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Australia

Websites

Many Websites help you learn about records and resources. Here are a few.

Archives and Libraries

National Archives of Australia

National Archives of Australia
PO Box 7425
Canberra Business Centre
ACT 2610
Tel: 1300 886 881 (from overseas: 61 2 6212 3900)
Fax: 1300 886 882 (from overseas: 61 2 6212 3999)

The National Archives holds records of Australian government records of the Federation or Commonweath since in 1901; Commonwealth people; and the High Court. RecordSearch describes over 7.7 million records created by 9000 Australian Government agencies.  Reading rooms are in Canberra, Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide, Hobart and Darwin.

A step-by-step guide to research at the National Archives is available. More than 200 fact sheets about their records are available online. Family history records are not in their collections, but the site contains links to those records. Read Begin Your Journey  to get started family history.

Learn more about the National Archives

Click here.

Learn more about the National Library

Click here. The Library has a list of selected Websites for Australian family history and genealogy.

Genealogy

• AustraliaGenWeb Project *Websites for Genealogists *Ballarat Genealogy  - created by Ballarat and District Genealogical Society with links to many other great resources.
• Genealogy and History News for Australians
• Genealogy links Australia
• coraweb Helping you trace your family history in Australia and elsewhere.

Immigration

• Convicts to Australia

Vital Records

• Birth, Death and Marriage Records
  
• Ballarat Benevolent Society Registries of Inmates in the Ballarat Benevolent Asylm. Includes death records.

Newspapers

• Trove, from the National Library of Australia is free and offers over 456,286,201 Australian and online resources: books, images, historic newspapers, maps, music, archives and more.
• Historic Australian Newspapers 1803 to 1954
• Ryerson Index - a volunteer project indexing death notices and obituaries from contemporary Australian Newspapers with millions of entries. Thousands being added every month.
• Obituaries Australia  

Mariners and Ships

• Mariners and Ships in Australian Waters