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Specialist Indexes in Australia: a Genealogist's Guide (1998 edition)
Part 2: Other topics, Overseas records, Published indexes

The book Specialist Indexes in Australia: a Genealogist's Guide is an index of indexes. It helps you to find indexes that are useful for historical research, especially genealogy, family history and local history.

Covers all parts of Australia plus some overseas areas.
Many unusual and neglected sources.
Many indexes are privately held and only accessible by mail or email enquiry.
Titles of indexes are listed on this Web site but the book gives more information such as a description and contact address so you can gain access to the indexes.
Some entries are updated in the 2006 Supplement.

How to get more information about an index

Follow links to indexes that are now on the Internet; or for other indexes listed below, get more information (usually a description of the index plus the name and address of the person or repository holding it; or, for published indexes, bibliographic details and a brief description):

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Titles of indexes described in the 1998 edition

Part 1

Part 2

OTHER TOPICS

In general, entries in this section are arranged according to the geographical area (State or Territory) covered, with Australia-wide indexes being listed first. For each area, the entries are usually grouped roughly by topic (convicts, immigration and other shipping, asylums, occupations, land, military, etc).

570. UPDATED in 2006 Supplement
571. UPDATED in 2006 Supplement
572. Strays Index (Australasia)
573. UPDATED in 2006 Supplement
574. The Unrelated Certificates Index (Series 2)
575. The Unrelated Certificates Index (Series 3)
576. Index CANCELLED
577. Index CANCELLED
578. Index CANCELLED
579. Photo Rescue (lost or unwanted photos)
580. Australian Marriage Witness Index
581. UPDATED in 2006 Supplement
582. Index CANCELLED
583. Index CANCELLED
584. UPDATED in 2006 Supplement
585. Convict Transportation Registers, 1787 - 1870
586. UPDATED in 2006 Supplement
587. Juvenile Male Migrants from Parkhurst Prison, 1842 - 1852
588. UPDATED in 2006 Supplement
589. UPDATED in 2006 Supplement
590. UPDATED in 2006 Supplement
591. Huguenot Surnames Index (Australian Family Tree Connections magazine)
592. UPDATED in 2006 Supplement
593. UPDATED in 2006 Supplement
594. UPDATED in 2006 Supplement
595. UPDATED in 2006 Supplement
596. Index CANCELLED
597. New Zealand - Australia Index, c1850 - 1899
598. UPDATED in 2006 Supplement
599. UPDATED in 2006 Supplement
600. Presbyterian Ministers in Australia, 1822 - 1900
601. UPDATED in 2006 Supplement
602. UPDATED in 2006 Supplement
603. UPDATED in 2006 Supplement
604. H.M.A.S. Sydney (officers and crew)
605. British Regiments in Australasia, 1810 - 1870
606. Australian Soldiers in the Boer War
607. UPDATED in 2006 Supplement
608. UPDATED in 2006 Supplement
609. UPDATED in 2006 Supplement
610. UPDATED in 2006 Supplement
