Immigration to Australia
- National Archives of Australia http://www.naa.gov.au
Immigration Research guides https://www.naa.gov.au/help-your-research/research-guides (includes 'Chinese immigrants & Chinese-Australians in NSW', 'Chinese-Australian Journeys', 'Citizenship in Australia', 'Good British Stock', 'More People Imperative', 'Safe haven: records of the Jewish experience in Australia')
Child migration https://www.naa.gov.au/explore-collection/immigration-and-citizenship/child-migration (schemes 1947-53)
Destination Australia https://www.destinationaustralia.gov.au
Immigration Restriction Act 1901 (White Australia Policy) https://www.naa.gov.au/explore-collection/immigration-and-citizenship/immigration-restriction-act-1901
- England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales
Australian Joint Copying Project (AJCP) https://www.nla.gov.au/content/australian-joint-copying-project (records from UK repositories, relevant to Pacific)
English middle class women's migration to Australia 1861-1881 https://ro.uow.edu.au/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=https://www.google.com.au/&httpsredir=1&article=3168&context=theses
Female Migration Schemes http://www.rushen.com.au
Emigration of Women to Australia: Forced & Voluntary http://www.writingfamilyhistory.com.au/Emigrationpdf.pdf (Noeline Kyle)
Famine Orphans https://irishfaminememorial.org/orphans/
Galway Emigrant Index 1828-1864 http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~maddenps/genealogy/GALWAYEM.htm
Highlands & Islands Emigration Society records http://www.scan.org.uk/researchrtools/emigration.htm
Irish migration to Australia http://www.nma.gov.au/exhibitions/irish_in_australia/home ('Not just Ned' exhibition)
(The) National Archives UK: Emigration guide http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/help-with-your-research/research-guides/emigration/
National Maritime Museum, Greenwich http://www.rmg.co.uk/
Royal Museums Picture Library http://images.rmg.co.uk//en/page/show_home_page.html
Pauper Emigration under the New Poor Law http://www.workhouses.org.uk/emigration/
Surgeons at Sea: Royal Navy Medical Officers' journals http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/surgeonsatsea (on convict & emigrant ships 1793-1880)
Ten Pound Poms https://www.exodus2013.co.uk/the-ten-pound-pom/
Tipperary Emigrant Index 1828-1860 http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~maddenps/genealogy/TIPPEM5.htm
Remembering & Commemorating the Great Famine & Emigration to Australia https://breac.nd.edu/articles/remembering-and-commemorating-the-great-famine-and-emigration-to-australia/ (Perry McIntyre)
White Ensign, Southern Cross 1788-1913 http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~ausnavy/history/ (Navy Officers, men and their families who settled in Australia)
- Child migration programs
Big Brother Movement http://www.bbm.asn.au (youth migration)
Personal History Index for former Catholic child migrants http://www.cbers.org/archive/phind.asp.htm
(The) Sending to Australia https://www.aph.gov.au/parliamentary_business/committees/senate/community_affairs/completed_inquiries/1999-02/child_migrat/report/c03 (child migration)
- Ancestry.com (Convict & Immigration databases)
http://search.ancestry.com.au/search/category.aspx?cat=40 (costs)
- Cora Num's Shipping and Migration https://coraweb.com.au/websites/shipping-and-migration/ (list of websites)
- Cyndi's list: Ships & Passenger lists http://www.cyndislist.com/ships.htm
- Find My Past (Australasia) http://www.findmypast.com.au (free to search, costs to view originals)
- Airline Timetables & Images http://www.timetableimages.com/
- Ancestor Search (passenger lists) http://www.searchforancestors.com/locality/australia/passenger.html
- Australian National Maritime Museum https://www.sea.museum
Passenger Ships to Australia 1788-1900 https://www.sea.museum/collections/library/research-guides/passenger-ships-to-australia (comparison of vessels & voyage lengths)
Seafaring Ancestors https://www.sea.museum/collections/library/research-guides/seafaring-ancestors (list of reference books)
