This is a selection of some of the sites that I have found to be very useful in my research. The Other sites with excellent links contain a far more extensive list of links - many thousands of them in fact.

General

LDS FamilySearch Web Site National Archives of Australia Australian National Maritime Museum Cyndi's List - Australia & New Zealand On-line Australasian Names Research Directory Southern Cross Genealogy RootsWeb Surname Lists RootsWeb Mailing Lists GENANZ Mailing List Australian Family History Compendium Australian Family Tree Connections Australian War Memorial database Commonwealth War Graves Commission Australians in the Boer War Australians in the second Anglo-Boer Australian Registrars of BDMs

NSW

NSW Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages State Records of NSW State Library of NSW - Family History Service Hunter Valley Genealogy Resource Page Sydney Dead Persons Society Australian Obituaries (mainly NSW)

Convicts

Convicts to Australia Claim-A-Convict Gold Coast Genealogy - Excellent links

British Isles

GENUKI Home Page UK Public Record Office GENUKI Scotland Scots Origins - Scottish GRO Cyndi's List - Scotland GENUKI Ireland Cyndi's List - Ireland & Northern Ireland USA and Canada Phone Directories PhoneNet UK

New Zealand

NZ Society of Genealogists NZ BDM Registry NZ Phone Directory

Family History Societies

Society of Australian Genealogists Botany Bay Family History Society Cape Banks Family History Society Hurstville Family History Society List of Australian Family History Societies

Transcription Agents

Marbract Transcription Services Joy Murrin Family History Services Turtle Consolidated Services

Other sites with excellent links

Cyndi's List Cora Num Larry Benson Greg's Aussie Genealogy Pages Abbreviations used in Genealogy Software and Family History Programs

Gazetteers

Australian Place Name Search Australian Geographic Place Names UK street map directory UK maps Scotland gazetteer Global Gazetteer with Google Search

Medical

Archaic Medical terms for Genealogists Glossary of Old Medical Terms Modern names of old illnesses

Search Engines

Google Ask Jeeves Yahoo International Surname Navigator Universal Name Search

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