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The Historical Land Records Viewer (HLRV) is provided by the NSW Land Registry Services (NSWLRS), enabling online access to historical land information. Records include Torrens titles 1863-1961, Old Systems records (indexes and registers of Grants, Purchasers, Vendors), Plan Lodgement Books 1863-1995, and historical maps such as charting, parish and town maps. For help with using the HLRV, see State Library webinars: Lifelong Learning | State Library of NSW

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Website of the Huguenot Society of Australia. Includes a list of some Huguenot names which have been represented in Australia. View record page

The Huguenot Society of Great Britain and Ireland's website includes information about researching your Huguenot ancestors under Family History and also information about the collections of the Huguenot Library. View record page

The International Centre for Convict Studies (ICCS) is a trans-national and multi-disciplinary consortium of scholars engaged in research on penal transportation and convict experience within the British Empire from 1600-1940. It includes researchers from Australia, United States, South Africa and Europe working in the disciplines of history, textual studies, archaeology, economics and sociology. View record page

The National Archives of Ireland has microfilm copies of the registers for most Roman Catholic parishes in Ireland and there is a list here. Digital copies of microfilm now available. View record page

Search the free census records for Ireland on the National Archives of Ireland's website. View record page

The surviving Church of Ireland parish registers remain with the parishes and at the Representative Church Body Library and a small number have been digitised. View record page

Find information about the young women who came to the Australian colonies during the Famine years of 1848 to 1850  from workhouses throughout Ireland. 

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Ask About Ireland provides free access to the details and original pages from the Griffith's Valuation. The Primary Valuation was the first full-scale valuation of property in Ireland. It was overseen by Richard Griffith and published between 1847 and 1864. It is one of the most important surviving 19th century genealogical sources. View record page

Family history research guide to relevant records held in the National Library of Ireland (Dublin). View record page

Search a unique online database of 20 Million Irish family history records including Birth, Death, Marriage and Gravestone records the majority of which are only available on this website and cannot be found online elsewhere. Register to do 100 free searches of the index. To view a records details you will need to purchase credit vouchers from the website. View record page

The Tipperary Studies digitisation project aims to make available online a range of sources, both historical and genealogical, which are part of the fabric which makes up the history of Tipperary. Many of these documents are unique to Tipperary Studies and one of the aims of the project is to make these sources available to everyone, free of charge, whether you reside within the county of Tipperary or in any part of Ireland or the far flung reaches of the world. View record page

"The Tithe Applotment Books are a vital source for genealogical research for the pre-Famine period, given the loss of the 1821-51 Census records. They were compiled between 1823 and 1837 in order to determine the amount which occupiers of agricultural holdings over one acre should pay in tithes to the Church of Ireland (the main Protestant church and the church established by the State until its dis-establishment in 1871)" View record page

Calendar (index) of Wills and Administration 1858-1920. Up to 1917, the Calendars cover the whole of Ireland, but since 1918 they cover only the 26 counties in the Republic. You can search pdfs for those from 1922 to 1982 on the main National Archives website. View record page

This site provides an online index to records relating to transportation from Ireland to Australia covering the period from 1788 to 1868. Results of searches contain details such as name, age, crime, sentence, and the ship on which the convict was transported. Note that all transportation registers prior to 1836 were destroyed. Therefore if the convict was not the subject of a petition prior to this date, they will not appear. The names of the convict family members that came to Australia as free settlers may also be listed. This is an index only. Microfilm copies of the original records are held in the Family History Service at the State Library of NSW. These records were received in 1988 as a gift from Ireland to commemorate the bicentenary of white settlement in Australia and are sometimes known as "The Irish Gift". 

The microfilms have also been digitised on Trove.

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Use the online index on the National Archive of Ireland’s website to find a name and a reference and a page number, then use the digitised copies of the microfilm here to find further information if it is available. Held by the National Archives of Ireland. As filmed by the AJCP.

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This database contains details of Irish convicts who were transported to New South Wales in the period 1788 - 1849. This website is hosted by Peter Mayberry. View record page

Includes Church records of Baptism, Marriages and Deaths. These records are comprised of Roman Catholic and Church of Ireland Records from Counties Carlow, Cork, Kerry and Dublin City. Hosted by the Department of Tourism, Culture and Sport. View record page

The Jersey Heritage Archive & Online Collections allows you to subscribe to view scanned copies of archives including church registers, civil registrations and wills etc View record page