AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND & TASMANIA

[MaryA]

I've come across some varied links for Australian information, tag on any more if you have them.

Public Record Office Victoria including Index to Assisted British Immigration 1839-1871, Outward Passengers, Public Works Department, Unassisted Passengers to Victoria, Schools files and teachers and more.
Queensland Births, Deaths and Marriages
and some old Queensland Immigration Indexes.
New South Wales BMD's
and the same for Western Australia
Convict Shipping Lists
Mailing lists for convict information to Port Jackson
and New South Wales State Library
BMDs in Victoria

[MaryA]

Thanks to BarrattFamily for some insider hints

I only buy transcripts of BDM certificates in Australia. There are a couple of people to use (all around the same price) but I have found a man named Laurie Turtle to be the fastest. He sometimes emails them to me within a day or two. It's roughly half the price and has the same information that the full certificate has. The death transcripts are really worthwhile because they list every child of the deceased and their ages at the time of the parents death. Also how many living & deceased children.

Below is an example of one of my Great Grandmothers death transcript to show you what is recorded.

NAME Ann Donaldson Rodger

DATE OF DEATH 24th December 1934

PLACE 17 Mintaro Avenue, Strathfield Municipality

RANK OR PROFESSION No entry

********** & AGE Female, 79 years

CAUSE OF DEATH (a) Chronic myocarditis (b) Cerebral thrombosis

LENGTH OF ILLNESS (a) 5 years (b) 1 month

MEDICAL ATTENDANT WD Keith Craig (registered)

DATE LAST SEEN 23rd December 1934

FATHER William Neilson

OCCUPATION Farm labourer

MOTHER Margaret Smeaton (unclear, Margaret S----ton?)

INFORMANT JM Rodger, widower, 17 Mintaro Avenue, Strathfield

REGISTRATION 27th December 1934, Burwood, signed by the registrar

DATE OF BURIAL 26th December 1934

PLACE OF BURIAL Presbyterian Cemetery, Rookwood

UNDERTAKER Arthur Ernest Walters of the firm of Walters & Son

MINISTER & RELIGION AM Ferrie, Presbyterian (unclear)

WITNESSES RP Hanley and R Walters

PLACE OF BIRTH Ardgibzean, Parish Scone, County Perth

TIME IN AUST COLONIES 6 months in Queensland, fifty two years in NSW

PLACE OF MARRIAGE Kincaple in Fifeshire, Scotland (unclear, Kin--ple?)

AGE AT MARRIAGE 27 years

NAME OF SPOUSE James Myles Rodgers

CHILDREN OF MARRIAGE Elizabeth M 40 years, Janet M 36 years living, four males deceased

OTHER DETAILS Parts of this register are unclear, especially where indicated above

I do admit they are still expensive but you get a lot for your money. Transcripts are $17 - roughly £9.80 I think. Here are their details as listed on the NSW BDM website.

Laurie Turtle
Tel: 61 (2) 4573 1559
Fax: 61 (2) 4573 0536
Email: lturtle [at] iprimus.com.au
Website: http://home.iprimus.com.au/lturtle/

Joy Murrin
Tel: 61 (2) 9585 1187
Fax: 61 (2) 9585 1486
Email: joy [at] joymurrin.com.au
Website: http://www.joymurrin.com.au

Marilyn Rowan
Tel: 61 (2) 9543 8156
Fax: 61 (2) 9541 1246
Email: marilynr [at] marbract.com.au
Website: http://www.transcriptions.com.au/

Hope this helps you out.

Email addresses amended to prevent spamming - replace [at] with @ to use. MA

[germaine cowell]

Following advice to ask for help on Austrailia on Roots web.
I was given these links very good
Sorry if these have been posted before.
Germaine
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You may like to search the National Library's digitised newspapers as there are sometimes mentions of divorces. There are also personal notices such as Death Notices which can give clues, as well as news items. You can filter the search to look only at newspapers in Victoria and by dates.
http://newspapers.nla.gov.au/

Could either husband have served in WW1? There are very good records at the National Archives. If a person did enlist there is a record of who they named as Next of Kin and addresses for them. Search as a Guest and put in the surname and first name of the person.
http://www.naa.gov.au/collection/record ... index.aspx

You can also search for Wills granted probate in Victoria. Many wills before 1925 have been digitsed so you might find at least the first chap's will.
http://www.prov.vic.gov.au/access/probate.asp

Also a very good one I had before.

https://online.justice.vic.gov.au/CA257 ... me~&2=~&3=~

[Tina]

Here's the link
Tina

http://www.convictcentral.com/index.html

[Blue70]

NZ Immigration Passenger Lists including original images:-

Blue

Amended as the catalogue was updated, this includes the list for New Zealand MA
https://www.familysearch.org/search/cat ... Zealand%22

[MaryA]

The National Archives of Australia http://www.naa.gov.au/ have details of Home Children sent to Australia.

Thanks to Wendyem
Phone book http://personlookup.com.au/
and the State Library of Victoria http://www.slv.vic.gov.au/

[Wendyem]

Also runs: perhaps a Mod could have a quickie check to see they are all acceptable?

http://www.australiancemeteries.com/
http://www.nla.gov.au/research-guides/b ... th-records
http://www.bdm.dotag.wa.gov.au/_apps/pi ... fault.aspx
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~qldhbfha/V_WA.html
http://www.ww2roll.gov.au/
At times when looking for a relly in an out of city spot, typing that place name for a cemetery will bring up a whole listing for the area with interees.

