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Specialist Indexes in Australia: a Genealogist's Guide
2006 Supplement

The book Specialist Indexes in Australia: a Genealogist's Guide is an index of indexes that are useful for historical research, especially genealogy, family history and local history. Specialist Indexes helps you to find indexes to sources for all of Australia and some overseas areas. It describes local area indexes, Pioneer Registers, newspaper indexes, One-Name (surname) indexes, indexes on a wide variety of other topics, and indexes (compiled in Australia) for overseas records.

Features of the 2006 Supplement

Descriptions and contact addresses for over 700 indexes (new indexes, plus updates to many entries in the 1998 edition).
Includes changes of address since the 1998 edition.
Many unusual and neglected sources.
Many indexes are in private hands and accessible only by mail enquiry.
The book helps you to find indexes. It does not contain the indexes themselves.
Only the titles of the indexes are listed on this Web site. The books themselves give more information.
You may also need the 1998 edition. It has about 500 entries that are not repeated in the Supplement.

Extract from review by Dawn Montgomery in Qld Family Historian vol.28 no.1: This index would be a worthy addition to anyone's genealogical library, and one which should be an essential acquisition for every family history / genealogical library in Australia.

How to get more information about an index

For some indexes that are on the Internet, the list below has clickable links.
If there is no link, there are two ways to get more information:
1. inspect the book in a public library or genealogical library
2. buy the book.

