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Ancestry | Access the World's Largest Online History Resource. Free Tree Building, Genealogy Records, Newspaper Archives. | Birth Marriage and Death, Census Records, newspapers | View |
Australian Cemetery Index | A database of cemetery records. | Website | View |
Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) | Essential for those researching Indigenous Australian ancestry. | Website | View |
Australian War Memorial | Our collection contains a wealth of material to help you research and find your connection with the wartime experiences of the brave men and women who served in Australia’s military | War/Conflict | View |
Australian War Memorial | Records of Australians who served in various wars. | Website | View |
BillionGraves | BillionGraves is the world's largest resource for searchable GPS cemetery data, and is growing bigger and better every day. You can help by collecting headstone images from local and other cemeteries, and then by transcribing the personal information found on the images. | Burial Sites | View |
Cairo Gang – Soldiers who died in Ireland | British Soldiers who died in Ireland | War/Conflict | View |
Commonwealth War Graves Commission | The CWGC is a global organisation, caring for war graves at 23,000 locations in more than 150 countries and territories. We commemorate almost 1.7 million individuals, ensuring that all the Commonwealth men and women who died during both world wars are commemorated in a manner befitting their sacrifice. Find the details of the war dead in our Commonwealth War Records database and archives. | War/Conflict | View |
Convict Records | A database of Australian convict transportation registers. | Website | View |
Coraweb | A site that lists websites that have databases or information useful to Australian genealogy research. | Website | View |
Crew List Index Project | CLIP is a not-for-profit volunteer project, set up to assist research into the records of British merchant seafarers of the late 19th and early 20th century. Over the last twenty years we have worked with hundreds of people and many archives around the world to make the largest database of seafarers' records and provide unique resources which are widely used by maritime researchers. The site provides information about the records of British seafarers and ships, and access to the CLIP maritime database: | British Seafarers | View |
Dublin Cemeteries Trust Burial Records and Genealogy | You can search for standard burial or cremation information, extended burials by entire graves and even access book extracts, where available. Try our free results preview to see what you reveal - use our search tool to get started. You will then be prompted to buy credits if you wish to take your search deeper. Unless you have one already, you will be required to set up an account, where you can redeem a voucher or purchase credit online. | Burial Sites | View |
FamilySearch | FamilySearch is a non-profit organization that provides family history services free of charge to everyone, regardless of tradition, culture, or religious affiliation. | Birth Marriage and Death, Census Records | View |
Find a Grave | Worlds largest gravesite collection. Over 226 million memorials created by the community since 1995. | Burial Sites | View |
Find a Will | Search probate records or find a will in England and Wales, post-1858 for wills. Free to search copies for a small charge. | Probate and Wills | View |
Findmypast – QLD | Findmypast has the following Queensland-related BDM records available: Queensland Deaths 1829-1964 | Website | View |
FreeCEN | This project aims to provide a free-to-view, online, searchable database of UK census returns. The UK is defined as England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales together with the Crown Dependencies of the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man, and including the Orkney and Hebrides Islands, provided that each was the responsibility of the Crown at the time that the census was taken. | Census Records | View |
General Register Office – England & Wales | The General Register Office is part of His Majesty's Passport Office and oversees civil registration in England and Wales. We maintain the national archive of all births, marriages and deaths dating back to 1837. | Birth Marriage and Death | View |
General Register Officer – UK | The General Register Office holds records of births, deaths, marriages, civil partnerships, stillbirths and adoptions in England and Wales. | Birth Marriage and Death | View |
Google.com | Great for General Search | Website | View |
Guernsey – Register Office | Holds births and deaths from October 1840, non-Anglican marriages from States Offices January 1841 and Anglican marriages from 1919 | Birth Marriage and Death | View |
Immigration and ship records | Various state libraries and archives have these. | Website | View |
Imperial War Museum | Discover their stories remember their lives Throughout the centenary period IWM has worked with the public to commemorate millions of men and women from across the Commonwealth who took part in the First World War, | Military Personnel, War/Conflict | View |
Interment.net | This website contains 25+ million cemetery records, transcripts, and burial registers, from tens of thousands of cemeteries across the world, all contributed by genealogists, cemeteries, government agencies, and private organisations. | Burial Sites | View |
