MICROFORM GUIDE A GUIDE TO RECORDS ON MICROFORM IN THE LIBRARY OF THE SOUTH AUSTRALIAN GENEALOGY AND HERALDRY SOCIETY INC. Part 1 – Australian Microfiche Current to 31 January 2020 Compiled by Robert D Blair, 2020 INDEX TO CONTENTS INTRODUCTION Page 5 WORLDWIDE 7 AUSTRALASIA 8 Australia 8 Australian States & Territories Australian Capital Territory 11 New South Wales 12 Northern Territory 21 Queensland 23 South Australia 28 Almanacs, Directories & Gazetteers 28 Births, Deaths & Marriages 28 Church Records 43 including: Anglican 43 Catholic 47 Civil Registration 28 District BDM Records 29 Books 33 Business Records 33 Burial & Cemetery Records 34 incl Undertakers Records 42 Census Records 42 Church Records 43 Clubs 52 Defence 52 Divorce 53 Electoral Rolls 53 Freemasons 53 Gaol Records 53 Government (Local) 54 Government (State) Enterprises 54 Hospital Records 55 Inquests 55 Land Records 56 Legal Records 56 Miscellaneous Records 57 Naturalizations 57 Newspapers 58 Police Records 61 Probate Records 61 Research Directories 61 School Records 62 Shipping 78 Tasmania 81 Victoria 83 Western Australia 90 APPENDIX 1 BDM INDEX GUIDE 99 3 MICROFORMS This guide to the microform collection of the South Australian Genealogy & Heraldry Society Inc, is current to 31 October 2016. For acquisitions since this guide was compiled please consult the acquisitions section of the Society journal (The South Australian Genealogist) or check with Library staff at the Microforms Section Desks. The Society Library has a number of microfiche and microfilm (16mm and 35mm) viewers. Reader-printers are available for taking prints from the microform, both microfiche and 16mm and 35mm microfilm. Staff assistance will be required where microfilm is involved. The cost of prints is currently $0.70 each with the exception of prints of parish records and Tasmanian certificates which are $1.10 each. COPYING OF SOME RECORDS, OTHER THAN BY HAND, IS NOT PERMITTED. Records for which copying restrictions apply are: -- South Australia Catholic Church Records District Registrar’s BDM Records SA Railways (microfiche) World War 2 Deaths Library staff will advise of any other records in this category. 5 Abbreviations used in this guide are as follows: [16mm] 16 mm microfilm [35mm] 35mm microfilm [mf] Microfiche B Birth Bapt Baptist BR Burial Register BL Leases (Burial) C Baptism CMB Baptisms, Marriages and Burials CofE Church of England D Death I Index Ind Independent M Marriage MB Marriage Banns Meth Methodist MI Monumental Inscription ML Marriage Licenses Pres Presbyterian RC Roman Catholic SS Sunday School Wes Wesleyan 6 WORLDWIDE BIRTHS, DEATHS & MARRIAGES International Genealogical Index (IGI) [Births, Baptisms & Marriages] The IGI is an index, principally of births, baptisms and marriages, compiled by the Genealogical Society of Utah (GSU). Source documents have largely been civil registrations and church registers though many entries come from other sources including submission from members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Deaths are not included in the index while a small number of entries have been extracted from other sources e.g. census records. The 1992 microfiche edition of the IGI totals approximately 187 million entries. The IGI is also available in the Society on CD-ROM and can also be accessed through the Internet at www.familysearch.com. Both these versions are more recent than the microfiche version. Events included generally range in time from the earliest church registers (1500's) to 1875. There are some entries which are more recent than 1875, but they form a very small percentage of the total. The Southwest Pacific section IGI includes a relatively small section for Australia. ONE NAME STUDIES David Love Collection Research of the late David Love into families with connections with the surname LOVE, extracted from many sources and sorted into family groups. The collection includes details of over 50,000 persons. GAZETTEERS Gazetteer of the World 1857 A Gazetteer of the World or Dictionary of Geographical Knowledge, compiled from the most recent authorities, and forming a complete Body of Modern Geography, physical, political, statistical, historical and ethnographical. 1857 RESEARCH DIRECTORIES AND GUIDES Family History Library - Locality Catalogue A catalogue of research material held by the GSU in Salt Lake City. Items indicated as being on microfilm are generally available through the family history libraries of the Mormon Church. The Locality Catalogue is indexed by country, then by subject matter. Family Registry A research directory compiled by the GSU. While content predominantly relates to research by Americans, anyone may submit entries to the GSU for inclusion. Details of the ancestor being researched, and name and address of the researcher are given. 