Types of indexes described in the 2006 Supplement

LOCAL AREA INDEXES

Adelaide (SA) - Funeral Directors records
Adelaide (SA) - Hospital Admission Registers, 1840-1910
Adelong Cemetery (NSW)
Albany (WA) - Avenue of Honour Plaques
Albany and District (WA) newspapers
Albany Creek Crematorium (Brisbane, Qld) [index now on Findmypast]
Albany, Denmark and Mt Barker (WA)
Alexandra and Yea (Vic)
Amherst (Vic) - Hospital Admissions, 1869-1888
Amherst / Daisy Hill and District (Vic)
Araluen Cemetery (NSW)
Ariah Park Cemetery (NSW)
Arthur River (WA) - St. Paul's Anglican churchyard
Australian Capital Territory including Jervis Bay
Ballarat (Vic) - Hospital Admissions, 1856-1913
Balmain cemetery (NSW)
Barmedman Cemetery (NSW)
Bathurst (NSW) - Bench of Magistrates' Cases
Bathurst district (NSW) Surnames
Bathurst/Melville and Newcastle (NSW) Population Books, 1824
Batlow Cemetery (NSW)
Beechworth district (Vic)
Beenleigh cemetery (Qld) [index now on Findmypast]
Bendigo (Vic) - baptisms and marriages (various churches)
Bendigo (Vic) - Hospital Admission Registers and Council Rate Notices
Bendigo (Vic) - see also 'Sandhurst (Vic)'
Bendigo / Sandhurst (Vic) - school pupil registers
Bendigo and region (Vic) - Cemeteries
Berrima / Throsby Park (NSW) - Bench Books, 1826-1827
Berwick and Harkaway Districts (Vic)
Bevendale Cemetery (NSW)
Big Hill Cemetery (Marulan district, NSW)
Binalong Cemetery (NSW)
Blayney (NSW) - Interments
Bodalla Cemetery (NSW)
Bollon cemetery (Qld)
Bookham Cemetery (NSW)
Boorowa Roman Catholic Cemetery (NSW)
Bowning Cemetery (NSW)
Boydtown Cemetery (NSW)
Braidwood (NSW) - Bench of Magistrates' Cases
Braidwood Cemetery (NSW)
Breadalbane Cemetery (NSW)
Brisbane (Qld) - Anglican Cemeteries and Columbaria [index now on Findmypast]
Brisbane (Qld) - Hospital Admissions
Brisbane Water / Gosford (NSW) - Bench of Magistrates, 1835-1842
Buckland Goldfield (near Bright VIC): burials 1853-1999
Bulimba Cemetery (Brisbane, Qld) - Monumental Inscriptions [index now on Findmypast]
Bungendore (NSW)
Bungonia (NSW)
Bungonia Cemetery (near Goulburn NSW)
Bunya, Dayboro, Lawnton, Samford and Samsonvale cemeteries (Qld) [index now on Findmypast]
Burketown (Qld) - Hospital Admissions, 1909-1923
Burwood (NSW) - St. Paul's Anglican Church columbarium
Burwood, Concord, Drummoyne, Enfield, Fivedock, Homebush, Strathfield (NSW)
Calliope cemetery (Qld)
Caloundra (Qld) - Gregson & Weight Funeral Directors records
Camden (NSW) - see 'Picton, Camden and Campbelltown districts (NSW) - Surname Index'
Campbelltown (NSW) - see 'Picton, Camden and Campbelltown districts (NSW) - Surname Index'
Canberra (ACT) - Anglican Church of St. John the Baptist
Canberra (ACT) and Queanbeyan (NSW) Biographical Register 1820-1930
Canberra District Lives (ACT)
Canberra/Goulburn Diocese - Church of England Parish Registers 1850-1920
Candelo Cemetery (NSW)
Captain's Flat Cemetery (NSW)
Cardwell - Murigal - Jumbin cemeteries (Qld)
Carwoola (NSW) - St. Thomas' Church Cemetery, Molonglo
Casey / Cardinia (Vic) Pioneer Register pre-1920
Casino (NSW) - Cemeteries
Casino and District (NSW) - 1891 & 1901 census
Casino and District (NSW) - Pioneers pre-1925 [and Rate Books]
Castlemaine (Vic) - cemetery register, 1853-2000
Castlemaine (Vic) - Hospital Admissions, 1855-1920
Castlemaine (Vic) Cemetery
Castlemaine and Dictrict (Vic) Biographical Index, 1852-2000 (I. & A. Hockley)
Castlemaine and District (Vic) - Uniting Church, 1852-2000
Castlemaine district (VIC) - family and local history resources
Central Qld - Death Registers, and Rockhampton Crematorium Register
Central Qld - Local studies
Central Qld - Pioneer Register
Central Qld Inland Towns, 1830-1939
Chambers Flat (Qld) Cemetery
Charters Towers (Qld) - Gaol Discharge Books
Charters Towers (Qld) - High School Admission Registers, 1973-1977
Charters Towers (Qld) - Jurors and Witnesses, 1920-1937
Charters Towers (Qld) - Rate Books and Valuation Registers
Clarence River Register (NSW)
Cleveland cemetery (Qld) [index now on Findmypast]
Clunes cemetery (Vic), 1864-1980
Cockburn cemetery (SA)
Collector Cemetery (NSW)
Collinsville (Qld) Cemetery - Burial Register Index
Concord (Longbottom) Cemetery (NSW)
Conjola Cemetery (NSW)
Cooktown (Qld) - Boys' School admissions, Jan 1885-May 1889
Cooktown (Qld) - Hospital Admissions
Coolac Cemetery (NSW)
Coraki (NSW) Cemetery
Cowra (NSW) - Cemeteries and School Admission Registers
Cradock cemetery (SA)
Creswick (Vic) - Hospital records, 1863-1894
Croydon (Qld) - Diary of Julia Toogood, midwife, c1886-1930
