| |
|
|
|
|
|
| Free Surname Search - All of Australia | |
|
All of Australia
Australia Births and Baptisms, 1792-1981. Index to selected Australia births and baptisms. Only a few localities are included and the time period varies by locality.
Australia Marriages, 1810-1980. Index to selected Australia marriages. Only a few localities are included and the time period varies by locality.
Australia Deaths and Burials, 1816-1980. Index to selected Australia deaths and burials. Only a few localities are included and the time period varies by locality.
RecordSearch: RecordSearch is the National Archives of Australia collection database. Search for specific people or browse the collection. It contains descriptions of 80 000 collections and over 6 million record items as well as details of about 9000 creators and depositors.
Welcome Wall Name Search : Australia's National Monument to Migration that pays tribute to the migrants who crossed the world to settle in Australia. In 2021, the wall contained more than 30,000 names.
Australian dictionary of dates and men of the time. Free online edition of this book by G. Robertson published in 1879.
Australasia Births, Deaths and Marriages Exchange. A free resource for genealogists to share information from Australian and New Zealand vital records. Registration required.
Miscellaneous Transcripts from Australia
Australia Land Grants 1788-1809. A Record of registered Grants and Leases in NSW, Van Diemen's Land and Norfolk Island.
National Library of Australia Oral History Collection. Search this national collection of some 58,000 oral history and folk recordings : Interviews with eminent Australians, regional studies highlighting the daily lives and work experience of ordinary Australians. A major recent project has been the Bringing Them Home Stolen Children's Oral History Project (300 interviews).
Missing Family and Friends in Australia, pre 1900. Names published in colonial newspapers for missing Family, Friends, Employees, Convicts and Absconded Spouses.
Trove: Newspapers & Gazettes. Full-text searching of digitized archived newspapers and gazettes.
First Families 2001: A database and collection of stories about the people of Australia, past and present. This is the archived version of the Web site. You can browse the database but the search function is not available.
The Dictionary Of Australian Bushrangers. This is the archives version of the Web site.
Tracking Our Family Footsteps through Time in Australia: Where they were born, married and died
Australian Immigration Wall of Honour (archived website): The Australian Immigration Wall of Honour is a series of brass plaques with the names of immigrants to Australia submitted by various people to Janet Reakes, who was a well known genealogist from the Hervey Bay area of Queensland.
Manuscript Finding Aids of the National Library of Australia
Australian Honours List : The Australian Honours List (AHL) is an official record, containing 240,000 entries, of all Australians who have been honoured since federation through to the present day, with the exception of military campaign service and military long service awards.
Mariners Index (archived website). An index to references for mariners and seamen worldwide, mentioned in colonial Australian newspapers, pre 1900.
Miscellaneous Australian Certificates Index. Established almost 20 years ago (the first of its kind in this country), the Miscellaneous Australian Certificates Index provides a single nation-wide collection point for unwanted Australian certificates.
Australian Police Index (archived website): An index for references to members of the police force who are mentioned in articles of information from the following Australian newspapers: Belfast Gazette (1851-1900), Portland Advertiser, Belfast Banner, Warrnambool Examiner, and Launceston Advertiser.
Mariners and Ships in Australian Waters
Australian Medical Pioneers Index (AMPI) : A database of over 3,000 pioneer doctors, from the 1700s through to 1875. You will find doctors who were registered or qualified in Australia, were resident in Australia, or visited here in a professional capacity, before 1875. Ships' surgeons, convict doctors, general practitioners and medical specialists are included.
Ludwig Bruck's List of Unregistered Medical Practitioners in Australasia (archived website). The List of Unregistered Practitioners appears as an appendix to the larger publication, The Australasian Medical Directory and Hand Book. The issue reproduced here is the second, dated 1886, and published in Sydney at the Australasian Medical Gazette Office.
Australian LDS Emigration for 1853-1868 Ordered by Surname, First name
Australian Marriage Notices for People from Kent, England 1840-1865
Australian Modern Newspaper Indexes (archived Web page). Mainly April to July 2002 bereavements from The Sunday Examiner, Tasmania, Australia.
Australian Women’s Archives Project Register.
Klondike Pioneers from Australia
Database of Australian Cricket Players past and present.
- Aboriginal
Aboriginal Genealogy & History : Names Index (Australia). A list of references to aboriginals by either their native name or that designated by europeans. The majority of these names are from newspaper reports or journals, hospital and institution records pre 1900.
Infokoori : An index to the Koori Mail, a national fortnightly newspaper published in Lismore, NSW, for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples from May 1991 onwards. It also indexes biographical information on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples from the magazines: Our Aim (1907-1961), Dawn (1952-1969), New Dawn (1970-1975) and Identity (1971-1982).
