WEB SITES FOR RESEARCH
AUSTRALIA
http://www.necropolis.com.au/mainindex.htm
This site is being upgraded over the next few months and will be unavailable. The name has been changed from the Necropolis to Springvale Botanical Cemetery.
http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/ncas/multimedia/gazetteer/
Australian Cities, Towns, Suburbs.
http://resources.archives.tas.gov.au/Pioneers/
Colonial Tasmanian Family Links Database.
http://members.westnet.com.au/web/talltrees/civil_registration.htm
This site outlines the data that you can expect to find on Australian certificates (Each state is different, like the railway gauges).
http://www.marriages.familyhistorysa.info/
The major sources of these marriages are the Holy Trinity Church marriage register and the South Australian Marriages Registrations 1842 to 1916, South Australian Genealogy & Heraldry Society, 2001. Other church records, journals and newspapers were also consulted.
http://members.iinet.net.au/~perthdps/graves/intro.htm
The website of the Perth Dead Persons’ Society. Covers East Perth Cemeteries.
http://www.mcb.wa.gov.au/default.php
The Metropolitan Cemeteries Board of Western Australian.
http://www.saghs.org.au/graves.htm
These searchable databases are Indexes to South Australian deaths. They are
Finding-Aids to the records on the SAGHS’ library computers. They include the
Cemetery Index, Newspaper Deaths and Govt Gazette databases.
http://www.justice.wa.gov.au/portal/server.pt
Western Australia have extended their online Historic indexes for births (1841-1913) deaths & marriages (1841-1905)
http://www.historyvictoria.org.au/
The Royal Historical Society of
Victoria has links to its catalogue and Local History Online. Local Historical
Societies can often have photographs and information not available elsewhere.
The National Archives of Australia. Records of armed services are being digitised, giving date and place of birth.
The Argus Melbourne newspaper 1870-1879 online.
http://thegardensfamily.com/cemeteries.htm
Has many links to cemeteries in Tasmania.
waratahtasmania.com/
If you have research
interests in this area, this is a great site to search.
http://www.launcestonfamilyalbum.org.au/
An
article in the September issue of 'Tasmanian Ancestry' gives a complete list of
surnames from the 'Launceston Family Album' of passport type photos taken at
the time of the Tasmanian International Exhibition 1891-92. The actual
photographs can be viewed on the website.
http://www.launceston.tas.gov.au/subsector.php?id=1090
Carr
Villa Cemetery and Crematorium, Launceston, Tasmania, is now online and has a
searchable index.
http://www.ga.gov.au/map/names/
Australian Place names.
http://www.adelaideco-op.familyhistorysa.info
South Australia "Persons Lost and Found 1838-69".
This is a database of deserters from wives, families, ships, military and other
service (eg apprenticeships and work contracts), the deserted, those failing to
support wives or family, missing persons, escaped prisoners,
absconders from asylums and industrial schools, convict expirees arriving from
other colonies and bigamists. It has been compiled from South Australian Police
Gazettes and early SA Government Gazettes.
http://www.justice.qld.gov.au/bdm/IndexSearch.htm
The Department of Justice and Attorney General of Queensland recently put
birth, marriage, and death records from 1829-1914 online.
http://www.pictureaustralia.org/
This
site contains pictures held by the State Library of Victoria, the Australian
War memorial, the Museum of Victoria, the National Library of Australia, the
State Library of New South Wales and the National Archives of Australia.
www.records.nsw.gov.au/archives/
Contains a wealth of information on Government archives.
UNITED KINGDOM
Family trees, UK and US Censuses, and more.
http://www.bmdregisters.co.uk/
Birth, marriage and death records are the most important way of tracking down your ancestors. The trouble is the BMD records in the General Record Office main index only go back as far as 1837 and even then many events are missing from these records due to the nature of the material. With the major part of the release now completed the online launch will be 14th September 2007 on the site www.BMDRegisters.co.uk/. This will allow you to search over six million individuals with ease and allow you to see three generations of a family for many of the records. The hidden birth, marriage and death records have been compiled from various unpublished registries and many unusually include records of three generations of a family. These are a fantastic resource for the family historian and often prove to be the only record of the events.