Croydon (Qld) - Hospital Admissions
Cudal and district (NSW) - small cemeteries
Cudgegong Cemetery (near Mudgee NSW)
Cunnamulla and South-West Qld - Cemeteries and Local History Sources
Currawang Cemetery (near Collector NSW)
Dalby (Qld) - Cemetery Records
Dalton Cemetery (NSW)
Darling Downs (Qld) - Obituaries, 1880s
Darling Downs (Qld) - Obituaries, mainly 1980s
Darling Downs cemeteries (Qld)
Denial Bay (SA) - Lutheran Church cemetery
Dorset Mission (Tas) - Baptisms
Dunolly (Vic) - Hospital Admissions, 1860-1900
Eaglehawk, White Hills, Kangaroo Flat (Vic) cemeteries
Eastern Goldfields and Murchison Goldfields (WA)
Esperance (WA)
Essendon, Ascot Vale, Moonee Ponds and Flemington (Vic)
Etheridge area (North Qld)
Eulo (Qld)
Far East Gippsland (Vic) Pioneer Register to 1920
Forbes (NSW)
Forster Cemetery (NSW)
Frogmore Cemetery (NSW)
Galong Cemetery (NSW)
Gerringong (NSW) - General Cemetery
Gerringong (NSW) Pioneer Families, 1820-1920
Gladstone (Qld)
Gold Coast (Qld) - Cemeteries Database
Gold Coast (Qld) - Somerville Funerals' Records
Goulburn (NSW) - Bench Books, 1827-1835
Goulburn (NSW) - General Cemetery
Goulburn (NSW) - Inmates of Kenmore Hospital
Goulburn (NSW) - St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Cemetery, Kenmore
Goulburn and Berrima Districts (NSW) - Inquest Index, 1835-1962
Gounyan Cemetery (near Yass NSW)
Greendale Cemetery (near Dalton NSW)
Greenfields Cemetery (near Yass NSW)
Gundagai North & Gundagai South Cemeteries (NSW)
Gundaroo Cemeteries (NSW)
Gundion Cemetery (near Araluen NSW)
Gunning Cemetery (NSW)
Gurrundah Cemetery (near Breadalbane NSW)
Harden Cemetery (NSW)
Hartley / Vale of Clywd (NSW) Court House Bench Books, 1838-1840
Hawkesbury (NSW) - Pioneer Register, 1700s-1900s
Hawkesbury (NSW) Pioneers - Arndell Index
Hazeldell (Palerang) Cemetery (near Braidwood NSW)
Helidon (Qld) - Roman Catholic cemetery
Hemmant cemetery (Brisbane QLD)
Herberton District (Qld) - Victuallers Licences
Hobart (Tas) - Cornelian Bay Cemetery
Hobart (Tas) - Jewish, Society of Friends & Wesleyan Cemeteries
Hobart (Tas) - Presbyterian Cemeteries
Hobart (Tas) - Queenborough Cemetery
Hobart (Tas) - St. David's Church: miscellaneous parish records, 1890-1927
Hobart (Tas) - St. Marys Hospital admission registers, 1841-1862
Hobart (Tas) - Undertakers' Records
Hobby Yards General Cemetery (near Bathurst NSW)
Hoskinstown Cemetery (NSW)
Humula Cemetery (near Tarcutta NSW)
Hunter Valley area (NSW) - Arch Gray Index
Illawarra (NSW) - Pioneers, 1840-1900
Imlay Shire (NSW) - Rate Books [index now on Findmypast]
Ingham (Qld) - Hospital Admissions
Innisfail cemetery (Qld)
Ipswich and District (Qld)
Jamberoo (NSW) - General Cemetery
Jamestown (SA) Index
Jingellic Cemetery (near Albury NSW)
Jugiong Cemetery (NSW)
Kalgoorlie (WA) - Burial Registers
Kameruka Cemetery (NSW)
Kanyaka (SA)
Kiama (NSW) General Cemetery
Kiama and District (NSW) Pioneers to 1920
Kiama area (NSW) - Index to McCaffrey Papers
Kilmore - Alexandra - Yea regions (Vic) - Gold Mining, 1850s-1940s
Kippilaw Cemetery (near Goulburn NSW)
Komungla Cemetery (near Goulburn NSW)
Kyneton (Vic) - Hospital records, 1862-1885
Labert Cemetery (near Braidwood NSW)
Lake Bathurst Cemetery (NSW)
Lamplough (Vic)
Landsborough Shire (Qld) - Council Rates Books 1912-1941
Launceston (Tas) Valuation and Selby Electoral Rolls, 1856
Leeton and Whitton (NSW) - Monumental Inscriptions & Burial Records
Leeton district (NSW)
Lismore (NSW) - William Riley & Son Funeral Directors, 1935-1975
Lithgow (Bowenfels) cemetery (NSW)
Lithgow (NSW) - Infectious Disease Register, 1898-1953
Lithgow and District (NSW)
Liverpool (NSW) - All Saints Catholic Church
Liverpool (NSW) - Bench Books, 1824-1826
Liverpool (NSW) - Max Perrams Funerals, 1962-1997
Liverpool (NSW) - Pioneers' Memorial Park (Cemetery)
Liverpool (NSW) - Police Court Books
Liverpool (NSW) - St Luke's Church parish registers 1814-1950
Liverpool and district (NSW) - cemeteries
Logan District (Qld) - Lutherans, 1835-1972
Maclean (Qld) Cemetery
Majors Creek (near Braidwood NSW)
Maldon (Vic) - Hospital Admissions, 1864-1905
Manly Warringah and Pittwater (NSW) - Historical Society Collection
Maroochy Shire (Qld)
Marrangaroo (Lithgow district, NSW) Public School admissions register, 1912-1982
Marulan Cemetery (NSW)
Maryborough (Vic) - Hospital Admissions,1855-1907
Maryborough and district (Qld)
Maryland (NSW) Deaths and Burials 1856-1900
Marysville cemetery (Vic)
Midwest of Western Australia Pre-1901 Pioneer Family Register
