Web Sites for Genealogists, 2008 edition. Click here for details.

State Records New South Wales. Naturalisation Index (1834-1903). Any person born outside the British Empire, who had resided in NSW for at least five years, needed to become naturalized in order to vote or own land. A search returns names, native place, date of certificate, register number, page number, remarks, item and reel number.

Archives Office of Tasmania. Index of Naturalisation Applications (1835-1905) by non-British subjects for certificates of denization and naturalisation. This alphabetical index lists surname, given name, date and reference. Copies of the records are available for a fee from the Archives.

The National Archives of Australia (NAA) hold naturalisation records for Victoria (1852-1903) and South Australia (1848-1903). Records for New South Wales, Queensland, Western Australia and Tasmania pre 1904 are held by the appropriate State government archives. Records from 1904 for all of Australia are held by NAA. See NAA Fact Sheet no 68 for details.

Chinese Heritage of Australian Federation. Click on Resources for  access to the Chinese NSW Naturalisation Database (1857-1887).

Australian Croatian Genealogical and Historical Society. There is a list of Croatians Naturalized in Victoria Australia from 1855.