Helping you trace your family history in Australia and elsewhere
Helping you trace your family history in Australia and elsewhere
This site by Alexander Romanov-Hughes includes censuses, directories and electoral rolls for Melbourne and Port Phillip plus biographies of pioneers. There are also alphabetical lists of passenger arrivals to Port Phillip for: • Coastal passengers 1839-1845 • Unassisted passengers from…
This site is designed to preserve and celebrate the maritime history and collections of P&O, one of the best known shipping companies in the world. The site allow the collections and the rich heritage of P&O to be more accessible…
This online index by David Snook details 23,000+ Irish born and 1000+ Canadian born merchant seamen and their voyages. The index has been compiled from the CR10 series of central index cards held in the Southampton Civic Archives, Hampshire. New
This comprehensive site details the Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie VOC (United Dutch East Indies Company) their mariners, ships and the impact they had on Western Australia long before white colonialisation in 1829. It also has details on VOC shipwrecks, related sites and resources. New
This online exhibition is arranged as follows:• Land of Milk & Honey• Voyage• First Arrivals• Dress• In the Depot• In the Colony• Women’s Stories• Australian Monument to the Great Irish Famine New
This site by Stephen P Morse offers a one stop search 1830-1912 and includes: • 1830 to 1855: pre Castle Garden• 1855 to 1890: Castle Garden• 1890 to 1891: Barge Office• 1892 to 1912: Ellis Island New
Discovery holds 32+ million descriptions of records held by The National Archives and 2,500+ archives across the country. Over 9 million records are available for download from this site. Use Discovery to search. Enter a surname in the search box…
This site focuses on organisations created to encourage educated middle-class women to migrate to British colonies such as Australia, Canada, New Zealand or South Africa in the late 1800s-early 1900s.
PortCities Southampton – Lloyd’s Register of Ships 1930-1945. Use this site to search by ship name, year of build, weight and any former names of the vessel concerned.
Lloyd’s List is a newspaper devoted to shipping news. In particular it records the movements of ocean going vessels and marine news of casualties, ‘speakings’ and other events involving individual vessels. This database has been compiled from copies of Lloyd’s…