Family History Links

Birth, Deaths and Marriages.

Information that was previously available on the Digger CD-ROMs will now only be available online.

Many records are available from either from State Government websites, the family history database AncestryLibrary or on publicly available websites. Note that AncestryLibrary is available free when you are using them at the library through the library network.

Victoria

Birth Deaths and Marriages (BDM) :

This site combines all the following Digger Indexes  

• Births in Victoria from 1853 to 1917
• Marriages in Victoria from 1853 to 1950
• Deaths in Victoria from 1853 to 1988
• Church baptisms, marriages and burials in Victoria from 1836 to 1855
• Marine births, deaths and marriages 1853 to 1920

Other Victorian Records

• Divorce Index 
• Probate and Wills 
• Inquests 
• Passenger Lists
• other online indexes from the Public Records Office  
• Sands and McDougall's directories
• Sands and Kenny Melbourne Directories

New South Wales

• Birth Deaths and Marriage  

This index covers

• Births (over 100 years ago)
• Deaths (over 30 years ago)
• Marriages (over 50 years ago)

Other New South Wales Records

•  Online Indexes State Records Office

Queensland

• Family History Research Service

This index covers

• Births 1829 - 1918
• Deaths 1829-1988
• Marriages 1829-1943  

South Australia

All available through Find My Past (free to use in any of our Libraries)

• Births 1842--1928
• Deaths 1842-1972
• Marriage Registrations 1842-1937

Other South Australian Records

• Online database Search- Genealogy SA

Tasmania

• Name Index

Western Australia

• BDMs Online Index

This index covers

• Births 1841 to 1932
• Marriages 1841 to 1971
• Deaths 1841 to 1936

Other West Australian records

• Find My Past
• AncestryLibrary

 Australian Capital Territory

 This site allows you to download excel files containing the Death index 1930 to 1988 and the Marriage Index 1930 to 1943>

• Access Canberra

International Record

• Family Search - includes International Genealogical Index
• Batch numbers for the International Genealogical index
• FreeBMDs - transcription project for English and Welsh BDMs.
• FreeReg -  transcription project for parish registers
• US Genweb

Scottish Research

• Scotlands People
• Scottish Wills
• Scottish Association of Family History Societies
• Scottish section of GENUKI

Irish Research

• Irish Genealogy Records Database
• 1901& 1911 Irish Census
• Irish section of GENUKI
• National Archives of Ireland
• Genealogical Society of Ireland

Italian Research

• Anglo-Italian Family History Society
• Portale Antenati (Ancestors Portal)  

European Research

• European Countries link from Cyndi's list
• Finland GenWeb
• Netherlands/Nederlands

Adoption in Victoria

• Adoption and Forgotten Australians
• Public records Office guide
• VANISH
• Open Place

Cemeteries

• Australian Cemeteries
•  Perth Cemeteries
•  South Australian Cemetery Directory

Convicts

• Convict to Australia
• Old Bailey records Online 1674-1834 
• Irish Convicts to Australia 1791 - 1820
• Descendents of Convicts Group

Indigenous Family History

• Australian Institute of Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Affairs
• Koorie Family History
• Aboriginal Victorians Family History

Military

• Australian War Memorial
• National Archives of Australia
• Australians in the Boer War
• Gippsland War Memorials and Honour Rolls
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission
• Military Resources Worldwide Cyndi's List

Newspapers

• Trove Australian Historic Newspapers
• Ryerson Index

Places

• Australian Place Name Search
• Genuki Gazetteer 
• Great Britain street and road maps
• Links to map and gazetteer sites

Shipping & Passenger Lists

• Victorian Passenger lists
• Mainly NSW indexes & some Port Phillip and Qld records
• Qld Immigration Indexes
• South Australian passenger lists 1836-1851
• Tasmanian Arrivals and Departures
• Passenger ships arriving in Western Australia Ports
• The Ships List
• Coraweb Ships - crews, ship movements, pictures and diaries