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    Default More Australian sites

    Australian newspapers
    https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper?q=

    Cemeteries

    https://www.australiancemeteries.com/

    https://austcemindex.com/

    NSW
    NSW 1828 census ( Original records are located in the Mitchell Library in Sydney)
    https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2177300

    State Library of NSW https://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/

    Free Settler or Felon
    https://www.jenwilletts.com/index.htm

    https://investigator.records.nsw.gov.au/

    The Newcastle Industrial School
    https://nis.wikidot.com/

    Australian & New Zealand Travel & Migration Records can be accessed at Findmypast a pay per view site.
    Victoria
    Introduction of official adoption laws in Victoria
    https://prov.vic.gov.au/provguide-60

    List of towns in Australia
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...s_in_Australia

    Register of Male and Female Prisoners (1855-1947)
    https://www.prov.vic.gov.au/explore-...ners-1855-1947

    https://discoveringanzacs.naa.gov.au/

    https://www.boroniabattlefieldtours.c...ipoli-project/

    https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2170647

    Tasmania
    FamilySearch.org has created browsable image collection of Tasmanian government gazettes from 1833 to 1925. It has convict lists, ship arrivals, details on property sales. It is searchable by date and of course is free.

    https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2170647

    Tasmanian Names Index. https://linctas.ent.sirsidynix.net.a.../en_AU/names/?

    Western Australia
    https://www.werelate.org/wiki/Place:...a%2C_Australia

    Queensland
    Queensland places - https://www.queenslandplaces.com.au/
    https://www.qld.gov.au/law/births-de...story-research

    Victoria
    List of places in Victoria named from pastoral runs
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o..._pastoral_runs

    1600 destinations throughout Victoria (Australia). Discover the history of every town, city, suburb, village and settlement with a population of over 200 people.
    https://www.victorianplaces.com.au/
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    It's been almost ten years since Christina posted a few sites in this thread.
    Since then many more sites have come online including the
    National Archives of Australia.
    https://www.naa.gov.au/

    This page links to
    passenger arrivals. immigration, citizenship, and wartime internment camp records.
    Do make sure that you scroll to the bottom of the page. (That should be standard practice for any page, not just this one!)
    https://www.naa.gov.au/explore-colle...nd-citizenship


    I've gradually been finding the datasets for Australia listed on FMP and Ancestry. These are what I have so far. (I will update in due course.) On both sites you can search the indexes for free, only needing to pay when you need to see a record. If your local library provides access to either of the sites then you might be able to access the records at the library.
    Some of the information on both sites might be available for free. You need to check the source of the
    information - often the state archives. The datasets on Ancestry beginning 'Web' are mainly free. There is quite a lot of duplication of datatsets between the sites, not necessarily with the same title. e.g. one site might say Australia Queensland, while the other says Queensland. Even within a site there is sometimes no logic as to the way the sets are headed.
    See the next two posts for the lists.
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    Australian datasets found on Findmypast

