This website about the Parramatta Female Factory includes a Search and a Browse facility, where you can browse Convicts, Children, Free People, Deaths, Nicknames and find information from various sources. The website notes that "new content is being added to the website all the time so, while you may not find a particular individual in our database today, check back here regularly as the person may have been added." The Mitchell Library also holds Joan Reese's Index to the Female Factory Parramatta 1826 to 1848 on microfiche MAV/FM6/376.
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This database contains digital images of a wide range of original documents, including diaries, letters, trench journals, personal narratives, memoirs, ephemera, objects (shown in 3D), propaganda recruitment posters, sheet music, postcards, scrapbooks, sketches and paintings, and trench maps. The database covers the wars in Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Balkans, Eastern Front, Gallipoli, Home Front, Italian Front, Middle East, war at sea and in the air, as well as the Western Front.
The Historical Census and Colonial Data Archive (HCCDA) is an archive of Australian colonial census publications and reports covering the period from 1833 to 1901, the year of Australia’s federation. The corpus includes 18,638 pages of text, and approximately 15000 tables, all with full digital images, text conversion and individually identified pages and tables. Please note that the archive contains colonial census reports, but not individual census returns.
The Illustrated London News Historical Archive is the full facsimile of the illustrated weekly newspaper. The newspapers covered British and world events, including politics, social history, fashion, theatre, media, literature, advertising and graphic design, as well as genealogy. Document supply available.
A complete library of legal principles from Thomson, The Laws of Australia covers over 320 topics, across 36 broad subject areas, and every Australian jurisdiction.
Discovery holds more than 32 million descriptions of records held by The National Archives and more than 2,500 archives across the country. Over 9 million records are available for download.
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A website that facilitates access to books that are freely readable over the Internet. Includes an index of online books, pointers to significant directories and archives of online texts, and special exhibits of particularly interesting classes of online books.
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This site provides a list of the latest Pulitzer Prize winners and also includes a timeline of all winners since 1917 and an archive of recent prize winners which contains the full text of winning articles.
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Use The Shakespeare Collection to access and study an extensive collection of authoritative materials supporting literary, textual, historical, and performance studies. Resources include the complete works, as well as editions and adaptations of Shakespeare's works, other works published during Shakespeare's time, prompt books, the Gordon Crosse Theatrical Diaries, criticism, reviews, images, and reference. Document supply available. Useful for HSC English.
The Sunday Times Digital Archive 1822-2021 brings two centuries of news together in one resource, providing the complete run of the newspaper up to 2021, including all of its supplements, in one cross-searchable and browseable platform.
The Telegraph Historical Archive, 1855-2000 is the fully searchable digital archive of what was once the world's largest-selling newspaper. Researchers and students can full-text search across 1 million pages of the newspaper's backfile from its first issue to the end of 2000, including issues of the Sunday Telegraph from 1961.
This publication for teachers began with a focus on advocacy of educational reforms. It covered many educational themes including the history of public policy, developmental psychology, social history, women's studies, public health, literature and the arts.
A complete searchable archive of American Vogue, from the first issue in 1892 to the current month, reproduced in high-resolution color page images. Every page, advertisement, cover and fold-out has been included, with rich indexing enabling you to find images by garment type, designer and brand names. The Vogue Archive preserves the work of the world's greatest fashion designers, stylists and photographers and is a unique record of American and international fashion, culture and society from the dawn of the modern era to the present day.
Search their database to find images of the graves or memorial listings of war dead and particularly those of the Commonwealth since the outbreak of the First World War. The project has photographed over 1.7 million named graves and memorials and have partnered with Commonwealth War Graves Commission. The ongoing project is run by volunteers.
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The mission of the Dennis Wolanski Foundation is to facilitate management, presentation and appreciation of the performing arts. The Foundation focuses on management of performing arts information resources in New South Wales. The website provides a directory of institutions holding material from the former Dennis Wolanski Library, and a selective catalogue of the collection. Holds important historical information about the Sydney Opera House.
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The National Library of Scotland's online collection of nearly 1800 broadsides printed notices for public distribution between 1650 and 1910. Crime, politics, romance, emigration, humour, tragedy, royalty and superstitions are covered by these precursors to the modern newspaper.
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This is the official site of the World Bank. It provides information about World Bank programs, news, details of World Bank publications and links to some full text documents.
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Official website of the Theosophical Society founded in 1875 by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky. Provides a history of the society, its major tenets and publications, as well as an international directory of its offices.
TheShipsList website has immigration reports, newspaper records, shipwreck information, ship pictures, ship descriptions, shipping-line fleet lists and more; as well as hundreds of passenger lists to Canada, USA, Australia and even some for South Africa.
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The Times Digital Archive is an online, full-text facsimile of more than 200 years of the Times, one of the most highly regarded resources for eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth century news coverage, with every page of every issue from 1785 to 2019.
