Australia's Virtual Immigration Wall of Honour. This free site, created by Janet Reakes, offers the opportunity to record the arrival of your family into Australia and to make contact with other descendants/researchers. The online data lists names, birthplace, county, country and arrival details.
National Library of Australia. This site contains a list of Immigrant Diaries (1822-1895) held in the Library's manuscript collection. It is arranged chronologically by year and date of departure.
Origins - Immigrant Communities in Victoria. This site contains the migration histories of 70 communities. There are photographs, graphs and statistics based on official government census data collected since 1854.
Pastkeys, established in 1986, are compilers of Indexes mostly relating to
Immigration. These indexes available for sale on CD-ROM
include:
Unassisted Arrivals to Sydney (NSW) Index 1842-57
Immigration
Deposit Journals
• Immigration Deposit Journals (NSW) Index
1853-1900
• Immigration Deposit Regulations Supplementary Index
1856-1857
Free Railway Passes (NSW) Index 1880-1892
Convicts &
Employers (NSW) Index 1828, 1832-1833, Jan 1838-Jan 1844
Deane Index
Re-Indexed 1823-1840
Pastkeys Miscellaneous Indexes
• Unclaimed
Letters (Ship/Regt) Index 1836-1852
• Unemployed Registers 1860, 1884
Index
• Wages Paid to Orphans Index 1849-51
The site also includes a
series of useful articles
NSW Immigration Deposit Journals
1853-1900
Irish in the NSW Immigration Deposit Journals
Free Railway
Passes
The Plight of the Colonial Unemployed
Trans Tasman Traffic in
Colonial Times
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