Helping you trace your family history in Australia and elsewhere
Helping you trace your family history in Australia and elsewhere
This site offers searches of Organisations and Business Names. A search returns the company registration number (ABN, ACN, ARBN); current status (registered or deregistered); the town or suburb of the registered office and a complete list of documents lodged by…
This US gateway site offers links to a wide variety of sites.
This site, by Mark St Leon, is dedicated to Australia’s circus history and to travelling entertainers. This site is no longer online but has been archived by PANDORA – Australia’s Web Archive.
This site features a database of over 3,000 pioneer doctors 1700s-1875. It lists doctors who were registered or qualified in Australia, were resident in Australia, or visited here in a professional capacity, before 1875. Ships’ surgeons, convict doctors, general practitioners…
This collaborative e-Research tool presents biographical data about Australian artists, designers, craftspeople and curators.
This site features 12,000+ biographies of significant Australians who died before 1980, from prime ministers, governors-general and premiers, generals and bishops, artists, actors and authors, engineers and schoolteachers, to prostitutes, thieves and murderers. Use the Faceted Browse to browse by…
Ships passenger lists, census returns and other documents used in genealogy may give an ancestor’s occupation, this list gives more modern interpretations of those terms.
This collection is on the Hall Genealogy website.
This Collection c0ntains engravings from Dutch artist Jan Luyken and illustrates trades from the late 17th century. Each picture has a moralistic verse with it (in Dutch).
An alphabetical index from the Old Farmer’s Almanac.