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Armed Forces & Conflict
Anzac Memorial RecordsAustralasian Imperial Expeditionary Forces (Roll of Honour)
Australian Contingent: History of the Patriotic Movement in New South Wales
Australian Contingents to South Africa
Australia's Fighting Sons of the Empire (NSW, QLD, WA)
Bank of New South Wales (Roll of Honour)
Book of Remembrance of the University of Sydney (The Great War 1914-1918)
Defenders of New Zealand and Maori History
Education Department War Service (1914-1917)
New South Wales Roll of Honour
New Zealand Boer War Servicemen
New Zealand Division 1916-1919
New Zealand War medal roll
New Zealand Wars: Maori Campaigns
New Zealand WW1 Soldiers
New Zealanders and the Boer War
Queenslanders Who Fought in the Great War
Tasmania’s War Record 1914-1918
Tasmanians in the Transvaal War
War Services Old Melburnians
Census, Land & Surveys
1841 South Australia Census1881 Northern Territory Census
1891 Northern Territory Census
1901 Northern Territory Census
1911 Northern Territory Census
1921 Northern Territory Census
A Return of the Freeholders of New Zealand, October 1882
Bendigo Electoral Roll 1922
Crown Land Licences Victoria 1853 & 1856
Crown Land Sales in Queensland 1842-1861
Crown Land Sales in Queensland 1860-1911
Index to Ratepayers & Occupiers 1885-1939, Municipality of Bega, New South Wales
Index to Ratepayers & Occupiers 1907-1953, Mumbulla Shire, Bega, New South Wales
Index to Ratepayers & Occupiers 1907-1958 Imlay Shire, Bega, New South Wales
Land Tax Register & Valuation Victoria 1888
New South Wales Commonwealth Electoral Roll 1935
New South Wales Electoral Roll 1903
New South Wales State Electoral Roll 1913 volume 1-16
New Zealand Electoral Roll 1935 Volume 1 & 1a-20
New Zealand Electoral Rolls 1853-1864, 1881, 1893, 1896, 1911
New Zealand Electoral Rolls 1865-1875
New Zealand Electoral Rolls 1878
Northern Territory Electoral Roll 1895
Northern Territory Electoral Roll 1906
Northern Territory Electoral Roll 1922
Northern Territory Electoral Roll 1928
Northern Territory Electoral Roll 1929
Northern Territory Electoral Roll 1930
Northern Territory Electoral Roll 1931
Northern Territory Electoral Roll 1934
Northern Territory Electoral Roll 1937
Northern Territory Electoral Roll 1940
Pastoral Possessions of New South Wales 1889
Queensland Commonwealth Electoral Roll 1903, 1913, 1922, 1934, 1949, 1959
Queensland Commonwealth Electoral Roll 1939
Queensland Electoral Rolls 1860-1884
Queensland Land Records 1856-1859
Queensland State Electoral Roll 1895, 1896, 1900, 1901, 1903, 1905, 1906, 1909-1912, 1914, 1915
Return of Crown Lands 1854
South Australia Commonwealth Electoral Roll 1939, 1941, 1943
Tasmania Commonwealth Electoral Roll 1934, 1943
Victoria Commonwealth Electoral Roll 1939, 1946
Western Australia Commonwealth Electoral Roll 1939, 1943, 1949
Yewens Directory Landholders New South Wales 1900
Education & Work
Australasian Medical Directory & Handbook 1883, 1886, 1892, 1896, 1900Australian Pastoral Directory 1913, 1923, 1925, 1931, 1954
Brands Directory of South Australia 1938 Sheep Brands
Brands Directory South Australia 1901
Brands Directory South Australia 1936 Sheep
Calendar University of Tasmania 1916-1917
Centenary Catalogue of Farms and Stations for Sale in Western Australia
Classification List of the Queensland Loco Enginemen, Firemen & Cleaners 1912
Coffs Harbour District Schools Index
Commonwealth Public Service List 1904 & 1920
Loxtons Medical Directory 1911
Medical Directory 1915
Medical Directory New South Wales 1903
New South Wales Public Service List 1934
Queensland Blue Book 1870, 1872, 1873, 1879, 1911
Queensland Brands Directory 1920-1921, 1945-1952
Queensland Education Gazette 1899-1959
Queensland Horse and Cattle Brands Index 1872-1899
Queensland Public Service 1864-1948
Queensland Railway Appointments and Removals 1890
Queensland Railway Dismissals 1879: Ipswich and Rockhampton Railway Workshops
Queensland Railway Employees 1889-1940
Queensland School Pupils Index, Parts 1-4
Queensland Sheep Brands 1877-1900
Queensland State School Committee Members 1876-1899
Queensland Teachers Index 1907-1920
South Australian Education Gazette 1911
Sydney University Calendar 1887