Contains the complete run of the TLS from 1902 to 2019 online. Access to over a century of insight, criticism, and commentary on literature and the arts.
An archival research resource containing a vast collection of rare magazines by and for servicemen and women of all nations during the First World War. Over 1,500 periodicals written and illustrated by serving members of the armed forces and associated welfare organisations published between 1914 and the end of 1919 are included.
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Trove helps you find and use resources relating to Australia. It’s more than a search engine. Trove brings together content from libraries, museums, archives, repositories and other research and collecting organisations big and small.
Working with people across Sydney and New South Wales who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and gender diverse, non-binary, intersex, questioning, queer, asexual and more (LGBTIQA+) their families and communities.
Learn how to trace the voyages made by a merchant seaman, find a Royal Marine’s medal record or track the wartime history of an Army regiment in the National Archives of the UK records.
The National Archives was formed in April 2003 by bringing together the Public Record Office and the Historical Manuscripts Commission. This site provides information about genealogical research in the United Kingdom, including the 1901 census, family fact sheets which provide details on tracing an ancestor, and research information leaflets. Records available online include the 1901 and 1911 Census for England and Wales, and probate wills from 1384 to 1858. Initial searches are free but charges apply for viewing records.
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"This site provides links to web sites that offer online information in a wide range of categories to help you with your Military Family History research. New links are added regularly."
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Ulrichsweb is an easy to search source of detailed information on more than 300,000 periodicals (also called serials) of all types: academic and scholarly journals, e-journals, peer-reviewed titles, popular magazines, newspapers, newsletters, and more.
A portal site for information on the sustainable development of the oceans. Covers history, biology, maps, statistics and research, climatology and ecology; economic uses of the oceans; and issues from food security and climate change to governance and human health.
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Produced by the United Nations Human Settlements Programme, this is a report investigating sustainability of urban development in cities across the world. It explores issues surrounding climate, growth, organisation, power and the effects on people including the disadvantaged.
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An index to names of unassisted passengers who arrived in Victoria from British and foreign ports between 1852 and 1923. The Public Record Office Victoria website also provides research guides and information about the office's collections and services.
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This site contains documents of UNESCO governing bodies such as the General Conference and Executive Board; reports and documents of UNESCO meetings and conferences; speeches of the Director-General; and the UNESCO Courier and UNESCO Sources monthly magazines.
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This database contains a selection of unreported judgments from the High Court, Federal Court, and State Supreme Courts. Document supply NOT available.
This site provides information from the US Census Bureau Statistical Abstract including statistics in brief, frequently requested tables, state rankings and state and county profiles.
The Vaughan Evans Library is part of the Australian National Maritime Museum at Pyrmont in Sydney. It contains migration stories, family history, shipping records, maritime heritage and naval history of Australia from the 1700's to today.
Access full-text gazettes and government notices through the State Library of Victoria website from 1836. These include: (1) New South Wales Government Gazette 1836 - 1851; (2) Port Phillip Government Notices January - 12 July 1843; (3) Port Phillip Government Gazette January 1844 - July 1851; and (4) Victoria Government Gazette July 1851 - 1997.
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Victorian Statute Book (Acts and Statutory Rules) with authorised versions from January 2011. Parliamentary Documents include links to Bills and Hansard.
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This service allows you to search Victorian indexes to births from 1853 to 1915, marriages in Victoria from 1853 to 1942,
deaths in Victoria from 1853 to 1988 and church baptisms, marriages and burials in Victoria from 1836 to 1853 and the events at sea (Marine) index contains births, marriages and deaths that happened between 1853 and 1920 onboard international and coastal ships bound for port in Victoria. Check the Help guide on their website to keep up to date with the dates of the indexes.
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Hosted by the National Library of Wales, the Crime and Punishment database comprises data about crimes, criminals and punishments included in the gaol files of the Court of Great Sessions in Wales from 1730 until its abolition in 1830.
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Browse through over 150 billion web pages archived from 1996 to a few months ago. To start surfing the Wayback, type in the web address of a site or page where you would like to start, and press enter. Then select from the archived dates available. The resulting pages point to other archived pages at as close a date as possible. Keyword searching is not currently supported.
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Welsh Newspapers Online Beta is a free online resource from the National Library of Wales where you can discover millions of articles from the Librarys rich collection of historical newspapers. It currently lets you search and access over 725,000 pages from over 100 newspaper publications generally up to 1910 and will grow to over 1 million pages as more publications are added during 2014. This resource also includes newspaper content that has been digitised by The Welsh Experience of World War One project.
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This website makes it easier to match a couple married in WA. See Frequently-asked questions on this website for a better explanation.
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Index to Fremantle, Karrakatta, Pinnaroo, Midland and Guildford cemeteries. Search by name to find cemetery grave location and grant number, whether the grant has expired, date of death, memorial location, funeral application number.
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