Genealogy Resources

Recommended software

• Personal Ancestral File (Free, Windows)
• Legacy (Free/Deluxe versions, Windows)
• Family Tree Maker (Windows, Mac)
• Reunion (Mac, iPad)

Genealogy Links

Registrars for Births, Deaths and Marriages

• New South Wales
• Queensland
• South Australia (online indexes are available from Genealogy SA)
• Victoria (not free)
• Western Australia
• New Zealand

Newspaper Search

• Trove (NLA) – digitised Australian newspapers from 1803 to 1954.
• Papers Past – digitised New Zealand newspapers and periodicals from 1839 to 1945.

Other Australian and New Zealand records

• State Records NSW – online indexes.
• National Archives – Great for WW1 digitised personal war records.
• FamilySearch – A service provided by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
• Early Immigrant Shipping to New Zealand – 1835 to 1910 – amateur site.
• FreeBMD – UK project to transcribe the Civil Registration index of births, marriages and deaths for England and Wales.

UK records

• Forces War Records – military genealogy records from WW2, WW1, Boer War, Crimean War and beyond.
• Ancestor Search – UK military records genealogy search.
• National Archives – Offical public archive of the United Kingdom government.
• FreeBMD – UK project to transcribe the Civil Registration index of births, marriages and deaths for England and Wales.