The Grazier's Review Volume 10, 11, 13, 1930-1934
Western Australia Blue Book 1871-1889, 1891-1895, 1898, 1900, 1901, 1905
Institutions & Organisations
Civic record of South Australia 1921-1923Moreton Bay Miscellaneous Records 1855-1859
Moreton Bay Supreme Court Records 1857-1859
New South Wales Police Gazette 1862, 1864-1900
New Zealand Jury Rolls 1842-1862
Northern Territory Parliamentary Index 1884-1890
Parliamentary Papers for the Colony of Victoria: Volumes 1 and 2, 1852-1869
Queensland Criminal Reports 1860-1907
Queensland Miner’s Rights and Business Licences 1870-1884
Queensland Miscellaneous Licences 1860-1899
Queensland Police Gazette 1864-1900
Queensland Police Gazette Index 1864-1874
Queensland Timber Licences 1860-1901
Queensland, Australia, Unclaimed Letters 1859-1874
South Australian Police Gazette 1862-1900
Supreme Court Brisbane Originating Summons 1901-1906
Tasmania Police Gazette 1884-1900
Tasmania Reports of Crime 1861-1883
Victoria Police Gazette 1855, 1864-1865, 1868-1876, 1885-1900
Wallangarra Quarantine Admission Registers 1918-1919
Life Events (BDMs)
Albany Creek ColumbariumAlberton Cemetery Monumental Inscriptions
Anglican Cemeteries and Columbaria Brisbane Volume 2 & 3
Anglican Church of Australia – Parish of Sherwood (Brisbane) – Cemetery and Columbarium Wall Monumental Inscriptions
Beenleigh Cemetery Monumental Inscriptions
Bethania Lutheran Cemetery Monumental Inscriptions
Brookfield Cemetery (Brisbane) Monumental Inscriptions
Bulimba Cemetery Monumental Inscriptions
Cemetery Burials and Memorial Inscriptions for Victoria 1835-1997
Cleveland Cemetery Monumental Inscriptions
Coleyville, Engelsburg (Kalbar), Boonah & Highfields Baptist Cemeteries (Queensland) Monumental Inscriptions
Cooloola Coast Cemetery (Queensland) Monumental Inscriptions
Eagleby Cemetery Monumental Inscriptions
Goomeri Cemetery Index
Minden, Tarampa and Vernor Baptist Cemeteries (Queensland)
Moggill Cemetery (Brisbane) Monumental Inscriptions
Mt Cotton Cemeteries Monumental Inscriptions
Mundubbera Cemetery Index
Northern Territory Anglican Baptisms and Confirmations 1900-1947
Northern Territory Anglican Church Burials 1900-1968
Northern Territory Anglican Marriages 1902-1953
Pimpama Island Cemetery Monumental Inscriptions
Pine Rivers District Cemeteries – Bunya, Dayboro, Lawnton, Samford & Samsonvale
Pitcairn Islands Marriages 1824-1854
Purewa Cemetery Burials
Purewa Cemetery Cremations
Queensland Burials
Queensland Intestacies, Insolvencies & Wills 1859-1900
Queensland Intestacy Returns 1896-1916
Ravenswood Cemetery Headstones Index
Redland Bay Cemeteries Monumental Inscriptions
Rookwood Cemetery
South Australia Catholic Baptisms 1840-1863
South Australian Pre-civil births 1836-1842
South Australian Pre-civil deaths 1836-1842
South Australian Pre-civil marriages 1836-1842
South Brisbane Cemetery Monumental Inscriptions
Taroom Cemetery Monumental Inscriptions
Toowong Cemetery Monumental Inscriptions
Victoria Funeral Notices 1981-1997
Wandoan Cemetery Monumental Inscriptions
Waverley & South Head Cemetery Transcriptions
Newspapers, Directories & Social History
Aldine History of New South WalesAldine History of Queensland
Aldine History of South Australia
Annals of Bendigo v1 1851-1867 & v3 1892-1909
Australian Almanac & Sydney Directory 1834 (O'Shaughnessey)
Australian Almanac 1831, 1833, 1835, 1857, 1859, 1861, 1866, 1869, 1873
Australian Dictionary Dates & Men
Australian Handbook 1889, 1900, 1904
Ballarat & Ballarat East Directory 1865-1866
Ballarat & District Directory 1904
Barrier Miner Business Directory 1891
Blairs Cyclopaedia of Australasia
Border Watch Almanac and Directory 1934
Brief History of Canberra 1927
Brisbane Directory & Squatters guide 1876 (Shaw)
Brisbane Directory 1878-1879, 1919
Brisbane PO Directory & Country Guide 1885-1888
Chronicles of Early Melbourne 1835-51
Civic Record of South Australia 1936
Commercial & Trades Directory SA 1882-1883
Cook's Interstate Business Directory 1937
Cyclopedia Fiji, Samoa, Tonga, Tahiti, Cook Islands
Cyclopedia of New South Wales
Cyclopedia of New Zealand Volume 1-6
Cyclopedia of South Australia 1907-1909
Cyclopedia of Tasmania 1900
Cyclopedia of Victoria
Cyclopedia of Western Australia 1912-1913
Darling Downs Almanac and Directory 1900
