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.



Topics

 * Australia Biography
 * Australia Births, Marriages and Deaths
 * Australia Business Records and Commerce
 * Australia Church History
 * Australia Heraldry
 * Australia Historical Geography
 * Australia History
 * Australia Language and Languages
 * Australia Minorities
 * Australia Naturalization and Citizenship
 * Australia Newspapers
 * Australia Obituaries
 * Australia Periodicals
 * Australia Probate Records
 * Australia Public Records
 * Australia Record Selection Table
 * Australia Societies

News and Events

 * The 12th Australasian Congress on Genealogy and Heraldry will be held in Auckland, New Zealand, January 16-20, 2009.

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.
 * Convicts were transported from Ireland to Australia starting in 1788. The National Archives of Ireland holds a wide range of records about this. The Ireland-Australia Transportation database is compiled from such records as the transportation registers, convict reference files and petitions to government for pardon or commutation of sentence. The database is not complete for every convict.
 * The Australians in the Boer War (Oz-Boer) Database Project is a free online search aid to help you identify books, journals, webpages and other ephemera dealing with individual Australian soldiers and nurses involved in the Second Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902).
 * The Heraldry &amp; Genealogy Society of Canberra, Australia, is publishing South African Graves, a database of burial and memorial locations of Australians who died during the second South African Anglo-Boer War, 1899 – 1902.

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