This resource contains transcripts and indexes of original records and published biographies of deceased individuals who arrived, or were born in, Australia. It includes over 900,000 archival and biographical records such as parish register entries, Colonial Secretary records 1788-1825, Commissariat ration records, convict records, musters, and census information.
Access Canberra maintains an Historic marriage index that provides limited information relating to marriages that were registered in the ACT more than 75 years ago. The ACT marriage Index is arranged by date of marriage and includes surname, given names, date of marriage and registration number.
Access Canberra maintains an historicdeathindex that provides limited information relating to deaths that were registered in the ACT more than 30 years ago.
It's arranged by date of death and includes surname, given names, date of death, registration number and sometimes the names of the parents.
Australian birth, death and marriage registries. Includes links to all registries as well as a table of current prices for certificates, as well as lists of official BDM indexes for each Australian State and Territory which identify resources online, on microfiche and on CD-ROM. Site maintained by Cora Num.
This website contains transcribed lists of publicly available records across Australia for people researching their Aboriginal heritage. You can browse by state, then by subject and open a list, or you can search the entire website by keyword. It contains sources such as archival records, research theses, and journal articles.
Finding Your Ancestors is a project of the Royal Australian Historical Society to encourage and help Aboriginal people to take their first steps into researching their family history.
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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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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Find NSW Probate notices on or after 21 January 2013 on the Online Registry, Supreme, District & Local Courts. Before this date, notices were published in The Sydney Morning Herald and/or local newspapers. Includes Name, Suburb, Date of Notice, Notice Type, Date of Death and Case Number.
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Notices remain in the main search for 28 days, and then they are moved to the archive section, where they can be searched. The archive commences mid January 2006. If the notice is not contained in their archive it is because neither the Funeral Director or the family have placed a notice for this person on obits.com.au. You can search the site for free but there is a cost to submit a notice unless you have booked and paid for a listing through your funeral director. Entries may also include photos.
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Obituaries Australia is a digital repository of obituaries published in newspapers, journals, magazines and bulletins. Here you will find the life stories of Australians from the earliest times to the present. While the Australian Dictionary of Biography focuses on the lives of notable Australians, Obituaries Australia offers a more egalitarian sample of the Australian experience.
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Allows you to search historic Queensland Births, Deaths and Marriage records for births that took place more than 100 years ago, marriages that took place more than 75 years ago and deaths that occurred more than 30 years ago.
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Genealogy SA offers an online database that can be used to search the following databases: Newspaper Birth Notices Index from 1960 onwards Newspaper Death Notices Index from 1972 onwards South Australia Cemeteries Index Birth Registration Certificates Index 1842 - 1928 Death Registration Certificates Index 1842 - 1972 Marriage Registration Certificates Index 1842 - 1937
Search an online database which contains records of births, deaths, and marriages held in the Archives Office of Tasmania. It also provides indexes of convicts, census records, wills, divorces and other indexes. Some digitised copies of records are available online, those which are not available online can be obtained from the Archives Office of Tasmania.
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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Free online searching of Western Australian birth, death and marriage indexes is available for the following ranges of years: Birth indexes - 1841 to 1932 Death indexes - 1841 to 1960 Marriage indexes - 1841 to 1932.
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