Family History Resources Prepared for the opal initiative State Library of Queensland August 2004
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- Births, Deaths and Marriages
- See also Queensland Web Lists/Indexes of names
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TipsHaving difficulty finding a URL (address)? Are you confusing the figure one (1) with the letter el (l)? Truncate the address back to the stem (after the first single /) and search from there. Replicate the address exactly. Addresses are case sensitive. Are you too impatient to read the help screens of the search engines? Print them out and keep them in display sheets in a folder for easy reference. Births, Deaths and MarriagesAustraliaThe State Library holds all indexes to the available Australian records. There are limits on the dates to which indexes are available for privacy records. See the relevant State Library information sheet. These may be accessed through Public Libraries Division or the Family History Unit. Births, Deaths and Marriages Registries of Australasia Netlinks http://www.bdmoz.gov.au/ BDMAUS provides a link to the webpages of all the Australian states and territories registries offices. New Zealand is also listed. Civil Registration NetLinks: Proformat http://www.jaunay.com/bdm.html Graham Jaunay lists under a number of categories what can be found on the certificates of each State. This can be worth consulting to check if the certificate will provide the information sought and is worth buying. Cemeteries NetLinks: Websites for Genealogists http://www.coraweb.com.au/cemetaus.htm Cora Num provides an extensive list of cemetery sites on the internet for the Australian States as well as for overseas places. See also Queensland Web Lists/Indexes of namesQueenslandQueensland Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages NetLinks http://www.justice.qld.gov.au/bdm The Queensland Registry's new site answers a number of questions about the service, provides contact details and email access as well as links to the services of other registries. The Registry has not yet put any indexes to its records online. New South WalesNew South Wales Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages NetLinks http://www.bdm.nsw.gov.au/ This site is very rich one for the family historian. Apart from the usual information, it also has indexes to the New South Wales records. The indexes to births extend only to 1905, not 1918 as in the case in those commercially available. It is nevertheless a valuable point of access. Other interesting useful features include information about: overseas registries divorce papers estate papers missing persons wills and probate lots of genealogy links VictoriaThe Victorian Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages NetLinks http://www.justice.vic.gov.au To check the Victorian indexes to births, deaths and marriages it is necessary to pay a fee. It is not easy to navigate. TasmaniaTasmanian Family Link Database NetLinks http://resources.archives.tas.gov.au/Pioneers/ The information about individuals is based on records of births, deaths, and marriages and similar events, held in the Archives Office of Tasmania. Family historians have developed the linkages between individuals with other members of their families living in Tasmania in the 19th Century. These may not always be accurate even if very useful .
Libraries, Archives and Other SourcesAustraliaNational Library of Australia: Australian Family History and Genealogy on the Internet NetLinks http://www.nla.gov.au/oz/genelist.html The links available make this an easy entry point to all the major family history repositories in Australia. National Archives of Australia NetLinks http://www.naa.gov.au/ This is a rich site with the facility for extensive record and photograph searching. Their extensive range of fact sheets is useful for family historians locating material at Archives and other sources. Jewish Genealogy in Australia NetLinks http://www.ajgs.org.au/ Contains excellent material for those researching Jewish connections. There are also links to international sites. John Weedy's page of links to other websites that have Illustrated London News content http://www.iln.org.uk/iln_years/noframeiln.htm The Illustrated London News provided invaluable information and illustrations during the 19th and 20th Centuries about events in England and Australia. Material of particular interest for family history includes illustrations and news about: emigrant ships and the emigrant experience the Irish famine The State Library has a number of volumes of the Illustrated London News and is acquiring a run on microform up to 1920. QueenslandQueensland State Archives NetLinks http://www.archives.qld.gov.au This is an important site for Queensland local and family history. It includes information on:
resources to check in preparation for research records - immigration, cemetery, land, divorce, probate publications services to the public an expanding range of indexes Royal Queensland Historical Society NetLinks http://www.queenslandhistory.org.au/ The Society provides an historical timeline and a contents listing of their journal. Contents include:
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