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 Census 
South Australian 1841 Census Returns

 Birth, Death, Marriage 
1900 Marriage Records, Milton- Ulladulla, Shoalhaven, Australia
Australia. Australasia Births, Deaths and Marriages Exchange
A free resource for genealogists to share information from Australian and New Zealand vital records. Registration required.
Australia. Australian Capital Territory Historical Death Index 1930-1973
(xls file)
Australia. Births, Deaths, Marriages & Inquests, taken from Sydney papers for the year 1836 (NSW, Australia)
Australia. Genealogy Australia ft jusqu'Births, Deaths and Marriages inclus.
Australia. Misc. Palmerston, Northern Australia Births 1872-1902
Australia. Some Bowraville Burials 1937 - 1945 (NSW, Australia)
Australia. Some Dorrigo Burials 1927 - 1937 (NSW, Australia)
Australia. Sydney Morning Herald Death Indexes
(Australia) ; This site contains indexes to Death entries extracted from the Sydney Morning Herald by Ken Campbell during his genealogical research.
Australia. Wesleyan Baptisms at Byng (Cornish Settlement), NSW, Australia 1843-1898
Canada. From Aberdeenshire to the ends of the Earth
60,318 individuals and 18,713 families representing 6,296 surnames in this connected family database. Aberdeenshire is the starting point for this genealogical database, but it also covers the USA, Canada & Australia.
Manaro Mercury Extracts of Birth Deaths and Marriages for the Cooma Monaro Districts, New South Wales, Australia 1864 - 1905
New South Wales - Birth, Death and Marriage - Index
Queensland Birth, Death and Marriage Indexes
Victorian Birth, Death and Marriage Indexes
Western Australia Birth, Death and Marriage - Index

 Cemeteries 
Australia. Australian Cemeteries - Surnames List
The details in these files have been taken raw from headstones in various cemeteries. These lists are not complete and are generally limited to dates prior to 1945.
Australia. Australian Cemeteries Index
The index contains details of headstones from a number of cemeteries in Australia. It initially concentrates on cemeteries in regional NSW.
Australia. Australian Cemeteries Index
The index contains details of headstones from a number of cemeteries in Australia. It initially concentrates on cemeteries in regional NSW.
Australia. Binalong, Bowning, and Bookham Cemeteries, NSW, Australia
Australia. Boorowa Cemetery, NSW, Australia
Australia. Christ Church Cathedral Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW, Australia
Australia. Cooranbong Anglican Cemetery, NSW, Australia
Australia. Glenmore Uniting Church Graveyard, NSW, Australia
Australia. Honeysuckle (Cottage Creek) Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW, Australia
Australia. Index of the Records (1946-1955) of the old firm of William Riley & Sons, Lismore, NSW, Australia
Records of William Riley's during this period was mostly notes written beside obituaries.
Australia. Index to the Book At The Crossroads : The history of the Wilsons Ridges/Wollongbar/Alphadale (NSW, Australia)
By Glenda Manwaring, 1996. Has Listing of Wollongbar Cemetery.
Australia. Jugiong Cemetery, NSW, Australia
Australia. Langs Creek, Tangmangaroo, Tumblong, Coolac Cemeteries, NSW, Australia
Australia. Martinsville Pioneer Cemetery (North Cooranbong Cemetery), NSW, Australia
Australia. Morisset Cemetery Database & burials at St John of God, Morisset, NSW, Australia
Approx. 1900 burials.
Australia. Morpeth, NSW, Australia Catholic Cemetery
Australia. Names to be found in the cemeteries of Tweed Head, NSW, Australia
Index to the records of cemeteries for Murillumbah to Tweed Heads, 11 cemeteries in all and some 7000+ names.
Australia. Newcastle Cemetery Listing, NSW, Australia
This index comprises headstone transcriptions of 4 significant cemeteries in the Newcastle area, Gloucester Cemetery, North Waratah Cemetery, Old Christ Church Cathedral Cemetery, Tarro Cemetery, Old Wallsend Cemetery and traces of North Waratah Cemetery.
Australia. Oakhampton Cemetery, Maitland, NSW, Australia
Australia. Obits.com.au Funeral notices, death notices and obituaries for Australia. Archived records commence in mid January 2006.
Australia. Rosewood Cemetery, NSW, Australia
Australia. St Patrick's & St Brigid's Catholic Cemetery, Cooranbong, NSW, Australia
Approx. 1900 burials.
Australia. St Thomas' Cemetery, Nth Sydney, NSW, Australia
Australia. The Ryerson Index to Contemporary Death Notices and Obituaries in Australian Newspapers
Recently updated, this database now contains over 1,500,000 entries.
Australia. Toronto Cemetery, NSW, Australia
Australia. Tumbarumba Cemetery, NSW, Australia
Australia. Tumbulgum Cemetery, Tweed Heads area 18, Bellingen Shire, NSW, Australia
Australia. Wyee General Cemetery, NSW, Australia
Australia. Yass Cemeteries, NSW, Australia
Canada. Obituary Depot A database of over 240,000 citations spanning hundreds of newspapers in the United States, Canada, and Australia.
England. Morpeth, NSW, Australia Church of England Cemetery, Headstone Transcriptions.