Military Personnel buried in Liverpool (NSW)
Millers Hill Cemetery (near Corryong Vic)
Milton (NSW) - Croobyar St. Cemetery
Milton (NSW) - Woodstock Creek Cemetery
Mogo Cemetery (NSW)
Mollymook Anglican Cemetery (NSW)
Monaro Monumental Inscriptions 1834-1982
Mooroopna (Vic) - Headstone Transcriptions, 1852-2003
Mount Gravatt Cemetery (Brisbane, Qld) - Monumental Inscriptions
Mount Larcom cemetery (Gladstone district, Qld)
Mount Morgan (Qld)
Mumbulla Shire (NSW) - Rate Books [index now on Findmypast]
Mummel Cemetery (near Goulburn NSW)
Muringo Cemetery (NSW)
Murrumbateman Cemetery (NSW)
Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area (NSW) - Employment Applications, 1912-1922
Murwillumbah (NSW) - New General Cemetery
Muttaburra (Qld) - Hospital Admissions
Muttama (near Cootamundra NSW) - Roman Catholic Cemeteries
Nambucca Heads (NSW)
Narrabri Shire (NSW) - Cemeteries Burial Register Index
Narre Warren / Hallam (Vic) school admission registers
Nerriga Cemetery (NSW)
Neville Cemetery (near Blayney NSW)
Noosa District (Qld) Pioneer Index, 1860s-1929
Noosa Shire (Qld) - Monumental Inscriptions
Northam Shire (WA) - Burial Register
Northern Rivers (NSW) - deaths and burials
Oberon (NSW) - Interments
Parkesbourne Cemetery (near Breadalbane NSW)
Parramatta (NSW) - Pioneer Register to 1920
Penrith (NSW) Dispensary Register 1847-1860
Penrose Cemetery (near Bundanoon NSW)
Peterborough (SA) People
Petersham (NSW) - Catholic Cemetery
Picton, Camden and Campbelltown districts (NSW) - Surname Index
Pinjarra (WA) and Kingsley Fairbridge Farm School - BDMs, baptisms and burials
Plantagenet Registration District (WA) - Marriage Matching
Port Esperance (Tas) - Congregational Church, 1903-1911
Porters Retreat Cemetery (near Taralga NSW)
Proserpine District (Qld)
Raglan cemetery (Gladstone district, Qld)
Redland Shire (Qld) - Pioneer Index to 1900
Richmond / Tweed (NSW) - Honour / Memorial Rolls, Boer War to Vietnam Conflict
Richmond and Cambridge (Tas) - Cemeteries
Richmond River district (NSW) - School Admission Registers
Rockhampton (Qld) - funeral directors' records, 1970-1997
Rockhampton (Qld) cemeteries
Rockhampton Central Boys School (Qld), 1862-1962
Rockingham and Districts (WA) - Schools
Rockingham Shire (WA) - Rate Books
Rugby Cemetery (NSW)
Rydal (NSW) School Admissions Register, 1886-1968
Rye Park Cemetery (NSW)
Saint George (Qld) Cemetery
Sandhurst (Vic) - indexes to Parish land maps / Unclaimed letters
Sandhurst (Vic) - see also 'Bendigo (Vic)'
Shepparton district (Vic) - Small Cemeteries: Headstone Transcriptions
South Brisbane / Dutton Park (Qld) Cemetery - Monumental Inscriptions [index now on Findmypast]
Southport cemetery (Qld)
Spring Bay Municipality (Tas)
Spring Valley Cemetery (near Collector NSW)
Stockinbingal Cemetery (NSW)
Strathfield (NSW) - St. Anne's Anglican Church Columbarium
Sutherland (NSW) - Olsens Funeral Records, 1963-1990
Sydney (NSW) - St. Mary's Cathedral Chapel School
Sydney (NSW) - Walter Carter Funeral Books
Sydney District (NSW) - Bench of Magistrates hearings, 1788-1820
Tarago Cemetery (NSW)
Taralga (NSW) - Index to "Homes Among the Hills"
Taroom cemetery (Qld)
Tasmania (Southern) - Congregational Cemeteries
Tatura (Vic) - Headstone Transcriptions
Thargomindah (Qld)
Thursday Island (Qld) - Gaol Discharge Books
Tirranville Cemetery (near Goulburn NSW)
Toowong Cemetery (Brisbane, Qld) - Headstones [index now on Findmypast]
Toowoomba (Qld) - Hospital Admissions, 1913-1924 and 1936-1938
Toowoomba district (Qld)
Toowoomba Hospital (Qld) - Deaths
Townsville area (Qld)
Trungley Hall Cemetery (near Temora NSW)
Tully cemetery (Qld)
Tumbarumba Cemetery (NSW)
Tumblong Cemetery (NSW)
Tumut (NSW) - Pioneer and General Cemeteries
Tweed River Valley (NSW) - Land Records, 1866-1965
Tweed Valley (NSW) - Deaths and Burials to 2000
Tweed Valley (NSW) and Southern Gold Coast (Qld)
Tweed Valley NSW - School Admissions and Honour Rolls, 1876-1954
Ulladulla (NSW) - Hollywood Avenue Cemetery
Vale of Clywd (NSW) - Bench of Magistrates' Cases
Wandoan cemetery (Qld) [index now on Findmypast]
West of the [Richmond] Range (NSW) - Cemeteries
West Wyalong area (NSW) - Deaths, 1894-1945
Western Australian Goldfields, 1892 onwards
Westernport (Vic)
Wheeo (NSW) - Uniting Church Cemetery
Wollongbar (NSW) cemetery
Woodbridge (Tas) Cemetery
Woronora Cemetery and Crematorium (Sutherland NSW)
Wyandra (Qld)
Yarra Cemetery (near Goulburn NSW)
Yass Cemetery and St. Clement's Churchyard (NSW)
Yea (Vic)
Yea cemetery (Vic)
Young cemetery (NSW)