    1881 British Census, Crew and Passengers on Ships Arriving in New South Wales
    Airmen Died in the Great War, 1914-1919 (All nationalities – see notes at top of page)
    All Australia Memorial (for Anzacs in WW1)
    Anglican Church Of Australia - Parish Of Sherwood (Brisbane) - Cemetery and Columbarium Wall Monumental Inscriptions
    Australia Billion Graves Cemetery Index
    Australia Convict Conditional and Absolute Pardons 1791-1867
    Australia Convict Conditional and Absolute Pardons 1791-1867
    Australia Convict Ships 1786-1849
    Australia Deaths & Burials, 1816-1980
    Australia Electoral Rolls
    Australia Graves Billion Graves Cemetery Index - additions 10 aug 2017
    Australia Marriages, 1810-1980
    Australia, Births & Baptisms, 1792-1981
    Australia, Boer War Contingents - additions
    Australian Capital Territory Deaths
    Australian Capital Territory Marriages
    Australian Dictionary Dates & Men
    Australian Imperial Force Embarkation Roll 1914-1918
    Australian Imperial Force Nominal Roll 1914-1918
    Beenleigh Cemetery Monumental Inscriptions (Queensland)
    Brisbane Hospital Patient Index, 1887-1902
    Brookfield Cemetery (Brisbane) Monumental Inscriptions
    Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1870
    Cooloola Coast Cemetery (Queensland) Monumental Inscriptions
    Croydon Hospital Admissions Index, 1888-1925 (Queensland)
    Cyclopedia Of Victoria
    Cyclopedia Of Victoria (1903-1905)
    Eagleby Cemetery Monumental Inscriptions (Gold Coast, Queensland)
    Emigrants Seeking Free Passage To South Australia 1836-1841 paragraph 2
    Hamburg, Germany Emigrants
    Moggill Cemetery (Brisbane) Monumental Inscriptions
    New South Wales 1841 Census
    New South Wales 1891 Census
    New South Wales 1901 Census
    New South Wales and Tasmania: Settlers and Convicts 1787-1859
    New South Wales Convict Arrivals
    New South Wales Directories
    New South Wales Electoral Rolls
    New South Wales Parish Registers, Christ Church Cathedral Newcastle
    New South Wales Passenger Lists
    New South Wales Police Gazette
    New South Wales Postal Directories
    New South Wales Registers Of Convicts' Applications To Marry 1825-1851
    New South Wales Will Books 1800-1952
    New South Wales, Closer Settlement and Returned Soldiers Transfer Files - additions
    New South Wales, Deceased Estate Files 1880-1923
    New South Wales, Government Railways and Tramways Roll Of Honour, 1914-1919
    New South Wales, Railway Employment Records
    New South Wales, Returned Soldier Settlement Miscellaneous Files 1916-1939
    New South Wales, Returned Soldiers Settlement Loan Files
    New South Wales, Stroud Baptismal Register 1892-1925
    New South Wales, Tea Gardens cemetery inscriptions 1898-2008
    New Zealand, Women's Suffrage Petition
    Passengers To South Australia On Board Buffalo 1836
    PERiodical Source Index
    Queensland Assisted Immigration 1848-1912
    Queensland Births 1829-1919
    Queensland Burials & Memorials
    Queensland Convict Register Index 1824-1839
    Queensland Criminal Reports
    Queensland Custom House Shipping 1852-1885 Passengers and Crew
    Queensland Deaths 1829-1964
    Queensland Funeral Records
    Queensland Intestacies & Wills 1859 - 1900
    Queensland Intestacy Returns Index 1896-1916
    Queensland Land Orders 1861-1874
    Queensland Marriages 1829-1939
    Queensland Passports Index 1915-1925
    Queensland School Pupils
    Queensland, Inquests 1859-1897
    Queensland, Justices of The Peace 1857-1957
    Queensland, Mackay, funeral notices and funeral director records
    Queensland, Register of Land Sold 1842-1859
    Queensland, Seamen 1882-1919
    Queensland, Trustee files 1889-1929
    Queensland, Windsor Town Council Honour Roll 1914-1925
    South Australia Convicts
    South Australia, Passenger Lists 1847-1886
    South Australian Police Gazette
    Tasmania Convict Records 1800-1893
    Tasmania Police Gazettes
    Victoria births - civil registration 1837-1917
    Victoria Births 1836 – 1913
    Victoria Burials & Memorials
    Victoria Cemeteries
    Victoria Coastal Passenger Lists 1852-1924
    Victoria Deaths 1836-1985
    Victoria Divorce Cause Books 1861-1938
    Victoria Electoral Rolls (covers 1939 and 1946)
    Victoria Funeral Notices (1981-1997)
    Victoria Inward Passenger Lists 1839-1923
    Victoria Marriages 1836-1942
    Victoria Outward Passenger Lists 1852-1915
    Victoria Petty Sessions Registers
    Victoria Police Gazettes
    Victoria Prison Registers
    Victoria Register Of Prisoners Under Sentence Of Hard Labour 1847-1853
    Victoria Wills & Probate
    Victoria, Convict Register 1842-1854
    Victoria, Mental Health Institutions
    Victoria, World War One Soldier Settlers
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    Australian datasets found on Ancestry

