This collection from Adam Matthew Digital captures the lives, experiences and colonial encounters of people living at the edges of the Anglophone world from 1650-1920. It ranges across the various colonial frontiers of North America before touching on the settlers and indigenous peoples of Southern Africa, Australia and New Zealand.

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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.

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Family history database offering onsite access to records from archives around the world, covering genealogical areas such as:

• Census & Voter Lists
• Births, Deaths & Marriages
• Immigration & Emigration
• Military
• Directories & Member Lists
• Court, Land, Wills & Financial
• Dictionaries, Encyclopedias & Reference
• Stories & Publications
• Newspapers & Periodicals
• Photos & Maps
• Maps, Atlases & Gazetteers
• Ancestry World Tree and Message Boards.

Document supply available.

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Assisted immigrants arriving in Sydney and Newcastle 1844-59, Moreton Bay 1848-59 and Port Phillip 1839-51. The term 'assisted immigrant' refers to those people whose passage was subsidised or paid for through one of the several assisted immigration schemes which operated to New South Wales from the United Kingdom and other countries. View record page

Research guides on topics such as 'Australian and New Zealand Built Ships', 'Child Migration', 'Coastal Shipping', 'Convict Ships', 'First Fleet', 'Immigration - Steamships and Passenger Liners', 'Seafaring Ancestors', 'Shipwrecks' and more. View record page

The Australian National Shipwrecks Database covers all known shipwrecks in Australian waters and can provide details of the ships voyage, the wreck location, the features of the vessel, crew and passengers. The number of shipwrecks listed totals 7664 including: NSW (2047), VIC (797), TAS (1116), QLD (1244), SA (774), WA (1466), NT (153) and Cocos Islands (2). View record page

Search for people across the collections of ten Australian GLAM organisations (Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums) using open datasets. This database currently indexes more than 12 million records from selected datasets from the following organisations:

• History Trust of South Australia
• Libraries Tasmania
• New South Wales State Archives (Museums of History New South Wales)
• Public Record Office of Victoria
• Queensland State Archives
• State Library of Queensland
• State Library of South Australia
• State Library of Victoria
• State Library of Western Australia
• State Records Office of Western Australia
  
   

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A list of ships travelling into Australian and New Zealand waters between 1788 and 1990. Contains information about log book sources and places each ship visited. Files scanned as part of the ACRE (Atmospheric Circulation Reconstructions across Earth) data rescue effort. View record page

This website, developed by Mary-Anne Warner, covers the movement of mariners and passengers into Sydney from NSW State Records Shipping Inward lists from the Shipping Master's Office. View record page

Find passenger records for arrivals and departures by ship and aircraft at all Australian ports from 1924. Documents may include application forms, passenger lists, entry permits and accommodation records and naturalisation. 

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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. View record page

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). View record page

'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.' View record page

NSW State Records offers online indexes and online 'microfilm' copies of the following assisted immigrants records it holds : (1) Assisted immigrants arriving at Port Phillip, 1839-51 (2) Assisted immigrants arriving in Sydney and Newcastle, 1844-59 (3) Assisted immigrants arriving at Moreton Bay (Brisbane), 1848-59 (4) Assisted immigrants arriving in Sydney, 1860-79 and 1880-96 The term 'assisted immigrant' refers to those people whose passage was subsidised or paid for through one of the several assisted immigration schemes which operated to New South Wales from the United Kingdom and other countries. View record page

This index contains the names of some passengers who paid their own fare and some assisted immigrants. There are over 9000 entries to search. View record page

(Oxford DNB) is the national record of men and women who have shaped British history and culture, worldwide, from the Romans to the 21st century.

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A partial index of ships arriving in NSW (1837-1899), Queensland (1840-1915), Victoria (1837-1899), South Australia (1836-1860), Western Australia (1829-1889)and New Zealand (1839-1905). Includes convict transports (1788-1868). Produced by Margaret Bauer and Nancy Campbell. View record page

A database of passengers arriving in South Australia developed by the SA Maritime Museum. Also includes a list of ships logs and diaries, of ships arriving in South Australia, based on Ian Nicholson's 3 volume books, Log of Logs. View record page

The Highland and Island Emigration Society was set up by private subscription to alleviate destitution in the Highlands by promoting and assisting the emigration of almost 5000 Highlanders to Australia. Their passenger lists for the years 1852-1857 have survived and are organised by ship and by family and record the name, age and residence of each emigrant (HD4/5) as well as occasional notes on their health and situation. View record page

This site provides a picture and information on each ship that sailed with the First Fleet. Images have been constructed from written descriptions of the ships. Produced by the First Fleet Fellowship. View record page