NEWSPAPER INDEXES

Advertiser (Adelaide SA)
Bendigo Advertiser (Vic)
Canberra Times (ACT)
Champion (Oakey QLD)
Chinchilla News (Qld)
Clifton Courier (Qld)
Cunnamulla Watchman (Qld)
Dalby Herald & Western Qld Advertiser (Dalby, QLD)
Dalby Herald (Qld)
Dunolly and Bet Bet Shire Express (Vic)
Dunolly Express (Vic)
Early Australian Colonial Newspapers, 1840-1853
Eastern Goldfields Region newspapers (WA)
Express and Telegraph (Adelaide SA) - Court reports, 1862-1870
Fairfield (NSW) newspapers
Gatton Star (Qld)
Gladstone Observer (Qld)
Golden Age (Queanbeyan NSW)
Goondiwindi Argus (Qld)
Guyra Argus (NSW)
Hunter Valley region (NSW) newspapers
Inquirer (Fremantle WA)
Kiama Independent (NSW)
Lithgow Mercury (NSW)
Liverpool (NSW) newspapers
Macarthur Advertiser and Macarthur Chronicle (Campbelltown NSW)
Mackay Mercury & South Kennedy Advertiser (Qld)
Mercury (Hobart TAS) - O'Shea Indexes
Mercury (Hobart TAS) - Whitton Indexes
Millmerran Monthly Newsletter / Shire and District News (Qld)
Molong Express and Molong Argus (NSW)
Morning Bulletin (Rockhampton QLD)
Morning Bulletin (Rockhampton QLD)
Morning Bulletin (Rockhampton QLD) - BDMs etc. 1905-1910 and 1992 to date
Mount Alexander Mail (Castlemaine VIC)
Murrumbidgee Irrigator (Leeton NSW)
North Australian, Ipswich and General Advertiser (Ipswich QLD)
Northern Star (Lismore NSW)
Numurkah Leader (Vic)
Pastoral Times (Deniliquin NSW)
Perth Gazette (WA)
Pittsworth Sentinel (Qld)
Port Macquarie News (NSW)
Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer (NSW)
Qld Country Life
Qld Times (Ipswich QLD)
Queenslander (Brisbane QLD)
Richmond River Express (Casino NSW)
Rockhampton (Qld) Newspapers - Scrapbook Index
Ryerson Index - Death notices in Australian newspapers
Shepparton News (Vic)
Silver Age (Silverton near Broken Hill NSW)
South Australian newspapers (Abbott Index)
South Australian newspapers (Blair Index)
South Coast Bulletin (Southport QLD)
South Coast Bulletin, later Gold Coast Bulletin (Southport QLD)
St. George and Sutherland Shire Leader (NSW), 1997-2001
St. George's Advocate (Hurstville NSW) 1898-1902
Star (Hobart TAS): Index to Birth Notices, 1992-1998
Sunshine Coast Daily (Maroochydore QLD)
Sydney Morning Herald (NSW): Persons Advertised For
Sydney Morning Herald (NSW): BDMs / Funerals 1853-1859, Deaths / Funerals 1910-1911
Sydney Morning Herald (NSW): birth notices 1919-1923
Sydney Morning Herald (NSW): Uncover the Past
Tasmanian newspapers 1816-1825 and on-going
Tatura Guardian (NSW)
Toowoomba Chronicle (Qld) - BDMs and anniversaries
Toowoomba Chronicle (Qld) - Clippings Index, 1981-2000
Townsville Bulletin (QLD)
Townsville Daily Bulletin (Qld)
Tumut and Adelong Times and Batlow District News (Tumut NSW)
Tweed and Brunswick Advocate / Tweed Daily (Murwillumbah/Tweed Heads NSW)
Warrnambool Examiner (VIC)
West Australian (Perth WA)
Western Australia - 19th century newspapers
Western Star (Roma QLD)
Western Sun (Cunnamulla QLD)
Wynnum Herald (Qld)

ONE-NAME (Surname) INDEXES

ARLOSH and LOSH
COUCILL, CONCIL, COUSAL, COVCIL, COWCILL,COWSEL and variants
COURTOY, CURTOY, COURETEY, CORTEURY, COWTYS, CORTONY
CRANE
CUBIS / CUBISS
FLINDERS and variants
GATFIELD and variants
GILL
GINEVER, GINNEVER, GINIVER and similar
HARCOURT
HOLLOW
HORNERY, HONNERY
INVERARITY
JACQUINET
KAHLER, KÄHLER, KAEHLER and similar
KEW and variants
LARDELLI, LADELLI, LARDALLI, LARDELI
LUCEY and LUCY
MADDISON and variants
NANKERVIS and variants
OLIVER
PAVEY
PEEBLES, PEEPLES, PEOPLES, PEBBLES, PEEBLER, de PEBLIS
QUATERMASS, QUARTERMAS, QUATEREMARES and similar
QUESTED / QUESTEAD
RENEHAN, RENAHAN, RENIHAN, RANAHAN
ROSSITER and variants
STRONACH and STRONACK
TEGNER
TOOMEY, TWOMEY, TUOMY and variants
VENN and VENNE
VIDLER, VITLER

