Full list of Australia and New Zealand records

Findmypast Australia & New Zealand has a vast collection of records for you to search for your ancestors and build your family tree. Many of these records are exclusive and not available elsewhere online. There’s no easier way for you to explore your family history.

We’ve divided our records into categories to make it easier for you to find your ancestors based on what you may already know. Scroll through them below, and think about which records may hold the secrets to your past!

Click the link to read a brief description of what each set of records offers. You may be surprised who turns up where.

Using the Australia and New Zealand records

Life Events (BDMs)

Newspapers, Directories & Social History

Aldine History of New South Wales
Aldine History of South Australia
Australian Almanac & Sydney Directory 1834 (O'Shaughnessey)
Australian Almanac 1831-1873
Australian Dictionary of 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
Chronicles of Early Melbourne 1835-51
Civic Record of South Australia 1936
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
Dictionary of Australasian Biography
District Directory of Albury and Regions Around 1901
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 West Australia
Hue and Cry Police Gazette Index
International Genealogical Research Directory 1981-1993
Johns Notable Australians 1906
Letters from Victorian Pioneers
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 - 1929
New South Wales Country Trades Register 1898
New South Wales Directory 1867, 1928
New South Wales Government Gazette 1832-1850
New South Wales Government Gazettes 1832-1863
New South Wales PO Directory 1875-1936
New South Wales Pocket Almanac 1820
New South Wales Telephone Directory 1913-1953
New South Wales, Sydney Directory 1847-1913
New South Wales, Sydney PO Directory 1857 (Cox)
New Zealand Directory 1866-1867 (Stevens)
New Zealand Gazette 1876-1886
New Zealand PO Directory 1890-1933
New Zealand, Early History of New Zealand 1890
New Zealand, History of Otago: Origins and Growth
New Zealand, Industries of New Zealand 1898
New Zealand, Women’s Suffrage Petition 1893
Northern Territory Almanac Directory 1887-1890
Northern Territory Section of the Adelaide Almanac & Directory for South Australia 1908-1930
Northern Territory Section of the Queensland Post Office Directory 1920-1921
NSW Calendar and PO Directory 1833
NSW Telephone Directory 1934-1935 Sydney
Official Municipal Year Book & Shires Directory New South Wales 1907
Otago Settlement Jubilee 1898
Port Phillip Government Gazette 1847
Pughs Moreton Bay Almanac 1859
Queensland Government Gazette 1859-1905
Queensland Government Gazette Consolidated Index 1859-1919
Queensland PO Directory 1868-1915
Queensland Telephone Directory 1931-1959
Queensland, Brisbane Directory & Squatters guide 1876 (Shaw)
Queensland, Brisbane Directory 1878-1879, 1919
Queensland, Brisbane PO Directory & Country Guide 1885-1888
Queensland, Darling Downs Almanac and Directory 1900
Queensland, Pughs Almanac & Queensland Directory 1860-1927
Radio Call 1937-1956
Representative Men of South Australia
Six Colonies of New Zealand 1851
Slaters Queensland Almanac 1882,1887 & 1903
South Australia PO Directory 1903 (Wise)
South Australia, Commercial & Trades Directory SA 1882-1883
South Australia, Notable South Australians
South Australia, Pastoral Pioneers of SA
South Australian Almanac & Directories 1839-1883
South Australian Directory 1902-1930 (Sands)
South Australian Government Gazette 1841-1870
Stewarts Handbook of Pacific Islands 1921 & 1922
Strays Collection Australasia 1987-1998
Tasmania PO Directory (Wise) 1890-1947
Tasmania Telephone Directory 1953
Tasmania, Hobart Gazette 1903-1906
Tasmania, Hobart Town Gazette 1827-1880
Tasmania, Jubilee History of Tasmania
Tasmania, Walch’s Tasmanian Almanac 1891-1915
Tasmanian Cyclopedia 1931
Tasmanian Directory 1867-68, 1887
Tasmanian Government Gazette 1907-1919
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
Victoria, Annals of Bendigo v1 1851-1867 & v3 1892-1909
Victoria, Melbourne Almanac and General Intelligencer 1858 (Williams)
Victoria, Melbourne Directory 1854-1893
Victorian Directory 1904 (Sands)
Victorian Government Gazette 1851-1901
Victorian PO Directory (Wise) 1888, 1904, 1914
Victorian Year Book 1873-1878
Western Australian PO Directory 1905-1942
Wragge's Australasian Weather Guide and Almanac 1898, 1903

Travel & Migration

Aliens Registered in the Northern Territory 1916–1921
Calais Lacemaker immigrants to South Australia 1848
Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1870
Convicts in South Australia sentenced to transportation 1836–1852
Emigrants from Hamburg to Australasia 1850-1879
Emigrants seeking free passage to South Australia 1836–1841
Emigration: Where to Go
Genealogical Index to Australians and Other Expatriates in Papua New Guinea
New South Wales and Tasmania: Settlers and Convicts 1787-1859
New South Wales assisted passenger lists
New South Wales unassisted passenger lists
New South Wales, Convict Arrivals 1788-1842
New Zealand Emigration and Gold Fields
New Zealand for the Emigrant 1890
Passenger Lists leaving UK 1890-1960
Passengers to South Australia on board Buffalo 1836
Queensland Assisted Immigration 1848-1912
Queensland Customs House Shipping 1852-1885: Passengers and Crew
Queensland Early Pioneers Index 1824-1859
Queensland Immigration Registers 1922-1940
Queensland Naturalisations 1851-1904
Queensland Nominated Immigrants 1908-1922
Queensland passports index 1915-1925
Queensland Ship Deserters 1862-1911
Queensland, Brisbane Register of Immigrants 1885-1917
Queensland, Maryborough Registers of Rations Issued to Immigrants 1875-1884
South Australia Naturalisations 1849-1903
South Australia, immigrant agricultural workers 1913-14
South Australian ex-convicts
Victoria coastal passenger lists 1852-1924
Victoria Inward Passenger Lists 1839-1923
Victoria Inward Passenger Lists 1839-1923
Victoria Outward Passenger Lists 1852-1915