 Churches 
Australia. Names from embroidered cloth at St Mary's Anglican Church, Ballina (NSW, Australia)

 Residents 
Australia. A Collection of Pioneer families of the Australian Capital Territory Region
Australia. Australia's Red Coat Settlers
Australia. Surname Index to the Book Pioneering in the Bellinger Valley (NSW, Australia)

 Passenger List 
Australia. Index to Certificates of Freedom, 1823-69, NSW, Australia
Extracted from three record series, each entry in the index provides convict's surname, forename, aliases (if any), ship, year of arrival, Certificate of Freedom or Colonial Certificate of Freedom number, date of Certificate, State Records item number, Reel number(s), and remarks.
Australia. Mariners and Ships in Australian Waters
Canada. Cambridgeshire Emigrants 1840s-1920s
Mainly immigrants to Australia, also to Canada. Over 600 names.
England. NSW, Australia Convict Women on Ships arriving from England and Ireland 1788-1828
Passenger List. Highland and Island Emigration Society : Passenger Lists Scotland to Australia 1852-1857
Passenger List. Misc. Passenger Lists, NZ and Australia 1800's
Passenger List. Passenger List : A Partial Indent of the Friendship - 1800
The Friendship that arrived at Port Jackson, NSW, Australia on 16 February 1800.
Passenger List. Passenger List : The Lady Kennaway into Sydney, Australia - 11 August 1838
Passenger List. Passenger List for the Winifred Sailing Ship
Left London December 27th 1862 bound for Melbourne, Australia. Arrived Melbourne April 8th, 1863.
Passenger List. Passenger Lists UK to Australia in 1910
700 names from the ships Bremen, Cornwall, Miltiades and Commonwealth.
Passenger List. People at Sea
An index for references to any passengers who were on shipping vessels and/or were drowned/lost/survivors at sea, and are for the most are mentioned in articles of information from the Australian newspapers.
Passenger List. Port Fairy, Portland and George Town, Australia 1841 Passengers : Index 1
Passenger List. Port Fairy, Portland and George Town, Australia 1841 Passengers : Index 2
Passenger List. SS Great Britain Passengers : Voyages from Liverpool to Australia 1852 to 1875
Surnames only, 4600 surnames listed.
Passenger List. The Ganges Passenger List
Sailed from London and Liverpool, England to Australia in 1841 with 123 passengers.