OTHER TOPICS

31st Infantry Battalion: 'Whispering Boomerang' Index
Aboriginal Name Index, Qld (Mackett Index)
Admittances and Discharges - Nautical School Ships
AGCI (Australasian Genealogical Computer Index)
Aldine Centennial History of NSW 1888: Index to Biographical Sketches [see also Findmypast]
Alien (non-British) Residents, 1914-1918
Alien Registrations, NSW, 1916-1922
American Civil War Veterans buried in Australia
Americans in Qld and Northern Territory, 1865-1930
Assisted German Immigrants to NSW - Vinedresser Families, 1849-1856
Australian Biographical and Genealogical Record (ABGR)
Australian Electoral Rolls, 1901 and 1903
Australian Show Movements 1833-1966 (Circuses etc.)
Baptist Church Officers (Qld)
Baptist Marriage Registers (Queensland)
Bench of Magistrates Returns (NSW), 1822-1828 & 1830-1832
Bendigo Benevolent Asylum (Vic)
Benevolent Asylum (Sydney NSW)
Births, Deaths and Marriages in Sydney (NSW) newspapers, 1830-1840
Boer War Soldier Photos in the 'Australasian', 1899-1902
Candidates for the Victorian Police
Castlemaine Benevolent Asylum (Vic), 1860-1922
Catholic Church Records (NSW), 1840-1943
Children in Victorian Institutions, 1860-1863
Convict Applications to bring out their families, 1827-1873
Convict Register 1843-1845, Liverpool NSW
Convict Ships to Australia, 1788-1868
Convict Transportation Registers, 1788-1868
Convicts - Assignments / Abscondings / Apprehensions in NSW, 1830s
Convicts & Employers (NSW) Index 1828, 1832-1833, Jan 1838 - Jan 1844
Convicts on 'Prince Regent', Sydney NSW, 27 Jan 1820
Convicts to Tasmania, 1814-1854
Criminal and other Case Files found in VIC Police Correspondence Files
Deaths at the Alfred Hospital & Melbourne Benevolent Asylum (Vic), Oct 1872 - Dec 1877
Deaths in the Melbourne Hospital (Vic)
Deaths mentioned in Joan Reece's Col. Sec. Correspondence indexes
Dentists and Dental Apprentices (Qld), 1917-1925
Destitute People and Destitute Asylum Admissions (SA)
Discharged and Deserted Seamen (Queensland), 1882-1913
Dunwich Benevolent Asylum (Qld)
Dunwich Benevolent Asylum (Qld) Weekly Returns, 1885-1900
Emigrants from Hamburg to Australasia, 1850-1883 (Kopittke Indexes) [index now on Findmypast]
Emigrants who applied for Free Passage to South Australia, 1836-1840
'Etona' (Murray River paddle steamer) Baptism Index
Eventide (Sandgate, Qld) - Registers of Deaths, 1954-1959
Female Convicts at Moreton Bay, 1826-1839
Free Passengers and Crew on Convict Ships into Sydney (NSW), 1830-1840
Free Railway Pass Recipients (NSW), 1880-1892
Genealogical Index to Australians and Other Expatriates in Papua New Guinea, 1888-1975 [index now on Findmypast]
Germanic Index (South Australia)
Governor's Court (NSW)
Hackney Cab Licences, Sydney NSW, 1848-1853 and 1871
Horse, Cattle and Sheep Brands (Qld) [indexes now on Findmypast]
Hospital Admission Registers (Queensland)
Immigrant Ships to Queensland, 1848-1921
Immigrants on Five (5) Ships from New York to Sydney NSW, 1877-1878
Immigration and related correspondence - Colonial Secretary (Vic), 1851-1855
Imperial Awards to Australian Defence Forces since 1939
Index to Articles in Journals and Newsletters
Index to Tasmanian Convicts Miscellany, 1821-1854
Indexes to North Qld Local History Publications
Infant Life Protection Act (Victorias)
Infant Life Protection Act 1890
Inmates of Sydney and Darlinghurst Gaol (NSW), 1819-1849
Insolvency Files - Northern District, Queensland, 1876-1922
Inward and Outward Passengers, Esperance (WA)
Irish Immigrants arriving NSW, 1848-1868
Junior and Senior public examinations (NSW), 1867-1914
Justice Department (Qld) - Enquiries into Brisbane Deaths, 1931-1961
Lithgow Valley Colliery (NSW) Payroll Books, 1883-1891 & 1936-1956
Liverpool Asylum (NSW) - Admissions and Discharges
Main Roads (Qld) - Registration Index
Maintenence Payments to Deserted Wives / Children and Illegitimate Children (Qld)
Mariners and Ships in Australian Waters, 1870s
Maritime Illustration Indexes
Mary Hodge Index (SA)
Masonic Lodge Records (Qld), 1860s-1890s
Medical Board of Qld minutes, 1860+
Medical Journal of Australia - Obituaries and Death Notices
Melbourne (Vic): Yarra Yarra Rowing Club
Melbourne (Vic): Early Closing Association
Melbourne Tailoresses' Union (Vic)
Mental Asylum and Benevolent Asylum Patients (Qld)
Mental Asylum Admissions, Queensland, c1865-c1945 (Registers of Insanity Files)
Mine Workers Muster (Ipswich and Queensland)
Miners involved in Qld Mining Accidents, 1882-1900
Miscellaneous Certificates Index (Australia)
Miscellaneous Names Index (Genealogical Society of Victoria)
Miscellaneous Records of the Moreton Bay Region, 1855-1859 [index now on Findmypast]
Miscellaneous Tasmanian Parish Registers - Country, 1837-1972
Missing People, from VIC Police Correspondence Files
Moreton Bay Convicts, 1824-1839
Moreton Bay Military, 1825-1842
Moreton Bay Supreme Court Records, 1857-1859 [index now on Findmypast]
Naturalisations (Commonwealth of Australia), 1904-1917
Naval Reserve Trainees
New South Wales - Court Records, pre-1900
North Americans in Australia
North Qld - Prison Discharge Books
NSW Biographical Register 1788-c1840
NSW Colonial Secretary's Letters to the Sheriff
NSW Immigration Deposit Journals Index & Supplementary Index
NSW Parliamentary Return of Landholders, 1885
Nuns and Sisters of the Catholic Church in Australia, 1838-1918
Old Age Pension Applicants, Queensland, 1908-1909
Old Age Pensions & Invalid Pensions, 1908-1952
Parade Magazine - Know Your Ancestors 1971-1980
Parish Registers in Australia
