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Last Updated: 12 Feb 2022

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• The AIF Project – “The AIF database is drawn from a range of official sources, including personal files on the National Archives website, and Embarkation and Nominal Rolls on the Australian War Memorial website.”
• Australasia Births, Deaths and Marriages Exchange
• Australian Bureau of Statistics – “We are Australia’s national statistical agency and an official source of independent, reliable information. We tell the real story of Australia, its economy and its people by bringing life and meaning to numbers.”
  • “Find data and information dating back to the first Australian Census in 1911.”
• Australian Cemeteries Index – “The Australian Cemeteries Index website is an extensive resource for family history researchers. It’s emphasis is to provide quality images of all inscriptions in each cemetery rather than just transcript lists. The ultimate goal is to photograph and index every headstone in Australia and to index every unmarked burial.”
• Australian Data Archive – “The Australian Data Archive (ADA) provides a national service for the collection and preservation of digital research data.”
• Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) – “Our vision is a world in which Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander knowledge and cultures are recognised, respected, celebrated and valued. We tell the story of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and create opportunities for people to encounter, engage and be transformed by that story.”
• Australians in the Boer War (Oz-Boer) Database Project – “The Australians in the Boer War (Oz-Boer) Database Project marks the centenary of the participation by Australia in the Second Anglo-Boer War by making it easier for genealogists, numismatists, local historians and other researchers to locate source materials dealing with individual Australian participants.”
• Australia Passenger Indexes
• Australian Periodical Publications, 1840-1845: Australian Cooperative Digitisation Project
• Australian Shipping 1788-1968 Index – “This site provides details of shipping movements from Australia and New Zealand from 1788 to 1968.”
• Biographical Database of Australia – “BDA is a new research tool for historians and genealogists comprising transcripts & indexes of original records and published biographies of deceased individuals who arrived, or were born in, Australia.”
• Department of Veterans’ Affairs Nominal Rolls – “One of DVA’s key roles is acknowledging and commemorating the service and sacrifice of all those who served Australia and its allies in wars, conflicts and peace operations through commemorations, memorials, war graves and research. As one part of this commemoration, DVA has published four nominal rolls. These nominal rolls list members of Australia’s defence forces who served during World War Two, Korean War, Vietnam War and First Gulf War.”
• Ireland-Australia Transportation Database
• MAPCO: Map and Plan Collection Online – “MAPCO’s aim is to provide genealogists, students and historians with free access to high quality scans of rare and beautiful antique maps and views. The site displays a variety of highly collectable 18^th and 19^th century maps and plans of London and the British Isles, and also 19^th century maps and engravings relating to Australia.”
• National Archives of Australia – “The National Archives’ collection contains records about key events and decisions that have shaped Australian history. With more than 40 million items, our collection mainly includes Australian Government records from Federation in 1901 to now.”
• National Library of Australia – “The Library holds the greatest collection in the world of material relating to Australia and the Australian people. It ranges from the earliest European works about the Great Southern Land to the most current publications.”
• Sands, John. The new atlas of Australia 1886. Edited by Robert McLean. Sydney, 1886 – “The complete work containing over one hundred maps and full descriptive geography of New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, South Australia and Western Australia, together with numerous illustrations and copious indices.”
• Obituaries Australia – “Obituaries Australia is a digital repository of obituaries published in newspapers, journals, magazines and bulletins. Here you will find the life stories of Australians from the earliest times to the present.”
• Society of Australian Genealogists MIDAS – Manuscript, Image & Digital Archive System
• State Archives and Records Offices:
  • The State Archives and Records Authority of New South Wales – “The Collection documents the Government’s activities and functions from 1788 to today.”
  • State Records Office of West Australia
  • State Records of South Australia – “Our collection is made up of records of permanent value that have been created by state and local government agencies in South Australia.”
• State Libraries:
  • National and State Libraries Australasia (NSLA)
  • State Library South Australia
  • State Library New South Wales
  • State Library of Western Australia
  • State Library Victoria
• Sydney Benevolent Asylum Index to Admissions and Discharges, 1857-1900 – “This website aims to help researchers locate entries of interest in historical records of Sydney Benevolent Asylum for the period 1857-1900.”
• Trove– “Search for digital copies of newspapers, Government Gazettes, maps, magazines and newsletters. Or books, pictures, photographs, archived websites, music and interviews. Even information about famous Australians, including copies of letters, diaries and personal archives.”
• The University of Melbourne Digitised Collections

• Archway, Archives New Zealand – “Archway contains descriptions of over 1.5 million records. Archives New Zealand is a rich source of records on family history for both M?ori and Pakeha. It is useful to structure your research around key events in a person’s life, for example, birth, death, marriage, education and immigration. There are many ways in which people interact with government. Your subject may have served in the armed forces, been granted land by government, been naturalised as a New Zealander, registered as an enemy alien during the war, been involved in a crime, worked for government, or died under suspicious circumstances. Records of these interactions may have been kept and transferred to Archives New Zealand as part of the public record.”
  • World War One 1914-1918 Collection
• AtoJsOnline – “AtoJs Online contains a collection of digitised volumes of the Appendices to the Journals of the House of Representatives and the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Representatives. The collection currently covers the years 1854 to 1950.”
• Birth, Death and Marriage Historical Records – “The historic data available for you to search is limited so that information relating to people who might still be alive, can be protected. Information available includes: Births that occurred at least 100 years ago, Stillbirths that occurred at least 50 years ago, Marriages that occurred 80 years ago, Deaths that occurred at least 50 years ago or the deceased’s date of birth was at least 80 years ago.”
• Early Auckland Births – “The births listed on the [site] did not all occur at or near Auckland but the parents of these children were early settlers to the vicinity of Auckland. Births to families of men serving with the British Army and Royal New Zealand Fencible Corps, sometimes happened during voyages to New Zealand. Where known, these have been included as such events at sea, or those occurring in foreign countries, are often difficult to locate.”
• New Zealand and World War One Roll of Honour – “The names in this Roll of Honour have been taken from the book ‘The Great War – 1914 – 1918 – New Zealand Expeditionary Force Roll of Honour’ originally published in 1923 and cross-referenced to the Commonwealth War Graves Commission web-site.”
• New Zealand Disasters and Tragedies On Line Memorial
• New Zealand War Graves Project – “Welcome to the website of the New Zealand War Graves Trust. This is the site where the photographs, research and background information from the Trust’s project are lodged.”
• NZ units in South Africa 1899-1902 Embarkation database – “The information was sourced from the nominal rolls of the New Zealand Contingents published in the Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives. It contains the names, contingents, companies, registration numbers, ranks, embarkation details, addresses, next of kin and occupations of every New Zealand soldier who joined the New Zealand contingents that sailed to the South African War. Note that New Zealand soldiers who enlisted in British, Australian or South African forces do not appear on this database.”
• Papers Past – “Papers Past delivers digitised full-text New Zealand and Pacific newspapers, magazines and journals, books, and other formats.”
• The Wilson Collection – A free, searchable index compiled from records about early settlers, burials and cremations, electoral rolls, marriage records, World War I, and more.