611. Pardey Studios Photograph Collection - Armed Forces personnel & Cowra area photos
612. Australian Capital Territory - Biographical Register, 1820 - 1911
613. Australian Capital Territory - Naturalisations, and Probate Notices
614. UPDATED in 2006 Supplement
615. UPDATED in 2006 Supplement
616. Court-martialled soldiers who came as convicts, 1811 - 1841
617. Convict Pardons (Tickets-of-Leave), NSW, 1810 - 1875
618. UPDATED in 2006 Supplement
619. Female Factory, Parramatta NSW, 1826 - 1845
620. Women Convicts, 1798
621. Hyde Park Barracks (Sydney NSW) - Convict Database
622. Index CANCELLED
623. NSW Colonial Secretary's Letters Sent re Convicts
624. NSW Convict Database, 1788 - 1870
625. NSW Convict Marriage Banns, 1826 - 1841
626. UPDATED in 2006 Supplement
627. Uncollected Convict Pardons
628. Port Macquarie (NSW) - Convicts
629. Wives and Children of Convicts (NSW)
630. Royal Admiral, 1792
631. Lord Sidmouth, 1819 - Index to Surgeon's Journal
632. Index CANCELLED
633. UPDATED in 2006 Supplement
634. Female Orphan Scheme, 1848 - 1850
635. UPDATED in 2006 Supplement
636. UPDATED in 2006 Supplement
637. UPDATED in 2006 Supplement
638. Index CANCELLED
639. UPDATED in 2006 Supplement
640. UPDATED in 2006 Supplement
641. UPDATED in 2006 Supplement
642. Passengers Sydney to California, and California to Sydney ('Rags or Riches')
643. UPDATED in 2006 Supplement
644. Ulladulla (NSW) Shipping List (Intra), 1828 - 1952
645. Guilty or Not Guilty: NSW Court Records, 1841 - 1853 (includes Brisbane)
646. Index to NSW Clerk of the Peace - Quarter Sessions
647. UPDATED in 2006 Supplement
648. Index CANCELLED
649. Index CANCELLED
650. UPDATED in 2006 Supplement
651. Randwick Destitute Children's Asylum (Sydney NSW) - Deaths and Burials
652. Index CANCELLED
653. UPDATED in 2006 Supplement
654. Auctioneers (NSW), 1839 - 1900
655. NSW Government Contracts Awarded, and Names of Contractors, 1832 - 1900
656. UPDATED in 2006 Supplement
657. Lighthouse Keepers in NSW, 1818 - 1997
658. NSW Department of School Education: Teachers, 1911 - 1924
659. Index CANCELLED
660. NSW Publican Database, 1856 - 1900
661. UPDATED in 2006 Supplement
662. UPDATED in 2006 Supplement
663. NSW Ships Musters (Departures), 1816 - 1825
664. UPDATED in 2006 Supplement
665. UPDATED in 2006 Supplement
666. UPDATED in 2006 Supplement
667. Depasturing Licences and Associated Indexes (NSW), 1837 - 1851
668. UPDATED in 2006 Supplement
669. Index CANCELLED
670. Miscellaneous Index, by Pastkeys
671. NSW Colonial Secretary's In Letters, 1826 - 1842
672. NSW Local Government Petitions Database, 1858 - 1883
673. Gold Mining Company Investors (NSW), 1861 - 1879
674. NSW Inventions Database, 1855 - 1902
675. Port Jackson and Manly Steamship Company (NSW)
676. NSW Corps, 1789 - 1809
677. Australia's Fighting Sons of the Empire (NSW / QLD country towns) [see also Findmypast]
678. Northern Territory [see also additional data on Findmypast]
679. UPDATED in 2006 Supplement
680. UPDATED in 2006 Supplement
