Australia » People & Families

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders

This site is being developed to encourage those with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ancestry to research their family history, based on contemporaneous documentation and the scientific method, rather than family stories and populist history.

Aussie Schoolmates

Find old Australian school friends.

Australia & Jewish Genealogy

Australia's Red Coat Settlers

Australian Family Tree Connections - Missing Relatives (living)

Details of living relatives being researched in Australia and New Zealand.

Colonial South Australian Pioneers - FamilyHistorySA

Searchable database of early arrivals, births, marriages and deaths in South Australia - 1836 to 1850s.

Descendants of Convicts Group Inc.

A special interest group formed by members of the Genealogical Society of Victoria.

First Families 2001

A database and collection of stories about the people of Australia, past and present.

First Families 2001

A collection of user submitted details of the ancestor (or themselves) who immigrated to Australia. The First Families 2001 pilot program funded by the State Library of Victoria, was designed to draw together stories of Australian families to celebrate the Centenary of Federation in 2001. (This is the archive of the now-closed site).

Ivy Elmers story growing up in Murmungee Victoria

Ivy Elmers story about growing up in Murmungee and being a nurse for 55 years.

Leontine COOPER (née BUISSON)

Brief biographical history of the life and work of Leontine COOPER (née Leontine Mary Jane BUISSON) (1837-1903) - the English-born teacher, writer and leading Queensland suffragette.

Mental Asylum records (Queensland)

Names from a genealogical index to insanity files (mental asylum patients in Queensland, Australia).

Queensland State Archives | Orphanage and reformatory indexes

Toowoomba Girls Reformatory Admissions 1881-1903; Toowoomba Girls Reformatory Discharges 1882-1903; Westbrook Reformatory Admission Registers 1871-1906.

Research Guide - Chinese Immigrants and Chinese-Australians in New South Wales

From the National Archives of Australia.

Research Guide - Good British Stock - Child & Youth Migration to Australia

From the National Archives of Australia.

Research Guide - Safe Haven - Records of the Jewish Experience in Australia

From the National Archives of Australia.

The History of Australian Theatre On Line - List of Names Associated with the Theatre in Australia

Including the Tivoli theatres in Sydney and Melbourne.

The Sorbs/Wends In Australia

The Welsh in Patagonia, and Australia

Trove

A digital archive from the National Library of Australia. Books, journals, magazines, articles; pictures and photos; digitised newspapers; diaries, letters, archives; maps ; music, sound and video; archived websites (1996 – now); about people and organisations.