 Court Records 
Australia. Canadian Convicts on the HMS Buffalo 1839-1840
List of names extracted from the book HMS BUFFALO by Robert Sexton published 1984. Convicts transported to Australia for their participation in the 1838-39 Canadian rebellions.
Australia. Cape Banks Family History Society - Members' Convicts 1788 - 1850 (NSW, Australia)
Australia. Devon Convicts Transported to Australia 17821821
Australia. Index of the Records of William Riley & Sons, Undertakers, Lismore, NSW, Australia (1935-1955)
Australia. Index to Clerk of the Peace - Quarter Sessions, 1824-37, NSW, Australia
The Clerk of the Peace acted as registrar to the Quarter Sessions court and was responsible for prosecutions in criminal matters.
Australia. Index to Convict Bank Accounts, 1837-70, NSW, Australia
Australia. Index to convict pardons, 1791-1825, 1837-41, NSW, Australia
Australia. Index to NSW, Australia Convict Tickets of Leave, 1810-1875
Australia. Index to the book Technology in Australia 1788-1988
An online edition of the book is available. Clicking on an item of the index will link you to the particular paragraph to which the term applies.
Australia. Irish Convicts to NSW, Australia 1791 - 1820
Australia. Lincolnshire Convicts to Australia, Gibraltar and Bermuda
Much of the basic information in this database has been taken from the book Lincolnshire Convicts to Australia, Bermuda and Gibraltar: A Study of 2000 Convicts by CL Anderson.
Australia. Transportation of Convicts from Nottingham to Australia
Australia. Tumbarumba Times Extracts from 1885 - 1915 Births-Deaths-Marriages Probates-General Information (NSW, Australia)
Australia. Yass Courier, NSW, Australia Extracts from 1857 - 1905 Births-Deaths-Marriages-Probates-General Information
Cork County. Convicts Transported to Australia from Mallow, Doneraile, Kanturk, and Buttevant, County Cork, Ireland
Derbyshire County. Stoney Middleton, Derbyshire, England Voters 1832
Ireland. The National Archives of Ireland - Transportation Records Database
Index to the records relating to transportation of convicts from Ireland to Australia covering the period 1788 to 1868.

 Military 
Australia. 104 Signal Squadron, Royal Australian Corp of Signals Members in South Vietnam 1967-1971
Australia. 39th Battalion A.I.F. in World War I
A list of men of the 39th Battalion A.I.F, being one of the twelve Infantry Battalions of the Third Australian Division. Approx 2,935 names.
Australia. Australian Aboriginal Soldiers Honour Roll
Australia. Australian Army World War I Service Records Online
All 376,000 records available online.
Australia. Australian Honours List
The Australian Honours List (AHL) is an official record, containing 224,000 entries, of all Australians who have been honoured since federation through to the present day, with the exception of military campaign service and military long service awards.
Australia. Australian Service Men Index
An index for references to members of military forces, regiments, troops, and similar, who are mentioned in articles of information from the Australian newspapers.
Australia. Australian Service Nurses National Memorial
Nurses who died during or as a result of War Service, since the Boer War.
Australia. Australian War Graves in South Africa 1899-1902
Australia. Civil War Veterans Buried in Australia
Australia. Officers of the the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) who died at Gallipoli, 1915
Australia. Roll of Honour : Tumbarumba, Tumblong, and Yass, NSW, Australia
WWI and WWII.
Australia. The Australians Who Died in Vietnam
Australia. World War Two Nominal Roll - Australia
This site contains information from the service records of some one million individuals who served during World War Two.
Australia. WWI Aces of Australia Honoring WWI pilots granted the designation of Ace. Biographies, medals and decorations, photos, etc.
Australian War Memorial
Digitised images of approximately 32,000 individual case files of Australian personnel reported as wounded or missing during the First World War. Online serchable database with details of approximately 23,000 Australian Military Forces prisoners of war and missing personnel from operations in the Far East and South West Pacific Islands, as at 30 June 1944.
Debt of Honour Register
The "Debt of Honour Register" is the Commission's database listing the 1.7 million men and women of the Commonwealth forces who died during the two world wars and the 23,000 cemeteries, memorials and other locations worldwide where they are commemorated. The register can also be searched for details of the 67,000 Commonwealth civilians who died as a result of enemy action in the Second World War.
England. England Genealogy Search
Click on 'England Genealogy Search' to access a custom search engines using the power of google to search 210 websites related to doing genealogy in England.
International Genealogy Community Pages Access a custom search engines using the power of google to search websites related to genealogy in various nations.

