1. Online family history
Marie Maddocks
State Library South Australia

2. For beginners

3. State Library of South Australia
http://www.slsa.sa.gov.au
• Provides a number of family history library
guides
• Including a starter guide
• As well as one called ‘Getting started in
family history – tips and tricks’

4. Genuki http://www.genuki.org.uk/
• Part of the site UK & Ireland Genealogy
• Gives lots of hints on beginning UK family
history
• The hints can equally apply to researching
in Australia

5. National Archives of United Kingdom
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/records/qu
• Provides brief online tutorials including
• How to prepare to research
• Starting your research

6. Family Search Learning Center
https://familysearch.org/learningcenter/home.h
• Part of a great site belonging to the
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day
Saints hence the American spelling
• Provides lots of online tutorials including
four beginning genealogy courses

7. Ancestry ancestral chart
http://www.ancestry.com.au/trees/charts/ancch
Ancestry family group sheet
http://www.ancestry.com.au/trees/charts/family

8. Births, deaths & marriages

9. South Australian indexes
http://www.genealogysa.org.au/
• There are no official online indexes
• However there is one available via the
Genealogy SA site
• The dates covered are births 1842-1928,
marriages 1842-1937 & deaths 1842-1972

10. New South Wales indexes
http://www.bdm.nsw.gov.au/familyHistory/searchH
• Online indexes cover early church records 1788-
1855 and civil registration from 1856
• Access is allowed to births which occurred more
than 100 years ago, marriages more than 50
years ago and deaths more than 30 years ago

11. Queensland indexes
http://www.justice.qld.gov.au/justice-services/b
• Indexes cover births between 1829-1914,
deaths between 1829-1964, and
marriages between 1829 and 1937

12. • Colonial Tasmanian Family Links
http://portal.archives.tas.gov.au/menu.aspx?se
• No official online indexes
• However the Colonial Tasmanian Family
Links site contains information relating to
birth, death and marriages
• Also links people within families

13. Victorian indexes
https://online.justice.vic.gov.au/bdm/index-sea
• There is a charge to use the official
Victorian indexes online
• Indexes provide church records 1836-
1853, births 1853-1912, marriages 1853-
1942, deaths 1853-1985
• Marine index 1853 - 1920

14. Western Australia
http://www.bdm.dotag.wa.gov.au/F/family_hist
• Civil registration began in September 1842
• Births available 1842-1932, deaths 1842-
1971, marriages 1842-1936

15. Western Australia reverse marriage index
http://www.wamarriage.info/
• Reverse marriage index is complete
between the years 1841 to 1905
• Gradually those up to 1965 are being
added

16. Family Search www.familysearch.org
• This site has some Australian births and
baptism records between 1792 and 1981
• Death and burial records 1816-1980
• Marriage records 1810-1980
• The records are found under the Australia
and New Zealand link

17. Cemeteries

18. Australian Cemeteries
http://www.australiancemeteries.com/
• Provides information relating to various
cemeteries around Australia
• It is being done by volunteers so is luck as
to whether what you want is included

19. Internment net
http://www.interment.net/aus/index.htm
• Again this site is being done by volunteers
so the content is a bit patchy

20. Centennial Park South Australia
http://www.centennialpark.org
• If I am trying to find out where
someone has been buried or
cremated in South Australia
over the last 30 years or so I
always try this site first

21. • Adelaide Cemeteries
Authority
http://www.aca.sa.gov.au
• Contains records from
Enfield Memorial Park,
Cheltenham Cemetery,
Smithfield Memorial Park,
and West Terrace Cemetery
• West Terrace was the very
first cemetery in South
Australia

22. Metropolitan Cemeteries
Board Western Australia
http://www.mcb.wa.gov.au/Index.aspx
• Records from Karrakatta
Cemetery, Freemantle
Cemetery, Pinaroo Valley
Memorial Park, Guildford
Cemetery, Midland
Cemetery, and
Rockingham Regional
Memorial Park

23. Canberra’s Pubic Cemeteries
http://www.canberracemeteries.com.au
• Provides records from Gungahlin
Cemetery, Hall Cemetery and Woden
Cemetery

24. New South Wales cemetery inscriptions
www.familysearch.org
• On Family Search under the Australia and
New Zealand link
• Mainly index cards of inscriptions found in
cemeteries in New South Wales, 1800-
1960
• Some entries however were taken from
burial registers

25. Queensland cemetery records 1802 – 1990
www.familysearch.org
• This is a combination of several indexes,
cemetery transcriptions, burial and other
records
• Contains small numbers of records from
other States
• At the moment the collection is only 4%
complete

26. Military

27. National Archives of Australia
http://www.naa.gov.au/
• Provides digitised copies of all the
Australian WWI soldiers records
• Has an index to people who arrived in
Western Australia between 1921-1949
• Has digitised copies of some
naturalisation records

28. Australian War Memorial
http://www.awm.gov.au/
• WWI Roll of Honour
• WWI Embarkation Roll
• WWI Nominal rolls
• WWI Red Cross records
• WW2 Prisoners of war
• Honours and awards

29. SA Memory
http://www.samemory.sa.gov.au/site/page.cfm
• Prisoners of war
• Women and war
• Aboriginals and war
• Children and war
• Civilian life
• WWI diary of Arthur Oxer

30. Australian Light Horse Association
http://www.lighthorse.org.au/
• Site dedicated to the Australian Light
Horse Regiments and the Light Horsemen
• Contains historical and current information
about famous regiments and battles

31. Commonwealth War Graves Commission
http://www.cwgc.org/
• Information relating to the deaths of any
soldier who fought and died for the
Commonwealth in either WWI and WW2
• Includes where their memorial can be
found and brief biographical details

32. Defence Honours and Awards
http://www.defence.gov.au/MEDALS
• Medals that may be issued to Australia's
defence personnel, past and present
• Section on Australian and Imperial
campaign awards made to Australians
since Federation in 1901 and includes the
Boer War 1899 -1902.