Vaughan Evans Library https://www.sea.museum/discover/library
- Chinese
ChineseAustralian Historical Society https://chineseaustralianhistory.org
Chinese Australian History https://chinozhistory.org/index.php/family-history-research/
Chinese Australians and the Immigration Restriction Act http://chineseaustralia.org/new-guide-to-researching-immigration-restriction-act-records/
Invisible Australians: Living under the White Australia Policy http://invisibleaustralians.org/
Tracing your Chinese ancestors in the administrative files of the Commonwealth Immigration Restriction Act https://cahsociety.files.wordpress.com/2015/07/archives-guide.pdf
- Europe (continental)
Bremen Passenger lists http://www.passengerlists.de
Danish Emigration Archives http://www.udvandrerarkivet.dk/forside/
Fifth Fleet http://www.fifthfleet.net (displaced persons brought to Australia 1947-1951)
Italian Historical Society (Co.As.It) https://www.coasit.com.au/italian-historical-society
Italian migration to Australia 1850-1900 https://www.coasit.com.au/images/Downloads/Italian_migration_1850-1900.pdf
Lacemakers of Calais https://www.lacemakersofcalais.com.au (Australian Society)
Netherlands archives (Nationaal Archief) https://www.nationaalarchief.nl/en/research/index/nt00335?searchTerm= (emigrants from Netherlands to Australia 1946-1991)
Russian Federation-born Community https://www.homeaffairs.gov.au/mca/files/2016-cis-russian-federation.PDF
World War 2 Refugees to Australia http://immigrantships.net/ww2_au.html
Wuerttemberg Emigration Index http://www.germanroots.com/wuerttemberg.html (1808-1890)
- First families 2001 https://webarchive.nla.gov.au/tep/10421 (archived website)
- Immigrant Diaries at the National Library of Australia http://www.nla.gov.au/manuscripts/immigrant-diaries (1822-1895)
- Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild http://www.immigrantships.net
- Immigrant's Guide 1853 http://www.slsa.sa.gov.au/BSA/1853ImmigrantsGuide.htm (what to bring on board and details daily routines)
- A History of the Department of Immigration https://www.homeaffairs.gov.au/news-subsite/files/immigration-history.pdf
Immigration: Top 10 Countries of Birth https://www.aph.gov.au/About_Parliament/Parliamentary_Departments/Parliamentary_Library/pubs/rp/rp1819/BornOverseas
Migration to Australia since federation: a guide to the statistics http://www.aph.gov.au/binaries/library/pubs/bn/sp/migrationpopulation.pdf
- Migration Heritage Centre http://www.migrationheritage.nsw.gov.au/homepage/
- Museum Victoria: Immigration History https://museumsvictoria.com.au/longform/immigration-to-victoria/
Journeys to Australia https://museumsvictoria.com.au/immigrationmuseum/resources/journeys-to-australia/
- Newspapers
Australian Periodical Publications Project, 1840-1845 https://worldhistorycommons.org/australian-periodical-publications-project-1840-1845
Trove http://trove.nla.gov.au (Digitised newspapers, ships' pictures, diaries, manuscripts, books, see especially newspaper 'Shipping Gazette')
- Ships
Australian National Shipwreck Database http://www.environment.gov.au/heritage/underwater-heritage/auchd
Lloyd's Register of Ships online https://hec.lrfoundation.org.uk/archive-library/lloyds-register-of-ships-online
Log of Logs Volumes 1, 2 & 3 https://zenodo.org/record/6901#.VQT39I6Uftt (3 volumes by Ian Nicholson, of ships voyages, journals, etc; check all 3 volumes)
Maritime Timetables & Images http://www.timetableimages.com/maritime/images/shiplist.htm
Magellan: The Ships Encyclopedia http://www.cimorelli.com/magellan/
Ozships: Australian Shipping Arrivals & Departures (1788-1968) http://www.ozships.net/ozships/
Passenger & Emigrant Ships to Australia and New Zealand http://www.findboatpics.com (list of ships & ships' pictures)
(The) Ships List http://www.theshipslist.com
Ships' logs, lists and pictures http://www.members.optusnet.com.au/lenorefrost/shipslog.html
SS Asturias http://www.ssasturias.net (immigrant ship to Australia 1940s & 50s)
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