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 Archives
Office of Tasmania online indexes include 19th century arrivals, the Colonial
Tasmanian Family Links Database
of 19th century birth, death and marriage records plus indexes to
[surviving] census records; Tasmanian convicts with access to digitised records; convict applications
for permission to marry (1829-1857); divorce records (1861-1920);
departures (1817-1867); general index; inquests (1820-1930); naturalisation applications (1835-1905); wills
and letters of administration (1824-1989) plus Tasmanian public works
(1877-1935). See Birth,
Death and Marriage Records, Census, Convicts,Immigration
into Australia, Local History,Naturalisation and Wills
and Probate for further
details.