Australia

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Capital Canberra

Language English

Curency Australian dollar



Modern Australia is a little more than two centuries old, but its indigenous history stretches back tens of thousands of years.

The island continent combines a wide variety of landscapes. These include deserts in the interior, hills and mountains, tropical rainforests, and densely-populated coastal strips with long beaches and coral reefs off the shoreline. Isolated from other continents, Australia has an abundance of unique plant and animal life.

The British founded the first settlement and named it Sydney in 1788. Many of the first settlers were convicts. Free settlers arrived in increasing numbers, particularly after the discovery of gold in the mid-19th century.

Australia - general

Links

• Convict Settlement in Australia

• Military Historical Society of Australia

• National Library of Australia

• National Archives of Australia

• Australia War Memorial

• Australian Funeral Industry Cemetery links

• Lorraine’s Burial Records Pages

• Jenny Brandis’ Web Page

• Dictionary of Australian Biography

• World War 2 Nominal Roll

• White Pages Online

• The Ryerson Index

• Links to all State BMD and other records, and military links

• Oz Gen Link - has links to useful sites in Aust and abroad

• Convictions, Australian Shipping Arrivals Aug 1771 - Aug 1967/ Departures August 1768 - April1968/ passenger Lists, index of passengers, convicts and crew on vessels.

• Australian Research

• Australian Volunteers Lookup Page

• Australian Dictionary of Biography

• The Bushranger Site -profiles of some of Australia's more infamous characters

• Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness - Australia

• AUSTRALIA'S V*I*R*T*U*A*L IMMIGRATION WALL OF HONOUR

• Debt of Honour Register (Commonwealth War Graves Commission)

• Australian War Graves in South Africa 1899 - 1902

• Oz-Boer Database

• World War Two Nominal Roll website

• Australians At War

• Judy Webster Site

• Database of Emigrants from the Netherlands to Australia between 1946 and 1991

• Dedicated to 400 years Netherlands - Australia

• British Army in Australia, 1788 - 1870

• Australia's Redcoat Settlers

• Alphabetical list of 2000 convicts transported on the 3rd fleet in 1791

• Contact addresses for Australian births, deaths and marriages

• What you can expect to see on an historical AUS BDM certificate

• Australian Cemeteries - with links to online data where available

• Australian BMD certificate exchange site

• The census in Australia

• Alphabetical list of Archived magzines

The States

New South Wales

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Record Office Contacts

• New South Wales State Archives/Records office-Each Tuesday Laurie in Oz

Cemetery Lookup Contacts

• Sydney, NSW Laurie in Oz

Links

• Society of Australian Genealogists

• NSW Registry of Births Deaths & Marriages

• New South Wales Government State Archives

• NSW State records - search index, has immigration records, convicts records and much more. very good esp for early days in Aust

• Irish Convicts to NSW 1791 - 1834

• Claim a convict - Convicts to Australia

• Marbract - get cheap transcriptions of NSW BDM certs. Service is reliable and prompt

• The Great North Road Convict Trail

Queensland

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Links

• Queensland Birth , Death & marriage index 1829 - 1914

• Brisbane City Council grave location search

• Drayton & Toowoomba Cemetery grave records

• Ayr & Home Hill Burial Records

• Ingham & District Cemetery records

• Indexes - Immigration 1848-1884

South Australia

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Links

• S.A. Deaths and Burials - searchable databases

• South Australian Passenger Lists 1836-1851

• South Australia Genealogy Links - over 100 genealogy links for South Australia, Australia, including ships passenger lists, censuses, cemetery transcriptions, military records

• South Australian War Memorials

• 1841 census of South Australia

• Transportation of convicted criminals

Tasmania

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Links

• Colonial Tasmanian Family Links database

• Tasmania Gen Web

• Port Arthur

• Cascades Female Factory- a history

• Female Convict Factories - Tasmania including branches at Brickfield, Launceston,Hobart

Victoria

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Links

• Victorian BDM (searchable indexes, images of the original entries can be downloaded for a fee)

• Westernport Settlement between its establishment on November 24th, 1826 and its abandonment on February 27th, 1828

• Are you descended from a convict?

• Registration numbers for female prisoners received into custody at Victorian prisons between 1857 and 1948.

Western Australia

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Karrakatta, Perth Richard in Perth

Links

• Western Australian Genealogical Society

• State Library of W.A

• State Records of Western Australia

• Western Australia Marriage lookup 1906 - 1936

• Western Australia BMD's online for free

• Reverse Marriages Index WA ,1905-1942

• Department of the Attorney General/WA (BDMs) Follow the links to find Pioneer births indexes 1841-1931; death indexes 1841-1927;marriage indexes 1841-1905

• Perth Dead Persons Society

• Geraldton Cemetery Burials & Cremations <link currenty broken - replacement being sought

• Metropolitan Cemeteries Board,Perth WA

• Cemeteries of Western Australia

• Convicts to Australia by Perth DPS

• Fremantle Prison Convict database

• Parliament of Western Australia-Hansard Search

• Western Australian Post Office Directories 1893-1949

• Historical Encyclopedia of WA

• And All So Far From Home

• State Library of W.A

• Western Australian Museum Welcome Walls (listing of some migrants to WA)

The Territories

Australian Capital Territory

Record Office Lookup Contacts

Cemetery Lookup Contacts

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Links

• ACT Registrar-General's Office (includes online list of deaths 1930-1973)

Jervis Bay Territory

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Northern Territory

From 1926 to 1931, Central Australia existed as a separate territory, before being reincorporated into the Northern Territory.

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External

Ashmore and Cartier Islands

Australian Antarctic Territory

Norfolk Island

• Convicts and Convict Ships Sent to Norfolk Island 1840-1847

• Convict History & Culture

Christmas Island

Cocos (Keeling) Islands

Coral Sea Islands Territory

Heard and McDonald Islands

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