The Gazetteer provides an exhaustive Place Name Index to Great Britain, containing over 50,000 entries. It lists the historic county and the main administrative areas in which each place lies. Please read the accompanying notes before using the Gazetteer.
May have pictures such as churches, houses, towns, etc, of places in
England.
Index to UK BDMs Sep 1837- Dec 1920. Incomplete, still has millions of names.
http://www.fibis.org/
Families in British India Society website.
http://www.genuki.org.uk/
Major website for United Kingdom and Ireland genealogy.
http://www.bl.uk/collections/maps.html
The British Library Map Collection.
http://ajax.parish.ath.ex/translator/
Civil parishes in England
http://www.ffhs.org.uk/tips/first.php
Useful tips on research in the United Kingdom.
Lots of changes to this subscription
site. Worth a look and maybe some research. Over 9,000,000 OPR names have been
updated.
http://www.cornwalleng.com/
Cornwall Parish Register Index database.
List of Civil Parishes in England.
http://www.memorialinscriptions.org.uk
National Archive of Memorial Inscriptions – an accessible archive of UK memorial inscriptions
This is the new name for the
old 1837online site. The name change is due to a broadening of the databases
which can be searched for a fee.
www.genealogylinks.net/uk/wales/index.html
Has more than 550 genealogy links for Wales
including cemetery records, census returns, immigration records, mariners
database, military records, marriages, ships passenger lists etc.
http://www.scan.org.uk/researchrtools/emigration.htm
1852-1857
Highlands and Islands Emigration Society Passenger Lists
The Highland and Island Emigration Society was set up by
private subscription to alleviate destitution in the Highlands of Scotland by
promoting and assisting the emigration of Highlanders to Australia. The
passenger lists for the years 1852-1857 have survived and are organised by ship
and by family and record the name, age and residence of each emigrant (HD4/5)
as well as occasional notes on their health and situation. This is one of the
few sources for emigration held by the National Archives of Scotland. To find out more
about sources for Emigration held by Scottish archives, go to the Knowledge Base.
http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/Gazetteer
The Genuki Gazetteer enables you to find the locality of places in the Isle of Man, Wales, England and Scotland.
http://archivemaps.com/mapco/lewis/lewis.htm
1840s maps of England and Wales. Just click on one of the grid portions to obtain a larger map of that area.
http://www.genesreunited.co.uk/
It
costs $A19.95 per annum to subscribe to this great site. Upload a gedcom of
your family history, and it will be compared with millions of names already on
the site. If someone else is researching your family, you will be notified of
“Hot Matches”, and can contact the researcher.
1871
& 1891 Scottish Census is now on Ancestry.com site.
www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/Corporation/wills
UK Wills online - A Free index of wills from Middlesex online.
IMMIGRATION
http://www.castlegarden.org/
Immigration to USA 1830 - 1892, pre Ellis Island.
http://www.access.prov.vic.gov.au/public/PROVguides/PROVguide023/PROVguide023.jsp
Victorian Public Record Office online index to passengers arriving 1839-1923.
http://www.nationaalarchief.nl/emigranten/en/Default.asp
Netherlands to Australia 1946-1991
http://www.ancestorsonboard.com/
Lists of passengers from the British Isles to
Australia, New Zealand, India, America, South Africa, etc. Includes passengers
disembarking at ports en route, and ships leaving Ireland before 1922.
Another decade of passenger lists has
been released – 1890-1909 now available.
http://naa12.naa.gov.au/scripts/PassengerSearch.asp
Many
ships bound for the eastern Australian states passed through Fremantle. The
Fremantle passenger lists include all those passengers who disembarked in
Fremantle. They often also include all other passengers who travelled further on
the same ship and disembarked in other Australian or overseas ports.
http://www.norwayheritage.com/
CHINA
This
page provides national genealogy resources from the Peoples Republic of China
and links to its provinces.
www.genealogy.about.com/cs/china/
Genealogy and family
history resources for China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Tibet including surnames,
jia pu, queries, message boards, how-tos, history, etc.