Dictionary of Australasian Biography
District Directory of Albury and Regions Around 1901
Early History of New Zealand 1890
Fords Australian Almanac 1852-1853
Founders of Australia
Foxs History of Queensland 1919-1923
Geelong & Western Directory 1866-1867
Glance at Australia in 1880: Embracing a Squatters and Farmers Directory of the Whole of Australia
Handbook to Australasia 1859
Hawkesbury & Shoalhaven Calendar, Directory, Guide & Historical Record
History of Otago: Origins and Growth
History of West Australia
Hobart Gazette 1903-1906
Hobart Town Gazette 1827, 1844, 1861, 1870, 1880
Industries of New Zealand 1898
International Genealogical Research Directory 1981-1993
Johns Notable Australians 1906
Jubilee History of Tasmania
Letters from Victorian Pioneers
Melbourne Almanac and General Intelligencer 1858 (Williams)
Melbourne Directory 1854, 1859-1870, 1875, 1880, 1884, 1892-1893
Men of the Time in Australia: Victorian Series
Names in Government Gazettes, Victoria 1858-1900
National Directory of South Australia 1867-68 (Butler)
New South Wales Almanac and Country Directory 1921, 1924
New South Wales Almanac and Hand Book 1854, 1857
New South Wales Commercial Directory 1947 (Wise)
New South Wales Country Directory 1895, 1899-1900, 1925, 1926, 1929
New South Wales Directory 1867, 1928
New South Wales Government Gazette 1832-1850
New South Wales PO Directory 1875, 1900, 1904, 1914, 1936
New South Wales Pocket Almanack 1820
New South Wales Telephone Directory 1913, 1939-1943, 1945-1953
New Zealand Directory 1866-67 (Stevens)
New Zealand Gazette 1876-1878, 1880-1883, 1886
New Zealand PO Directory 1890, 1892-1902, 1905, 1915, 1930-1933
Northern Territory Almanac Directory 1887, 1888, 1890
Northern Territory Section of the Adelaide Almanac & Directory for South Australia 1908-1930
Northern Territory Section of the Queensland Post Office Directory 1920-1921
Notable South Australians
NSW Calendar and PO Directory 1833
NSW Country Trades Register 1898
NSW Telephone Directory 1934-1935 Sydney
Official Municipal Year Book & Shires Directory New South Wales 1907
Otago Settlement Jubilee 1898
Pastoral Pioneers of SA
Port Phillip Government Gazette 1847
Pughs Almanac & Queensland Directory 1860-1927
Pughs Moreton Bay Almanac 1859
Queensland Government Gazette 1859-1905
Queensland Government Gazette Consolidated Index 1859-1919
Queensland PO Directory 1868, 1874, 1889-1905, 1915
Queensland Telephone Directory 1931, 1934,1936, 1940, 1943, 1947, 1959
Radio Call 1937, 1939-1956
Representative Men of South Australia
Six Colonies of New Zealand 1851
Slaters Queensland Almanac 1882,1887 & 1903
South Australia PO Directory 1903 (Wise)
South Australian Almanac & Directories
South Australian Directory 1902, 1922, 1924, 1930 (Sands)
South Australian Government Gazette 1841-1870
Stewarts Handbook of Pacific Islands 1921 & 1922
Strays Collection Australasia 1987-1998
Sydney Directory 1847, 1858, 1863, 1865, 1875, 1902, 1913
Sydney PO Directory 1857 (Cox)
Tasmania PO Directory (Wise) 1890-1919, 1923, 1931, 1936, 1947
Tasmania Telephone Directory 1953
Tasmanian Cyclopedia 1931
Tasmanian Directory 1867-68, 1887
Tasmanian Government Gazette 1907-1916, 1919
Tasmanian Royal Kalendar & Almanack 1849 & 1850
Teggs New South Wales Pocket Almanac 1842
The Scottish Australasian 1910-1918
Victoria and its Metropolis 1888
Victoria and Riverina Traders Directory 1937
Victorian Directory 1904 (Sands)
Victorian Government Gazette 1851-1852, 1855-1891, 1893-1901
Victorian PO Directory (Wise) 1888, 1904, 1914
Victorian Year Book 1873-1878
Walch’s Tasmanian Almanac 1891-1915
Western Australian PO Directory 1905, 1910, 1914, 1924, 1935-1936, 1939, 1941-42
Wragge's Australasian Weather Guide and Almanac 1898, 1903
Travel & Migration
Aliens Registered in the Northern Territory 1916–1921Convict Arrivals in New South Wales 1788-1842
Convicts in South Australia sentenced to transportation 1836–1852
Emigrants from Hamburg to Australasia 1850-1879
Emigration: Where to Go
Genealogical Index to Australians and Other Expatriates in Papua New Guinea
New Zealand Emigration and Gold Fields
New Zealand for the Emigrant 1890
Passenger Lists leaving UK 1890-1960
Queensland Early Pioneers Index 1824-1859
Queensland Ship Deserters 1862-1911