Australian Aboriginal Soldiers Honour Roll (archived Web page)
- Biographies, obituaries, and death notices
Australian Dictionary of Biography Online. Over 10,000 scholarly biographies of significant Australians who died before 1980.
Obits.com.au : Funeral notices, death notices and obituaries for Australia. Archived records commence in mid January 2006.
The Ryerson Index to Contemporary Death Notices and Obituaries in Australian Newspapers. Recently updated, this database now nearly 3 million entries.
Australian Art Obituaries Index. The AAOI lists obituaries for Australasian artists and art professionals collected since 1990. A few earlier entries are included.
- Cemeteries
Australian Cemeteries Index. The index contains details of headstones from a number of cemeteries in Australia. It initially concentrates on cemeteries in regional NSW.
Australia and New Zealand Headstone Search. The details in these files have been taken raw from headstones in various cemeteries.
Australia Cemetery Inscriptions, 1802-2005. Cards of cemetery inscriptions from many cemeteries throughout Australia. The majority of the cemeteries are in Queensland, but there are some in New South Wales, Norfolk Island, Tasmania, and Western Australia.
- Convicts (see also Passenger Lists)
First Fleet to Australia - Searching : A searchable database of 780 First Fleet convicts.
Australia's First Fleet : "Convicts Transported to the New Colony" From the "LONDON GAZETTE", October 1788
Australia's Second Fleet Passenger list from the SYDNEY COVE CHRONICLE, 30th June, 1790
Third Fleet to Australia, 1791 From the "NEW HOLLAND MORNING POST", 18th October, 1791 : A list of criminals who have come to our shores in recent months
Women Convicts 1798 (Australia): Governor's Hunter Women Convict Assignment Report 1798 (pdf document, archived Web site)
UK Chartists Transported to Australia in 1839-40, 1842 and 1848 (archived webpage).
Australia Descendants of Convicts Group : Members Convicts Sorted by Convicts Surname
Criminal Index (Australia). An index of references to any person convicted of crimes, or arrested and or charged with any serious crime and who were mentioned in Australian colonial newspapers: Belfast 'Banner', Belfast 'Gazette', Launceston 'Advertiser', Portland 'Advertiser', Warrnambool 'Examiner'
- Military
American Civil War Veterans of Australia and New Zealand (archived website).
Oz-Boer Database Project. The Australians in the Boer War (Oz-Boer) Database Project is a free online search aid to help you identify books, journals, webpages and other ephemera dealing with individual Australian soldiers and nurses involved in the Second Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902).
Graves and memorials of Australians in the Boer War 1899–1900.
Australian War Memorial Databases: Several Databases including details of over 17,000 service people in the Boer War, First World War nominal roll, details of about 3,000 commemorated Australians and of over 102,000 of Australia's war dead
Australian Service Men Index (archived website). An index for references to members of military forces, regiments, troops, and similar, who are mentioned in articles of information from the Australian newspapers.
The AIF Project : Australian Anzacs in the Great War 1914-1918 : A database that draws on a wide range of sources to provide details on the 330,000 men and women who served overseas in the (First) Australian Imperial Force, 1914-1918.
Australian Service Nurses National Memorial. Nurses who died during or as a result of War Service, since the Boer War.
List of Australian Victoria Cross recipients
Officers of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) who died at Gallipoli, 1915 (archived website).
WWI Aces of Australia : Honoring WWI pilots granted the designation of Ace. Biographies, medals and decorations, photos, etc.
39th Battalion A.I.F. in World War I. A list of men of the 39th Battalion A.I.F, being one of the twelve Infantry Battalions of the Third Australian Division. Approx 2,935 names.
460 Squadron Royal Australian Air Force : Pilots and Crews
460 Squadron Royal Australian Air Force : Roll of Honour. A list of the 978 members of 460 Squadron who were killed or died of their wounds.
460 Squadron Royal Australian Air Force : Honours for Distinguished Service
Commonwealth Air Forces serving in Royal Canadian Air Force during WWII (archived Web page): Royal Air Force, Royal Australian Air Force, Royal New Zealand Air Force Personnel Decorated for Service in Canada during the Second World War.
Department of Veterans' Affaires Nominal Rolls (Australia). Members of Australia's defence forces who served during World War Two, Korean War, Vietnam War and First Gulf War.
104 Signal Squadron, Royal Australian Corp of Signals Members in South Vietnam 1967-1971
The Australians Who Died in Vietnam
- Passenger Lists (see also Convicts)
Passenger Lists of Ships to Australia : In chronological order.
Girls Orphaned by Irish Famine. A list of four hundred names of Irish Famine female orphans inscribed on a monument unveiled in Sydney, Australia, commemorating their arrival there in the late 1840s.
|