Web
Sites for Genealogists - An
Australian gateway site for tracing your family history by Cora Num
National Australian
Society of Archivists site offers access to the Directory of Archives
which lists contact details, access conditions, acquisition focus and
web links to a diverse range of Australian archives.
Australian War
Memorial.
This extensive site is a must for family history research and contains
biographical databases, collection databases, extensive digitised
records, online Information
Sheets plus extensive advice on research and family
history. (See Service
Personnel for details of databases).
National Archives
of Australia
holds Australian government records from 1901 plus a significant
collection of records transferred from the colonies pre 1901. Online
services include RecordSearch - the collection database, PhotoSearch
and 260+ Fact Sheets. Records are held for defence service
personnel, (See Service
Personnel for details), merchant seamen,
20th century passenger arrivals, displaced persons. (See Immigration
into Australia: Online Indexes and Passenger Lists
for details) and naturalisation (See Naturalisation).
Noel
Butlin Archives Centre
holds the records of industrial organisations, businesses, professional
associations, industry bodies and the labour movement. A List
of Holdings is available online.
Tasmania LINC
Tasmania. LINC (Learning and Information Network
Centre) brings together the services of the State Library of Tasmania, the
Tasmanian Archive and Heritage Office (TAHO) and others. TAHO online name
indexes include: •
Arrivals - index of passengers and ships arriving, mainly in Hobart in the
19th century • Census index - index of people (householders) (1842-1857).
* • Colonial Tasmanian Family Links database - is not a direct index to
records but contains a large amount of information (not necessarily verified)
about Tasmanian families • Convict applications for permission to marry -
index of convicts applying to marry free people or other convicts (1829-1857)
# • Departures - index of people leaving Tasmanian ports (1817-1867) •
Divorces - index of people getting divorced (1861-1920) • General index
- indexes a range of records, mainly names, but some subjects # • Inquests -
index of records of inquests into people's deaths (c.1828-c.1930). Inquests into
fires are in the general index# • Naturalisations - index of
people applying to become citizens (1835-1905) # • Tasmanian convicts - index
of all convicts transported to Tasmania and those convicted locally through the
convict system # • Wills - index of wills and letters of administration of
estates registered for probate (1824-1989) * indicates
digital images of the records are available online. # indicates
some digital images available.
See Birth,
Death and Marriage Records, Census, Convicts,Immigration
into Australia, Local History,Naturalisation and Wills
and Probate
for further details.
LINC
Tasmania - Digital Tasmania is a project to digitise Tasmania's
archival and heritage collections. A significant amount of material has
been digitised and is available online for free. There are original records,
books, maps and plans, pictorial works, newspapers and journals
and card indexes.