AUSTRALIA   Rootsweb, any list,  but especially GENANZ30,000 mailing lists, place names, surnames etc.  Joining a list is the best thing you can do. http://lists.rootsweb.com/ NSW Births, Deaths and Marriages  http://www.bdm.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/Index/IndexingOrder.cgi/search?event=births NSW Goverment Databases http://www.records.nsw.gov.au/archives/indexes_online_3357.asp A private NSW site http://www.genealogylinks.net/australia/new-south-wales Port Stephens family History, based at Lemon Tree Passage: http://www.portstephensfamilyhistory.com.au/ SHIPPING Public Record office of Vic includes  shipping: http://www.access.prov.vic.gov.au/public/PROVguides/PROVguide023/PROVguide023.jsp Index of ships world wide 1829-1900 http://www.standard.net.au/~jwilliams/ships.htm NSW state archives includes shipping http://www.records.nsw.gov.au/archives/indexes_online_3357.asp Australian National Maritime Museum http://www.anmm.gov.au/LIB/SUBJECT.HTM Immigrant ships transcribers guild  http://istg.rootsweb.com/ DEATH NOTICES The Ryerson Index, death notices, data base is being added to.. http://www.rootsweb.com/~nswsdps/dpsindx2.htm AUSTRALIANS AT WAR Australian War Memorial – nominal rolls http://www.awm.gov.au/database/nroll.asp You can print a certificate at this site Commonwealth War graves - http://www.cwgc.org/debt_of_honour.asp?menuid=14 lists1.7million men and women around the world DVA - http://www.dva.gov.au/commem/faq/faq1.htm UK roll of Honour links - http://www.roll-of-honour.com/Links/ http://www.militaryindexes.com/worldwarone/   it starts with US but works its way to international http://www.militaryindexes.com/worldwartwo/ The AIF project  http://www.aif.adfa.edu.au:8080/index.html OTHER  COMPREHENSIVE AUSSIE SITES http://www.coraweb.com.au/ http://www.zades.com.au/genlink.html http://www.members.optushome.com.au/lenorefrost/ QUEENSLAND - on line index  http://www.justice.qld.gov.au/bdm/forms.htm#5 State Library of Queensland  http://www.slq.qld.gov.au/find/articles SOUTH AUSTRALIA  - like Victoria, you pay to look http://www.ocba.sa.gov.au/bdm/certificates/apply/applyonline/index.html Some passenger, and marriage lists http://www.familyhistorysa.info/index.html South Aus http://www.familyhistorysa.info/sthaust.html#cemeteries Tasmania A searchable data base http://www.rootsweb.com/~austas/ Colonial search list http://resources.archives.tas.gov.au/pioneers/Taslink2.asp Public record info – certs for fee - http://www.justice.tas.gov.au/bdm/ BMD   - addresses for all states http://www.coraweb.com.au/bdmau.htm BMD exchange includes Australia – it is searchable http://iigs.rootsweb.com/bdm/ WESTERN AUS records  http://www.mcb.wa.gov.au/NameSearch/search.php Naturalisation index - http://www.records.nsw.gov.au/indexes/searchform.aspx?id=30 VICTORIA Public record office. http://www.prov.vic.gov.au/ MELBOURNE CEMETERIES http://www.necropolis.com.au/mainindex.htm Melbourne General http://www.gct.net.au/ Geelong Cemetery Trust http://www.fcmp.com.au/ Fawkner Memorial Park CONVICTS Claim-A-Convict - http://www.users.bigpond.net.au/convicts/ Australian convicts.  http://www.perthdps.com/index.html from Dead Persons Society, Perth Irish convicts – searchable data base (this was Irelands gift for 1888 bicentenary)  http://www.nationalarchives.ie/search01.html Found them all in Aus and now you need to look in the UK? UNITED KINGDOM – ENGLAND, WALES, SCOTLAND. IRELAND Latter Day Saints.  International Genealogical Index (IGI); British Vital Records; Pedigrees; Census etc, Personal Ancestral File  - go to familysearch.org http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/frameset_search.asp?PAGE=igi/search_IGI.asp&clear_form=true England and Wales 1881 census is on the LDS site. YES, everyone is on it, although they may be badly spelled. (My Jonas WISE is listed as Thomas WISE, bad transcription) FreeCen http://freecen.rootsweb.com/ (UK) census1841-1891, work in progress FreeBMD http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/cgi/search.pl  (UK) in progress Ancestry.com   http://www.ancestry.com/search/ (don’t pay) Scottish records on line Scotlandspeople http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/index.php - you pay for credits Scottish wills etc Ancestry.com via the library – all UK census from 1841 to 1901 plus some bmd etc http://ancestrylibrary.proquest.com/aleweb/ale/do/login CYNDISLIST -120,000 genealogy sites world wide indexed         http://www.cyndislist.com/ GENUKI – genealogy of UK and Ireland            http://www.genuki.org.uk/mindex.html Genforum, search/leave messages  http://genforum.genealogy.com/surnames/ UK 1901 census      http://www.1901census.nationalarchives.gov.uk/  - you pay UK 1901 census decoder   http://www.censusdecoder.com/ - you don’t pay UK PRO         http://www.pro.gov.uk/online/default.htm Multimap – Gazeteers http://www.multimap.com/  find a street - anywhere GOOGLE MAPS AND GOOGLE EARTH ARE GOOD PLACE FINDERS. IRELAND http://www.nationalarchives.ie/genealogy.html Irish bmd now on line  http://brsgenealogy.com/index.php?&set=yes   NEW SCOTLAND – bmd, census and wills http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/?gclid=CL2WsfDMkIUCFRlWNAod4AciEQ Surname navigator  http://www.kuijsten.de/navigator/  put a name into this search engine and you get a whole range of genealogy responses in layers. Just work your way through it page by page. If you cant get through using windows, use Mozilla Firefox  - free download http://www.firefox.com/  HUNTER VALLEY AND LOCAL Post office directory 1872 searchable http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~hcastle/grevilles/grevilles.html Hunter Valley Family History group  http://www.huntervalleygenealogy.com/ FHS in Hunter – all of them  http://www.huntervalleygenealogy.com/fhs&lib.htm AwAba searchable data base http://www.newcastle.edu.au/group/amrhd/awaba/index.html Newcastle Public Library http://www.ncc.nsw.gov.au/services/culture/library/publications/index.cfm Nelson Bay – Tomaree Family History Group http://www.tomareefamilyhistory.com/ PORT STEPHENS FAMILY HISTORY   http://www.portstephensfamilyhistory.com.au/