Australia Online Genealogy Records

Australia

Online Genealogy Records

These are genealogy links to Australia online databases and indexes that may include birth records, marriage records, death records, biographies, cemeteries, censuses, histories, immigration records, land records, military records, newspapers, obituaries, or probate records. Some subscription websites listed below can be searched for free at a family history center or FamilySearch affiliate library.

Birth, Marriage, and Deaths: Church Records and Civil Registration 1776-1980: Australia Miscellaneous Genealogical Records at FamilySearch; index & images 1831-2001: Australia Newspaper Vital Notices at Ancestry; index & images ($) Australia Vital Records at Australasia Birth, Deaths and Marriages Exchange; index & images Births 1788-1922: Australia, Birth Index, 1788-1922 at Ancestry; index only ($) 1792-1981: Australia Births and Baptisms at FamilySearch; index only; Also at Ancestry ($), MyHeritage ($), Findmypast ($) British Armed Forces and Overseas Births and Baptisms at Findmypast; index & images ($) Australia Vital Records at Australasia Birth, Deaths and Marriages Exchange; index & images Marriages 1788-1935: Australia Marriages at Findmypast; index only ($) 1788-1950: Australia Marriage Index at Ancestry; index only ($) 1810-1980: Australia Marriages at FamilySearch; index only; Also at MyHeritage ($) British Armed Forces and Overseas Banns and Marriages at Findmypast; index & images ($) Australia Vital Records at Australasia Birth, Deaths and Marriages Exchange; index & images Deaths 1787-1985: Australia Death Index at Ancestry; index only ($) 1816-1980: Australia Deaths and Burials at FamilySearch; index only; Also at Findmypast ($) 1860-2019: Australia Death Notices, 1860-2019, index and images ($)Australia Death Notices] at MyHeritage; index only ($) British Armed Forces and Overseas Deaths and Burials at Findmypast; index & images ($) Australia Vital Records at Australasia Birth, Deaths and Marriages Exchange; index & images Divorce Biographies 1542-1879: Australian Dictionary of Dates and Men of the Time at Ancestry; images only ($) 1906: Johns's Notable Australians at Ancestry; index & images ($) 1921-1950: Who’s Who in Australia at Ancestry; index & images ($) An Australian Biographical Dictionary at Ancestry; images only ($) The Australian Portrait Gallery and Memoirs of Representative Colonial Men at Ancestry; images only ($) The Australian Women's Register, index Benedictine Pioneers in Australia, Vol. 1, Vol. 2 at Ancestry; images only ($) Biographical Database of Australia at Biographical Database of Australia ($) The Dictionary of Australasian Biography at Ancestry; images only ($) Principal Women of The Empire: Australia and New Zealand, Vol. 1 at Ancestry; images only ($) Business and Commerce 1831 - Australian almanack, for the year of our Lord 1831 1869 - Indian and colonial mercantile directory for 1869 1873 - Australian handbook & almanac & shipper & importers directory 1888 - The Australasian federal directory of commerce, trades & professions 1893 - The Australian handbook (incorporating New Zealand, Fiji, and New Guinea) shippers and importers' directory & business guide for 1893 1893-1899 - Australasian federal pastoral directory List of stockowners [ranchers] in the colonies of New South Wales, New Zealand, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, and Tasmania. 1913, 1923, 1925, 1931, 1954: Australia Pastoral Directories at Ancestry; index & images ($); Also at Findmypast ($) 1954 - List of stockowners in the states of New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, South Australia, Northern Territory, and Tasmania Cemetery Records 1800s forward: Australia and New Zealand, Find a Grave Index at Ancestry; index only ($) 1802-2005: Australia Cemetery Inscriptions at FamilySearch; index & images 1808-2007: Australia Cemetery Index at Ancestry; index only ($) 1900-2019: Australia Index of Burials at MyHeritage; index only ($) 1915: Australia Imperial Force Burials At Gallipoli at Ancestry; index & images ($) All Australia Memorial at Findmypast; index only ($) Australia Cemeteries Index at AustCemIndex; index Australia Cemetery Search at BillionGraves; index; Also at: Findmypast ($) Deaths in 1st & 2nd World Wars at Commonwealth War Graves Commission; index only ($) Convict Records 1786-1849: Australia Convict Ships at Findmypast; index & images ($) 1787-1788: Australian Convict Transportation Registers - First Fleet at Ancestry; index & images ($) 1787-1867: Australia Convict Records Index at Ancestry; index only ($) 1788-1842: Australia List of Convicts with Particulars at Ancestry; index & images ($) 1788-1868: Australia Convict Index at Ancestry; index only ($) 1788–1868 Penal transportation records: Ireland to Australia at National Archives of Ireland; index 1789-1790: Australian Convict Transportation Registers – Second Fleet at Ancestry; index & images ($) 1791: Australian Convict Transportation Registers – Third Fleet at Ancestry; index & images ($) 1791-1850 Index of Prisoners and Accused Persons (Sussex Quarter Session Rolls) at FamilySearch; images 1791-1867: Australia Convict Conditional and Absolute Pardons at Findmypast; index & images ($) 1824-1874: Australia Convict Tickets Of Leave at Findmypast; index & images ($) 1858-1867: UK Surgeon Superintendents' Journals of Convict Ships at Ancestry; index & images ($) Australia's First Fleet First Fleet Online Australia's Second Fleet Australia's Third Fleet Ireland-Australia transportation database, National Archives of Ireland Convict Records of Australia Library of Wales, Crime and Punishment database Proceedings of the Old Bailey 1674-1834 The punishment of transportation for a crime tried in London by the Old Bailey Court resulted in exile to Australia. Court and Criminal Records Australian Court Databases at AustLii.edu

