Chapter 3 (cont.) - Cemeteries & Wills
Cemeteries and Monumental Inscriptions
- Ancestry.com.au – https://www.ancestry.com.au (subscription site, includes some headstone transcriptions)
- Australian cemeteries – http://www.australiancemeteries.com.au (links to individual cemeteries)
- Australian cemeteries Index – http://austcemindex.com
- Coraweb: Australian cemetery links – http://coraweb.com.au/websites/cemeteries/ (links to many sites)
- Australian funeral & death notices & obituaries – http://www.obits.com.au
- Billion Graves – https://billiongraves.com (international site, free or subscription)
- Brisbane City Council's cemeteries database – https://graves.brisbane.qld.gov.au
- Catholic Cemeteries Board – http://www.catholiccemeteries.org.au/ (Sydney region)
- Cemetery Records Online – http://www.interment.net
- Deceased Online – https://www.deceasedonline.com (international subscription site, not many Australian graves)
- Family History WA – https://membership.wags.org.au/members-data/cemetery-data (some items members only, some free to public)
- Find a grave – http://www.findagrave.com
- Find my past – https://www.findmypast.com.au (subscription site, searches free, see Parish burials, includes many cemetery transcriptions)
- Greater Metropolitan Cemeteries Trust (Victoria) – https://www.gmct.com.au/deceased
Southern Metropolitan Cemeteries Trust (Victoria) – https://smct.org.au - Hawkesbury on the Net (Cemetery and Grave Register) – http://hawkesbury.net.au (many small NSW cemeteries)
- Headstones from Cemeteries of Tasmania – http://www.ozgenonline.com/~riacaroline/Cemetery%20index.html
- Jewish Burials Database – http://www.bd-bd.info/ (Beverley Davis database)
- Metropolitan Cemeteries Board of Western Australia – https://www.mcb.wa.gov.au
- Rookwood Cemetery (not Roman Catholic) – https://www.rookwoodcemetery.com.au/deceased-search-engine (Sydney)
Roman Catholic Cemeteries – https://catholiccemeteries.com.au - South Australian Cemetery Directory – http://www.familyhistorysa.info/births-marriages-deaths/cemeteries/
- South-East Queensland cemeteries headstone photo collection – http://www.chapelhill.homeip.net/FamilyHistory/Photos/
- Waverley Cemetery – https://www.waverley.nsw.gov.au/cemeteries/finding_loved_ones/searching_our_records (Sydney)
Wills and Probate
- NSW State Records – http://www.records.nsw.gov.au (Select 'Indexes Online' then 'Deceased Estates and Probate')
Wills are included in probate packets at NSW State Archives Reading Room (Kingswood) or obtain copies from transcription agents - Marilyn Rowan – http://www.nswtranscriptions.com.au/
- Turtle Consolidated Services – http://home.iprimus.com.au/lturtle/
- Queensland Wills Index 1857-1920 – http://www.archives.qld.gov.au/research/index/wills.asp
- South Australian wills – http://www.courts.sa.gov.au/community/wills.html (request search &/or request copy)
- Tasmanian Wills Index to 1989 – http://www.linc.tas.gov.au/tasmaniasheritage/search/name-indexes/nameindexes (Wills to 1989 digitised & free online)
- Victorian Wills – http://www.prov.vic.gov.au/access/probate.asp (Can be freely downloaded once you have the reference number)
- Victorian Wills, Probate & Administration Index 1841-1925 – http://www.prov.vic.gov.au/indexes/index_search.asp?searchid=54
- Western Australian wills index to 1947 – http://aeon.sro.wa.gov.au/Investigator/investigator.htm (Enter 'Probate' into a simple search. Keep following the blue links saying 'Detail')
- How to locate Australian wills – http://www.jaunay.com/wills.html