Australia

Proof read: SARAH - 19/07/07

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Capital Canberra

Language English

Currency Australian dollar



Australia comprises six states, two mainland territories and a few island territories. Six colonies were created in the late 18th and 19th centuries and became the Commonwealth of Australia in 1901. Australia’s main industries were the mining of coal, iron ore, copper, tin, gold and silver, along with farming.

Australia - general

Links

• 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- Telephone Directory

• The Ryerson Index-Contemporary Death Notices and Obituaries in Australian Newspapers

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

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

• 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

• 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

• Genealogy Advice for Australia, especially Queensland

• Dedicated to 400 years Netherlands - Australia

• British Army in Australia, 1788 - 1870

• Contact addresses for Australian births, deaths and marriages

• What you can expect to see on an historical Australian BMD certificate

• Australian Cemeteries - with links to online data where available

• Australian BMD certificate exchange site

• The census in Australia

• Alphabetical list of archived magazines

The States

New South Wales

Record Office Lookup Requests

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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 with immigration records, convicts records and much more. Very good especially for early days in Australia

• Irish Convicts to NSW 1791 - 1834

• Claim a convict - Convicts to Australia

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

• The Great North Road Convict Trail

Queensland

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Cemetery Lookup Contacts

not listed, yet.

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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Cemetery Lookup Contacts

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 and military records

• South Australian War Memorials

• 1841 census of South Australia

• Transportation of convicted criminals

Tasmania

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Cemetery Lookup Contacts

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 BMD (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 BMDs online for free

• Reverse Marriages Index WA, 1905-1942

• Department of the Attorney General/WA (BMDs). 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 currently 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

not listed, yet.

Links

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

Jervis Bay Territory

Record Office Lookup Contacts

Cemetery Lookup Contacts

not listed, yet.

Northern Territory

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

Record Office Lookup Contacts

Cemetery Lookup Contacts

not listed, yet.

External

Ashmore and Cartier Islands

Australian Antarctic Territory

Norfolk Island

Emigration/Immigration and Shipping and Passenger Lists

• See Separate page

Christmas Island

Cocos (Keeling) Islands

Coral Sea Islands Territory

Heard and McDonald Islands

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