681. LANG Papers re German Mission (Nundah, Qld)
682. Queensland State Archives records, 1860 - 1869
683. Index CANCELLED
684. UPDATED in 2006 Supplement
685. Male Convicts at Moreton Bay, 1824 - 1842
686. Bangalor (convict ship)
687. Convicts of the Norfolk, 1825
688. Convicts of the Numa
689. Mount Stewart Elphinstone (convict ship)
690. Fortitude (ship)
691. UPDATED in 2006 Supplement
692. Assisted Immigrants arriving Qld, 1848 - 1899
693. Index CANCELLED
694. UPDATED in 2006 Supplement
695. Immigration direct to Maryborough (Qld), 1862 - 1900
696. UPDATED in 2006 Supplement
697. UPDATED in 2006 Supplement
698. UPDATED in 2006 Supplement
699. UPDATED in 2006 Supplement
700. UPDATED in 2006 Supplement
701. UPDATED in 2006 Supplement
702. UPDATED in 2006 Supplement
703. UPDATED in 2006 Supplement
704. UPDATED in 2006 Supplement
705. Index CANCELLED
706. UPDATED in 2006 Supplement
707. UPDATED in 2006 Supplement
708. UPDATED in 2006 Supplement
709. UPDATED in 2006 Supplement
710. Index CANCELLED
711. UPDATED in 2006 Supplement
712. UPDATED in 2006 Supplement
713. Queensland Wills, 1859 - 1900
714. UPDATED in 2006 Supplement
715. Index CANCELLED
716. UPDATED in 2006 Supplement
717. Roman Catholic Parish Registers (Queensland and Northern NSW)
718. UPDATED in 2006 Supplement
719. Queensland Defence Force - General Orders
720. Imperial Pensions (Queensland)
721. UPDATED in 2006 Supplement
722. UPDATED in 2006 Supplement
723. Index CANCELLED
724. Irish Policemen in Queensland, 1842 - 1901
725. Queensland Medical Directory, 1824 - 1940
726. UPDATED in 2006 Supplement
727. UPDATED in 2006 Supplement
728. Mount Isa Mines (Qld) Employees
729. UPDATED in 2006 Supplement
730. Index CANCELLED
731. UPDATED in 2006 Supplement
732. UPDATED in 2006 Supplement
733. Undertakers (Queensland), 1842 - 1940+
734. UPDATED in 2006 Supplement
735. UPDATED in 2006 Supplement
736. Bank Journals (Burketown and Cloncurry QLD)
737. Index CANCELLED
738. UPDATED in 2006 Supplement
739. Index CANCELLED
740. UPDATED in 2006 Supplement
741. Plates in Votes and Proceedings (Qld)
742. UPDATED in 2006 Supplement
743. UPDATED in 2006 Supplement
744. South Australians, 1839 - 1864 (Bernard Smyth Index)
745. South Australian Record Series
746. Miscellaneous Certificates Index
747. INDEX CANCELLED
748. INDEX CANCELLED
749. Index CANCELLED
750. UPDATED in 2006 Supplement
751. UPDATED in 2006 Supplement
752. Passengers arriving South Australia
753. Entry CANCELLED
754. UPDATED in 2006 Supplement
755. Infants Born in Adelaide (SA) Destitute Asylum
756. Entry CANCELLED
757. Entry CANCELLED
758. UPDATED in 2006 Supplement
759. UPDATED in 2006 Supplement
760. UPDATED in 2006 Supplement
761. Entry CANCELLED
762. South Australia - Wills Beneficiaries Index
763. UPDATED in 2006 Supplement
764. Index CANCELLED (mail is being returned to sender)
765. South Australia - Council members (Mudge Index)
766. Entry CANCELLED
767. UPDATED in 2006 Supplement
768. UPDATED in 2006 Supplement
769. Entry CANCELLED
770. Entry CANCELLED
771. Entry CANCELLED
