Australia

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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

• Australian Research

• Australian Volunteers Lookup Page

• Australian Dictionary of Biography

• Australia War Memorial

• Australia newspaper archives

• Alphabetical list of archived magazines

• Australian War Graves in South Africa 1899 - 1902

• Australian Funeral Industry Cemetery links

• Australians at War

• Australian Cemeteries - with links to online data where available

• Australian BMD certificate exchange site

• British Army in Australia, 1788 - 1870

• Contact addresses for Australian births, deaths and marriages

• Dictionary of Australian Biography

• Debt of Honour Register (Commonwealth War Graves Commission)

• Dedicated to 400 years Netherlands - Australia

• Genealogy Advice for Australia, especially Queensland

• Jenny Brandis’ Web Page

• Lorraine’s Burial Records Pages

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

• Military Historical Society of Australia

• National Library of Australia

• National Archives of Australia

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

• Oz-Boer Database

• Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness - Australia

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

• The census in Australia

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

• V*I*R*T*U*A*L Immigration Wall of Honour

• World War 2 Nominal Roll

• White Pages Online- Telephone Directory

• World War Two Nominal Roll website

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

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

• Abermain Heritage Preservation Society

• Armidale Family History Society

• Bellingen GenWeb pages

• Braidwood Gaol Admissions 1856-1899

• Great North Road Convict Trail

• Gresford Historical Society

• History and Genealogy of Sydney and the surrounding area

• Hunter Valley Genealogy

• Lord Howe Island

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

• Milton Ulladulla local and family history

• 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

• Register of NSW War Memorials

• Society of Australian Genealogists

Queensland

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Cemetery Lookup Contacts

not listed, yet.

Links

• Ayr & Home Hill Burial Records

• Brisbane City Council grave location search

• Brisbane Dead Persons Society

• Central Queensland Family History Society Includes some on-line records

• Drayton & Toowoomba Cemetery grave records

• Ingham & District Cemetery records

• Judy Webster's Queensland Genealogy Pages

• Newspaper Transcripts from The Queenslander

• Some Hospital Admissions Records

• The Indigenous People of Queensland

• Queensland Family History Society

• Queensland Photographs

• Queensland State Archives

• Queensland Place-names Search

• Queenland Historical Society

• Queensland birth, death & marriage index 1829 - 1914

South Australia

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Links

• South Australia Family History Society Includes some on-line records

• 1841 census of South Australia

• South Australian Genealogy and Heraldy Society Inc. Includes some on-line databases

• The Manning Index Newspaper and Magazine transcriptions 1837-1937]

• S.A. Deaths and Burials - searchable databases

• 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

Tasmania

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Links

• Archives Office of Tasmania Has some on-line databases, including convicts

• Tasmania State Library's Family History Pages

• Colonial Tasmanian Family Links database

• Cascades Female Factory- a history

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

• Port Arthur

• Tasmania Gen Web

• Tasmanian Family History Service

Victoria

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Links

• Campaspe Genealogy

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

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

• Yarram Genealogy Group

Western Australia

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Cemetery Lookup Contacts

Karrakatta, Perth Richard in Perth

Links

• And All So Far From Home

• Cemeteries of Western Australia

• 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

• Geraldton Cemetery Burials & Cremations

• Freemantle Prison Includes a searchable convict database

• Historical Encyclopedia of WA

• Known burials in the Midwest Region of Western Australia

• Metropolitan Cemeteries Board, Perth, WA

• Perth Dead Persons Society

• Parliament of Western Australia - Hansard Search

• Reverse Marriages Index WA, 1905-1942

• State Library of W.A.

• State Records of Western Australia

• State Library of W.A.

• Western Australia Marriage lookup 1906 - 1936

• Western Australia BMDs online for free

• Western Australian Genealogical Society

• Western Australian Post Office Directories 1893-1949

• 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)

• Heraldry & Genealogical Society of Canberra

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.

Genealogical Society of Northern Territory

Record Office Lookup Contacts

Cemetery Lookup Contacts

not listed, yet.

External

Ashmore and Cartier Islands

Australian Antarctic Territory

Norfolk Island

Christmas Island

Cocos (Keeling) Islands

Coral Sea Islands Territory

Heard and McDonald Islands

Emigration/Immigration and Shipping and Passenger Lists

• See Separate page

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