Trove: The National Library of Australia database (link)
Searching for Australian Indigenous family history (link)
Queensland Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders family tree resources (link)
Queensland State Archives (link)
AIATSIS Family History section is a good index for other sources (link)
colsec: NSW Colonial Secretary Index (link)
Wills, probate and intestacies in family history index from QLD gov (link)
The National Archives of Australia (link) 285164
Australian War Memorial: Service (link)
Brisbane City Council: Grave location database (link)
Queensland Government: Births Deaths and Marriages (link)
Queensland Immigration passenger lists: (link)
Tweed - Gold Coast Family History Heritage Assn (link)
NSW Government: Births Deaths and Marriages (link)
NSW State Records/Archives (link)
Victorian Public Record Office (link)
colsec: NSW Colonial Secretary Index (link)
Wills, probate and intestacies in family history index from QLD gov (link)
The National Archives of Australia (link) 285164
Australian War Memorial: Service (link)
Brisbane City Council: Grave location database (link)
Queensland Government: Births Deaths and Marriages (link)
Queensland Immigration passenger lists: (link)
Tweed - Gold Coast Family History Heritage Assn (link)
NSW Government: Births Deaths and Marriages (link)
NSW State Records/Archives (link)
Victorian Public Record Office (link)
Ballarat Genealogy Society (link)
Tasmanian Govt. Heritage service LINC (link) & Lower Court records for Wynyard (link p268)
Founders and Survivors - Tasmanian convicts, research partnership (link)
Female Convicts Research Centre (link) and their conference series (link)
A reference for Tasmanian Convict Record Abbreviations (link)
Telstra White Pages (link)
First Families 2001 archive on Pandora (link)
Commonwealth War Graves Commission (link)
World War 2 Nominal Roll for men and women who served in Australia's defence forces and Merchant Navy (link)
Family History Index at the State Library of Queensland (link)
Austcemindex: A partial cemetery index with inscriptions and photos recorded (link)
RootsWeb (link)
FindMyPast (link) & Irish specific section (link)
Australian Convict Records community (link)
Immigration and shipping records NSW (link)
Online microfilm of shipping lists (link)
Coraweb genealogy resource website (link)
A link to the South Australian bdm archives via Genealogy SA(link)
The Society of Australian Genealogists (link)
New Zealand: Births Deaths and Marriages (link)
New Zealand: Newspaper archives (link)
Ireland/UK Section
Irish Military Archives (link)
The National Library of Ireland has put Irish Catholic parish registers online (registers.nli.ie link)
The Irish Genealogy site (hosted by the dept of Arts, Heritage and Gaeltact) (link)
Genealogy section of National Archives: (link)
The genealogy section of the National Archives of Ireland (link)
Wills and Administrations 1858 - 1920 at National Archives of Ireland (link)
Tithe Applotment Books at National Archives of Ireland (link)
National Archives: Census of Ireland 1901/1911 (link)
Valuation Office Books - Primary (or Griffith’s) Valuation Office Books covering 1824 to 1856 from the National Archives site (link)
The really excellent Irish-Genealogy-Toolkit (link)
Irish Graveyards - incomplete listing (link), also see Interment (link) and Findagrave.com (link)
Co. Kerry Cemetery Records (link)
Property Registration Authority of Ireland, Registry of Deeds (link) with mapping facility to land titles (Landdirect.ie)
Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (link)
UK GRO (General Register Office - link)
RIC Members at National Archives of UK (link)
UK National Archives: passenger lists emigration (link)
Useful links and background from the Irish Times (link)
Griffith's Valuation, property and tenants lists 1847-1864 (link)
Manuscript archive containing rateable valuation information of all property in the state from mid 1850s until the early 1990s (link)
Tasmanian Govt. Heritage service LINC (link) & Lower Court records for Wynyard (link p268)
Founders and Survivors - Tasmanian convicts, research partnership (link)
Female Convicts Research Centre (link) and their conference series (link)
A reference for Tasmanian Convict Record Abbreviations (link)
Telstra White Pages (link)
First Families 2001 archive on Pandora (link)
Commonwealth War Graves Commission (link)
World War 2 Nominal Roll for men and women who served in Australia's defence forces and Merchant Navy (link)
Family History Index at the State Library of Queensland (link)
Austcemindex: A partial cemetery index with inscriptions and photos recorded (link)
RootsWeb (link)
FindMyPast (link) & Irish specific section (link)
Australian Convict Records community (link)
Immigration and shipping records NSW (link)
Online microfilm of shipping lists (link)
Coraweb genealogy resource website (link)
A link to the South Australian bdm archives via Genealogy SA(link)
The Society of Australian Genealogists (link)
New Zealand: Births Deaths and Marriages (link)
New Zealand: Newspaper archives (link)
Ireland/UK Section
Irish Military Archives (link)
The National Library of Ireland has put Irish Catholic parish registers online (registers.nli.ie link)
The Irish Genealogy site (hosted by the dept of Arts, Heritage and Gaeltact) (link)
Genealogy section of National Archives: (link)
The genealogy section of the National Archives of Ireland (link)
Wills and Administrations 1858 - 1920 at National Archives of Ireland (link)
Tithe Applotment Books at National Archives of Ireland (link)
National Archives: Census of Ireland 1901/1911 (link)
Valuation Office Books - Primary (or Griffith’s) Valuation Office Books covering 1824 to 1856 from the National Archives site (link)
The really excellent Irish-Genealogy-Toolkit (link)
Irish Graveyards - incomplete listing (link), also see Interment (link) and Findagrave.com (link)
Co. Kerry Cemetery Records (link)
Property Registration Authority of Ireland, Registry of Deeds (link) with mapping facility to land titles (Landdirect.ie)
Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (link)
UK GRO (General Register Office - link)
RIC Members at National Archives of UK (link)
UK National Archives: passenger lists emigration (link)
Useful links and background from the Irish Times (link)
Griffith's Valuation, property and tenants lists 1847-1864 (link)
Manuscript archive containing rateable valuation information of all property in the state from mid 1850s until the early 1990s (link)
Townlands of Kerry: Barony, Parish, Union (link)
Irish Emigration Database (link)
The Irish General Register Office (link)
The LDS's amazing Familysearch.org (link)
UK National Archives "Discovery" tool (link)
UK National Archives Digital Microfilm project (link) warning, each file approx 400Mb in size.