772. UPDATED in 2006 Supplement)
773. UPDATED in 2006 Supplement
774. UPDATED in 2006 Supplement
775. Entry CANCELLED
776. Tasmanian Convicts, 1814 - 1845
777. UPDATED in 2006 Supplement
778. UPDATED in 2006 Supplement
779. Shipping Index from early Tasmanian newspapers
780. UPDATED in 2006 Supplement
781. Apprentices and Absconders, Queens Orphanage (VDL)
782. Juveniles Requiring Education, Van Diemen's Land, 1821 - 1822
783. Tasmanian Boarded Out (Fostered) Children
784. Tasmanian Industrial Schools and Reformatories
785. UPDATED in 2006 Supplement
786. Land Musters and Stock Lists in Van Diemen's Land, 1803 - 1822
787. The Sick and the Poor in Tasmania, 1870
788. UPDATED in 2006 Supplement
789. Index CANCELLED
790. Index CANCELLED
791. Passengers to Port Phillip (Vic)
792. Assisted Migrants arriving Victoria, 1839 - 1871
793. UPDATED in 2006 Supplement
794. Index CANCELLED
795. Victorian Sponsored Immigration Index, 1856 - 1858
796. Point Henry (Vic) Arrivals Register
797. UPDATED in 2006 Supplement
798. Victoria: Public Record Office Indexing Projects
799. Prisoners' Photos in Victorian Government Gazettes
800. Victoria Police Gazette
801. Victoria Police Gazettes, 1853 - 1882
802. UPDATED in 2006 Supplement
803. Victorian Prisoners Index, and Index to Supreme Court Criminal Sessions
804. UPDATED in 2006 Supplement
805. UPDATED in 2006 Supplement
806. Juvenile Criminal Records Index (Vic), 1890 - 1924
807. UPDATED in 2006 Supplement
808. Victorian Children's Register
809. Schools in Victoria
810. Private Schools in Victoria
811. Loyal Whittlesea Lodge (Vic)
812. UPDATED in 2006 Supplement
813. Mrs. A. McClelland's Midwifery Register, 1911 - 1936
814. Victorian Cemeteries (AIGS)
815. Deputy Registrars of Births/Deaths, Electoral and Mining Registrars (Vic)
816. Index CANCELLED
817. Garages, Garage Proprietors and Mechanics (Victoria)
818. Public Servants, Victoria, 1884
819. Inns, Taverns and Hotels, and their Owners and Publicans (Victoria)
820. Victorian Education Department Staff Lists
821. UPDATED in 2006 Supplement
822. UPDATED in 2006 Supplement
823. UPDATED in 2006 Supplement
824. Victorian Postal Services Indexes
825. Victorian Railways Staff, 1899
826. Victorian Deserters from Merchant Vessels / H.M. Service, 1853 - 1880
827. Index CANCELLED
828. Crown Freeholders (Victoria)
829. Crown Grantees / Early Landholders Index (Victoria)
830. UPDATED in 2006 Supplement
831. Eureka Index (Vic)
832. UPDATED in 2006 Supplement
833. UPDATED in 2006 Supplement
834. Index CANCELLED
835. Patents, Victoria, 1850s - 1914
836. Locations of Funeral Director Records, Victoria, 1840 - 1990
837. UPDATED in 2006 Supplement
838. UPDATED in 2006 Supplement
839. UPDATED in 2006 Supplement
840. UPDATED in 2006 Supplement
841. UPDATED in 2006 Supplement
842. UPDATED in 2006 Supplement
843. UPDATED in 2006 Supplement
844. UPDATED in 2006 Supplement
845. UPDATED in 2006 Supplement
846. UPDATED in 2006 Supplement
847. Index CANCELLED
848. UPDATED in 2006 Supplement
849. Index CANCELLED

