Helping you trace your family history in Australia and elsewhere
Helping you trace your family history in Australia and elsewhere
This sites includes 1100+ entries on settlements in Queensland that now have or once had populations of 500 or more. The entries include cities, towns, villages and suburbs. Some of the entries are on gold rush or other mining towns…
The TGN includes names and associated information about places. Places in TGN include administrative political entities (e.g., cities, nations) and physical features (e.g., mountains, rivers). Current and historical places are included. Other information related to history, population, culture, art and…
The OldMapsOnline Portal is a gateway to historical maps in libraries around the world. It allows the user to search for online digital historical maps across numerous different collections via a geographical search. Search by typing a place-name or by…
These online interactive plans provide a historical record of Melbourne streetscapes and comprise of three levels of linked plans which include the outline of every building, the garden layout and the ownership boundaries. TIP: Check the How to use the…
City of Sydney Archives – Historical Atlas of Sydney – Royal Commission for the Improvement of the City of Sydney and its Suburbs, 1909 – The final report comprising 50 foolscap-sized pages, dated 25 June 1909, includes over 300,000 words…
This collection contains digitised versions of maps and associated documents. These include: • City Section Survey Plans, 1833• Francis Webb Sheilds Plan of Sydney, 1844• City Detail Sheets, 1855• Trigonometrical Survey of Sydney, 1855-1865• Auction and Sale Lithographs, 1865-1935• Doves…
This site aims to make the local and family history on the rich and diverse Eastern Goldfields of Western Australia available to everyone free of charge. The site can be keyword searched and is organised in the following categories books,…
John Arrowsmith produced the largest scale maps, constructed mostly from official government sources, of the British colonies during the early to mid nineteenth century period. This study of the publication history of the Australian maps from John Arrowsmith’s London Atlas…
Historypin lets you share historical pictures and stories by pinning them to a location on a world map. Google Street View can be overlaid with the historical photos for a modern comparison. Museums, individuals, local history societies, historical photo archives,…
This website dedicated to the memory of Soldier Settlement in NSW aims to gather together a rich archival and oral history record that will:• Assess the relative success and failure of soldier settlement across a vast and geo-physically diverse area,…