Useful genealogy and local history web sites Overseas Genealogy Ancestry www.ancestry.com.au/ Comprehensive collection of worldwide resources, with useful genealogical tools for Australian and UK research. Family Search www.familysearch.org/ The largest collection of free family history and genealogy records in the world. Free BMD www.freebmd.org.uk Free transcriptions of the civil registration index of Births, Deaths and Marriages for England and Wales. Free REG www.freereg.org.uk Free search of baptisms, marriages and burials transcribed from many UK parishes. Free CEN www.freecen.org.uk UK census transcription project with over 22 million free to view records available. Online Parish Clerks Scheme involving the free publication of parish records, currently including the counties of Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Essex, Hampshire, Kent, Lancashire, Somerset, Sussex, Warwickshire and Wiltshire. Can be found at the following: www.cornwall-opc.org/ http://genuki.cs.ncl.ac.uk/DEV/OPCproject.html http://www.opcdorset.org/ http://essex-opc.org.uk/ http://www.knightroots.co.uk/parishes.htm http://www.kent-opc.org/ http://www.lan-opc.org.uk/ http://wsom-opc.org.uk/ http://www.sussex-opc.org/ http://www.wiltshire-opc.org.uk/ http://www.hunimex.com/warwick/opc/opc.html 1 Rootschat http://www.rootschat.com UK-based message forum mainly focussing on the British Isles but also Australian forums, post your genealogy related questions and receive responses from experienced and helpful local and family historians. Cyndi’s List www.cyndislist.com/ A comprehensive site with links to family history sites around the world. GENUKI: UK & Ireland genealogy www.genuki.org.uk/ A comprehensive resource base for genealogy related information covering England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man. Scotland’s People www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk The official government source of genealogical data from Scotland which includes births, deaths and marriages, old parish registers, census records and wills and testaments. Fees do apply. Irish Family History Foundation www.rootsirealand.ie A database of over 19 million records covering all of Ireland including births, deaths and marriages, gravestone inscriptions, and Griffith’s Valuation. National Archives (UK) www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ The National Archives is the official archive for England, Wales and the central UK government, containing 900 years of history with records ranging from parchment and paper scrolls through to digital files and archived websites. Increasingly, these records are being put online, making them universally accessible. www.old-maps.co.uk www.old-maps.co.uk/ Provides access to Britain's most extensive digital historical map archive. Find out where your ancestors used to live or check out what your neighbourhood looked like over a hundred years ago. The proceedings of the Old Bailey 1674-1913 www.oldbaileyonline.org/ A fully searchable online edition of the largest body of texts detailing the lives of non-elite people ever published, containing accounts of over 100,000 criminal trials held at London's central criminal court. 2 Australian genealogy _______________________________________________________________________________ The Commonwealth War Graves Commission www.cwgc.org/ This web site will assist you to locate graves of commonwealth men and women who died in the two world wars. Australian War Memorial www.awm.gov.au/ This site provides searchable databases, which have been produced from names and associated information based on records in its collections. Trove http://trove.nla.gov.au/ Over 3 million digitised resources including Australian newspapers, maps, diaries, pictures and music. Genealogy Search Australia www.genealogysearchaustralia.com.au/ Free Australian genealogy and family history search engine and directory for useful Australian and international family history and ancestry sites. Extensive lists of convicts, bushrangers, ships, passenger lists, census, cemeteries, genealogical clubs and societies and family history sites. Coraweb - websites for genealogists www.coraweb.com.au/ An Australian gateway site for tracing your family history. National Archives of Australia www.naa.gov.au/ The repository for valuable commonwealth government records which collects and makes historical resources available for present and future generations to use. Public Record Office of Victoria www.prov.vic.gov.au/ Public Record Office Victoria is the archives of the State Government of Victoria. It holds records from the beginnings of the colonial administration of Victoria in the mid-1830s to today. Online records include assisted and unassisted passenger shipping records. Colonial Tasmanian Family Links Database http://portal.archives.tas.gov.au/menu.aspx?search=8 The Colonial Tasmanian Family Links database is a research resource linking individuals with other members of their families living in Tasmania in the 19th Century. The information is based on records of births, deaths, and marriages and similar events, held in the Tasmanian Archive and Heritage Office (TAHO). There is also an Index to Tasmanian Convicts, which includes all convicts transported to Tasmania and those who were convicted (through the convict system) in the colony from 1804. Convicts Records of Australia www.convictrecords.com.au/ Search the British convict transportation register for convicts transported to Australia between 1787- 1867. 