Parliamentary Papers for the Colony of Victoria, 1852-1869/1870
Passengers and Crew in and out of Sydney (NSW), 1830-1841
Passengers on the 'South Australian' arriving Kingscote (SA) 22 Apr 1837
Passengers to the Port of Newcastle (NSW), 1865-1881
Passports for Overseas Travel from Australia, 1915 onwards
People mentioned in 'From Pioneering Days - Nundah, Northgate, Virginia' (Qld)
Persons Arrested & Victims of Crime, Queensland
Persons called before Qld Government Committees, 1860-1920
Police and Police Station Database (Vic)
Port of Townsville (Qld) Ships / Passengers Index
Portraits of Living Pioneer Colonists (Queensland, 1909)
Postal and Telegraph Department (Vic) Temporary Staff, 1885-1920
Postmasters and Post Offices (NSW), 1865
Prisoners (Qld) - St. Helena, Moreton Bay, 1863-1907 and 1917-1923
Probationary Convicts to Sydney and Moreton Bay
Professional Sprinting - Autobiography of A.B. Postle, 1884-1920
Quarantine Admission Register, Wallangarra (Qld/NSW border), 1918-1919
Qld Bankrupts, 1890s
Qld Brands Directory, 1924 / 1925
Qld Cemeteries - Burial Registers & Funeral Directors' Indexes
Qld Cemetery Indexes
Qld Commonwealth Electoral Rolls (1903, 1913, 1922, 1934, 1949 & 1959 indexes, plus State electoral roll indexes 1860-1884, are now on Findmypast)
Qld Crown Land Sales, 1842-1857
Qld Gazetted Licences Index, 1860-1901 [indexes for Miner's Rights and Business Licences, Miscellaneous Licences and Timber Licences are now on Findmypast]
Qld Government Gazettes - consolidated 'Contents Page' indexes
Qld Government Railway - Branch Records, 1889-1911
Qld Government Railway - Staff Records, 1878-1946
Qld Hotels and Publicans, 1843-1900
Qld Immigration Society migrants, 1862-1865
Qld Intestacy Returns, 1896-1916 [index now on Findmypast]
Qld Land Records, 1856-1859 [index now on Findmypast]
Qld Obituaries Index
Qld Police Gazette Index, 1864-1874 [index now on Findmypast]
Qld Police Gazettes - selected references, c1880s-c1930
Qld Post Offices / Receiving Offices: Early Office Keepers
Qld Pre-Separation Population Index, 1824-1859 (Early Pioneers Index) [index now on Findmypast]
Qld Public Service Index, 1864-1948
Qld Railway Employees [1889-1940 index now on Findmypast]
Qld Railways Department Employees
Qld School Pupils Index [index now on Findmypast]
Qld Supreme Court (Southern District) - Originating Summonses, 1901-1906 [index now on Findmypast]
Re-Index of the Deane Index, 1823-1840
Roman Catholic Parish Registers (Queensland)
Sadie Pritchard Collection (South Australian Jewish families)
School Admissions Index (South Australia)
School Committee Members (Qld) [index now on Findmypast]
Sea Captains Index
Shipping between Sydney and Moreton Bay and return, 1824-1839
Ships and Masters to Sydney (NSW), 1842-1856
Ships' Deserters (South Australia) 1852-1952
Ships Pictures Index
South African War Service Records - British and Colonial Women
South Australia - Parish Register Index
South Australia - Railway Employees, 1876-1912
South Australian Birth Registrations Index, 1842-1906
South Australian Cemetery Index
South Australian Death Registrations Index, 1842-1915
South Australian Marriage Registrations Indexes, 1842-1937
South Australians, 1836-1885 (Biographical Index)
South East Qld - Memorial inscriptions for some small cemeteries
South-west German Immigrants to NSW & Eastern Australian States pre-1890
St. Augustines Orphanage (Geelong Vic) 1857-1878
State Records NSW - Online indexes
Stewarts Creek Prison (Townsville / North Qld)
Sudden Deaths in South Australia, 1840-1940
Supreme Court (Qld) - Equity files, 1857-1895
Swanleigh Children's Home (formerly Perth Orphanage, Western Australia)
Tasmanian Assisted Passengers, 1841-1889
Tasmanian Colonial Collection
Tasmanian Convict Index
Tasmanian convicts 1825-1850
Tasmanian Maritime Images Index
Tasmanians in Victoria Police Gazettes, 1853-1893
'The Theatre'
Theatrical, Literary and Artistic Lives
Toowoomba Prison (Qld)
Townsville Orphanage (Qld), 1878-1924
Transmission of Real Estate by Death (Queensland)
Unassisted Immigration to NSW, 1842-1856
Unclaimed Letters (Qld), 1860-1874 [index now on Findmypast]
Unclaimed Letters, 1836-1852
Unemployed Persons in Sydney (NSW), 1866
Unemployed Registers (NSW), 1860 & 1884
Victoria Police Warrants and Summons Books, 1846-1920
Victoria to New Zealand - Outward Shipping, 1852-1870
Victorian Convicts 1852-1854
Victorian Defence Forces, 1854-1901
Victorian Government Gazettes - name index
Victorian Mining Accident Index, 1851-2001
Victorian Police, 1853-1953
Wages Paid to Orphans (NSW), 1849-1851
Wallerawang Colliery (Lithgow, NSW) Payroll Book, 1972
War and Other Memorials in Queensland
Watchhouse Charge Books, Victoria (Gibson Index)
Western Australia - Cemetery and Burial Indexes
Western Australia - Inquests, 1876-1903
Western Australia - Passenger Arrivals, 1839-1925
Western Australia - Prison Officers, 1829-1879
Western Australia - Uniting Church Records
Western Australian Baptisms, 1844-1920
Western Australian enlistments in the 2nd A.I.F. (1939-1945)
Western Australian Marriage Index, 1829-1896
Western Australian Mining Leaseholders and Mines, c1898-1907
Western Australian Photographers
Wife and Child Deserters in Australia, 19th and early 20th century
Wife and Child Deserters in Victoria Police Gazette, 1880-1895
Women Lecturers in Melbourne (Vic), 1880-1905
Women's Work Exhibition 1907 Catalogue
World War I Photographs in the 'Sydney Mail'
World War I Soldiers
WWI Servicemen & Women: news items & obituaries in Tasmanian weekly magazines