7 AUSTRALIA (AUS) ARMY RECORDS The British Army in Australia 1788-1870 Index of Personnel A list of more than 34,000 British troops and Marines who served in all the Australian colonies (and some also for New Zealand). It is estimated that 10,000 of them remained in Australian on discharge. Each man’s unit is indicated in the index. AWM 133 Nominal Roll of AIF (Service Abroad) 1914-1918 War. The Roll lists all Australian servicemen who travelled overseas for service during World War I. It is an alphabetical (by surname) listing and includes the regimental number, the latest rank of each serviceman, their last unit and date of enlistment. It also indicates those who were killed in action (KIA), died of wounds (DOW), or were discharged abroad or returned to Australia (RTA). A blank entry in the column giving this information indicates that the serviceman was still abroad, on duty, as at October 1919. Nominal Roll of Deceased Members of the AIF & the AN&MEF A record of persons serving in the AIF, including the Australian Flying Corps and Medical units and the Australian Naval & Military Expeditionary Force (AN&MEF) to New Guinea during World War 1, who died in service. Compiled in 1920, the Roll includes the full name, regimental number, rank, place & date of enlistment, nature of casualty, place & date of casualty and place of burial. South Australian Enlistments on World War 2 see South Australia – Defence World War 2 Deaths – South Australia Preliminary Advice of Death in South Australia Deaths reported by Directorate of War Grave Services Preliminary Advice of Death – various places Deaths reported by Directorate of War Services – full details Preliminary Advice of Death outside South Australia 2AIF Western Command Enlistments 1939-1945 Casualty Lists Prisoners of War & Gallantry Roll of Honour Cards Sudan War South African War China War Royal Australian Navy – World War 1 (AWM 144) Royal Australian Navy – World War 2 (AWM 146) Malaya (Malay Peninsula & Borneo) – Army and Royal Australian Air Force Korea – Royal Australian Navy & Army Army Army & Royal Australian Air Force Vietnam – Royal Australian Navy, Army, Royal Australian Air Force 8 BIRTHS, DEATHS & MARRIAGES Civil Registration Records - see under each state See also Appendix 1 for a detailed summary of the information to be found in the BDM Indexes for each state. International Genealogical Index (IGI) - Births/Baptisms & Marriages The IGI section for Australia is a combined index for all states. Australasian Births, Marriages & Deaths 1840-1864 with Letters Home & News 1852-1861 (filed under CONVICT RECORDS Convicts & Exiles Transported from Ireland 1791-1820 Lists the 6,666 persons transported to Australia from Ireland up to 1820, giving name and ship of arrival. Convict Index 1788-1842 People of Norfolk Island and Van Diemens Land 1788-1820 See also under New South Wales, Tasmania and Western Australia. MISCELLANEOUS RECORDS Australian Biographies Australian Biographical Dictionary, Johns, 1934 Australian Dictionary, Dates & Men of the Times, Heaton, 1879 Dictionary of Australasian Biography, Mennell, 1892 Pioneers of Sydney Cove, Rumsey, 1934 Story of Australia, Kenyon, 1937 Australian Family Tree Connections Index 1993-2001 Index to the Australian Family Tree Connections Magazine Australasian Genealogical Computer Index (AGCI) Compiled by the Society of Australian Genealogists (NSW) with data supplied by genealogical societies throughout Australia. The index covers shipping, birth, death, marriage and other records. As it is only an index, the full amount of detail for each record is not given. For example, entries relating to Monumental Inscriptions do not give ages and are not cross referenced to the names of other members of the family that might be mentioned on the tombstone. Further information relating to the entry may be obtained by writing to the Society that submitted the entry. The 1992 edition contains 836,000 entries, mainly relating to events in New South Wales. The 1996 edition contains nearly 1.9 million entries and the 1999 edition contains nearly 3 million entries. It is expected that the Index will be updated approximately every two years. Australian Historical Records Register A Register of historical records held in private hands, produced in 1988 by the Australian Bicentennial Authority. Australasian Births, Marriages & Deaths 1840-1864 Letters Home & News 1852-1861 Notices of births, deaths, marriages and other items reported from Australia and New Zealand reported in the Newcastle Courant newspaper. Microfiche filed under Northumberland 9 Miscellaneous Certificates (Vol 8,9,10) Details of certificates collected by researchers. A minimum of information is given in the index but full information