Cultural Groups 1788-1849 - Irish Convicts to NSW 1788 - 1849, index 1875-1904 - Aboriginal People in the Register of Aboriginal Reserves, index. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Biographical Index (ABI) Pedigree charts of Torres Straits Islandersat FamilySearch, images. Aboriginal Resources: An Overview of Records, New South Wales 19th Century Aboriginal Population Records at New South Wales Government State Archives and Records] Correspondence, etc., 1843-1869 at FamilySearch, images. Includes 1851 censuses of 3 aboriginal tribes. Finding your Aboriginal history South Australia State Archives Guides to Aboriginal History South Australia State Archives Croatian and Slav pioneers of South Australia and Victoria at FamilySearch, images. Tracing your Chinese Australian Genealogy Religious and Ethnic Communities in Tasmanian History Directories Australia Directories at Findmypast, ($), index. 1831-1873 - Australian Almanacs at Findmypast - index & images ($) 1883-1900 - The Australasian medical directory and handbook, images. 1831 - Australian almanack, for the year of our Lord 1831, images. 1835 - Australian almanack and general directory, for the year of our Lord 1835, images. 1845-1948: Australia City Directories at Ancestry; index & images ($) 1869 - Indian and colonial mercantile directory for 1869, images. 1871 - The Australian squatting directory, 1871, images. 1873 - Australian handbook & almanac & shipper & importers directory, images. 1888-1889 - The Australasian federal directory of commerce, trades & professions, images. 1893 - The Australian handbook (incorporating New Zealand, Fiji, and New Guinea) shippers and importers' directory & business guide for 1893, e-book. 1954 - List of stockowners in the states of New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, South Australia, Northern Territory, and Tasmania, images. Emigration and Immigration 1788-1968: Australian Shipping at OzShips.net 1788-1890 Admission, discharge and other records at FamilySearch; images (*) 1811-1856: Australia Assisted Emigration at Findmypast; index & images ($) 1826-1972: Australia Inward, Outward & Coastal Passenger Lists at Findmypast; index & images ($) 1850-1879 Emigrants from Hamburg to Australasia at MyHeritage; index only ($) 1873-1924 Australia, Albany, Inward Passenger Lists, 1873-1924 at FamilySearch; index & images 1890-1960 Passenger Lists Leaving UK at Findmypast; index & images ($); includes those with Destination of Australia 1920-1939 Germany, Bremen Passenger Departure Lists at MyHeritage; index & images ($); includes those with Destination of Australia Australian Contingents To South Africa at Findmypast; index only ($) Genealogical Index To Australians and Other Expatriates In Papua New Guinea at Findmypast; index ($) Ireland-Australia Transportation Database at National Archives of Ireland; index only Military 1901-1940: Australia Army Militia Service Records at Ancestry; index & images ($) 1914-1918: ANZAC Memorial at Ancestry; index & images ($) 1914-1918: Australian ANZACS in the Great War at The AIF Project; index only 1914-1918: Australian Imperial Force Embarkation Roll at Findmypast; index