Please note this website is no longer being updated due to personal circumstances. Some links may no longer be available but the entire website is being left in place since even in a restricted capacity it may still be helping people. PLEASE do not email me about changes to this website because this site is no longer being updated!
On this page:
GOLD COAST GENEALOGY-CONVICT LINKS This is a truly comprehensive list of convict links.
LESLEY UEBEL's CLAIM-A-CONVICT This searchable database on site has well over 20,000 convicts arriving at Port Jackson, NSW from 1788. It includes all those arriving 1788 until 1813 and then many more.
IFHAA GENEALOGY COURSE: CONVICTS
Includes Links to on line Records,
Interest Groups, Suggested Readings, Convict records, Catalogue, Search the net.
CONVICT GENEALOGY Jenny Fawsett's site, with information on the Hulks system, English v USA Penal Colonies, Convicts Index for Australia, First Fleet, Irish convicts, Convict message board, and more.
CONVICT SHIPS to AUSTRALIA Includes an alphabetical list of convicts who travelled on the First, Second and Third Fleets.
CONVICTS to AUSTRALIA A guide to researching your convict ancestors...
SOUTH AUSTRALIAN TRANSPORTED CONVICTS Graham Jaunay's site, with searchable database of convicts. There are also details of a book about South Australian convicts sentenced to transportation 1837-1851.
TIMELINE: CONVICTS TO AUSTRALIA This is a useful document, clearly detailing the events from 1718 to 1911.
NATIONAL ARCHIVES IRELAND: Transportation Records Database. The National Archives of Ireland holds a wide range of records relating to 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.
CONVICT CONNECTIONS This site is run by an interest group of the
Genealogical Society of Queensland Inc.,
for people with a particular interest in convicts or our Colonial heritage.
AUS-CONVICTS LIST at ROOTSWEB This excellent list, is for those researching convicts in Australia. Subscribe by clicking on the title at left: this should allow you to send an email to subscribe. Add the single word SUBSCRIBE in the message part of your email. You will receive daily every message sent in to the list. If you wish to have a batch of these messages sent daily, rather than single messages, change the "L" in the email address to a "D" to receive Digest Mode rather than List Mode.
AUS-PT-JACKSON-CONVICTS-LIST at ROOTSWEB This excellent list, is for those researching convicts in Australia, who arrived at Port Jackson in Sydney. Subscribe by clicking on the title at left: this should allow you to send an email to subscribe. Add the single word SUBSCRIBE in the message part of your email. You will receive daily every message sent in to the list. If you wish to have a batch of these messages sent daily, rather than single messages, change the "L" in the email address to a "D" to receive Digest Mode rather than List Mode.
IRISH CONVICTS TO AUSTRALIA This database contains details of Irish convicts who were transported to New South Wales in the period 1791 - 1820.The database contains: Irish State prisoners, convicts who were tried in Ireland, and convicts who were tried outside Ireland whose native place was in Ireland.
CONVICTS TO AUSTRALIA: INDEXES & LISTS OF CONVICTS Guides to Convict Records, Index of Ships, Indexes and Lists of Convicts, & other useful links.
FIRST FLEET FELLOWSHIP Here you will find details about the First Fleet..the journey, the ships, including paintings of the First Fleet ships, and a list of the provisions and livestock that came with them.
DESCENDANTS OF CONVICTS GROUP Inc What is this group? "In early 1981, some members of the Genealogical Society of Victoria felt that as there was an increasing interest in convicts and the convict system of Australia, the formation of a group dedicated to the promotion of this interest would be beneficial.
On 2 May of that year, about 30 members met and it was agreed to form a group for those who could claim a convict forebear who had been transported to an Australian colony, in penalty of crime, between 1788 and 1868, or for those who had a special interest in convicts."
THE FIRST FLEET DATABASE This wonderful site gives the Number, Surname, First Name, Sex, Trial Date, Place of Trial, Crime, Value of Crime, Sentence, Term, Trade, & Age of convicts who came on the First Fleet.
TASMANIAN CONVICTS This database for Tasmanian convicts has over 11,000 entries.
TASMANIAN FAMILY HISTORY SERVICE The Tasmanian Family History Service Tasmanian Convict List is an ongoing project, being compiled to help researchers contact each other and access the Tasmanian Family History Service index of convict information. Each page gives the e-mail facility to add your convict if you wish.
