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Family History Online Resources
Australia
Births, Deaths and Marriages
- Queensland historical index search - Search Queensland's Births (1829-1914), Deaths (1829-1964) and Marriages (1829-1937)
NSW Births, Deaths and Marriages from 1788 - a searchable index with provision for ordering certificates online
Cemeteries
- Ryerson Index Contemporary Death Notices and Obituaries in Australian Newspapers
Convicts
- Convicts to Australia - A Guide to Researching Your Convict Ancestors
Newspapers
- Historic Australian Newspapers, 1803 to 1954 This National Library of Australia service contains 70,000 newspaper pages from 1803 onwards and additional pages are being added each week. It is a free online service that enables full-text searching of newspaper articles. This includes newspapers published in each state and territory from the 1800s to the mid-1950s, when copyright applies.
General
- Family history databases (State Library of Queensland)
- Family history Info Guides (State Library of Queensland - pdf format, Adobe Acrobat Reader required)
- Information for family historians (State Library of Queensland)
- Judy Webster's Genealogy Advice - Australia, especially Queensland
- North Queensland resources - A Select Guide to JCU Resources
- OZ Gen Online- Australia's Family History Server
- Websites for family historians - (State Library of Queensland)
Ships
- OzShips - Australian shipping 1788-1968
- The Ships List website, online since August 1999, will help you find your ancestors on ships' passenger lists
United Kingdom
- First steps in researching your family history - UK
Worldwide
- Ancestry - the Library provides free access to the Library Edition of Ancestry. Access is available Free from computers at the Ingham and Halifax libraries - Ask Library staff for assistance.