Irish Newspaper Archive (link) - account required.
Stoke Damerel, Devon GENUKI (link)
The Free UK Genealogy Project (link)
FreeBDM transcription project for Civil Registration indices (freebdm.org.uk | link)
Graham and Emma Maxwell's Scotland Census, prison and court records, Quaker registers, mental health institution records at: (link)
Scotland's People: Govt genealogical site (link) - example article (link)
National Records of Scotland (link)
Americas Section
US Immigrant records from ship manifests, Ellis Island passenger search (link)
US Library of Congress: Newspapers from 1789-1963 (link)
Digital Public Library of America (link)
HathiTrust Index, Catalogue and Digital Library (link)
Europe Section
Europeana digitisation initiative of EU (link)
General Learning
YYYY/A1234 references are QLD BDM index
A1234/YYYY references are NSW BDM index
Genie work is both intriguing and frustrating. In the modern era we are showered with an ever growing collection of wonderful databases for discovering and triangulating the identities and careers of our forebears. However many of these databases are often populated with erroneous information, sometimes due to software errors, sometimes human.
For example:
Death notices where the parents names are filled by birth location: Herbert's record in the Queensland database.
Misspelling: Kathleen/Catherine
People using their second name as their first name: Edna/Eileen
Misspelling: Mary Ann Andrews / Andrew
Ommision of a maiden name: Mary Ann Irwin
No record of Father's name (e.g. for Hector Arthur)
Various native spellings used because people didn't know or didn't hold to a single standard spelling because their surname was prior to an agreed spelt form (e.g. Clarke, Clark, Clerk)
Some personal notes:
Relevant posts on ancestry.com (link)
The Irish General Register Office (link)
The LDS's amazing Familysearch.org (link)
UK National Archives "Discovery" tool (link)
UK National Archives Digital Microfilm project (link) warning, each file approx 400Mb in size.
Irish Newspaper Archive (link) - account required.
Stoke Damerel, Devon GENUKI (link)
The Free UK Genealogy Project (link)
FreeBDM transcription project for Civil Registration indices (freebdm.org.uk | link)
Graham and Emma Maxwell's Scotland Census, prison and court records, Quaker registers, mental health institution records at: (link)
Scotland's People: Govt genealogical site (link) - example article (link)
National Records of Scotland (link)
Americas Section
US Immigrant records from ship manifests, Ellis Island passenger search (link)
US Library of Congress: Newspapers from 1789-1963 (link)
Digital Public Library of America (link)
HathiTrust Index, Catalogue and Digital Library (link)
Europe Section
Europeana digitisation initiative of EU (link)
General Learning
YYYY/A1234 references are QLD BDM index
A1234/YYYY references are NSW BDM index
Genie work is both intriguing and frustrating. In the modern era we are showered with an ever growing collection of wonderful databases for discovering and triangulating the identities and careers of our forebears. However many of these databases are often populated with erroneous information, sometimes due to software errors, sometimes human.
For example:
Death notices where the parents names are filled by birth location: Herbert's record in the Queensland database.
Misspelling: Kathleen/Catherine
People using their second name as their first name: Edna/Eileen
Misspelling: Mary Ann Andrews / Andrew
Ommision of a maiden name: Mary Ann Irwin
No record of Father's name (e.g. for Hector Arthur)
Various native spellings used because people didn't know or didn't hold to a single standard spelling because their surname was prior to an agreed spelt form (e.g. Clarke, Clark, Clerk)
Some personal notes:
Relevant posts on ancestry.com (link)
