Australian Resources

[grub]

Please post in here ONLY those sites that pertain to ALL of Australia, not just one particular state.
Each state/Territory has it own individual posting.
Thanks..........

Please see our new updated Australian Resources Link
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,369775.0.html

[tropicalj]

Here is a few to start the ball rolling

http://www.environment.gov.au/cgi-bin/heritage/nsd/nsd_list.pl
National Shipwreck Register

http://www.koalanet.com.au/australian-slang.html#R
for Austrlian Slang terms never know it might come in handy especially if you come down under!

http://mariners.records.nsw.gov.au/search.htm
Mariners and ships into Australian Waters
this is a very good site  has  the listing of crew and passenger and then you can click onto to see the actual manifest!

http://www.ozgenonline.com/aust_cemeteries/
Australian Cemeteries  it is broken into states  but it does give you them all there in the first instance
regards jenn

[kerob]

National Archives Defence Records for both WWI & WWII

All WW1 service records have now been digitised & can be searched by name.
http://www.naa.gov.au/the_collection/recordsearch.html

or WWII nominal roll
http://www.ww2roll.gov.au/script/name.asp

Kerob

[trish251]

Following on from Kerob
http://www.awm.gov.au/nominalrolls/ww1/    WW 1 nominal roll
http://www.awm.gov.au/ Australian War memorial
http://www.vietnamroll.gov.au/   Vietnam roll

http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/adbonline.htm  Australian Dictionary of Biography

http://www.lds.org.au/materials.asp LDS Australia - order CDs etc 

Trish

[Christopher]

MattieMae posted a message on the Dublin, Ireland board for a convent which she has discovered is actually in Australia. Here's a link to convents on that Continent which may help other members http://www.conventsaustralia.com You can search either by the name of the religious order who were in the convent or by state.

[Chris Frater]

The index contains details of headstones from a number of cemeteries in Australia. It initially concentrates on cemeteries in regional NSW, but can expand into other areas as required. There is also photo's available for most of these.

http://cemindex.arkangles.com/

Great site...
Chris

[Christopher]

The National Archives of Ireland holds a wide range of records relating to the transportation of convicts from Ireland to Australia covering the period 1788 to 1868. In some cases these include records of members of convicts' families transported as free settlers.

Click here to use the online Ireland-Australia transportation database

The information on the record should show ....

Last name: 
 
First name: 
 
Alias: 
 
Sex: 
 
Age: 
 
Sound name: 
 
Trial place: 
 
Trial date: 
 
Crime desc: 
 
Sentence: 
 
Document ref1: 
 
Comment1: 

The Taoiseach presented microfilms of the most important of these records, as a gift from the Government and People of Ireland, to the Government and People of Australia to mark the Australian Bicentenary in 1988. A computerised index to the records was prepared with the help of IBM and is available for use at various locations in Australia.

[Christopher]

I've checked the database to see how many matches there are per county. You can also check per town but there are so many towns I'll just list the counties ... I've included cities and a few towns where people were imprisoned or where the trial took place.

Antrim 1482
Armagh 653
Armagh City 3
Belfast 224
Belfast City 1
Carlow 450
Carrickfergus 101
Cavan 784
Cavan town 2
Clare 1377
Cork 5589
Cork City 799
Derry 36
Londonderry 550
Donegal 339
Down 819
Downpatrick 75
Dublin 6088
Dublin City 2089
Enniskillen 73
Fermanagh 633
Galway 1732
Galway City 160
Kerry 1266
Kildare 871
Kilkenny 1043
Laois 0 Queens Co. 29
Leitrim 420
Limerick 2686
Limerick City 639
Longford 607
Louth 416
Mayo 1000
Meath 804
Monaghan 543
Offaly 16 Kings Co. 48
Roscommon 688
Sligo 353
Tipperary 2595
Tyrone 962
Waterford 1684
Westmeath 746
Wexford 668
Wicklow 726

[Janice M]

Australian Genealogy Links
http://www.genealogylinks.net/australia/

Convicts to Australia
http://www.convictcentral.com/index.html

http://www.genealogylinks.net/australia/all-australia/convicts.htm

Passenger Lists
http://www.genealogylinks.net/australia/all-australia/ships.htm

Cemeteries
http://www.genealogylinks.net/australia/all-australia/cemeteries.htm

Marriages
http://www.genealogylinks.net/marriages/australia/index.html

Military
http://www.genealogylinks.net/australia/all-australia/military.htm