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Web Sites for Genealogists - An Australian gateway site for tracing your family history by Cora Num
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Online Publications: Newspapers and Newspaper Indexes for online Birth, Death and Marriage Notices.

National
The Ryerson IndexUp  is an index to death notices appearing in current Australian newspapers. It also includes some funeral notices, probate notices and obituaries. This ongoing project currently contains over two million entries from 148 newspapers.  See Newspapers and Newspaper Indexes for further details.

Australian Obituaries This site is posting obituary, death and funeral notices appearing in Australian newspapers. There is a free basic search facility with the full text of the notice returned, but not the reference to the original source (newspaper). Notices are available from August 2006. 

Obits.com.au Australian death and funeral notices plus obituaries obtained from funeral directors or though contributions by members of the public. Notices are available from January 2006. The Obits Quick Search only searches recent notices so check the Archived Notices also.

Graham Jaunay's site. The Free Help - AUS Info has a page showing What you can expect to see on an Australian BDM certificate over any given time period.

Australasia Births, Deaths and Marriages Exchange. A free resource for sharing details on Australian and New Zealand certificates. A surname search is available plus links to 40+ international BDM exchanges.

Australian Capital Territory
Office of Regulatory Services, Births, Deaths and Marriage Unit  with details of birth, death and marriage registration plus online access to the ACT Historical Death Index (1930-1973). Up

New South Wales
NSW Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages. There are details of the services offered to family historians including the online ordering of certificates. Online Historical Indexes are available for births (1788-1908), deaths (1788-1978) and marriages (1788-1958). Up

State Records New South Wales, Indexes Online, Court, Police & Prison include an Index to Divorce Case Papers 1873-1930.  Up This ongoing index records petitioner name, respondent and co-respondent (if named), divorce number, year and remarks. A photocopy of the file can be ordered online for a fee. 

Hawkesbury on the Net - Church Registers. This ongoing project offers online access to transcripts of selected church registers for St James, Pitt Town; St John's Wilberforce; St Joseph's, Macdonald River; St Matthew's, Windsor; St Philip's, Clydesdale and St Thomas, Sackville Reach.

Joy Murrin Family History Services offers NSW birth, death and marriage transcriptions for births to 1908, deaths to 1978 and marriages to 1958. An overseas certificate service is also available. Up

Transcriptions.com.au. A transcription service for NSW Birth, Death and Marriage certificates by Marilyn Rowan. Transcripts are available for births to 1908, deaths to 1978 and marriages to 1958. Up

Turtle Consolidated Services. Transcriptions of NSW Birth, Death and Marriage Records by Laurence Turtle. Transcripts available for births to 1908, deaths to 1978 and marriages to 1958. Up

Northern Territory
Northern Territory Government Department of Justice with birth, death and marriage details.

Queensland
Department of Justice and Attorney-General, Queensland with birth, death and marriage registration details. The Historical Indexes are available online for births (1829-1914), deaths (1829-1929) and marriages (1829-1929).Up 

Queensland State Archives  Index to Queensland Divorces 1861-1899. Supreme Court of Queensland divorce files usually contain petitions, marriage certificate (not always on earlier files), affidavit of service and identification, certificate of Registrar, notice of trial, decree nisi and decree absolute. The index lists name and references. Copies of the files are available from QSA for a fee.

Queensland State Archives Index to Inquests 1859-1886. A search returns surname, given names, file date and number plus QSA references. Document copies are available from QSA for a fee.

South Australia
South Australian Genealogy & Heraldry Society - SA Deaths & Burials Databases which include: cemetery indexes, SA Government Gazettes (1845-2000) and newspaper deaths (1977-2007 incomplete). A search returns surname, given names, date and source. The Society offers a lookup service for a small fee.

Family History South Australia Upsearchable database of South Australian Marriages 1836-1852 .

Adelaide Co-operative History Databases Upinclude South Australian gazetted deaths 1845-1941 and WWI deaths of South Australian servicemen.

South Australia Office of Consumer and Business Affairs with information on the Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Office. Family history information available but no online indexes.

Tasmania
Tasmania Department of Justice - Births, Deaths and Marriages with details of family history services.

Archives Office of Tasmania Colonial Tasmanian Family Links Database. This searchable database of birth, death and marriage records links individuals with other members of their families living in Tasmania in the 19th Century.

Archives Office of Tasmania Index to Tasmanian Divorces 1861-1920 lists petitioner, respondent, co-respondent, reference, year and number. Copies of the records are available from AOTAS. 

Archives office of Tasmania Index to Inquests. These records vary from full files documenting the process to only the formal statements of the coronial findings. These records are being indexed to this database on a continuing basis and will cover the period from the 1820s to the 1930s. Free email copies of the actual records can be obtained by completing the online copy request form. New

Victoria
Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages, Victoria offers access indexes and digital images for births (1836-1908), deaths (1836-1985) and marriages (1836-1942). There are also Marine Indexes and digital images for births, deaths and marriages on board ships to Victoria (1853-1920). Access fees apply. Up

Index to Royal Women's Hospital (formerly Melbourne Lying-In Hospital ) Midwifery Book no 1 (1856-1876).  This index facilitates access to the Royal Women's Hospital (Victoria) digitised Midwifery Book (1856-1876) which is freely available on  The Royal Women’s Hospital site. New

Divorce Index Victoria (1861-1900) by Sue McBeth and Wendy Baker. This index to divorce case files held by the PROV lists the names of both parties, any co-respondents and file references. 

Public Record Office Victoria Online Resources. online digitised Index to Divorce Cause Books 1861-1924 lists names of the petitioner, respondent and any co-respondents plus Supreme Court case numbers.

Victorian Place Name Abbreviations  by Carolyn Harris. This list is useful when using the Victorian civil registration indexes as the place names are often abbreviated.

Victorian Place Name Abbreviations Up by Sally Routledge. This alphabetical list can be downloaded as a PDF  file. It can help identify place names that are abbreviated on the Victorian BDM indexes.

Western Australia
Department of the Attorney General - Births, Deaths & Marriages offers online access to Western Australian Historic Indexes  for births (1841-1932), deaths (1841-1956) and marriages (1841-1932). Up

Reverse Western Australia Marriage Lookup 1906-1953 Upby the Perth Dead Persons Society. The WA registry site (above) offers online marriage indexes to 1932. This site offers searches beyond this date and identifies both husband and wife, something that is not possible using the microfiche index 1906-1965. There is also a county marriages index available 1951-1965.New

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