only ($) 1914-1919: Airmen Died In The Great War at Findmypast; index ($) 1914-1920: Australia WW I Service Records at Ancestry; index & images ($) 1915: Australia Imperial Force Burials At Gallipoli at Ancestry; index & images ($) 1917-1920: Australian Imperial Force, Nominal Roll Of The First Railway Section at Findmypast; index, ($) 1921-1948: Australia Royal Australian Air Force Personnel at Ancestry; index & images ($) 1939-1945: Australia WW II Military Service Records at Ancestry; index only ($); Also at MyHeritage ($) 1939-1947: Australia WW II Second Australian Imperial Forces and Citizen Military Forces Service Records at Ancestry; index & images ($) All Australia Memorial at Findmypast; images only ($) Australia Boer War Contingents at Findmypast; index only ($) Australia Korean War Nominal Roll at Department of Veteran's Affairs; index only Australia Military Commemorative Rolls & Rolls Of Honour at Findmypast; index & images ($) Australia Vietnam War Veterans at Department of Veteran's Affairs; index only Australian Military Forces WW2 Missing and Prisoners Of War at Findmypast; index only ($) Australia WWII Nominal Rolls at Department of Veteran's Affairs; index only Australians in the Boer War at PCUG.org.au; index only ($) Australia's Fighting Sons of The Empire. Portraits and Biographies of Australians in the Great War at Ancestry; images only ($); Also at: Findmypast ($) Naturalization and Citizenship Australia Citizenship Records at naa.gov.au; index Newspapers 1800s-current: Australia, Newspapers.com Marriage Index, 1800s-current at Ancestry, index only ($) 1831-2001: Australia Newspaper Vital Notices at Ancestry; index & images ($) 1840-1845: Australian Periodical Publications at NLA.gov.au Australian Newspapers at MyHeritage; index & images ($) Australia Newspapers at Trove; images only ($) Australian Lutheran at Findmypast; index & images($) Obituaries 1803-Current: The Ryerson Index to death notices and obituaries in Australian newspapers at Ryerson Index; index only 1860-2019: Australia Death Notices, 1860-2019 at MyHeritage; index ($) 2004-Current: Australia and New Zealand, Obituary Index at Ancestry; index only ($) Australia Obituaries at Obituaries Australia; index only Funeral Notices, Death Notices, and Obituaries for Australia at Obits.com.au; index. Occupations 1847-1930: UK, Mechanical Engineer Records, 1847-1930, index and images, ($); includes Australia 1904, 1920: Australia Commonwealth Public Service Lists at Ancestry; index & images ($) 1913, 1923, 1925, 1931, 1954: Australia Pastoral Directories at Ancestry; index & images ($); Also at Findmypast ($) 1922-1933: Australia, Sydney Harbour Bridge Construction at Ancestry; index & images ($) Mariners and Ships in Australian Waters, index. Periodicals 1840-1845: Australian Periodical Publications at NLA.gov.au PERiodical Source Index at Findmypast; index & images ($) Voting Registers 1860-1959: Australia Electoral Rolls at Findmypast; index & images ($) 1893-1949: Australia Electoral Rolls at MyHeritage; index & images ($) 1903-1980: Australia Electoral Rolls at Ancestry; index & images ($)

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