Family Tree Research Tips and Resources
We all had a beginning and it never, did start with Australia. We cannot lay claim to that. Some are born to Australia, Some born of convict blood. Some are born of immigrant blood. So wherever your origins may lay, stand tall and be proud........
General Information
- Cousins/Kinship explanations http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cousin
- Genes Reunited www.genesreunited.co.uk
- Ancestry www.ancestry.com
- Sydney Morning Herald Archive 1955-1995 http://archives.smh.com.au/
- News Store ( Great for newspapers by fairfax in the last ten years) http://newsstore.fairfax.com.au/apps/newsSearch.ac?sy=nstore
- Lists of Ships Crew and Passengers 1 1845-1922 http://mariners.records.nsw.gov.au/shipdate.htm
- Lists of Ships Crew and Passengers 2 1845-1922 http://mariners.records.nsw.gov.au/shipdate_2.htm
- Cyndi's List - A great resource to have in your favourites http://www.cyndislist.com/
- Mundia, a free family tree resource by Ancestry http://www.mundia.com/au/
- Trove - a great place to search past Australian Newspapers http://trove.nla.gov.au/
- Ryserson Index http://www.ryersonindex.org/
- Emigrants from Great Britain http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/australia/1825-1832.htm
- Old Occupations http://rmhh.co.uk/occup/index.html
- Roots Chat (Awesome forum type site to get help pretty much world wide) http://www.rootschat.com/
- A website to search for the location of graves of servicemen from WWI & WWII http://intheirhonour.org/
- History Australia (Convict Stockade) http://www.historyaustralia.org.au/
- Convicts Australia http://www.hotkey.com.au/~jwilliams4/cons.htm
- Convict Women (& links to other convict pages) http://members.iinet.net.au/~perthdps/convicts/confem.html
- Free Settler or Felon (Newcastle/Hunter Valley) http://www.jenwilletts.com/index.htm
- The Long Long Trail - a website for the Great War 1914-1918) http://www.1914-1918.net/
- National Archives www.naa.gov.au
- Australian War Memorial www.awm.gov.au
- Another great website about ANZACS http://www.scoop.it/t/anzacs
- Family Search http://www.familysearch.org/eng/default.asp
- State LIbrary of NSW http://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/
Historical Societies
- Taree
- Dubbo
- Windsor
Professional Memberships
- Society of Australian Genealogists
- Australian Family Tree connections (AFT)
Census Websites & Links to Colonial Occupations
Australia
NSW
Victoria
- State Library of Victoria http://www.slv.vic.gov.au/
- Index to Victorian, Wills and Probate http://210.8.122.120/indexes/index_search.asp?searchid=54
Queensland
- TexT Queensland (collection of full-text, searchable, digitised sources on Queensland?s colonial and state history) http://www.textqueensland.com.au/about
Western Australia
- Western Australian records http://www.sro.wa.gov.au/collection/colonial-secretarys-office-records
Tasmania
- Archives of Tasmania http://www.linc.tas.gov.au/
- Tasmanian Wills and Letters of Administration http://www.linc.tas.gov.au/research/guides/familyhistory/fillinggaps/wills
England
- Free Births, Deaths & Marriages (UK) http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/
- United Kingdom Archives http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/
- County Devon United Kingdom Parish List http://www.devon.gov.uk/parish_register_list
- Lancashire Online Parishes http://www.lan-opc.org.uk/Search/indexp.html
- Free Copies of Parish Registers http://www.familyhistoryshop.co.uk/shop/page/11?shop
Scotland
Denmark
Ireland
- National Archives of Ireland http://www.nationalarchives.ie/
- Irish Births Deaths and Marriages http://www.rootsireland.ie
- Links to Ireland Census Records http://www.censusfinder.com/ireland.htm
