Find a family name on the honour roll and search their databases.
Australian War Memorial
Trove is a fantastic free online discovery tool that lets you search for historical photos, images and newspapers as well as books, articles, maps and other documents. In particular, Trove includes:
Various online guides, leaflets and indexes
State Records NSW
The NSW Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages is an agency within the NSW Department of Customer Service. Its role is to register life events such as births, deaths and marriages in NSW.
The State Library of New South Wales, part of which is known as the Mitchell Library, is a large heritage-listed special collections, reference and research library open to the public and is one of the oldest libraries in Australia.
TheNational Library of Australiapreserves Australian heritagefor the past, present and the future, so that we can discover and understand ourAustralian story.
A fantastic site with access to their library catalogue as well as their index to ships' musters 1816-1825; index to soldiers and marines 1787-1830 and tickets of leave index. The Society of Australian Genealogists also hold copies of the Perkins Papers in their primary collection. These papers are particularly relevant to the Eden-Monaro electorate. These Papers illustrate the social history of the electorate and cover from 1823 to 1948.
Provides links to websites that offer online transcriptions of births, deaths and marriages in the United Kingdom.
Essential guide to accessing records on child migrants to Australia, that are held by Commonwealth and State archive offices
Child Migration How to Access Records
Material on website derived directly from the NSW State Archives collection, namely Shipping Master’s Office records and Inwards Passengers Lists. Focus is on 1870s.
Mariners and Ships in Australian Waters
These records mostly date from Federation in 1901. Does not include records of convicts, of colonial migration, or of 19th century Australian history such as the gold rushes, exploration or colonial administration.
National Archives of Australia – Family History
Intended to guide, inform and entertain those just starting the hunt as well as the more experienced researcher. Guides on Convict ships, NSW women, NSW censuses, musters and convict gangs, as well as overview of Australian settlement and convict transportation. Helpful hints for convict researchers on a wide range of themes
Convicts to Australia: A Guide to researching Your Convict Ancestors
Information about the Society and about their Library and Research Centre.
Known as Coraweb, A site with genealogy links inspired by the original 1997 book “Web Sites for Genealogists”. It's a Collection of websites to explore. With a heavy Australian focus.
You've done your research. You've found every you need and want to find. Now. Check out this helpful little website. And write your own Family History. With a checklist and online examples.
The Secret To Writing A Compelling Family History
Check out our family history page for even more.
Family History