Shipping and Migration Research on the Internet is
suitable for both beginners and experienced researchers. Use it to start your
research, expand on what you know and learn about the very latest Internet
resources and search techniques.
This book is
designed to help you find arrival and migration records for
those who came to Australia before 1924. Online resources such as indexes, databases,
digitised original records, newspapers, digitised microfilm, research courses and eBooks are included
with details on how to use them. There are also lots of useful tips and
hints throughout the book that will save you time, money and
frustration. Chapter 1 – Begin the search
Queensland
How to begin
South Australia Arrival
categories Tasmania
What you need
to know
Victoria
Useful
resources for locating clues to arrival Western Australia Use libraries and archives
Chapter 5 – Extend the
search Libraries in
Australia
Why can’t I find them?
Australian
library family history links
Ships’ deserters Chapter 2 – Understand the records
Australian Agricultural Company
Where are the records? Donegal Relief Fund
State archives Internet sites and online record
guides Highland and Islands Emigration Society
What you need to know about the records and
indexes Female migration
Types of records
Irish orphan
girls
Passenger
arrival records Immigration Deposit Journals
Passenger
departure records
Overseas indexes and passenger lists
Online
departure records and indexes
What is FamilySearch? Ship movement
records What does FamilySearch
have? Chapter 3 – Early arrivals to
Australia Historical
record collections on FamilySearch How to locate pre 1830
arrivals Migration
collections – Australia and New Zealand Musters and
census records
Historical
record collections - Europe
The Historical
Records Series
Use Family
History Library Catalog on FamilySearch The Colonial
Secretary’s Papers 1788-1825
Organise to
use FamilySearch records
locally The Paracensus
of Australia 1788-1828 Welcome Walls
Van Diemen’s
Land pre 1830 arrivals Chapter 6 – When you know the ship
Western
Australia pre 1830 arrivals
Trove digitised
newspapers Military
arrivals Access eResources from
home Newspapers pre
1830
Online
overseas newspapers
Chapter 4 – Search the records
Ships’ pictures
New South Wales
Where can I find ships' journals and diaries?
Online digital
microfilm of shipping lists
Chapter 7 – A new way to search
Unassisted
arrivals 1845-1922
Use Trove to search for background information
Bounty index
1828-1842 About eBooks
Northern Territory
Sites with eBooks
Table of Contents
Shipping and Migration Research on the Internet, by Cora Num, 2012. A5, 44 pages. Great Value - $12.00 plus $2.00 post and pack in Australia.
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