Other Family History Sites

Researching Family History

Australian Resources

Australian Genealogy Associations & Societies

Research Resources

International Resources

China

Ireland

New Zealand

United Kingdom

Germany, Austria and Slovenia

Researching the History of Houses

For local, national and international links.

Genealogy Associations & Societies

Australasian Association of Genealogists and Record Agents offers the services of reliable and competent genealogists and record agents to those wanting professional family history services and general record searching.

Family History Connections offers an extensive library where volunteers are available to assist members and visitors with their family research.

Genealogy Society of Victoria is a leading Australian family history society for the study of genealogy.

Research Resources

CoraWeb helps you trace your family history in Australia and elsewhere.

Centre for Indigenous Family History Studies: A resource for people researching their Aboriginal heritage. The material on this site has been extracted from publicly available records in various state and federal archives throughout Australia.

Cyndi's List is a comprehensive, categorized & cross-referenced list of links that point you to genealogical research sites online.

Dating old photographs

FamilySearch Church of Latter-day Saints international records of christenings and marriages

Historic Homes in Victoria  Researching with the Public Record Office of Victoria and other Resources

International Genealogical Index (IGI). Now called Family Search

Origins a general genealogy resource

Ryerson index for Australian newspaper death and obituary notices.  Index is current and dates from 1803 to now.

Rootsweb a general resource

State Library of Victoria digitised collections

Trove Over 400 million Australian and online resources: books, images, historic newspapers, maps, music, archives and more from the National Library of Australia

Victorian Births Deaths and Marriages online

War Graves Commission Project Search for your soldier to find image of his war grave

Ireland

Roots Ireland: Irish Online Records Births, deaths marriages of many counties. Released 2008. Register free. Free to search. Pay for full record.

National Archives of Ireland Document searches available.

Parish Registers Now freely available to read the original record online. Excellently organised for the purpose.

Historic records of Births, Marriages and Deaths of the General Register Office Published 2016 by the Irish Government. Free retrieval of records.

New Zealand

New Zealand National Library guide to research

New Zealand Births Deaths Marriages Records

Papers Past New Zealand historical newspapers

United Kingdom

Clergy of the Church of England 1540 - 1935

The London Gazette online - A free online historic archive from 1665. Military appointments, public notices of all kinds. Also available are the Belfast and Edinburgh Gazettes.

Old Bailey records of UK trials 1674 - 1913. Includes names of all witnesses, jury, prosecutors, victims, defendants.

Scotland's People Government site for Scottish records

United Kingdom Births, Deaths, Marriages project: free search

UK Government Records

United Kingdom Census free census online project

United Kingdom Census 1901

United Kingdom Census 1911 free to search. Pay for details.\

China

How to get started in Chinese Family History Research (familysearch blog)

Chinese Australian Historical Society Inc. Family History

Germany, Austria, Slovenia

GenTeam site   It covers aspects of Austrian and German history, also some of Slovenia. It includes Jewish history databases. The database is free and just requires a simple registration. It is written in German and English.

Researching the History of Houses

The following links may help you when researching the history of your home or other historic houses.

Public Records Office of Victoria: Researching land and property

National Library of Australia Guide: How do I trace the history of my house?

US and English links by homeadvisor.com: A guide to researching the history of a house.