OVERSEAS RECORDS

850. UPDATED in 2006 Supplement
851. German Empire placenames, 1890s - 1930s
852. UPDATED in 2006 Supplement
853. Institution of Civil Engineers, Great Britain
854. Overseas Journals Index
855. Index CANCELLED
856. Index CANCELLED
857. Waterloo Veterans
858. Index CANCELLED
859. The Making of the English Working Class
860. Index CANCELLED
861. English Womens Weekly column - CONTACT
862. Illustrated London News
863. News of the World (London, England)
864. Index CANCELLED
865. Index CANCELLED
866. England: Cambridgeshire - Dullingham Parish
867. Index CANCELLED
868. England: Cornwall - St. Just district
869. Index CANCELLED
870. Index CANCELLED
871. Index CANCELLED
872. England: Somerset - Parish Register Indexes
873. England: Suffolk - Thornham Magna and Stoke Ash parish registers
874. England: Westminster, St. James
875. UPDATED in 2006 Supplement
876. Index CANCELLED
877. Ireland: Old Age Pension Claims, 1908 - 1922
878. UPDATED in 2006 Supplement
879. Index CANCELLED
880. Index CANCELLED
881. UPDATED in 2006 Supplement
882. Scotland: Aberdeenshire - Peterhead (1851 census)
883. Scotland: Ayrshire and Shetland - 1851 Census Index
884. UPDATED in 2006 Supplement
885. UPDATED in 2006 Supplement
886. UPDATED in 2006 Supplement
887. UPDATED in 2006 Supplement
888. Index CANCELLED
889. Scotland: Glasgow Deaths, pre-1855
890. Scotland: Kinross - 1851 census (consolidated index)
891. UPDATED in 2006 Supplement
892. Scotland: Orkney - 1851 census (consolidated index)
893. Scotland: Shetland's Roll of Honour / Roll of Service
894. Scotland: West of Scotland - 1851 Census Index
895. Scotland: farms and wee villages
896. Wales: Genealogies of Mochnant, Montgomeryshire
897. New Zealand: location of Funeral Director Records, 1840 - 1990
898. UPDATED in 2006 Supplement
899. Assisted Passengers from England to Christchurch, NZ
900. Index CANCELLED
901. Index CANCELLED
902. UPDATED in 2006 Supplement
903. British New Guinea Deaths, and Papua New Guinea Land Owners
904. Papua New Guinea: News Corporation's newspapers
905. Singapore (Anglican parish registers / cemetery records)
906. South-east Asia - Colonial Cemeteries
907. Cambodian French-language newspapers: obituaries, 1946 - 1975
908. Lighthouses of the World, Coast Fog Signals, and Tides

PUBLISHED INDEXES with no searches

The book gives full bibliographic details and usually a description of the published index.

