This resource focuses on European emigration to the United States, Canada, and Australasia during the 19th and 20th centuries (1800-1980). This resource includes personal diaries, letters, travel journals and scrapbooks supplemented by original maps, watercolours, engravings, objects, emigration pamphlets, shipping papers and rare printed material. Convict shipping logs to Australia in the 1850s. Immigration to the US, Australasia and Canada and the movement of indentured Asian labourers. By Adam Matthew Digital.
The Miramar Ship Index (domiciled in the suburb of Miramar, Wellington, New Zealand) is an historical database listing both merchant powered ships of about 100 gross register tons and above and naval ships of even smaller tonnage displacement; and also composite, iron & steel sailing ships.
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This database replaces Aspect Huntley Datanalysis. It provides comprehensive financial information on ASX listed companies including company reports, historical shares prices and market capitalisation, individual directors' report, shareholders' trading history, financial data and direct link to announcements. Document supply NOT available.
Multicultural Australia and Immigration Studies (MAIS), produced by the Department of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs Library, is a database that indexes and abstracts a wide range of media from published and unpublished material on all aspects of Australian immigration and multicultural issues. Useful for HSC Society and Culture.
Museums & Galleries of NSW is an organisation that helps small-medium museums, galleries and Aboriginal cultural centres create exciting experiences for visitors and, through this, thriving local NSW communities.
Museums of History NSW is a new cultural institution that brings together the historic houses, museums and collections previously in the care of Sydney Living Museums with the vast archives and records in the NSW State Archives Collection.
National NAIDOC Week celebrations are held across Australia in the first week of July each year to celebrate and recognise the history, culture and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. NAIDOC Week is an opportunity for all Australians to learn about First Nations cultures and histories and participate in celebrations of the oldest, continuous living cultures on earth. Includes links to awards, printable posters and educational resources.
The National and State Libraries Australasia (NSLA) is the peak body representing state and territory libraries and the National Library throughout Australia.
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The National Archives of Australia holds material on immigrants and refugees, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, members of the defence forces, government employees, subjects of surveillance by security and intelligence agencies, or as prisoners of war or internees. Records held by the Archives were generally created after 1901. It does not hold records of convicts, of colonial migration, or of nineteenth century Australian history such as the gold rushes or colonial administration.
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There are 208 guides at present. Learn how to find and use military records, wills, the census and a wide range of other records to trace your ancestors.
(National Institutes of Health, USA) Government agency for scientific research on medical practices and products that are not generally considered part of conventional medicine. General information on using complementary and alternative medicine. Also information on specific therapies, herbs and dietary supplements.
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The leading statistical survey of Christianity and church life in Australia, the NCLS is conducted after each national census and data correlated with it and other statistical sources. All major denominations included, representing 80% of church attenders. Website includes "ChurchSEARCH" a comprehensive directory of churches.
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The Archive is a fully digitized version of the National Geographic magazine, cover to cover, published between 1884 to current. National Geographic magazine is the official journal of the National Geographic Society. The magazine has in-depth coverage of cultures, nature, science, technology and the environment.
The National Indigenous Australians Agency (NIAA) works to support the Federal Minister for Indigenous Australians and to influence policy across the entire Australian Government. The NIAA liaises with State and Territory governments, Indigenous peak bodies, stakeholders and service providers to ensure that Indigenous programs and services are delivering for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as intended.
The National Library of Australia (NLA) is the largest reference library in Australia, responsible under the terms of the National Library Act 1960 for maintaining and developing a national collection of library material, including a comprehensive collection of library material relating to Australia and the Australian people. The collection ranges from the earliest European works about the Great Southern Land to the most current publications.
The NLA also hosts and manages the renowned Trove cultural heritage discovery service, which includes access to the Australian Web Archive and National edeposit (NED), a large collection of digitised newspapers, official documents, manuscripts and images, as well as born-digital material.
Access to CORIOLIS: the interdisciplinary journal of maritime studies, Whalemen's shipping list and Merchants' transcript (American whaling vessels throughout the second half of the 19th and early part of the 20th centuries), American offshore whaling voyages database (information from about all known American offshore whaling voyages from the 1700s to the 1920s), Fall River crew lists, San Francisco Shanghaiers and a Maritime Search Engine that searches across multiple databases.
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The National Museum of Australia explores the land, nation and people of Australia, focusing on Indigenous histories and cultures, European settlement and interaction with the environment.
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This site provides information on native title, what the Tribunal does, media releases, information on how to apply, official guidelines and a time line of native title applications for all regions of Australia.
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The National Trust Names database contains information on the size and geographical distribution of 25,630 family names. The information is based on the findings of a project based at University College London (UCL) that is investigating the distribution of surnames in Great Britain, both current (1998) and historic (1881).
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Explore the first 10 years of the Alliances history through the Committee documents of the North Atlantic Council and its sub-committees--over 40,000 documents that cover NATO high level governance by reference code, specific title and multiple keywords.