Irish Genealogy | Irish genealogy is a website that allows users and opportunity to search a wide range of records sources in the search for their Irish Ancestry. | Marriage and Deaths - Ireland | View |
Irish Great War Dead Archive | Tom Burnell has researched contemporary newspapers, books, historical records and Ireland’s Memorial Records in compiling an exhaustive list of servicemen who died during the Great War or as a result of injuries received. The Archive has expanded on the list of entries recorded in Ireland’s Memorial Records and gives added detail about family connections, residence, etc., where such has been identified. The Archive is of great interest to military historians and genealogists. | View | |
Isle of Man – Civil Registry | Registration of such events became compulsory on the Isle of Man in 1878, (1884 for marriages) although Civil Registry do hold some records prior to 1878. | Birth Marriage and Death | View |
Jersey – General Registry | Hold birth, marriages and deaths from 1842. | Birth Marriage and Death | View |
National Archives of Australia (NAA) | Offers a collection of government records about Australians. | Website | View |
National Library of Wales | If you have Welch ancestors this free genealogy website offers over 15 million articles from old newspapers, tithe maps, applications for marriage licences and more. | Birth Marriage and Death, newspapers | View |
National Records of Scotland | National Records of Scotland (NRS) is a Non-Ministerial Department of the Scottish Government. Our purpose is to collect, preserve and produce information about Scotland's people and history and make it available to inform current and future generations. | Birth Marriage and Death | View |
New Zealand – Birth, Marriage and Death Certificates | The historic data available for you to search is limited so that information relating to people who might still be alive, can be protected. Information available includes:
| Birth Marriage and Death | View |
New Zealand Archives – World War 1 | We hold a great variety of records of the service of New Zealand forces in the First World War. Most of these are Army records. | War/Conflict | View |
Northern Ireland – The Registrar General | The General Register Office for Northern Ireland (GRONI) is located within the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency and is responsible for:
| Birth Marriage and Death | View |
Old Bailey Online – London’s Criminal Court |
A fully searchable edition of the largest body of texts detailing the lives of non-elite people ever published, containing 197,745 criminal trials held at London's central criminal court. If you are new to this site, you may find the Getting Started and Guide to Searching videos and tutorials helpful. | View | |
Online Parish Clerks | Online Parish Clerks (OPC) are volunteers roups that create free genealogy websites with searchable transcriptions of records from their local Parish. The link takes you to a list of OPC's in England from the UKBMD website. | Birth Marriage and Death | View |
Oral History Australia | Oral History Australia (OHA) is a volunteer-run, not-for-profit organisation committed to promoting the ethical practice of oral history in Australia and overseas. We recruit members through State associations that provide support and events. | Oral History | View |
Ryerson Index | An index to death notices and obituaries in Australian newspapers. | Death Notices, Website | View |
State Library of New South Wales | Houses a vast collection of family history resources. | Website | View |
The Digital Panopticon | Tracing London Convicts in Britain & Australia, 1780-1925This website allows you to search millions of records from around fifty datasets, relating to the lives of 90,000 convicts from the Old Bailey. Use our site to search individual convict life archives, explore and visualise data, and learn more about crime and criminal justice in the past. In December 2019 this website was updated with the addition of two datasets on convict tattoos and a new search feature allowing you to search by convict occupations. A substantial number of additional punishment outcomes have been linked to trials. We have made a number of corrections to convict genders and ages, and new visualisations have been added to the visualisation gallery. 58,002 convicts in this database had tattoos. You can now search for specific tattoos and for specific types of tattoos on specific parts of the body. You can also create visualisations of tattoo design by body location, tattoo subjects according to religion, tattoo designs by place of birth and tattoo designs by occupation. | Convict | View |
The Gazette | The offical journal of records has been scanned from 1665 to the present day, containing published lists of bankrupts, military personnel mentioned in despatches and probate notices. | Military Personnel, Probate and Wills | View |
The Oral History Society | The Oral History Society promotes the collection, preservation and use of recorded memories and plays a key role in facilitating and developing the use of oral history. | Oral History | View |
Trove | Managed by the National Library of Australia, it provides access to newspapers, photographs, and other historical documents. | Website | View |
Ulster Historical Foundation | Telling the story of the people of Ulster. Search over 2 million records incl. birth, death and marriages (BMD), census records, street directories and more. | Marriage and Deaths - Ireland | View |