This is a list of free Australia Genealogy Records at FamilySearch. Also see:

• Australian Capital Territory Genealogy Records online at FamilySearch
• Christmas Island Genealogy Records online at FamilySearch
• Cocos Islands Genealogy Records online at FamilySearch
• Lord Howe Island Genealogy Records online at FamilySearch
• New South Wales Genealogy Records online at FamilySearch
  • New South Wales Cities’ and Towns’ Genealogy Records at FamilySearch
• Norfolk Island Genealogy Records online at FamilySearch
• Northern Territory Genealogy Records online at FamilySearch
• Queensland Genealogy Records online at FamilySearch
  • Queensland Cities’ and Towns’ Genealogy Records online at FamilySearch
• South Australia Genealogy Records online at FamilySearch
• Tasmania Genealogy Records online at FamilySearch
• Victoria Genealogy Records online at FamilySearch
• Western Australia Genealogy Records online at FamilySearch

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Australia Birth, Marriage, & Death Records

Australia Birth Indexes & Birth Records

• Australia Births and Baptisms, 1792-1981, index
• Australia, Tasmania, Civil Registration (District Registers), 1839-1938, index & images
• Australia, Tasmania, Civil Registration of Births, 1899-1912, index & images
• Australia, Tasmania, Civil Registration, 1803-1933, index & images
• Australia, New South Wales, Alphabetical Index to Newspaper Cuttings, 1841-1987, index & images
• Australia Miscellaneous Genealogical Records, 1776-1980, index & images
• Alphabetical index, newspaper cuttings, births, deaths, marriages & memoriums (Australia)
• Australia, New South Wales, alphabetical index to newspaper cuttings, 1841-1987
• An Australian genealogical research compilation

Australia Marriage Indexes & Marriage Records

• Australia Marriages, 1810-1980, index
• Australia, Tasmania, Civil Registration (District Registers), 1839-1938, index & images
• Australia, Tasmania, Civil Registration, 1803-1933, index & images
• Australia, New South Wales, Alphabetical Index to Newspaper Cuttings, 1841-1987, index & images
• Australia Miscellaneous Genealogical Records, 1776-1980, index & images
• Alphabetical index, newspaper cuttings, births, deaths, marriages & memoriums (Australia)
• Australia, New South Wales, alphabetical index to newspaper cuttings, 1841-1987
• An Australian genealogical research compilation

Australia Death Indexes & Death Records

• Australia Deaths and Burials, 1816-1980, index
• Australia, Victoria, Inquest Deposition Files, 1840-1925, index & images
• Australia, Tasmania, Civil Registration (District Registers), 1839-1938, index & images
• Australia, Tasmania, Civil Registration of Births, 1899-1912, index & images
• Australia, Tasmania, Civil Registration, 1803-1933, index & images
• Australia, New South Wales, Alphabetical Index to Newspaper Cuttings, 1841-1987, index & images
• Australia Miscellaneous Genealogical Records, 1776-1980, index & images
• Alphabetical index, newspaper cuttings, births, deaths, marriages & memoriums (Australia)
• Australia, New South Wales, alphabetical index to newspaper cuttings, 1841-1987
• An Australian genealogical research compilation
• British New Guinea card index of deaths, 1888-1906

Cemeteries

• Australia, New South Wales, Cemetery, Military, and Church Record Transcripts, 1816-1982, index & images
• Australia, Queensland Cemetery Records, 1802-1990, index & images
• Australia, Victoria, Tombstone Transcriptions from Various Cemeteries, 1850-1988, index links to images
• Australia, Sydney Branch Genealogical Library, Cemetery Inscriptions, 1800-1960, index & images
• Australia Cemetery Inscriptions, 1802-2005, index & images
• Cemetery transcriptions: Australia, New Guinea, Society Islands, and Devon, England, 1767-1982
• Histories in stone: epitaphs of pioneers
• Inscriptions from St. Bede’s Roman Catholic Church Cemetery at Appin, New South Wales
• John Clements’ miscellaneous collection of cemetery transcriptions for Queensland, N.S.W., Victoria, and South Australia
• Card index to Australian cemetery inscriptions, 1836-1940

Obituaries

• Alphabetical index, newspaper cuttings, births, deaths, marriages & memoriums (Australia)
• The Australasian medical directory and handbook
• Australia, New South Wales, alphabetical index to newspaper cuttings, 1841-1987
• Miscellaneous Australian newspaper clippings, 1952-1960