 Publications 
Australia. Braidwood Gaol Entrance Book 1856-1899, NSW, Australia
Australia. Index to the Book Discovery and Settlement of the lower Clarence (NSW, Australia)
Australia. Index to the Book I Found It In The Northern Star 1877 - 1881 (NSW, Australia)
Australia. Index to the Book Leaves On the Tree of Saul (NSW, Australia)
Australia. Index to the Book Maclean, The First 50 Years - 1862 to 1912 (NSW, Australia)
Australia. Index to the Book North Coast Women (NSW, Australia)
Australia. Index to the Book Red Cedar - Our Heritage (NSW, Australia)
Australia. Index to the Book The Brunswick: Another River and Its People (NSW, Australia)
Australia. Index to the Book Urunga Public Scholl1882 1982 (NSW, Australia)
The Centenary of Public Education in this Area Including Tarkeeth, Wenonah Heads and Nessville Schools.
Australia. Index to the Book Valley of the Crooked River - European Settlement on the Nambucca (NSW, Australia)
Australia. Index to the Book What They Did: Families of the Brunswick 1880 - 1950 (NSW, Australia)
Australia. Index to the Book Yamba Yesterday 1885 - 1985 (NSW, Australia)
Australia. Online Australian Names Directory
A searchable database compiled from public submissions.
Australia. Search Engines and Directories
Australia. Surname Index to the Book Centenary 1890-1990 Green Hill Public School (NSW, Australia)

 Newapapers 
Australia. Aboriginal Genealogy & History : Names Index (Australia)
A list of references to aboriginals by either their native name or that designated by europeans. The majority of these names are from newspaper reports or journals, hospital and institution records pre 1900.
Australia. Australian Police Index
An index for references to members of the police force who are mentioned in articles of information from the following Australian newspapers: Belfast Gazette (1851-1900), Portland Advertiser, Belfast Banner, Warrnambool Examiner, and Launceston Advertiser.
Australia. Births, Deaths, Marriages & Inquests, taken from Sydney newspapers for the year 1834 (NSW, Australia)
Australia. Criminal Index (Australia)
An index of references to any person convicted of crimes, or arrested and or charged with any serious crime and who were mentioned in Australian colonial newspapers: Belfast 'Banner', Belfast 'Gazette', Launceston 'Advertiser', Portland 'Advertiser', Warrnambool 'Examiner'
Australia. Mariners Index An index to references for mariners and seamen worldwide, mentioned in colonial Australian newspapers, pre 1900.
Australia. Missing Family and Friends in Australia, pre 1900
Names published in colonial newspapers for missing Family, Friends, Employees, Convicts and Absconded Spouses.
Australia. OzLife
OzLife : Australian biography and book review index provides access to the citations of articles, either biographical or book reviews, in major Australian newspapers and journals. This database provides one access point specifically for Australian biographical articles and book reviews from major Australian newspapers and select journals.
Cork County. Cork, Ireland to Australia : Transported 1790-1799
Names of those who received sentence of transportation, as reported in Cork newspapers or were transported as confirmed by Australian sources.

 Property 
Australia. Australia Land Grants 1788-1809
A Record of registered Grants and Leases in NSW, Van Diemen's Land and Norfolk Island.

 Biographies 
Australia. Australian Dictionary of Biography Online
Over 10,000 scholarly biographies of significant Australians who died before 1980.

