Helping you trace your family history in Australia and elsewhere
Helping you trace your family history in Australia and elsewhere
This site contains a contemporary collection of over 2,201 Australian Christian churches. The site has a searchable database which includes (where available) the date the church was built, identification of the architect and builders, a list of clergy 16,615+, the…
This National Archives volunteer project, in conjunction with The National Maritime Museum and the Crew List Index Project, has made details of surviving First World War Merchant Navy crew lists from 1915, available to search online. It details 36,000 voyages…
There are 2,442 images scanned from original glass plate negatives held by the Society. They are on the University of Newcastle, Australia’s Archives- Special Collections – Flickr Photostream.
This organisation is committed to connecting the community with the State’s transport heritage collection through both its museums and various events across Sydney and NSW. New
Between 1789 and 1830 approximately half of the teachers who taught in the schools of the colony of New South Wales arrived as convicts. This entry, in the Dictionary of Educational History in Australia and New Zealand by Geoffrey Burkhardt,…
This Dictionary aims to provide a range of authoritative entries about the multifaceted history of education in Australia and New Zealand, including histories of various types of schools and schooling; teachers and teacher training; curricula and pedagogies; childhood and youth;…
This online exhibition has been created to commemorate the centenary of World War I and honour the contribution of the NSW Railways to the war effort both at home and abroad. At the outbreak of war in 1914 the NSW…
The Society aims to enable people interested in the history and operations of railways and NSW tramways in Australia to associate with others with similar interests, for their mutual benefit and enjoyment. The Railway Resource Centre has a selection of…
This site lists every playwright on the doollee database with Australian Nationality. Doollee is an online database of playwrights and theatre plays that aims to list every play written or produced in English since 1956. Click on the playwright’s name…
The National Archives of Australia and Ancestry.com.au have collaborated to offer online access to the Fremantle Passenger Arrival Lists collection. Note that these records can include names of passengers travelling onto other Australian ports such as Adelaide, Sydney and Melbourne…