FREMANTLE PRISON Search the convict database to find out about the almost 10,000 men who were transported to the Swan River Colony (Western Australia) between 1850 - 1868. Database is searchable by either surname or ship.
GENEALOGY SURNAME NAVIGATOR - GLOBAL SEARCH Databases included in this search: LDS, Ancestry.com, GeneaNet, Google Genealogy, Gendex, RootsWeb [all databases], Worldwide email search, Author profile Usenet.
STATE RECORDS NSW Click on "On-Line Publications & Resources" to access the new Colonial Secretary Index, 1788-1825. Records available so far A-M.
NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF SOUTH AFRICA A number of useful links on this site....well worth checking out if you are researching in this area.
GENCIRCLES I have found GenCircles a wonderful facility...I uploaded my gedcom, GenCircles automatically removed the details of living relatives, then matched my gedcom details with those of other families which had been uploaded. Then I was able to see the names and email addresses of other potential relatives and contact them if I so desired. It makes researching so easy....
PARISH MAP PRESERVATION PROJECT New South Wales Parish/Town maps can be found by entering their name (or part thereof).
Pastoral maps can be found by entering their name (or part thereof) or their number.
If processed, you can view the Parish, Town or Pastoral maps online.
OLD MAPS-PHASE 2 To quote from the site, "Providing free access to first edition historical maps of Great Britain dated between 1846 and 1899. This site allows you to view historical maps simply by entering a place name, an address or a grid reference. "
MIDWEST CEMETERIES Geraldton Family History Society site for cemeteries in the Midwest area of Western Australia.
GENEALOGY TODAY.com home of the Online Genealogy Index.
AUSTRALIAN & NEW ZEALAND RECORDS This searchable Database contains 71,423 records, with 12,285 distinct surnames and Selected states and towns.
GENEALOGY SURNAME NAVIGATOR-SWEDEN Swedish researchers may find this site helpful, with surname searches for the follwing categories: County Värmland Census 1890, IGI, GeneaNet, County Jämtland Census 1890 , Rootsweb Surname List Sweden, County Västernorrland Census 1890 , Ancestry World Tree, County Västerbotten Census 1890, and County Norrbotten Census 1890 .
GENEALOGY SURNAME NAVIGATOR-USA. Multiple Search Page for those researching in the United States. Searches available include: Rootsweb Surname List USA, The USGenWeb Census Project, GeneaNet, Illinois Statewide Marriage Index, IGI, Ancestry World Tree, Index California Deaths Records 1940-1997, Ancestral File, and Social Security Death Index USA.
GENEALOGY SURNAME NAVIGATOR-NORWAY Another multiple Search Page, this time for Norway. Searches here include Rootsweb Surname List Norway, Census 1900 NHDC, IGI, GeneaNet, Census 1875 NHDC, Ancestral File, Census 1865 NHDC, and Ancestry World Tree.
GENEALOGY SURNAME NAVIGATOR-NETHERLANDS Netherlands researchers may find help on this multiple Search Page whichs enables searching in the following databases: IGI, GeneaNet, Ancestral File, Ancestry World Tree, Index DTB BS Delft e.o 1575-1950, Index DTB Eindhoven e.o 1575-1810, Index BS 's-Hertogenbosch 1811-1932, Index DTB Rotterdam e.o 1576-1811, Index RA DTB BS Tilburg e.o ISIS, NH Dopen Leeuwarden 1603-1811, BS O Bolsward, Sneek, IJlst 1811-1942 and Catalogus CBG.
GENEALOGY SURNAME NAVIGATOR-FINLAND Researching in Finland? Here is a Multiple Search Page for Passport Register (Institute of Migration), IGI, GeneaNet, Rootsweb Surname List Finland, Emigrant Register (Institute of Migration), plus Ancestral File and Ancestry World Tree.
GENEALOGY SURNAME NAVIGATOR-GERMANY Those researching in Germany will find a multiple Search Page here for IGI, Rootsweb Surname List for Germany, Genealogie Netz (homepages), GedBas (Gedcom database), GeneaNet, Ancestral File and Ancestry World Tree.
GENEALOGY SURNAME NAVIGATOR-CANADA A multiple Search Page for IGI, GeneaNet, Rootsweb Surname List Canada, Ancestral File, Ancestry World Tree, Index to the 1871 Census of Ontario, Immigration Records (1925-1935), and New Brunswick Births reg. 1810-1899.
