WEB-SITES FOUND USEFUL DURING MY RESEARCH
Most of these sites are free but be sure to have Spam protection should you leave your e-mail address on any of the forums. A few are only showing "Snail Mail" contacts and phone numbers but have been helpful with my research.
WEBGEN - AUSTRALIA (Genealogy at your fingertips) - GENEALOGY SEARCH AUSTRALIA - ROYAL AUSTRALIAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY (Try "Useful Links") - OZ GEN ONLINE (Has links to many other useful sites) - GENEALOGY & HISTORY LINKS (Australia) (Many other sites shown on this one) - CLAIM A CONVICT (Has gone missing?) - CONVICTS TO AUSTRALIA - ANCESTRAL FINDINGS (Shows many other sites free around the World) - CINDI'S LIST (Provides a huge list of genealogy sites all over the World) - CINNAMON TOAST GENEALOGY - GENEALOGY.COM - SURNAME NAVIGATOR - SURNAME FINDER - COUSIN'S CONNECT - FIND MY PAST (London Based) - CORA'S LIST OF GENEALOGY SITES - ROOTS WEB (I have had a lot of response from using the "Mailing Lists" feature for overseas research) - DEAD PERSONS SOCIETY OF VICTORIA - SHIPPING LISTS - GENEALOGY ABBREVIATIONS - AUSTRALIAN SHIPPING 1788 - 1968 - AUSTRALIAN HERITAGE
NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF IRELAND (Includes other useful links) - GENERAL REGISTER OFFICE (NORTHERN IRELAND) (No online search though) - IRISH FAMILY HISTORY FOUNDATION - Co DOWN, NORTHERN IRELAND FAMILY HISTORY RESEARCH SITE
EAST GIPPSLAND FAMILY HISTORY GROUP INC - EAST GIPPSLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY - GRANYA HERITAGE SOCIETY & SCHOOL MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE INC- MONARO PIONEERS - ROSEDALE & DISTRICT HISTORICAL SOCIETY - WODONGA FAMILY HISTORY SOCIETY INC
NEW SOUTH WALES B.D.M's (Free to Search Records)
SOUTH AUSTRALIAN FAMILY HISTORY - SOUTH AUSTRALIAN B.D.M's & CEMETERIES - SOUTH AUSTRALIAN BURIALS - SOUTH AUSTRALIAN SHIPPING LISTS
TASMANIAN HERITAGE SITE (Type "Births" in Search) and various lists appear - All sorts of info here)
STATE LIBRARY OF VICTORIA AUSTRALIAN NEWSPAPERS (Search Old Papers around Australia)
GENEALOGY SOCIETY OF VICTORIA - ROOTSWEB (AUS-VIC-GIPPSLAND)
NATIONAL LIBRARY OF AUSTRALIA (Has a large list of other genealogy sites to check out)
AUSTRALIAN CEMETERIES (Some have online records others grave photos) - BROKEN HILL (NSW) CEMETERY RECORDS
AUSTRALIAN OBITUARIES Some of the obituaries can be found here which is also worth a try.
THE RYERSON INDEX (Death Notices showing dates they appeared in various Newspapers)
BOWNA (NSW) CEMETERY BURIAL LIST - I recently visited this cemetery and took photos of all the existing headstones should anybody be interested as access to the cemetery is difficult and only a few headstones remain. I have now passed these onto the Australian Cemeteries Web-Site and they can be found there now.
NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF AUSTRALIA (Includes Service Records - Most WW1 already digitised online) - VIETNAM VETERAN'S ROLL (AUSTRALIA) - COMMONWEALTH WAR GRAVES - PICTURE AUSTRALIA (Old photos of Australiana in National Archives)
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