Wills & Probate

• Australia, Victoria, Index to Probate Registers, 1841-1989, index & images
• Australia, Victoria, Inquest Deposition Files, 1840-1925, index & images
• Australia, New South Wales, Deceased Estate Files, 1880-1923, index
• Australia, South Australia, Will and Probate Records, index links to images
• Australia, Victoria, Index to Probate Registers, 1841-1989, index & images

Australia Residence Records

Census

• Australia, New South Wales, 1828 Census, index & images
• Australia, New South Wales, Census (fragment), 1841, index & images
• Australia, New South Wales, Census, 1891, index & images
• Australia, Tasmania, Miscellaneous Records, 1829-2001, index & images
• A statistical account of the seven colonies of Australasia
• Population musters, 1811, 1814, 1819

Colonization

• Archives relating to the transportation of convicts from Ireland to Australia,
• Immigration: index to assisted immigrants arriving Port Phillip, 1839-1851
• Keeper of Newgate transportation bills and Session records
• Law office’s reports on colonial acts re Mediterranean, Africa, etc., 1855
• North Australia entry books of correspondence: letters from the Secretary of State (despatches), 1846
• Ordnance Office in-letters, New South Wales, 1838-1839

Directories

• Medical directory of Australia, 1962
• The Australasian federal directory of commerce, trades & professions
• The Australasian medical directory and handbook
• Australian almanack and general directory, for the year of our Lord 1835 : being the third after leap year; and the fifth of the reign of His Most Gracious Majesty King William the Fourth
• Australian almanack, for the year of our Lord 1831 : being the third after bissextile, or leap year, and the first of the reign of his most gracious majesty, King William IV
• Australian handbook & almanac & shipper & importers directory
• The Australian handbook (incorporating New Zealand, Fiji, and New Guinea) shippers and importers’ directory & business guide for 1893 : containing calendar of notable events
• The Australian squatting directory, 1871
• A glance at Australia in 1880
• Indian and colonial mercantile directory for 1869
• List of stockowners in the states of New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, South Australia, Northern Territory, and Tasmania

Emigration/Immigration/Migration/Passenger Lists

• Australia, Victoria Coastal Passenger Lists, 1852-1924, index & images
• Australia, Victoria, Inward Passenger Lists, 1839-1923, index links to images
• Australia, Victoria, Outward Passenger Lists, 1852-1924, index
• Australia, New South Wales, Index to Bounty Immigrants, 1828-1842, index & images
• Australia, Victoria, Assisted Immigrant Arrivals at Victorian Ports, 1839-1871, index & images
• Australia, Queensland, Immigration indexes, 1864-1940, index
• Australia, Tasmania, Correspondence of the Immigration Office Concerning the Nomination, Arrival and Settlement of Migrants, 1920-1943, index & images
• Australia, South Australia, Immigrants Ship Papers, 1849-1940, index links to images
• Australia, Tasmania, Migrant Files, 1945-1968, index & images
• Australia, Tasmania, Miscellaneous Records, 1829-2001, index & images
• Admission, discharge and other records, 1788-1890
• Alphabetical register of all inward passengers to Albany, 1873-1924
• Assisted immigrants inwards to Sydney, 1828-1890
• Australia, South Australia, Lists of outgoing passengers departing from Port Adelaide for overseas ports, 1888-1893, 1896-1940
• Australia, Victoria Coastal passenger lists, 1852-1924
• Chronological list of passenger lists for ships arriving at South Australian ports from overseas 1836-1849
• Emigration entry books of correspondence : correspondence with emigration agents and Colonial Secretaries in Australia, New Zealand and Tasmania, 1854-1860
• European migration to Australasia and the Pacific : introduction
• European migrations to Australasia and the Pacific : European castaways in the Pacific before Captain Cook
• Immigration papers, 1877-1882
• In-letters, 1800-1849
• Index of prisoners and accused persons, 1791-1850 (Sussex Quarter Session Rolls)
• Inward shipping lists, 1837-1925
• Inwards assisted immigrants lists 1845-1886
• Inwards passenger lists to South Australia 1888-1910
• Lady Juliana and Bellona 1790-1793
• List of convict ships and prisoner’s names from Ireland to Sydney, 1791-1816
• List of emigrants, 1852-1857
• List of passengers found in “Literary Society” correspondence 1836-1837
• Lists of Royal Marines, etc.
• Manifests and lists of crews and passengers of ships arriving at Port Adelaide, 1838-1842
• Minutes of the proceedings of the Emigration Commissioners, 1835-1836
• Miscellaneous correspondence and papers, 1823-1835
• Miscellaneous passenger lists (loose leaves), 16 Oct 1837-16 July 1839
• Outward passenger lists from South Australia 1888-1910
• The Pacific compass
• Passenger list inwards to the Port of Fremantle 1890-1911
• Passenger list, arrivals in Victoria from foreign ports, 1852-1923
• Poor law records of Broadwater, 1672-1846
• Poor rate book and miscellaneous parish records, 1836-1916
• Register of applications for passages to the colonies for convicts’ families, 1848-1873
• Register of assisted British immigrants to Victoria, 1839-1871
• Register of convicts on the ship Cumberland, 1830-1833
• Registers and description books of convicts on the ship Dolphin, 1819-1834
• Reports of vessels arrived, 1826-1859
• Settlement papers and miscellaneous parish records 1831-1850, Itchingfield, Sussex
• Shipping and passengers inwards to Port Phillip, 1846
• Shipping lists, 1852-1902
• Shipping records, 1816-1825
• Shipping register at Port Adelaide 1850-1918
• Ships clearance from Hobart and Launceston 1823-1845
• Tall ships on the river : Sultana voyages, 1848-1866
• Visitors book old colonists court, Adelaide jubilee exhibition 1887
• Yr Ymfudwr : yn cynnwys hanes America ac Australia
• Tall ships on the river : Prince Consort, 1864, and other voyages
• Index to inwards passenger lists, 1846-1887 published in New South Wales newspapers
• Alphabetical list of convicts arriving in Tasmania, 1804-1853
• Inward shipping lists, 1837-1925
• Outward shipping lists, 1898-1900
• Various migration records between Victoria and Tasmania, 1844-1847
• Index to ship arrivals, 1803-1854