OVERSEAS RECORDS

England: Devon - Littleham near Bideford, parish registers
England: Yorkshire - Crambe churchyard headstones
English, Scottish and Welsh Professional Photographers, 1839-1940
Europe: Royal and Noble Families, pre-1400
Genealogical Index to Australians and Other Expatriates in Papua New Guinea, 1888-1975 [index now on Findmypast]
New Zealand Herald
People mentioned in 'Wilshamstead Homestead of Friends' (Bedfordshire ENG)
Scotland: Aberdeenshire - 1851 Census Index
Scotland: Banffshire - Census Indexes, 1851 and 1861
Scotland: Banffshire - Gamrie (Parish Registers and Kirk Sessions)
Scotland: Banffshire - Mortlach Parish Registers
Scotland: Banffshire Journal
Scotland: Moray - 1841 Census Index
Scotland: Morayshire - Elgin 1851 Census Index
Singapore, Malacca and Penang - Jurors, 1904
South Pacific Post (Papua New Guinea)

PUBLISHED INDEXES not mentioned in other sections

Australians Behind the Camera: The Directory of Early Australian Photographers 1841-1945
Beaumaris Newsletter Index
Bega Valley Pioneer Register - Pre Federation
Brisbane History Group Index to Publications 1981-2005
Coleyville, Engelsburg (Kalbar), Boonah and Highfields Baptist Cemeteries [index now on Findmypast]
From Places Now Forgotten [index to convicts whose place of trial was outside UK and Ireland]
Index to all immigrants arriving Brisbane and Qld ports 1900-1915
Index to Berry and Kangaroo Valley Births
Index to Birth, Death, Marriage and Obituary Notices from the Shoalhaven News 1867-1873 [index now on Ancestry]
Index to Darwin's Air Wars
Index to Deaths, Shoalhaven pre-1900
Index to Early Land Grants in Van Diemen's Land, 1804-1823
Index to Milton Births
Index to Nowra Births
Index to Persons on the Berry Estate, 1822-1909
Index to 'The Bee of Australia'
Land Sales and Auctions in the Shoalhaven extracted from The News, Shoalhaven 1867-1873
Maryborough Burial Register 13 May 1871 - 7 May 1889
Maryborough Burials 2 Jun 1873 - 19 Jul 1994
Minden, Tarampa and Vernor Baptist Cemeteries [index now on Findmypast]
Missing Friends in Victoria Police Gazettes 1880-1885
Monumental Inscriptions from Selected European Graves in Burial Grounds in Java 1700-1939
Moreton Bay in the News 1841-1860: a Select Subject Index.
Nowra Births pre-1856
Polson Burial Records 4 Jun 1887 - 29 Sep 1999
Queensland Crown Land Sales
Register of Land Grants, Van Diemen's Land, 1824-1832
Return of Runs of Crown Lands 1854
Shoalhaven Deaths. The First Hundred Years
Shoalhaven Residents Pre-1871
They Came Direct... [individual voyages to Wide Bay]
Western Australian Government Railways Employees 1879-1905
Wide Bay School Admission Registers

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