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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 1926-1947. (See Immigration into Australia: 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).
Australian National Maritime Museum, Sydney. Click on Research Library then Research Guides for access to a series of Pathfinder Subject Guides.
Topics include seafaring ancestors, shipwrecks, convict ships, sailing
ships, passenger ships to Australia plus many more. The Welcome Wall database of contributed arrivals in Australia is online.
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.
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 1926-1947. (See Immigration into Australia: 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). 
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