Helping you trace your family history in Australia and elsewhere
Helping you trace your family history in Australia and elsewhere
This free site by the West Australian newspaper has links to current notices plus a growing archive of links to Death Notices from the beginning of 2012. It covers links to obituaries and funeral notices in Australia arranged by state…
Inquests into deaths (deposition files 1840-1985). You need to know an approximate year of death, and the name/s of the deceased. Not all deaths resulted in an inquest. Index data is being published as it becomes available. For deaths between…
This PDF file by Kathleen M Fanning lists 3,000+ commonly used place names from the civil registration indexes for Victoria, Australia. There is also a useful Victorian Alternative Place Names List detailing the many places that had their names changed…
A list of 3215+ place name abbreviations and abbreviation errors used in the Victorian births, deaths and marriages civil registration indexes. New
The Coroners Act 2008 requires that all inquest findings with recommendations be published on the internet, unless otherwise ordered by a coroner. This site contains a list of inquest findings and coroners recommendations from 1 November 2009. Some earlier findings…
Findmypast is a commercial family history site offering access to a worldwide collection of records. There are free searches available but a subscription or Pay As You Go is needed to access transcripts and/or copies of the digitised original records. The Australasian Life Events…
FamilySearch Genealogies are trees submitted to FamilySearch. Please note that the accuracy of the data in these genealogies varies from tree to tree so you should document and validate the data. A search offersd access to:• Ancestral File – genealogies…
The Historical Record Collections for Australia and New Zealand include the following:1. Australia, Births and Baptisms, 1792-19812. Australia, Cemetery Inscriptions, 1802-2005. Cards of cemetery inscriptions mostly Queensland, but there are some in New South Wales, Norfolk Island, Tasmania, and Western…
This index, by Sue McBeth and Wendy Baker, indexes the divorce case files held bythe PROV lists the names of both parties, any co-respondents and file references.
Use this site, by Susie Zada, to take some of the guesswork out of the abbreviated place names used in Victorian BDM indexes. There is some great advice and tips.