Immigration Into Australia: General Information Sites

Immigration into Australia: General Information Sites

Web Sites for Genealogists - An Australian gateway site for tracing your family history by Cora Num

Need Help with Shipping Research? See Shipping and Migration Research on the Internet, 2012 and How Did They Get Here? Arrivals after 1924, 2nd edition, 2012.Click here for details.

National Archives of Australia hold Australian shipping and immigration records from 1924. Online Fact Sheets detail the holdings. Online Indexes this section details the Index to Passenger Arrivals 1921-1950. (See Online Indexes and Passenger Lists for details). Migrant Selection Documents are available for post World War II displaced persons and refugee arrivals. These are listed at item level on the RecordSearch database as are many of those for British migrants (1950-1973) (Series A1877).

National Maritime Museum Sydney. Click on the Welcome Wall link to access information about the Welcome Wall and to search the online database available from the Find your name link. This link allows you to launch the virtual Welcome Wall and there is also a text based version of the database available. Information provided includes name, comment, vital dates, origin, arrival details, where first settled and wall location.

Western Australian Museum: Welcome Walls. More than one third of Western Australia's population was born overseas. The Welcome Walls projects pay tribute to those migrants who arrived by sea, landing at Fremantle or Albany. The Search Names link lists name, arrival year, ship name, family story and panel number. Full details are available by clicking on the name.

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.

State Records New South Wales Immigration from Many Lands. This resource page includes information on the Chinese on the Goldfields, Italian arrivals on the Saint Ludwina, Lebanese hawkers, Russian migration and settlement in NSW plus much more.

Origins - Immigrant Communities in Victoria. This site contains the migration histories of 82 communities. There are photographs, graphs and statistics based on official government census data collected since 1854.

Migration Heritage Centre New South Wales is a virtual immigration museum. The Centre identifies, records, preserves and interprets the heritage of migration and settlement 1788 to the present day. Use this gateway to learn about the State's migration heritage through community collections, family belongings, people's memories and special places. The publications link lists a wealth of resources - books, CDs and DVDs. New

Invisible Australians - Living under the White Australia Policy. This emerging site is assembling biographical information about the Chinese, Japanese, Indians, Afghans, Syrians and Malays who faced discriminatory laws and policies designed to deny them their place as Australians. Over 7,200 photographs from series ST84/1, Certificates of Domicile and Certificates of Exemption from Dictation Test, held by the National Archives of Australia are online. New

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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Immigration into Australia: General Information Sites