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Births, Marriages & Deaths

• Australian Cemeteries
  Collection of online cemetery records for all states.
• Birth Death and Marriage Records – Australia
  Details of registry offices for all Australian states and territories giving addresses, costs of certificates and links to each website. Published birth, marriage and death indexes are also listed.

Convicts

• Convict Transportation Registers Database
  The British convict transportation registers 1787-1867 database has been compiled from the British Home Office (HO) records which are available in the State Library as part of the Australian Joint Copying Project (AJCP) microfilm collection. You can find details for over 123,000 of the estimated 160,000 convicts transported to Australia in the 18th and 19th centuries.
• Australian Convict Index
  Searchable database of over 48,000 names of convicts sent to New South Wales, Tasmania and Western Australia between 1788 and 1868. This database is part of the free content on the subscription database, Ancestry.com. You will need to register to access it. Alternatively, you can access everything on the subscription database free of charge within the State Library building.

Gateways

• Australian Family History Websites
  Selected family history websites arranged by category on the National Library of Australia site.
• Websites for Genealogists by Cora Num
  Australian gateway to family history resources on the web.
  

Immigration / Passenger Lists

• Convictions: Australian Shipping Arrivals and Departures, 1788 to 1968
  Shipping arrivals and departures for Australia 1788-1968. Now also includes some shipping for New Zealand.
• National Archives of Australia
  Use RecordSearch to find digitised passenger lists and naturalisation records.
  

Medical

• Australian Medical Pioneers Index
  Database of Australian pioneer doctors from 1700s-1875. Includes ships’ surgeons, convict doctors, general practitioners and medical specialists.
  

Military

• Australian Anzacs in the Great War 1914-1918
  Searchable database of men and women who served in the First Australian Imperial Force 1914-1918
  
• Australian War Memorial
  Search for members of the Australian armed forces in a variety of databases including the Roll of Honour. Also included is a military glossary, information on Australian military units and official war histories.
  
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission
  Searchable database of Commonwealth casualties from the First and Second World Wars giving place of burial or commemoration.
  
• National Archives of Australia
  Use RecordSearch to find the digitised service record of Australian men and women who served in World War One.
  
• World War Two Nominal Roll
  Database of about one million Australians who served in the defence forces and the merchant navy during World War Two.

Newspapers

• Historic Australian Newspapers, 1803 to 1954
  Newspapers from around Australia are being digitised by the National Library. The site is not yet complete but new material is being added all the time.
  

Photographs

• Picture Australia
  View photographs, maps, objects and artworks held at various archives, libraries and museums around Australia including State Libraries, the Australian War Memorial, the National Trust etc. Search under keyword for people, places, ships and more. Also included in the database are Flickr images submitted by the public.
  

Societies

• Genealogy, Family History and Historical Societies
  Links to Australian genealogical and historical societies arranged by state.