GENEALOGY SURNAME NAVIGATOR-DENMARK Another multiple Search Page for those researching in Denmark. Includes Rootsweb Surname List Denmark, Censuses County Odense 1787-1916 , Censuses County Frederiksborg 1787-1916 , Censuses County Copenhagen 1787-1916 , Censuses County Bornholm 1787-1916 , Censuses County Aarhus 1787-1916 , Censuses County Aalborg 1787-1916 , The Danish Emigration Archives, Probate Index: Thisted, Viborg, Aalborg , GeneaNet, IGI, Ancestry World Tree, and Ancestral File.
AUSTRALIAN SITES The sites are based in Australia. They are arranged by topic areas such as archives, cemeteries, family history societies etc. Under each topic, the sites are arranged by states.
FIRST FAMILIES 2001 To quote from the site, "First Families 2001 will be a unique historical and cultural record of Australia. It is a database and collection of stories about the people of Australia, past and present. It is accessible to all Australians through the Internet, and welcomes contributions from everyone. "
GREEK LEGACY INC Connecting People of Greek Descent Throughout the World. Links include three databases and Passenger Ship Listing.
AUSTRALIAN HISTORY DATABASES Topics and databases include: First Fleet Database, First Fleet Ships Database,
Non-Convicts Of The First Fleet, Point Puer Lads Database,
Absconded Convicts Database, The Mabo Judgment,
400 Famous Australians, 200 Influential Australians,
Gallipoli 75 Project Database, Gallipoli Diary,
Dispatches From Gallipoli, Captain Phillip Callary and
South Australia Shipwrecks.
AUSTRALIAN RECORDS A rootsweb page with a database containing 61019 records (10754 distinct surnames). Selected states and towns (as contributed)
UNITED KINGDOM AND IRELAND RECORDS A Rootsweb page with a Database containing 16876 records (2120 distinct surnames).Selected countries and counties (as contributed).
ANCIENT FACES Mitchell F. Keamy IV writes, "
AncientFaces is the visual
genealogy website that has thousands of old photos visitors are sharing for free. AncientFaces adds a visual element to the lists of names and dates to help complete our genealogical research. We also offer a military section just for military photos that
contains hundreds of photos covering multiple wars."
GUILD OF ONE-NAME STUDIES This site includes the on-line searchable Register of One-Name Studies.
SHIPSEARCH There are early ship passenger lists across the web. To save you quite a bit of surfing, ShipSearch has made them searchable from this one page.
LESLEY UEBEL's CLAIM-A-CONVICT This searchable database on site has well over 20,000 convicts arriving at Port Jackson, NSW from 1788. It includes all those arriving 1788 until 1813 and then many more.
NSW
BIRTHS, DEATHS AND MARRIAGES INDEX [Searchable On Line]This is a helpful site for those without access to the CD-ROM version of the BDMs.
GENEALOGY WEB SEARCH TOOLS This site provides the online genealogist with three databases to assist them with their research online.
TASMANIAN GENWEB Genealogy data for Tasmania, including a Convicts Index, obituaries and surnames.
CEMETERY RECORDS ON-LINE Here you will find online records from over 1,300 cemeteries all over the world.
CEMETERIES Search the on-line Canberra database.
CEMETERIES OF AUSTRALIA On-line cemetery database for the states of Australia.
IFHAA CEMETERY TRANSCRIPTS The Internet Family History Association of Australia's site for on-line cemetery records.
CEMETERIES List of cemeteries in the Bellingen NSW area, including a link to Lismore cemetery on-line.
WORLDWIDE GENEALOGY TOP 100 Heaps of research material on this site, including an on-line searchable database.
AUSTRALIANS IN THE BOER WAR Oz-Boer Database project providing free on-line database search.
TASMANIAN FAMILY HISTORY SERVICE The Tasmanian Family History Service Tasmanian Convict List is an ongoing project, being compiled to help researchers contact each other and access the Tasmanian Family History Service index of convict information. Each page gives the e-mail facility to add your convict if you wish.
PASSENGER LISTS on the INTERNET A good place to start if you are researching in this area.
GENEALOGYLINKS.NET To quote from the site "This site consists of 220 pages of now, over 5,000 links, most of them to ship's passenger lists, church records, cemetery transcriptions, military records and censuses for USA, UK, England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, Europe, Canada, Australia & New Zealand.
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TASMANIAN CONVICTS This database for Tasmanian convicts has over 11,000 entries.
