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PostSubject: Australian Genealogy Resource sites/Databases   Fri 2 Mar 2007 - 5:36

See also: Australia History & Information Websites Links

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Australian Genealogy Resource sites/Databases
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National Archives of Australia :
Fact Sheets - Immigration records

Queensland State Archives :
Historical Resource Kits - Immigration

New South Wales Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages
Search the Index

Genealogical Society of Victoria:
Descendants of Convicts Groups Inc.

"Australian Pioneers"
Website compiled by Patricia Downes
Includes lists of names of transported convicts on the 1st, 2nd & 3rd Fleets
and Irish Convicts to NSW 1791-1834


See later post for more Links to
Transported Convicts Online Databases
(moved & updated Jan 08, carole)

National Library of Australia's list of
Selected Websites Australian Family History & Genealogy

Cyndislist
List of Australian Genealogy Sites

"Search Australia"
Search Engine & Directory
Australian and International family history sites.

HAPPY HUNTING, HOPE THIS HELPS.


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Links updated January 2008, carole
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PostSubject: Re: Australian Genealogy Resource sites/Databases   Sun 2 Sep 2007 - 5:32

Carole wrote:
One of our members, JohnT of Melbourne, has recommended this site:
Australian Cemeteries Databases at Oz-Gen Online
http://www.ozgenonline.com/aust_cemeteries/

A nice Proverb from the above web-page.........
To forget one's ancestors is to be a brook
without a source, a tree without a root.
(Chinese Proverb)

The Narre Warren & District Family History Group Inc have recommended the following site for Western Australia.

Category Name: On Line BDM Indexes (Aust)
Link Name: Western Australian BDMs
Link URL: http://www.justice.wa.gov.au/_apps/pioneersindex/
Link Description: Free search of Births 1841-1931;
Deaths 1841-1936 and Marriages 1841-1916.

Certificates available for on-line purchase.

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PostSubject: Re: Australian Genealogy Resource sites/Databases   Sun 30 Sep 2007 - 2:03

Another Site listed by the Narre Warren & District Family History Group Inc is for Tasmania.

Category Name: On Line BDM Indexes (Aust)
Link Name: Colonial Tasmanian Family Links Database
Link URL: http://portal.archives.tas.gov.au/menu.aspx?search=8
Link Description:
An initial online research resource. Links individuals with other members of their families living in Tasmania in the 1800s. Primarily based on BDM records held in the Archives Office and contains approx. 500,000 entries.

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PostSubject: Re: Australian Genealogy Resource sites/Databases   Fri 18 Jan 2008 - 23:38

Carole wrote:
Thank you John. That's another site that I'm sure will be of interest to many others. We'll keep building this list. Great Stuff!!

Transported Convicts - Online Databases

Claim A Convict
Database compiled by Lesley Uebel & updated frequently.
http://users.bigpond.net.au/convicts/index.html
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Irish Convicts to Australia
http://members.pcug.org.au/~ppmay/convicts.htm
chellin2 wrote:
This database contains details of Irish convicts who were transported to
New South Wales in the period 1791 - 1834. The database contains:
* Irish State prisoners,
* convicts who were tried in Ireland, and
* convicts who were tried outside Ireland whose native place was Ireland.
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Fremantle Prison Convicts Database, Western Australia
http://www.fremantleprison.com.au/history/history6.cfm
chellin2 wrote:
Click on the letter S to see all the Smiths and their convictions and sentences.
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Australian Convicts' records search at Ancestry.com
26 July 2007, chellin2 wrote:
New databases at Ancestry Com to find your Convicts
hello you As Smith Chat has an affiliate membership with Ancestry.co.uk, we have been provided
with their new "Australian Convicts" Search Panel, so you can now search the Databases
directly from Smith Chat Portal - (on Portal - scroll down page - you can't miss the Banner - its BIG!)

Otherwise, the links below will take you to the individual related databases at Ancestry........
These are also included in our Links Cabinet - (in Cabinet, from the drop-down menu -
Select Category "(K)Emigration/Passenger Lists" & "go")

Free to search. Fee payable for full records
UK New South Wales and Tasmania, Convict Musters, 1806-1849
UK NSW and Tasmania Convict Lists 1787-1834
New South Wales and Tasmania, Convict Pardons and Tickets of Leave, 1834-1859

If any of our Australian Members find your Convict Ancestors there - please don't forget to call back and tell us about them - especially if they are SMITHs Great Stuff!!

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