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World's Largest
Newspaper Archive
 over 660 million obituary, marriage, birth and death announcements

Birth Records Search
includes name of mother, father,
place of birth, birth certificate access

Marriage Records Search
includes full bride and groom names,
bride and groom family members, marriage cert access

Death Records Search
includes location and date of death, obituary
records, cemetery listings, death certificate access

England & Wales
FreeBMD Marriage Index: 1837-1915
free access to the Civil Registration index
of Marriages for England and Wales

Australian Free Genealogy Search Engines

 

 

General Search Engines

Rootsweb's Australian and New Zealand Record Collection
a database of over 700,000 records featuring more than 71,000 distinct Aust and NZ names from newspapers, burial records, passenger lists and book indexes

 

Cemeteries

Lorraine's Burial Record Pages
a database of names from hundred's of Australian cemeteries for NSW, Tasmania, Victoria, South Australia, Western Australia, by Lorraine Larment

Convict Records

Irish Convicts to Australia 1791-1853
search the National Archives of Ireland Transportation Records Database 1791-1853

Military

Debt of Honour Register
search 1.7 million records WWI & WWII personnel

Passenger Lists

NSW - Assisted immigrants arriving in Sydney & Newcastle, 1844-59
search the State Records of NSW database of Assisted immigrants arriving in Sydney & Newcastle, 1844-59

Index to Unassisted Inward Passenger Lists to Victoria 1852-1923
search the index of Inward Passenger Lists 1852-1923 for Victoria