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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.
MY FAVOURITE SITES
Service Records (Very helpful if anybody you're looking for has a service record)
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) - GALLIPOLI INDEX - MAPPING OUR ANZACS - VICTORIAN VETERANS VISUAL MUSEUM
Newspaper Searches (Trove is a great recent addition to these services)
TROVE (Newspaper Search Engine for the National Library of Australia) - THE RYERSON INDEX (Death Notices showing dates they appeared in various Newspapers) - AUSTRALIAN NEWSPAPERS (Search Old Papers around Australia) - AUSTRALIAN OBITUARIES (Some of the obituaries can be found here which is also worth a try)
BDM's & Cemetery Records
NEW SOUTH WALES B.D.M's - QLD BDM's (Free to Search Records) - AUSTRALIAN CEMETERIES (Some have online records others grave photos) - BOWNA (NSW) CEMETERY BURIAL LIST (I was taken into this cemetery by a local family member whilst the Hume Weir was at is lowest level in many years 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 passed these photos on to the Australian Cemeteries Web-Site and they can be found there now)
GENERAL RESEARCH SITES (AUSTRALIA AND OVERSEAS)
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 - STATE LIBRARY OF VICTORIA - NATIONAL LIBRARY OF AUSTRALIA (Has a large list of other genealogy sites to check out) - 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 - TASMANIAN HERITAGE SITE (Type "Births" in Search) and various lists appear - All sorts of info here) - GENEALOGY SOCIETY OF VICTORIA - ROOTSWEB (AUS-VIC-GIPPSLAND) -MARY'S GENEALOGY TREASURES (Numerous Links around the World) - LONDON ANCESTOR - B.D.M's 1837-1983 ENGLAND & WALES (Not complete but free) - SOME BRITISH CHURCHYARDS & GARDEN CEMETERIES - FAMILY RECORDS - UK - COUNTRY & COUNTY CODES OF BRITISH ISLES - OLD BAILEY 1674-1913 - INDIA RECORDS - BRITISH INDIA FAMILY HISTORY RESEARCH - NEW ZEALAND B.D.M's - PEERAGE RECORDS - SOUTH AUSTRALIAN FAMILY HISTORY - SOUTH AUSTRALIAN SHIPPING LISTS - SOUTH AUSTRALIAN B.D.M's & CEMETERIES - SOUTH AUSTRALIAN BURIALS - 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 - BROKEN HILL (NSW) CEMETERY RECORDS - DNA (SORENSON'S MOLECULAR GENEALOGY FOUNDATION) (Testing & searching available) - DNA (ANCESTRY.COM)
Other
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 - SALE CEMETERY BURIALS
"Y" SEARCH DNA (Public searchable database where I found a match)
LANGUAGE TRANSLATOR (I used this to translate English/Italian whilst searching for Italian ancestors)
Please notify me should you find any of the above sites not working now or wish to make contact for any other reason.
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