[louis]

Try this site for Australian Records - http://www.coraweb.com.au

This gateway site has over 2000 links to most genealogical categories and has many useful links to records in England, Scotland, Ireland, India, Sri Lanka, Wales and New Zealand. Most of the links mentioned previously are probably listed on the website.

Hope this helps.
louis

[MaryA]

Thanks to Louis for this link.
http://www.linc.tas.gov.au/

and for convicts
http://www.linc.tas.gov.au/research/bro ... e/convicts

[big g]

http://wiki.prov.vic.gov.au/index.php/B ... m_Register


Link was forwarded to me via Aus-Vic-Goldfields board on Roots.

The Registers give some good information - names, occupation, residence, birth place, age, parents’ names, religion, marriage status, religion, date of arrival in Victoria, dates in & out of Asylum, remarks.

Few folk on this born Liverpool!!

[MaryA]

http://trove.nla.gov.au/

[MaryA]

The National Archives of Australia (NAA) has started a project for digitising World War I repatriation records for access by the public. 2,300 records have already been digitised and are available online by searching under the person’s name or service number. Read about this project here:
http://www.psnews.com.au/…/archives-dig ... ld-war-1-v…
You can search these records, and many more, here:
http://discoveringanzacs.naa.gov.au/

[MaryA]

Thanks to Pat Bellas who is our Projects Co-ordinator and has a major hand in the Tasmania Girl Convicts project - her "Naughty or Desperate Girls". She has given us a list of websites that the researchers use, mainly for Tasmania but equally well for Australia and maybe New Zealand too.

Index to the Tasmanian Name Index - lots of databases https://linctas.ent.sirsidynix.net.au/c ... _AU/names/

Alphabetical Registers of Applications of Indulgences
http://search.archives.tas.gov.au/defau ... =CON45/1/1 and also
http://search.archives.tas.gov.au/defau ... =CON45/1/2

AUS-Tasmania Mailing List, including Tasmanian Convicts Main Index with lots of links to databases
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~austa ... n_main.htm

Convicts and Convict Ships sent to Tasmania - includes a Research Guide and other links to databases
http://members.iinet.net.au/~perthdps/c ... psTAS.html

More Tasmania Passenger Lists, with links to Australian Passenger Lists, Captains & Crew Lists and other databases
http://www.genealogylinks.net/australia ... -ships.htm

Tasmania Convicts List
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~austas/contas.htm

and Indexes of Convicts
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~austas/convictsdw.htm

Harmony Female Convict List
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~austas/harmony.htm

Cascades Female Factory
http://www.femalefactory.org.au/

The Female Factory infant baptisms and burials
http://www.monissa.com/VDL/factory.html

Campbell St Gaol Records and other links to History and Information about Australian Orphanages, childrens homes and other institutions.
http://www.findandconnect.gov.au/guide/tas/TE00559

Newspaper article The children of mothers in the convict system of Van Diemen’s Land
http://www.examiner.com.au/story/136828 ... and/?cs=12

Female Convicts Research Centre, Convict Ships and records available
http://www.femaleconvicts.org.au/index. ... vict-ships

Murderers, prostitutes, mothers and paupers: Victorian female prison registers online for first time
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-08-21/v ... ne/6715032

[MaryA]

http://www.convictrecords.com.au/
http://www.hawkesbury.net.au/claimaconvict/search.php

[big g]

Ballarat Benevolent Asylum Registers - 1860 to 1872

http://www.ballarathistoricalsociety.co ... ociety.htm <http://www.ballarathistoricalsociety.co ... ociety.htm>

[MaryA]

Useful for New Zealand
http://www.genebug.net/

[MaryA]

Thanks to a lady from Australia who came to the Help Desk today, try these two links for Australia.
http://www.ryersonindex.org/ to death notices and obituaries in Australian newspapers

http://www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/lear ... -directory The firm of John Sands Ltd (Printers and Stationers) published their directory each year from 1858–59 to 1932–33 (except for 1872, 1874, 1878 and 1881). The household and business information it contains has become a fundamental source for research into Sydney history, especially family history.

The Sands Directories: Sydney and New South Wales, Australia, 1858-1933 are also available on Ancestry.

[MaryA]

Thanks to another of our members some more helpful sites for Australia.

Most important -
http://www.australia.gov.au/
Click "Family and community"
"Births deaths marriages register"
click on relevant state(abbreviated) on the right hand side - My experience is only with Victoria
"Search family history"
"Start search"
Fill in index
Click on one of the names shown and you will get further information

The information shown below is for free!!
Father's name/spouse's family name/mothers maiden name, place of birth
All of this info is dependant on the informant supplying it - and correctly!

There is extra info you get by paying
Certificates cost 24 australian$ (about £16) but they are emailed to you by return!!

Some of the most important pieces of info on the paid certificates are
where they were born,
how long they have been in Australia (you can then check the names on the passage records to see if they are your relatives)
and their children are listed on the death certificate.

A very good site for Victoria is http://www.kilmorehistory.info/

Ancestry is also excellent for Australia but you do have to have world wide membership.

[MaryA]

58,000 Missing, Wounded and Prisoner of War Enquiry Cards, mostly from WW2 but includes some post-war items, donated by Red Cross Australia to the University of Melbourne Archives are now available online.
http://gallery.its.unimelb.edu.au/umblu ... est=search

[Alison C]

Here is a site for searching the burial records for several cemeteries in Victoria:
https://smct.org.au/deceasedsearch/

Alison