Please note that NATO publicly disclosed records can be used for research purposes and publications provided that NATO is properly credited.
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NYPL Digital Gallery provides access to over 300,000 images digitised from primary sources and printed rarities in the collections of The New York Public Library, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints and photographs, illustrated books, printed ephemera, and more.
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Collection comprises the C series records relating to the early history of the Anglican Church in Aotearoa New Zealand and Polynesia (C/NZ), along with selected volumes from the series of copies of letters sent and received (CLR & CLS), consists of files relating to the establishment of the Society's activities in the province, and the development of a diocesan organisation to support them. Includes correspondence from the SPG sent to the Colonial Office, London. Document supply available.
New Zealand Government website providing online indexes to the following: * Births up to 100 years ago * Still births up to 50 years ago * Marriages up to 80 years ago * Deaths up to 50 years ago or the deceased's date of birth was at least 80 years ago The date coverage of NZ BDM fiche indexes held in the Family History Service are different: 1840-1990 Births, 1848-1990 Deaths, 1840-1990 Marriages, 1911-1960 Maori BDM. Furthermore, the NZ BDM certificate numbers used on the online index are different to the numbers used on the fiche indexes held in the Family History Service. When ordering online certificates there is an option to order a birth certificate or a birth printout. A printout will give the best genealogical details (but cannot be used for legal purposes). The certificate has less information on it.
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Coordinated by the History Group of the New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Includes Maori, military, family and sports history.
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Global News from Newsbank provides access to almost 7,000 titles including over 200 titles as digital images from Australia and overseas. The digital image titles include: The Australian, The Australian Financial Review, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Daily Telegraph, The Times (London), The Guardian, and the New York Post
Access Australia includes content from over 500 of the most popular Australian daily, weekly and Sunday newspapers, as well as hard-to-find community, regional and rural titles.
This 19th century John Murray Publishing archive includes correspondence, financial papers, book drafts, and advertisements. It covers biographies of key figures, commissioned essays, and an exhibition of the life cycle of the book. Key authors include: Lord Byron, Charles Darwin, David Livingstone, Sir Walter Scott, Washington Irving, Jane Austen, Elizabeth Eastlake and Isabella Bird, William Gladstone, Robert Peel and Benjamin Disraeli, Austen Henry Layard and Charles Lyell. By Adam Matthew Digital.
The Noel Butlin Archives Centre (NBAC) collects business and labour records from Australian companies, trade unions, industry bodies and professional organisations.
The NBAC holds the records of large companies such as the Australian Agricultural Company, Burns Philp, CSR Ltd, Dalgety's, Tooth and Company and the Adelaide Steamship Company as well as those of smaller businesses such as pastoral stations. The records date from the 1820s to the early 21st century.
DVA has published four nominal rolls. These nominal rolls list members of Australia's defence forces who served during World War Two, Korean War, Vietnam War and First Gulf War.
Dedicated to the history of the 240 km convict-built road from Sydney to the Hunter Valley. Includes a convict workers database. Also includes a description of the Iron Gangs, Road Gangs and Bridge Gangs involved in its construction.
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This State Library of NSW project for the Sesquicentenary of Responsible Government in NSW (1856-2006) provides an online guide to the personal papers of NSW MPs that are held by the Mitchell Library - from the first NSW Parliament after Responsible Government (which first sat on 22 May 1856) through to the present.
The Hawkesbury Cemetery Register represents the results of an ongoing voluntary project to transcribe, photograph and map the cemeteries, graves, memorials and monuments within the Hawkesbury Region of New South Wales.
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Miscellaneous lists of Hawkesbury settlers from varous sources such as the 1901 census, post office directories, donor lists etc. Records are mostly from the 19th century. Produced by Hawkesbury on the Net directory.
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(NSW Health, Australia) Information on the health status of the NSW population. Major causes of disease and injury, and current trends.
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Allows you to find digitised geological heritage maps from the 19th and 20th centuries. Also includes a small selection of NSW parish maps with geological data added. Produced by the NSW Department of Planning and Environment.
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'Using the shipping lists from the records of the companies held at the Noel Butlin Archives Centre, Pure Merinos and Others records names of these newly arrived employees and, wherever possible, details of their ages, occupations and wages. The book also includes sailing and arrival dates of the ships on which they came, tonnage, captain and details of significant cargo, especially animal stock.'
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NSW Archaeology Online is a sustainable digital archive of information about the archaeology and heritage of important cultural places in New South Wales. Contains full text archaeological reports on topics such as Aboriginal Australians, heritage buildings and convicts.
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A detailed selection of scanned documents and books, including the Sands directories, some early NSW electoral rolls and land title records and miscelleanous occupations.
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This site provides access to the current issue of the NSW Government gazette as well as quarterly indexes from October 2000 onwards. The gazette is in PDF format and in Microsoft Word format. The latest issue is available from 2 pm every Friday.
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This collection includes material published on NSW Government websites under the *.nsw.gov.au domain. Imformation is gathered by a series of whole of domain web harvests, commencing June 2014.
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