3 Convicts to Australia www.convictcentral.com/ A guide to researching your convict ancestors. Australian heritage places inventory www.heritage.gov.au/ahpi/index.html Contains summary information about places listed in state, territory and commonwealth heritage registers. Australian Cemeteries http://www.australiancemeteries.com/ Search by state, with links to each cemetery in alphabetical order, many of which have online data, photographs, or contact details for research enquiries. Searchable birth, death & marriage indexes online Department of Justice and Community Safety — Australian Capital Territory www.ors.act.gov.au/community/births_deaths_and_marriages Historical Death Index from 1930 to 1982. Marriages Index from 1930-1937. NSW Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages — New South Wales www.bdm.nsw.gov.au/familyHistory/searchHistoricalRecords.htm The registry's historical records are included in free Online Historical Indexes. Historical Indexes show information about birth, death and marriage records in the following years: Births 1788 to 1912 (up to 100 years ago) Deaths 1788 to 1982 (up to 30 years ago) Marriages 1788 to 1962 (up to 50 years ago) Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages — Queensland www.bdm.qld.gov.au/IndexSearch/BirIndexQry.m A free online historical index search of all Queensland registered births (1829-1914), deaths (1829- 1964) and marriages (1829-1937). Archives Office of Tasmania — Tasmania www.archives.tas.gov.au/mnameindexes The Colonial Tasmanian Family Links Database comprises information about individuals living in Tasmania from1803 to 1899 and is based primarily on records of births, deaths, and marriages and similar events. Searching is free but to obtain copies of records a search of the Tasmanian Pioneers Index on CD-ROM to obtain reference numbers is required. Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages — Victoria http://online.justice.vic.gov.au/bdm/index-search?action=getHistIdxSearchCriteria Historical Indexes of Births (1853 to 1912, up to 100 years ago), Deaths (1853 to 1985), and Marriages (1853 to 1952, up to 60 years ago). Church baptisms, marriages and burials 1836 to 1853 — these are full records but they contain limited information. Marine Indexes of Births, Deaths and Marriages on board ships coming to Victoria from 1853 to 1906, including ship's names. There is a fee to view any matches found, at 0.99 cents per page, and there are links to purchasing certificates. Credit card details required. Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages — Western Australia www.bdm.dotag.wa.gov.au/-apps/pioneersindex/default.aspx The registry offers free online historic index searching of births (1841-1932), deaths (1841-1971) and marriages (1841-1936). 4 Immigration and passenger lists ________________________________________________________________ The ships list www.theshipslist.com/index.html Provides ship passenger lists as well as immigration reports, newspaper records, shipwreck information, ship pictures, ship descriptions, shipping line fleet lists as well as hundreds of passenger lists to Canada, USA, Australia and South Africa. We’re bound for South Australia! http://www.slsa.sa.gov.au/fh/passengerlists/BoundforSouthAustralia.htm Presented by Diane Cummings this site includes passenger lists for every ship that arrived in South Australia between 1836 and 1851 plus a host of additional information (individual names, ages, occupations, etc.) for 60,000 families and individual passengers who came to South Australia between 1836-1851, from overseas and nearby colonies plus reports on many of the voyages, and at least 20 ship diaries. Ozships www.ozships.net/ozships/ Contains shipping and passenger information for Australia including arrivals and departures, shipwrecks, ship’s captains, diaries, journals and historical background. Shipping & passenger records www.ballaratgenealogy.org.au/ships/ Provides links with access to information on resources for shipping and passenger records in Australia. South Australian genealogy Family History South Australia www.familyhistorysa.info/index.html Genealogy and family