Handy Links
Here are some genealogical sites that I find helpful and/or interesting.
Australian BDM Sites
- ACT Deaths
- ACT Marriages
- NSW Births Deaths and Marriages (Online search available)
- Marbract Transcription Service Transcription order site for NSW birth, death and marriage certificates
- Northern Territory Births Deaths and Marriages
- Queensland Births Deaths and Marriages (Online search available - some images can be downloaded for a fee)
- South Australia Births Deaths and Marriages
- Tasmanian Births Deaths and Marriages
- Victorian Births Deaths and Marriages (Online search available - images can be downloaded for a fee)
- Western Australia Births Deaths and Marriages (Online search available)
Historical and Genealogical Societies
- Society of Australian Genealogists
- Royal Australian Historical Society
- Taralga Historical Society
- Bathurst Family History Society
- Cemeteries in and around Gunning Shire, NSW Graeme Challinor's catalogue of some 28 cemeteries in the Gunning Shire, including Currawang, Collector, Tarago, Lake Bathurst
- Berrima amd District Family History Society
- Berrima General Cemetery
- Heraldry and Genealogical Society of Canberra
- Local Family History Societies Contact details for various Family History Societies throughout Australia
Useful Research Sites
- National Library of Australia
- Trove
- National Archives
- Australian War Memorial
- Ryerson's Index
- State Records NSW (NSW Archives)
- State Library of NSW
- Researching ACT Family History
- Claim a Convict
- Web Sites for Genealogists Cora Web's site has lots of useful genealogical links
- Australian Cemeteries
- Oz Gen Online
- Public Records Office Victoria (Victorian Archives)
- Archives Office of Tasmania
- Queensland Archives
- Queensland Assisted Immigration 1848 - 1912
- State Records South Australia (SA Archives)
- State Library of South Australia
- South Australian Genealogy & Heraldry Society
- State Library of Western Australia
- Trevo's Irish Famine Orphans Trevor McLaughlin's blog about The Earl Grey Scheme and the Irish orphan girls who emigrated under this scheme
- Irish Famine Memorial Sydney Details of the Irish Orphans Monument, including a database of the names of all the girls who came out under Earl Grey Scheme
- Find My Past
- Macbeth Genealogical Services Various products available for research purposes
- Goulburn Cemeteries
DNA
- DNA Painter This site has useful tools for analysing DNA results
- DNA & Genealogy
- Maths and Science Applied to Genetic Genealogy
- DNA Sydney DNA Blog of the Society of Australian Genealogists
- DNAeXplained - Genetic Genealogy
- The Genemonkey
- Mossie's Musings
- DNA and Genealogy
- DNAGedcom
- Ancestry
- My Heritage
- Family Tree DNA
- Living DNA
- GEDmatch
Ships Passenger Lists
Irish sites
- Roots Ireland
- Penal transportation records: Ireland to Australia, 1788-1868
- Irish Convicts to New South Wales 1788 - 1849
- Ireland GenWeb Project
- Northern Ireland GenWeb Projec
- Galway Emigrant Index 1828-1866
- Griffiths Valuation
- Griffiths Valuation County Galway 1855
- Irish Flax Growers 1796
- West Galway Family History Society
Scottish sites
- Scotlands People
- North Isles Family HistoryInformation on Shetland Family History
- Scottish Genealogy Society
- Scotland GenWeb