www.fuzzo.com/genealogy/Asia/chinagen.htm
This is a bibliography of Chinese Genealogical Resources including books about research, history and culture, atlases and many websites.
mycinnamontoast.com/perl/results.cgi?region=41&sort=n
China Genealogy CFHG
www.distantcousin.com/Links/Ethnic/China/Surname.html
China Surname Search
www.ziplink.net/~rey/ch/queries
Chinese Surnames
This Genealogical Directory has links to many Asian family history sites.
http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/3919/hundred.html
The website gives you the generic genealogy of most Chinese family names.
http://www.spatial-literacy.org/UCLnames/Surnames.aspx
Similar to the surname distribution on ancestry.com, but worldwide. Click on “Start a Surname” at the right hand side of the page. Try a Scottish surname.
http://surnamesupersearch.com/
Search
over 3 billion online records with these free genealogy search engines.
Similar to Rootsweb World Connect or Ancestry’s OneWorldTree, this is a paid site, costing $A19.95 per annum to subscribe.
Search family trees and databases.
Search the IGI, Ancestral File and the Pedigree Resource File.
Search family trees, UK and US censuses.
Type in a surname and see all the hits it brings.
http://librarydata.christchurch.org.nz/Cemeteries/
This database includes interments from the following cemeteries: Addington Cemetery, Avonhead Park Cemetery, Barbadoes Street, Belfast Cemetery, Bromley Cemetery, Linwood Cemetery, Memorial Park Cemetery, Ruru Lawn Cemetery, Sydenham Cemetery, Waimairi Cemetery, Woolston Cemetery, Yaldhurst Cemetery.
http://www.archway.archives.govt.nz/
New Zealand Archives.
http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~ashleigh/
The
Births, Deaths and Marriages transcribed from Christchurch, New Zealand
newspapers. Period covered is 1870 – 1930.
http://archway.archives.govt.nz/
The
Archives Office of New Zealand has a comprehensive list of holdings and could
be recommended to card submitters for further research. The “Simple” search
facility enables you to put in a surname and see what is available for probate,
inquests, etc.
http://www.genealogylinks.net/newzealand/index.html
More
than 550 New Zealand Genealogy links.
http://www.genealogylinks.net/europe/croatia/index.html
This is a great site for Croatian research.
http://www.svu2000.org/whatwedo/c5gd1.htm
Covers
the territory of the former Czechoslovakia, Including Bohemia, Moravia,
Slovakia, and Subcarpathian Ruthenia
Dutch Ancestry – The information in
Genlias is taken directly from the Civil and Parish Registers, the most
important Dutch source for genealogical research covering the years from 1811
to about 1922.
www.dutchgenealogy.nl/index.php
This site explains how to research Dutch
ancestors, both online and offline. There are translations for the commonly
used Dutch and genealogical terms, family relationships, occupations, dates and
times.
Good
for overseas countries.
Contains 264.680 genealogy links to sites
all over the world.
http://www.pricegen.com/civilregistration.htm
Global Civil Registration Timeline. Civil registration, or government-mandated recording of births,
marriages, and deaths, began in France under the rule of Napoleon. This useful
idea spread throughout the Western World during the century that followed. The
timeline identifies years when various countries began to register births.
This site is useful if you want to find
descriptions of countries or cities.
http://www.werelate.org/wiki/Main
Page
Werelate – Said to be the world’s largest genealogy wikipedia.
Robert Neilson, PAF Database specialist,
worked for the Church for 18 years as a specialist on the FamilySearch site. He
has written three free downloads that will help you with PAF Entry standards,
Standard Approach to Using PAF Insight and FamilySearch Temple Ready
Procedures.
PAF Insight is installed on all computers in each Family History Centre. However, you might wish to use it at home. It is available by downloadfor about $US25. You can check the IGI with a few clicks of the mouse, and update your file the same way. Subscribe (free) to the PAF Insight mailing list to ask questions and offer suggestions. Just click on the PAF Insight Group, “join here” links on the main homepage.
http://www.bobcatsworld.com/genclass/
This site has lots of resources if you
are teaching Family History, or want to know more about it.