This map links to Portable Document Format (PDF) files of individual Commonwealth electoral division maps for New South Wales and to an index map of Sydney electoral divisions. View record page

Contains full-text transcripts of criminal trials, from April 1674 to 1913 held at London's central criminal court. Many convicts sent to Australia were tried at the Old Bailey. The site includes English social history of the period. View record page

A site for researching family of British or Anglo-Indian descent who lived and / or served within the Indian Sub-continent from 1600 to 1947 View record page

If you grew up in a state or church institution or were in foster care, you may have been a State Ward. DoCS explains how you can find out if you have a Ward File and How to Request your file. Also see brochure Are you a former ward? http://www.community.nsw.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0006/319254/formerward_broch.pdf View record page

Find out about your family history at sea using resources available in the National Maritime Museum's Library and Archive.

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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (the Mormons) provides a searchable database of more than 300 million names including: Ancestral File and the International Genealogical Index. It also provides access to the Family History Library Catalogue as well as thousands of indexed web sites. Patrons visiting FamilySearch.org will see a prompt to register for a free account or to sign into their existing account to continue using all the free expanded benefits. 

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FamilySearch Wiki is a large, on-line library with thousands of articles and how-to instructions about doing family history. It is written by the community. You can edit an existing page or create your own. You can search by country or by subject. View record page

Find a list of all known First Fleeters and their stories, a picture and information on each ship that sailed with the First Fleet, a list of known First Fleet graves and plaques. 

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Any female convict who spent time in Van Diemen's Land is included in the database. Thus, it not only includes those women transported directly to VDL, but also those who came free and were convicted here during the period of transportation (1804-1853), or those who were transported to NSW and later came to VDL (many of whom came via Norfolk Island). View record page

The Find & Connect website is a Federal government website which brings together historical resources relating to institutional ‘care’ in Australia including information about where to find the records of various homes and institutions, organisations, government departments and events such as the Apology to the Stolen Generations, Royal Commissions and Inquiries. You can use this site to locate information about a Home where you lived as a child, or you can find information to help you locate and access records relating to your childhood.

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An online gallery of 629 drawings and watercolours by artists of the First Fleet in the collections of Library of the Natural History Museum, London. The works are attributed to George Raper, Thomas Watling, and the artist known as the Port Jackson Painter. View record page

This site provides a database of First Fleet convicts, diary extracts, stories and letters of the time and links to other information about Australia's past. View record page

This database contains information about those who lived in Newcastle, Hunter Valley, Liverpool Plains and Brisbane Water districts of New South Wales before 1850. View record page

The FreeBMD Project aims to provide free Internet access to Civil Registration (St. Catherine's House) indexes for England and Wales. The index is compiled progressively by volunteers, but is not verified by the Public Record Office. It is indexed for the period 1837-1997 but the whole period has not been transcribed yet.

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A free online searchable database of the UK census returns from 1841 to 1891. This database is not complete.

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FreeREG is a companion project to FreeBMD (a database of the GRO birth, marriage and death indexes from 1837) and FreeCEN (a database of census information). It aims to provide free Internet searches of baptism, marriage, and burial records, that have been transcribed from parish and non-conformist registers of the U.K. FreeREG is a work in progress and volunteers are transcribing the registers, so not all counties and places or years are complete. View record page

The Belfast, Edinburgh and London Gazettes are freely accessible via this website. The Gazettes are the official journal published by the British government, and contain legal and state notices such as notices about military and civil promotions, honours, business announcements (such as partnerships and bankruptcies), land sale announcements, probate notices, reports on military events etc. The Gazette was first published in 1665. View record page

A blog about genealogy in New South Wales and beyond with tips and techniques to help you understand your ancestors better View record page

A new genealogy tip every day. View record page

This site provides more than 60 000 links to genealogical sites, news and articles on family history and guides to genealogical software. View record page