Chapter 3 (cont.)
Diverse databases
- Ancestry.com – http://www.ancestry.com.au (costs)
- FindMyPast (Australia) – http://www.findmypast.com.au (Many directories, electoral rolls, local histories, gazettes - costs)
Gateways
- Australian & NZ links – http://www.brandis.com.au/genealogy/links/index.html
- Australian Family History Compendium – http://www.cohsoft.com.au/afhc
- Australian links – http://www.aigs.org.au/auslinks.htm
- Australian resources – http://www.jaunay.com/aus_info.html
- Ballarat Genealogical Society’s “Favourite links” – http://www.ballaratgenealogy.org.au
- Cyndi’s list – http://www.cyndislist.com
- Genealogy Search Australia –
http://www.searchwhateveraustralia.com.au/
- Genie and history links – http://www.zades.com.au/genlink.html (Susie Zada)
- Pacific Genweb for Kids – http://www.worldgenweb.org/~wgw4kids/pacific.htm
- Websites for Genealogists – http://www.coraweb.com.au (Cora Num)
Regional
- Dead Reckoning: How to find your way through the genealogical jungle of Western Australia – http://www.slwa.wa.gov.au/dead_reckoning
- One-Place Study Register Australia – http://oneplacestudy.org/australia/l
- Queensland Genealogy Surname Search – http://www.freesurnamesearch.com/search/ausnzp/queensland.html
- Queensland Research tips – http://www.judywebster.gil.com.au/tips-qld.html
- South Australian Family History – http://www.familyhistorysa.info/
- South Australian information & links – http://www.jaunay.com/sa_info.html
- Western NSW Hotels and Publicans Licenses – http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~surreal/NSWW/Hotels/
Ethnic & Religious
- Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Genealogy Links – http://www.coraweb.com.au/abor.htm
- Australian Aboriginal Genealogy Resources – http://mc2.vicnet.net.au/home/pmackett/index.html
- Australian Institute of Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Studies – http://www.aiatsis.gov.au/fhu/start.html (family history)
- Australian Jewish Genealogical Society (AJGS) – http://www.ajgs.org.au/
- Australian Lebanese Historical Society of Victoria – http://alhsv.org.au/
Names
- Australian surnames for genealogists – http://www.list.jaunay.com/ausnames/
- Genforum – http://genforum.genealogy.com (surname notice boards)
- It's an Honour – http://www.itsanhonour.gov.au/ (Australian awards and honours)
- Names and their meanings – http://www.behindthename.com
Other Useful
- Australia's first frontier: The Spread of Settlement in NSW 1788-1829 – https://openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/handle/1885/210131
- Australian Genealogy & History Blogs – http://www.unlockthepast.com.au/australian-genealogy-history-blogs
- (The) Australian mortality decline: all-cause mortality 1788-1990 – https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/j.1467-842X.1998.tb01141.x
- Calendar for any year – http://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/generate.html
- Copyright for (Australian) Genealogists – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgjiw6YTDAA (Australian Libraries Copyright Committee)
- Copyright Fundamentals for Genealogy – http://stellar-one.com/copyright_concepts/Copyright_Fundamentals_for_Genealogy.pdf
- Dead Persons Societies – http://members.iinet.net.au/~perthdps/dps-socs.htm
- Dead Persons Society, Sydney – http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nswsdps/dps/
- FamilySearch Research Wiki – https://www.familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/Main_Page (information guides & links)
- Find & Connect Australia – http://www.findandconnect.gov.au/ (children's homes, information for former child migrants & 'Forgotten Australians')
- GEDCOM defined – http://www.cyndislist.com/gedcom.htm
- Genealogical Proof Standard – https://www.genealogyexplained.com/basics/genealogical-proof-standard/ (how to prove your conclusions, by Marc McDermott)
- Genealogy taglines – http://www.rootsweb.com/~genepool/taglines.htm (for fun)
- Gould Genealogy, Adelaide – http://www.gould.com.au (mail order genealogy books and supplies)
- Handwriting deciphering – http://amberskyline.com/treasuremaps/oldhand.html
- History Pin – http://www.historypin.com/ (Historical photos, videos, audios by location)
- Internet Archive – http://www.archive.org/ (free electronic books in Texts, WayBackMachine for archived web pages)
- Kinship Table – http://www.prenticenet.com/news/99/kinship_table.htm
- Measuring Worth – http://www.measuringworth.com/australiacompare/ (computing relative values of Australian amounts, 1828 to present)
- National Institute for Genealogical Studies – http://www.genealogicalstudies.com/ (online genealogy courses, costs)
- Pandora (Australia's Web Archive) – http://trove.nla.gov.au/
- Photograph dating – http://www.cartes.freeuk.com/time/date.htm
- Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness – http://www.raogk.org (Volunteers offer to do look-ups for only the cost of their expenses)
- Review of Software – http://familyhistoryresearch.com.au/courses/Software/index.htm (Contains information about genealogy programs & also links to suppliers, many have free trial downloads)
- RootsChat Reference Library – http://surname.rootschat.com/lexicon/index.php (genealogical terms, phrases and abbreviations)
- Unlock the Past – http://www.unlockthepast.com.au/
- War Brides (with American GIs) – http://warbrides.com.au/index.php/Overview/For-love-of-an-Aussie.html
- WayBack Machine – http://www.archive.org/web/web.php (archived web pages)
- Webinars for genealogy – http://blog.geneawebinars.com/ (online lectures that may also sometimes be available to download later)
- "Who do you think you are?" – http://www.sbs.com.au/shows/whodoyouthinkyouare/videos/page/i/1/show/whodoyouthinkyouare (SBS TV website, sponsored by Ancestry.com.au)
- World digital library – http://www.wdl.org/en/
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