Australia Genealogy

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The internet is a valuable aid to research into family history. Australian sites contain a variety of information relating to family history and genealogy including guides, indexes and digitised images of documents. They also provide links to other informative sites both in Australia and overseas and contact with other family historians via indexed family trees, mailing lists, and bulletin boards.



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Did You Know?

 * National censuses have been taken by the Australian government since 1911. However, to protect individual privacy, all national censuses were destroyed after statistical information was collected. Because of this policy, census usage in Australian research may vary greatly from census usage in other countries.
 * Prior to the European settlement in 1788, the Aborigines had an extensive language system with more than 500 different dialects. Almost three-quarters of the modern-day place names of Australia are of Aboriginal origin. The meaning of many of these place names have been lost because the Aboriginal dialects have died out.

Five Useful Websites
The National Library of Australia maintains a website that lists selected websites for Australian Family History and Genealogy: http://www.nla.gov.au/oz/genelist.html.

Births, Marriages and Deaths http://www.coraweb.com.au/bdmaut.html National Archives: http://www.naa.gov.au/ Convicts to Australia: http://members.iinet.net.au/%7Eperthdps/convicts/index.html Obituaries: http://www.daddezio.com/obituary/depot.au/index.html