 Culture 
Australia. Armidale Family History Group Members' Interests (NSW, Australia)
Australia. Armidale Family History Group Members' Interests (NSW, Australia)
Australia. Australian Historic Records Register A database describing archival material of historical significance held in private ownership in Australia.
Australia. Dungay Public School, Northern NSW, Australia
Photographs and names of past students and teachers.
Australia. Genie and History Links - Australia act ft
Australia. History of Australian Theatre Database
This database contains the names of over 4000 people who were involved with the Australian Theatre in the past. Many of the names come from the years 1900-1917.
Australia. IFHAA Members Surname Research Interests Surnames being researched by members of the Internet Family History Association of Australia.
Australia. Index to the book Around the Channon A history of its places & people (NSW, Australia)
Australia. Index to the Book History of Education on the Lower Clarence: Maclean (NSW, Australia)
Australia. Index to the Book History of the German Community in the Clarence River District of NSW (Australia)
Australia. Index to the Book Men and A River A History of the Richmond River District 1828 - 1895 (NSW, Australia)
Australia. Index to the Book Port Macquarie, A History to 1850 (NSW, Australia)
Australia. Index to the Book Woolgoolga: The History of a Village (NSW, Australia)
Australia. MAPCO : Map And Plan Collection Online
London, British Isles, Australia. Certaines
Australia. National Library of Australia Oral History Collection
Search this national collection of some 58,000 oral history and folk recordings : Interviews with eminent Australians, regional studies highlighting the daily lives and work experience of ordinary Australians. A major recent project has been the Bringing Them Home Stolen Children's Oral History Project (300 interviews).
Australia. NSW Local History : Memorials, Monuments and Miscellany (Australia)
Australia. Richmond River Historical Society, NSW, Australia - Indexes
Australia. Surname Index to the Book Glenreagh - A Town Of Promise : A history of the Glenreagh, Tallawudjah and Sherwood Districts (NSW, Australia)
Australia. The Golden Who's Who of the Lebanese Emigrants in the World
The Golden Who's Who of the Lebanese Emigrants in the World is the result of fourteen years of international travel and research by the author. He visited and talked with most of the distinguished personalities listed in this book, listening to the history of their families' emigrations out of Lebanon, and their success in their host countries. The author started his travel in 1972, and visited emigrants in North, Central, and South Americas, as well as Australia, and Africa.

 Additional Sources 
Australia. 460 Squadron Royal Australian Air Force : Honours for Distinguished Service
Australia. 460 Squadron Royal Australian Air Force : Pilots and Crews
Australia. 460 Squadron Royal Australian Air Force : Roll of Honour
A list of the 978 members of 460 Squadron who were killed or died of their wounds.
Australia. Alphabetical List of Owners & Their Stock in the Australian Capital Territory in 1913
Australia. Australia : Subscription lists from the Maitland Mercury 1858, containing the names of the people in the Hunter Valley who made donations to the Donegal Relief Fund
Australia. Australia Genealogy Search at GeneaNet
Australia. Australian Womens Archives Project Register
Australia. Bega Valley, NSW, Australia Genealogy Society Members Interest Index
Australia. Bellingen NSW, Australia Families and others of interest
Australia. Database of Australian Cricket Players Past and present.
Australia. GENSEEK GENEALOGY (australia)
What's new ft 14th June 2003 - 11th October 2004, d'autres aussi.
Australia. Girls Orphaned by Irish Famine
A list of four hundred names of Irish Famine female orphans inscribed on a monument unveiled in Sydney, Australia, commemorating their arrival there in the late 1840s.
Australia. Index to tickets of leave, certificates of emancipation and pardons, 1810-19, NSW, Australia
Australia. Indexes and Databases - National Library of Australia
Australia. Irish Famine Memorial, Australia
The names of 400 girls orphaned by Irish famine who arrived in Australia.
Australia. Janet Reakes Genealogy (Australia)
Australia. Manuscript Finding Aids of the National Library of Australia
Australia. Men, women and children issued with rations in Sydney, NSW, Australia, September 1821
Australia. Miscellaneous Australian Certificates Index
Established almost 20 years ago (the first of its kind in this country), the Miscellaneous Australian Certificates Index provides a single nation-wide collection point for unwanted Australian certificates.
Australia. Names of people being researched in Australia and New Zealand
Australia. Search Whatever Australia
Australia. Sydney Morning Herald In Memoriam Indexes
(Australia) ; This site contains indexes to In Memoriam entries extracted from the Sydney Morning Herald by Ken Campbell during his genealogical research.
Australia. The Heraldry & Genealogy Society of Canberra (Australia) Interests Register
This database of members' research interests holds about 1700 records.
Australia. UK Chartists Transported to Australia in 1839-40, 1842 and 1848
Australia. W.W.1 servicemen in Bellingen & district, NSW, Australia
Australian and New Zealand Records
This free searchable database contains 714,395 records (71,605 distinct surnames),
Cork County. Famine Orphans from County Cork, Ireland to Australia
Records of young girls sent to Australia between October, 1848 and August, 1850.