33. Other

34. Convict transportation registers database
http://www.slq.qld.gov.au/resources/family-hist
• Gives name of convict including aliases
• Place of trial
• Term of years
• Name of ship and date of depature
• Place of arrival

35. Victorian government gazette online archive
http://gazette.slv.vic.gov.au/
• Coverage 1836 to 1997
• Provides all sorts of information about
people
• Names of people who applied for a license
of any kind, or applied to register as a
teacher or a doctor
• Information about naturalisations and
insolvency

36. Western Australian post office directories
http://www.slwa.wa.gov.au/find/guides/wa_hist
• Coverage 1893-1949
• Really useful for finding out where people
lived
• Addresses of businesses
• Advertisements for businesses

37. Public Record Office of Victoria
http://prov.vic.gov.au/
• Indexes to passenger lists, coroner’s
reports, divorce, and insolvency
• Lists of patients in asylums
• Index to wills and 1841-1925 probate
records
• Access to digitised wills online

38. State Records of New South Wales
http://www.records.nsw.gov.au/
• Indexes to insolvency records, convict
records, divorce, gaol photographs,
passenger lists, inquests, naturalisations,
police service records and teachers rolls
1869-1908

39. Picture Australia
http://trove.nla.gov.au/picture
• Part of the National Library of Australia
Trove site
• Allows you to see photographs and
images in collections held by various
libraries and institutions around Australia

40. Family history South Australia
http://www.familyhistorysa.info/
• South Australian information
• Pre-civil registration births, deaths and
marriages
• Early passenger lists, cemeteries, police
men who served 1838-1920 and
information about SA soldiers who died in
WWI

41. • Cora Web – Websites for genealogists
http://www.coraweb.com.au/
• Links to lots to useful Australian sites
• Really good New Zealand links
• Also has UK and Ireland links

42. Newspapers

43. National Library of Australia Trove
http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper
• Access to newspapers from every state
• Provides scans of the original pages as
well as transcipts
• The cut off date is 1954
• The National Library is continuing to add
papers all the time

44. Ryerson Index http://www.ryersonindex.org/
• An index to death notices appearing in
recent Australian newspapers
• Includes some funeral notices, probate
notices and obituaries

45. Papers Past (New Zealand)
http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-
bin/paperspast
• Provides scans of historical New Zealand
newspapers
• Covers the years 1839 to 1945
• Includes 77 newspaper titles
• Continually being added to

46. • Nineteenth Century British Library
Newspapers (UK)
• The Times Digital Archive 1785-2006 (UK)
• Illustrated London News 1842-2003

47. Overseas

48. Cyndis list http://www.cyndislist.com/
• An amazing site which has links to all
sorts of family history resources all around
the world

49. Free BMD (England & Wales)
http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/
• Free access to the birth, death and
marriage indexes for England and Wales
• Coverage 1837 - 1983

50. Scotland’s people
http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/
• Official Scottish Government site
• A one stop shop for Scottish family history

51. National Archive (England)
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/default.htm
• Amazing number of resources which provide
background information for family history
• It is possible to purchase Prerogative Court of
Canterbury wills, Royal Airforce records 1918-
1919, Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps service
records 1917-1920

52. Pay Sites

53. Ancestry.com.au
www.ancestry.com.au
• Early passenger lists for NSW, Victoria,
Queensland and Tasmania
• Australian cemeteries index 1808-2007
• Gradually adding Australian births, deaths
and marriage indexes

54. Ancestry.com (UK) www.ancestry.com.uk
• Census records for England and Wales
1841-1911
• UK outward passenger lists 1890-1960
• UK incoming passenger lists 1878-1960
• Probate indexes for England and Wales
1858-1966
• London Church Records

55. Ancestry.com (UK) www.ancestry.co.uk
• Contains some Irish Records
• Irish Emigrants in North America
• Passengers from Ireland
• Immigration of the Irish Quakers into
Pennsylvania 1682-1750
• County specific records

56. Find My Past Australia
www.findmypast.com.a
u
• Provides access to
some electoral rolls,
newspapers,
magazines, directories,
government gazettes,
passenger lists for
people leaving
Australasia, civil service
records and church
Records

57. Find My Past (UK) www.findmypast.co.uk
• Birth death and marriage indexes for
England and Wales 1837 – 2005
• Census records for England and Wales
1841-1911
• Passengers leaving UK 1890-1960
• English parish records 1796 to 1903
• Probate and wills indexes
• East India Company records

58. Find My Past Ireland www.findmypast.ie
• Births, deaths and marriages indexes
• Immigration and travel
• Military service and conflict
• Irish prison records 1790-1924
• Records specific to individual counties

59. The Genealogist.co.uk
http://www.thegenealogist.co.uk/
• Births, deaths and marriages indexes
1837-2005
• Incomplete set of English census records
• Parish records including non-conformist
records
• Good collection of directories for various
English counties

60. Genes Reunited
http://www.genesreunited.co.uk
• Site was set up to allow people to contact
others who are researching the same family.
• It allows you to put your family tree online in
much the same way as Ancestry and Find My
Past do
• If there is a connection you can exchange
emails with one another

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