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See also the handout for my 'Arrivals' talk.
Immigration to NSW
- Immigration indexes in NSW – http://www.records.nsw.gov.au
also Immigration and Shipping – https://www.records.nsw.gov.au/archives/collections-and-research/guides-and-indexes/immigration-and-shipping - Mariners and Ships in Australian Waters – http://marinersandships.com.au (Unassisted Passenger & Crew arrivals 1845-1900)
- FamilySearch – http://www.familysearch.org (Select 'Search Records', 'Australia', then 'Index to Bounty Immigrants')
- Immigration to NSW on Ancestry – http://search.ancestry.com.au/search/category.aspx?cat=40 (costs)
- Immigration to NSW on findmypast – http://search.findmypast.com.au/search-world-records-in-travel-and-migration?_ga=1.64959654.801069971.1415531301 (costs)
- Bounty Emigrants to Australia – https://www.jstor.org/stable/27699475?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
- Chinese Naturalisation Database, NSW (1857-1887) – http://arrow.latrobe.edu.au/store/3/4/5/5/1/public/naturalisation.htm
- Donegal Relief Fund Passenger Lists – http://donegalgenealogy.com/relief.htm
- Female migration to Australia in the 1830s – http://www.rushen.com.au/index.html
- Fever, Immigration & Quarantine in NSW 1837-1840 – https://academic.oup.com/shm/article/24/3/624/1641803 (academic article about the social & political impact of diseases like typhus)
- Galway Emigrant Index 1828-1866 – http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~maddenps/GALWAYEM.htm
- Illustrated Sydney News – http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/title/107
- Irish Famine Memorial – http://www.irishfaminememorial.org/orphans/ (special immigration scheme to bring destitute single women from the workhouses of Ireland, 1845-48)
- Migration Heritage Centre NSW – http://www.migrationheritage.nsw.gov.au (archived website)
- North Head Quarantine Station, Register of deaths – http://www.naa.gov.au ('Search the Collection', 'RecordSearch', 'Advanced search', 'Series', Series C526, Item 1)
also North Head Quarantine Station – http://www.naa.gov.au/collection/fact-sheets/fs143.aspx - Pure Merinos & lists of the Australian Agricultural Company – http://imagedepot.anu.edu.au/sis/archives/publications/pure_merinos_and_others_-pa_-pemberton.pdf
- Soldier Settlement in NSW (1916-1939) – http://soldiersettlement.records.nsw.gov.au/index.php/case-studies/ ('A Land Fit for Heroes?', see also NSW State Records, Research, 'S')