STATE RECORDS NSW To quote from the site, " If you're interested in the archives of the State of New South Wales, you'll find on-line finding aids to our holdings, along with information about our services and facilities for access to the archives, our program of seminars, talks and tours and our publications and other products for the users of archives.
ASSISTED IMMIGRANT INDEX Includes Index to assisted immigrants arriving in Sydney and Newcastle, 1844-59, Index to assisted immigrants arriving at Moreton Bay (Brisbane), 1848-59, Index to assisted immigrants arriving in Sydney, 1860-79.
IMMIGRATION INDEXES Public Record Office of Victoria staff have been working for many years with an ever increasing number of volunteers to index the lists of passengers who arrived in Victorian ports between 1839 and 1923. So far they have released an index on microfiche and on the PROV web site, in five instalments. The index at present covers:
A.Unassisted passengers arriving in Victoria on ships which embarked from Foreign Ports (that is; not Australian, New Zealand or United Kingdom ports) for the years 1852-1879.
B. Unassisted passengers arriving in Victoria on ships which embarked from British Ports for the years 1852-1869.
JEWISHGEN: The home of Jewish Genealogy. To quote from the site, "JewishGen®, Inc. is the primary internet source connecting researchers of Jewish genealogy worldwide. Its most popular components are the JewishGen Discussion Group, the JewishGen Family Finder (a database of over 180,000 surnames and towns), the comprehensive directory of InfoFiles, ShtetLinks for over 200 communities, and a variety of databases such as the ShtetlSeeker and Jewish Records Indexing-Poland. JewishGen's online Family Tree of the Jewish People contains data on over one million people."
WHISKERS HILL ON-LINE Whiskers Hill Online brings you the most complete Australian Bushrangers Site by providing online access to Stephan William's Book of Bushrangers. There are over 1200 entries on individual bushrangers with extracts from newspapers, court reports, etc. You can search by name, place, or date.
IMMIGRATION TO VICTORIA You can search this index for names of unassisted passengers who boarded ships to Victoria, Australia from British and Foreign ports between 1852 and 1879.
COATS OF ARMS Lots to check out on this site, including a search facility for your particular coat of arms.
GO HOTLINE Genealogy Hotline with heaps of links...
SURNAME SITE To quote from the site"Check out our links to 100's of sites that contain names. New links added daily. Included are the pages of individuals researching particular lines as well as other sites with names. Find census listings, church records, tax lists, surnames, and much more."
of Britain, the Empire and Commonwealth."
HAWKESBURY SETTLERS This valuable database is one of the segments of Lesley Uebel's convict site and lists in some detail, the information concerning the early settlers of Hawkesbury.
COMMONWEALTH WAR GRAVES COMMISSION A very useful site for anyone
who has relatives killed in any of the wars. Download personal information
on that person plus details of where they were buried.
ALL OF EUROPE GENEALOGY LINKS This is a seriously good site! The countries listed include:
Andorra, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece,Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Liecthenstein , Lithuania ,Luxembourg , Macedonia, Malta, Maldova, Monaco, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Ukraine, and Yugoslavia.
GENEALOGY This site has a list of general resources which lists hundreds of sites suitable for genealogy researching.
SPAIN GENEALOGY A number of useful links on this site, helpful to those researching in Spain.
GENEALOGY SURNAME NAVIGATOR-SWEDEN Swedish researchers may find this site helpful, with surname searches for the follwing categories: County Värmland Census 1890, IGI, GeneaNet, County Jämtland Census 1890 , Rootsweb Surname List Sweden, County Västernorrland Census 1890 , Ancestry World Tree, County Västerbotten Census 1890, and County Norrbotten Census 1890 .
GENEALOGY SURNAME NAVIGATOR-USA. Multiple Search Page for those researching in the United States. Searches available include: Rootsweb Surname List USA, The USGenWeb Census Project, GeneaNet, Illinois Statewide Marriage Index, IGI, Ancestry World Tree, Index California Deaths Records 1940-1997, Ancestral File, and Social Security Death Index USA.
GENEALOGY SURNAME NAVIGATOR-NORWAY Another multiple Search Page, this time for Norway. Searches here include Rootsweb Surname List Norway, Census 1900 NHDC, IGI, GeneaNet, Census 1875 NHDC, Ancestral File, Census 1865 NHDC, and Ancestry World Tree.
