Tasmania |
Excellent resource; worth spending time familiarising self with contents; includes indexes to records held by the Archives Office as well as many digitised records available free online eg convict records, pages from early baptismal, death & marriage registers, census records, wills, arrivals |
www.linc.tas.gov.au/tasmaniasheritage/search/name-indexes/nameindexes |
| WAYN Index |
Great starting point for Tasmanian genealogy; Digital images online of index cards to resources held in Archives Office |
www.linc.tas.gov.au/tasmaniasheritage/search/name-indexes |
| Colonial Tasmanian Family Links Database |
Surname & First name search of those who lived in VDL (aka TAS) based on events such as BDMs. Descendants also offer their information so it is not always correct but is a good start. |
http://portal.archives.tas.gov.au/menu.aspx?search=8 |
| The Gardens Family History |
Great website for MIs of many early gravestones in Tasmania which have been transcribed & photographed; also valuation rolls 1875 for various regions & towns in Tasmania |
http://thegardensfamily.com/ |
| Victoria |
| Public Record Office Victoria |
Indexes to records in PROV, some records are online |
http://prov.vic.gov.au/provguide-23 |
| Victorian BDM |
Can do an index search for BDMs for free but site only tells you how many hits you get. Need to prepay using your credit card to view the hits. But each list of up to 20 hits costs only 99cents. Vic BDMs recommends pre-paying $5.00. If you find the person you are interested in and want to buy an uncertified copy of the certificate it will cost $20. |
http://www.bdm.vic.gov.au/home/family+history/search+your+family+history/index.html
http://www.bdm.vic.gov.au/home/family+history/search+your+family+history/family+history+search+guide/ |
| The Gardens Family History |
List of women who were involved in the Eureka Stockade riot on the Ballarat Gold Fields in 1854. |
http://thegardensfamily.com/ |
| Unassisted Passengers |
Passengers who arrived in the colony of Victoria from 1852 -1922 who paid their own way; check for them in NLA Newspaper shipping records as well but note that if they came Steerage class their names may not have been listed in the local newspapers. |
http://prov.vic.gov.au/index_search?searchid=23 |
| Assisted Passengers |
Assisted means that in most cases the passenger’s fare was paid for by the government; 1839 - 1871 |
http://prov.vic.gov.au/index_search?searchid=24 |
| South Australia |
| Genealogy South Australia |
Search indexes to BDMs including family notices in newspapers |
www.genealogysa.org.au/resources/online-databases.html |
| SAGFHS |
Index to records held by Society; start with ‘Colonial South Australian Pioneers’ hyperlink for a general search for a particular name; includes a useful Timeline to SA history |
www.familyhistorysa.info/ |
| South Australian cemeteries |
For index to cemetery registers in SA |
http://www.familyhistorysa.info/births-marriages-deaths/cemeteries/burials.html |
| Western Australia |
| Western Australia BDM |
Free online historic index searching of West Australian births, deaths and marriages registered from 1841. |
www.bdm.dotag.wa.gov.au/F/family_history.aspx?uid=8948-7352-6630-2234 |
| Western Australian State Archive |
Index to WA Wills, convicts, passenger lists, court cases and more |
www.sro.wa.gov.au/archive-collection/family-history |
| Fremantle Prison |
Short biographies about convicts & other prisoners in the colonial & post-colonial era; also living conditions etc. |
www.fremantleprison.com.au/History/Pages/default.aspx |
| The Gardens Family |
Cemeteries: transcriptions of Monumental Inscriptions for graves in various West Australian cemeteries |
http://thegardensfamily.com/ |
| Queensland |
| Queensland BDM |
BDMs free index search but pay $20 for a certificate. |
www.qld.gov.au/law/births-deaths-marriages-and-divorces/family-history-research/ |
| Queensland Family History Society |
Request a volunteer at the Society to do a look up of information. There would be a payment to the Society. |
www.qfhs.org.au/ |
| Genealogical Society of Queensland |
Similar to the Society above in the way to get information |
https://www.gsq.org.au/ |
| New Zealand |
| Newspaper |
PapersPast: browse by date, region, newspaper or person; free digitised images of newspaper |
http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast |
| Shipping |
Lists links to shipping records eg convict & free settlers’ ships, ships’ logs, pictures of ships |
http://members.optushome.com.au/lenorefrost/shipslog.html |
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