Immigration into Australia: General Information Sites
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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 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).
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.Western Australian Maritime Museum Welcome Walls. A tribute to the migrants who passed through Fremantle. The Welcome Walls Passages Database is searchable 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.
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