GENEALOGY SURNAME NAVIGATOR-NETHERLANDS Netherlands researchers may find help on this multiple Search Page whichs enables searching in the following databases: IGI, GeneaNet, Ancestral File, Ancestry World Tree, Index DTB BS Delft e.o 1575-1950, Index DTB Eindhoven e.o 1575-1810, Index BS 's-Hertogenbosch 1811-1932, Index DTB Rotterdam e.o 1576-1811, Index RA DTB BS Tilburg e.o ISIS, NH Dopen Leeuwarden 1603-1811, BS O Bolsward, Sneek, IJlst 1811-1942 and Catalogus CBG.
GENEALOGY SURNAME NAVIGATOR-FINLAND Researching in Finland? Here is a Multiple Search Page for Passport Register (Institute of Migration), IGI, GeneaNet, Rootsweb Surname List Finland, Emigrant Register (Institute of Migration), plus Ancestral File and Ancestry World Tree.
GENEALOGY SURNAME NAVIGATOR-GERMANY Those researching in Germany will find a multiple Search Page here for IGI, Rootsweb Surname List for Germany, Genealogie Netz (homepages), GedBas (Gedcom database), GeneaNet, Ancestral File and Ancestry World Tree.
GENEALOGY SURNAME NAVIGATOR-CANADA A multiple Search Page for IGI, GeneaNet, Rootsweb Surname List Canada, Ancestral File, Ancestry World Tree, Index to the 1871 Census of Ontario, Immigration Records (1925-1935), and New Brunswick Births reg. 1810-1899.
GENEALOGY SURNAME NAVIGATOR-DENMARK Another multiple Search Page for those researching in Denmark. Includes Rootsweb Surname List Denmark, Censuses County Odense 1787-1916 , Censuses County Frederiksborg 1787-1916 , Censuses County Copenhagen 1787-1916 , Censuses County Bornholm 1787-1916 , Censuses County Aarhus 1787-1916 , Censuses County Aalborg 1787-1916 , The Danish Emigration Archives, Probate Index: Thisted, Viborg, Aalborg , GeneaNet, IGI, Ancestry World Tree, and Ancestral File.
FAMILY
HISTORY
IN INDIA The website for people tracing their British, European and Anglo-Indian family history in India, Burma, Pakistan and Bangladesh. This website was created by Cathy Day of Canberra, Australia.
JEWISHGEN: The home of Jewish Genealogy. To quote from the site, "JewishGen®, Inc. is the primary internet source connecting researchers of Jewish genealogy worldwide. Its most popular components are the JewishGen Discussion Group, the JewishGen Family Finder (a database of over 180,000 surnames and towns), the comprehensive directory of InfoFiles, ShtetLinks for over 200 communities, and a variety of databases such as the ShtetlSeeker and Jewish Records Indexing-Poland. JewishGen's online Family Tree of the Jewish People contains data on over one million people."
WORLDWIDE GENEALOGY TOP 100 Heaps of research material on this site, including an on-line searchable database.
LINKS TO SURNAME IDEXES Dutch Genealogy site, with surname lists, ships'passenger lists, Dutch Archives and more.
JEWISH GENEALOGY & AVOTAYNU To quote from the site, "Avotaynu, Inc. is the leading publisher of information and products of interest to persons who are researching Jewish genealogy and Jewish family history. This includes the journal, Avotaynu, books and microfiche. In addition, Avotaynu offers books, maps and video tapes published by other companies."
BOER WAR INDEX Boer War Index, celebrations news and tourism information. There are also a number of links on this site to other Boer War sites.
SOUTH AFRICAN GENEALOGY To quote from the site "You will find information here on how to research your own family, regardless of where in the world you come from.
OUR STUFF Denise and Peter's site, with history on New Zealand, including early history of that country.
PEARLS'PAD OF NEW ZEALAND GENEALOGY Pearl Wilson's family history site which also has a number of New Zealand links helpful to those researching in that area.
NEW ZEALAND FAMILY HISTORY Another excellent site for New Zealand researchers; this site has a number of helpful links as well.
CONVICT SITES
As well,get details here of Lesley's CD on The Convicts to Port Jackson 1788--1842. This CD-ROM lists the convicts (over 82,500) who arrived on over 560 ships into Sydney Cove. Searchable information includes Convict Names, Year of Arrival, Ship, Place of Trial & Year, Sentence and Age.
DATABASES ON-LINE
SITES OTHER THAN AUSTRALIA OR BRITAIN
More specifically these pages will provide information on how to research your genealogy and family history in South Africa."