    1828 New South Wales, Australia Census (Australian Copy)
    1828 New South Wales, Australia Census (TNA Copy)
    1841 New South Wales, Australia, Census
    1841 New South Wales, Australia, Census
    1891 New South Wales, Australia Census
    1901 New South Wales, Australia Census
    19-Century Emigration of 'Old Lutherans' from Eastern Germany to Australia, Canada, and the United States
    A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Colonial Gentry
    A History of the Wedgwood Family
    An Australian Biographical Dictionary
    Ancestors of Welding Ring and His Wife Ida Malvina Mailler
    ANZAC Memorial, 1914-1918
    Australasia, Medical Directories, 1883-1915
    Australia and New Zealand, Find a Grave™ Index, 1800s-Current
    Australia and New Zealand, Newspapers.com™ Obituary Index, 1800s-current
    Australia and New Zealand, Obituary Index, 2004-Current
    Australia Cemetery Index, 1808-2007
    Australia Historical Postcards
    Australia, Army Militia Service Records, 1901-1940
    Australia, Birth Index, 1788-1922
    Australia, Births and Baptisms, 1792-1981
    Australia, City Directories, 1845-1948
    Australia, Commonwealth Public Service Lists, 1904, 1920
    Australia, Convict Index, 1788-1868
    Australia, Electoral Rolls, 1903-1980
    Australia, Fox's History of Queensland
    Australia, Handbook and Almanac, 1886
    Australia, List of Convicts with Particulars, 1788-1842
    Australia, Marriage Index, 1788-1950
    Australia, Newspaper Vital Notices, 1831-2001
    Australia, Newspapers.com™ Marriage Index, 1800s-current
    Australia, Pastoral Directories, 1913-1954
    Australia, Royal Australian Air Force Personnel Files, 1921-1948
    Australia, The First Settlement of the Upper Murray, 1835 to 1845. With A Short Account of over Two Hundred Runs, 1835-1880
    Australia, World War I Service Records, 1914-1920
    Australia, World War II Military Service Records, 1939-1945
    Australia, World War II Second Australian Imperial Forces and Citizen Military Forces Service Records, 1939-1947
    Australia,Death Index, 1787-1985
    Australian Convict Transportation Registers – First Fleet, 1787-1788
    Australian Convict Transportation Registers – Other Fleets & Ships, 1791-1868
    Australian Convict Transportation Registers – Second Fleet, 1789-1790
    Australian Convict Transportation Registers – Third Fleet, 1791
    Australian Dictionary of Dates and Men of the Time, 1542-1879
    Australia's Fighting Sons of The Empire. Portraits and Biographies of Australians in the Great War
    Balmain, New South Wales, Australia, Cemetery Records, 1868-1912
    Benedictine Pioneers in Australia, Vol. 1
    Benedictine Pioneers in Australia, Vol. 2
    Casino, New South Wales, Australia, Hospital Admissions and Burial Records, 1913-1997
    Clan Macleod Society, Annual Report, 1910-1911
    Encounter Bay, The Miniature Naples of Australia
    Far North Queensland, Australia, Pioneers & Settlers Registers, 1825 -1920
    Fifty Years of Progress In Australia 1878-1928
    Finley of Maberacolton and McArthur of Miltown, County Tyrone
    Frackleton Genealogy, 1700-1879
    Historical and Genealogical Account of the Family of Vance (Vans, Vaux, and De Vaux)
    Johns's Notable Australians, 1906
    Journal of Samuel Rose Parkinson No. 1
    Maryborough, Queensland Australia Immigrants from the British Isles & Germany 1861-91
    New South Wales and Tasmania, Australia Convict Musters, 1806-1849
    New South Wales and Tasmania, Australia, Convict Pardons and Tickets of Leave, 1834-1859
    New South Wales, Australia Historical Electoral Rolls, 1842-1864
    New South Wales, Australia, Colonial Secretary's Letters, 1826-1856
    New South Wales, Australia, Convict Records, 1810-1891
    New South Wales, Australia, Convict Savings Bank Books, 1824-1886
    New South Wales, Australia, Depasturing Licenses, 1837-1846
    New South Wales, Australia, Government Gazettes, 1853-1899
    New South Wales, Australia, Miscellaneous Records, 1787-1976
    New South Wales, Australia, Public Service Lists, 1858-1960
    New South Wales, Australia, Registers of Convicts' Applications to Marry, 1826-1851
    New South Wales, Australia, Registers of Land Grants and Leases, 1792-1867
    New South Wales, Australia, Returns of the Colony, 1822-1857
    New South Wales, Australia, Returns of the Colony, 1822-1857
    New South Wales, Australia, Settler and Convict Lists, 1787-1834
    New South Wales, Australia, Sheriff's Papers, 1829-1879
    New South Wales, Australia, St Peters Cooks River Select Births, Marriages and Burials, 1839-1963
    New South Wales, Teacher Applications and School Records, 1850-1960
    Principal Women of The Empire: Australia and New Zealand, Vol. 1
    Queensland Brands Directory 1913
    Queensland, Australia, Bailliere's Gazetteer and Road Guide, 1876
    Queensland, Australia, Commonwealth Electoral Rolls, 1906-1969
    Queensland, Australia, Commonwealth Electoral Rolls, 1906-1969