909. Annals of Bendigo Index.
910. 1821 Census of Scotland.
911. 1851 Census of Scotland.
912. Surname Register Index in AFTC Index, 1993-96, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003.
913. Family and Local History Indexes in Victoria.
914. Births, deaths and marriages printed in the Hamilton Spectator.
915. Nambour Chronicle Index, 1903-1983.
916. Index to Tasmanian Births/Baptisms 1803-1840, 2nd ed.
917. Bridging the Generations: Fourth Australasian Congress on Genealogy and Heraldry, Canberra 1986.
918. Register Personal Notices (1836-1870).
919. Parade Magazine: index to Know Your Ancestors, 1971-1980.
920. Coffs Harbour District Pioneer Register.
921. Ipswich Selectors 1869.
922. Index to Parkhurst Prison Register 1839-1864.
923. Index to Prison Commission Registers. P.Comm.2. AJCP reels 5971-5991.
924. Index to Accession 128: WA Convict Registers and Shipping Lists.
925. Index to Accession 1156 "R" series: Western Australian Convict Registers 1850-1868.
926. Index to Accession 1386: Ticket of Leave Registers, Perth District, 1851-1887.
927. Terang and District Pioneer Register Pre-1900.
928. Index to Extra Birth, Death and Marriage Certificates.
929. Dog Owners 1830 (Hobart Town).
930. The Barossa 1841-42.
931. Birth, Death and Marriage Announcements in the Sydney Mail.
932. Colac and District Pioneer Register pre-1900.
933. Index to the seven known Volumes Two of Australian Men of Mark.
934. Index to References to Illawarra Names pre-1856.
935. Local and Family Histories Consolidated Surname Index.
936. London Morning Herald 1805.
937. Mornington Church Records.
938. South Bourke and Mornington Journal Genealogical References 1877-1900.
939. The History of Bourke Surname Index, Vols. I-VI and The History of Bourke Surname Index, Vols. VII-XII.
940. Army Deserters from H.M. Service 1853-1870.
941. The Second Fleet: Britain's Grim Convict Armada of 1790.
942. UPDATED in 2006 Supplement
943. Crosse-Dunleavy Index.
944. Index to the books of K.M. Smith, undertaker, Brisbane, 1877-1960.
945. Swiss Poschiavini in Australia: Geowest No. 25 (revised ed.)
946. The Settlement of Swiss Ticino Immigrants in Australia: Geowest No. 23. 3rd edition.
947. The Founders of Australia: A Biographical Dictionary of the First Fleet.
948. Townsville and District Pioneer and Biographical Register.
949. UPDATED in 2006 Supplement
950. Lady Egidia 1862.
951. Hotels and Publicans in South Australia 1836-1984.
952. County and Parish Maps of NSW.
953. Index to the Conditional Purchase Register of NSW. Cumulative Index 1862-1865.
954. Oath of Allegiance 1858-1930 Extracts.
955. UPDATED in 2006 Supplement
956. Cemeteries in Australia: A Register of Transcripts. 3rd ed.
957. UPDATED in 2006 Supplement
958. UPDATED in 2006 Supplement
959. UPDATED in 2006 Supplement
960. Parish Register Transcripts prepared by W.H. Challen from parishes in London, Midlands and Southern Countries (sic) in 87 volumes.
961. Van Diemen's Land Early Marriages.
962. Ship's Deserters 1852-1900, including Stragglers, Strays and Absentees from H.M. Ships.
963. Scots Link Index.
964. Colonial Residents of South Australia, 1839-1848.
965. Queensland Outback Pioneer Register pre-1950.
966. Log of Logs: a catalogue of logs, journals, shipboard diaries, letters, and all forms of voyage narratives, 1788-1993, for Australia and NZ and surrounding oceans.
967. Brisbane Hotels and Publicans Index 1842-1900.
968. Ships of the Inland Rivers. Revised 3rd edition.
969. Bibliography of Australian Family History.
970. Yorke Peninsula Records, Vols.2-5: Yorke's Peninsula Advertiser and Miners' News Obituaries and Death Notices.
971. Petition Against South Australia Becoming a Penal Settlement in 1845.
972. Yorke Peninsula Records. Vol. 1: 1878 Electoral Roll.
973. Immigration to Victoria from Foreign Ports 1852-1859.
974. Public Record Office, Victoria, List of Holdings, 1985 edition, 1994 reprint (with new index).
975. Applications for Queen's Orphanage, Hobart Town 1858-1878.
976. Children in Queen's Orphanage, Hobart Town 1828-1863.
977. The Drunken Admiral and the Beulah Girls 1851.
978. Infants at Queen's Orphanage, Hobart, 1851-1863.
979. Unnamed Irish Boys on Convict Ships 1841-43 sent to Queen's Orphanage, Hobart VDL.
980. Trade Wind February 1858.
981. Anglican Clergymen in South Australia in the Nineteenth Century.
982. Index to the Australian Dictionary of Biography Vols. 1 and 2 (A-Z 1788-1850).
983. Burials of First Fleeters in Van Diemen's Land 1807-1860.
984. Cart Licences 1826-31 Northern Tasmania.
985. Female Immigrants Strathfieldsaye 1834 to Van Diemen's Land.
986. Hobart Town Police District Land Grants 1813-1824.
987. Van Diemen's Land Exhibits to the Great Exhibition at the Crystal Palace, London, 1851.
988. UPDATED in 2006 Supplement
989. UPDATED in 2006 Supplement
990. UPDATED in 2006 Supplement
991. UPDATED in 2006 Supplement
992. UPDATED in 2006 Supplement
993. UPDATED in 2006 Supplement
994. UPDATED in 2006 Supplement
995. UPDATED in 2006 Supplement
996. Gympie Times Birth, Marriage, Death and Funeral Notices.
997. A Colonial Regiment: New Sources relating to the New South Wales Corps 1789-1810.
998. Nowra General Cemetery, Church of England Section.
999. Sandridge Public Cemetery, Ulladulla.
1000. Where Did I Read That?
1001. Tracing Your Family History in Australia: A Guide to Sources (2nd ed.)
1002. Queensland Architects of the 19th Century.
1003. Nashville and Gympie Times: Birth, Marriage and Death Notices 1868-1874.

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