    Queensland, Australia, Government Gazettes, 1903-1910
    Queensland, Australia, Gregson and Weight Funeral Records, 1972-2010
    Queensland, Australia, Immigration Records: Passengers and Crew, 1852-1899
    Queensland, Australia, Index to Government Railway Workers, 1878-1946
    Queensland, Australia, Landsborough Shire Records - Index to Rates, Receipts and Payments, 1912-1941
    Queensland, Australia, Licensed Victuallers Index, 1900-1903
    Queensland, Australia, Mining Accident Index, 1882-1945
    Queensland, Australia, Passenger Lists, 1848-1912
    Queensland, Australia, Police Gazette Index, 1881-1945
    Queensland, Australia, School Admission Records, 1860-1992
    Queensland, Australia, World War I Soldier Portraits, 1914-1918
    Sands Directories: Sydney and New South Wales, Australia, 1858-1933
    South Australia, Australia, Adelaide Hospital Admission Registers, 1841-1952
    South Australia, Australia, Destitute Asylum Ledgers and Admissions to Industrial and Reformatory Schools, 1849-1913
    South Australia, Australia, Incoming and Outgoing Passenger Lists, 1845-1940
    South Australia, Australia, Passenger Lists, 1853
    South Australia, Australia, Police Inquest Registers, 1885-1953
    South Australia, Australia, Prison Registers, 1838-1912
    South Australia, Australia, School Admissions Registers, 1876-1989
    South Australia, Australia, Select Tax and Financial Records, 1838-1928; Returns of Census, 1841
    South Australia, Australia, Supreme Court Criminal Records, 1837-1918; Reports to the Police Coroner, 1842-1961
    Souvenir of the Broadhurst Wilkinsons: Descendants of Joseph Edmondson
    Sydney and New South Wales, Australia, Sands Street Index, 1861-1930
    Sydney, Australia, Anglican Parish Registers, 1814-2011
    Tasmania, Despatches of the Governor's Office, 1823-1855
    Tasmania, Passenger and Crew Lists, 1834-1837, 1841-1887
    The Australian Portrait Gallery and Memoirs of Representative Colonial Men
    The Descendants of Richard Kimber
    The Dictionary of Australasian Biography
    The Pedigrees of Lloyd of Dolobran, Montgomeryshire; The Wordsworth Family; Foster, late of Le Court, Hants; Hanbury of Holfield Grange, Essex; Wakefield of Sedgwick House, Kendal; and Wakefield of New Zealand and So. Australia
    The Rise and Progress of Australia, Tasmania, and New Zealand
    Victoria, Australia, Asylum Records, 1853-1940
    Victoria, Australia, Battle to Farm, 1919-1935
    Victoria, Australia, Birth Index, 1837-1917
    Victoria, Australia, Cemetery Records and Headstone Transcriptions, 1844-1997
    Victoria, Australia, Coroner Inquest Deposition Files, 1840-1925
    Victoria, Australia, Death Index, 1836-1988
    Victoria, Australia, Divorce Records, 1860-1940
    Victoria, Australia, Marriage Index, 1837-1950
    Victoria, Australia, St Peter's Eastern Hill, Selected Records, 1848-1998
    Victoria, Australia, Wills and Probate Records, 1841-2009
    Web: Australia Business Number Datasets 1999-2022
    Web: Australia, Convict Records Index, 1787-1867
    Web: Australia, University of Sydney Biographical Information Including World War I, 1880-1980
    Web: Global, Gravestone Photograph Index, 1265-2014
    Web: Queensland, Australia, Death Inquest Index, 1859-1897
    Web: Queensland, Australia, Hospital Indexes, 1872-1908
    Web: Queensland, Australia, Immigration Indexes, 1848-1972
    Web: Queensland, Australia, Index to Aliens, 1913
    Web: Queensland, Australia, Naturalisation Index, 1851-1904
    Web: Queensland, Australia, Occupational Indexes, 1857-1922
    Web: Queensland, Australia, Prison and Reformatory Indexes, 1824-1936
    Web: Queensland, Australia, Property Indexes, 1842-1895
    Web: Queensland, Australia, Will Index, 1857-1900 (all Districts), 1901-1940 (Southern District)
    Western Australia, Australia, Crew and Passenger Lists, 1852-1930
    Western Australia, Australia, Crew and Passenger Lists, 1852-1930
    Western Australia, Australia, Land Leases, Licences, Applications and Selected Images, 1821-1938
    Western Australia, Railway Records, 1879-1946
    Western Australia, Railway Records, 1879-1946
    Who’s Who in Australia, 1921-1950
    World Foreign Gazetteer, Vol. 1
    Wyong, New South Wales, Australia, Headstone Images, 1800-2020
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    Another site which I have recently been told about is
    https://coraweb.com.au/

    You need to look at the categories on the right-hand side and explore from there.

    And I've also been introduced to FamilySearch Wiki for various places. This is the link to the Australian Wiki.
    https://www.familysearch.org/en/wiki...alia_Genealogy

    This site has links to many of the usual state BMD and other archives, but if you scroll down a bit there are links to many museums, etc, for different cultures in Australia.
    https://www.coasit.com.au/italian-hi...y/useful-links
    Also links to lots of stuff in Italy.
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