Land & Property

• The Australian squatting directory, 1871

Maps, Almanacs, & Gazetteers

• The 1942 home atlas
• Rural and city maps
• The Australian handbook and almanac for 1871, 1875, 1880, 1885, 1890, 1895, 1900
• Gazetteer of Australia
• A geographical dictionary or gazetteer of the Australian colonies : their physical and political geography together with a brief notice of all the capitals, principal towns and villages, also of rivers, bays, gulfs, mountains, population and general statistics
• Australian almanack and general directory, for the year of our Lord 1835 : being the third after leap year; and the fifth of the reign of His Most Gracious Majesty King William the Fourth
• Australian almanack, for the year of our Lord 1831 : being the third after bissextile, or leap year, and the first of the reign of his most gracious majesty, King William IV
• The immigrant’s almanack for 1842
• Robinson’s almanac and astronomical ephemeris 1863, 1867
• Samuel Mullen’s Victorian almanac for 1885
• The Universal Victorian almanac and weather guide for 1872

Naturalization & Citizenship

• Naturalization certificates issued, 1871-1903
• Naturalization register, 1841-1903
• Registers of certificates of naturalization for South Australia, 1849- 1903
• Registers of certificates of naturalization for Victoria, 1858-1903

Orphanages

• Admission books, 1817-1832

Pensions

• Pension returns, Australia, New Zealand and the Falkland Islands

Australia Daily Life Records

Alumni, Schools, & Yearbooks

• Australia, South Australia, School Admission Registers, 1873-1985, index links to images

Bibliography

• Searching for sources

Biography

• Australasians who count in London and who counts in Western Australia
• Biographical cuttings, obituaries, births, marriages and deaths taken from South Australian newspapers
• The dictionary of Australasian biography : comprising notices of eminent colonists from the inauguration of responsible government down to the present time 1855-1892
• Family crests of Gt. Brit., Ireland, Australia, & Canada : excerpted from Genealogical Quarterly, notes and queries dealing with British and American family and clan history and biography
• Founders of Australia and their descendants
• Please don’t walk over my grave : a biographical account
• Some early Australian pioneer families : magazine cuttings
• Pan-Pacific who’s who, an international reference work : a biographical encyclopedia of men and women of substantial achievement in the Pan-Pacific area: Alaska, Australia, British Columbia, California, Canal Zone, China, Hawaii, Japan, New Zealand, Oregon, Philippines, Washington
• Australian mission : list of 19th century members
• Biography index
• Index cards to the soldiers diaries of World War I in the Mitchell Library, 1914-1919
• Index cards to the portraits in the Mitchell Library

Business Records & Commerce

• The Australasian federal pastoral directory
• Haylock’s notebooks
• List of stockowners in the states of New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, South Australia, Northern Territory, and Tasmania
• Shipping records : Melbourne, Australia to New Zealand, 1860-1862
• Ships and shipping records in Australia

Church

• Church records (Australia), 1945-1963
• Parish registers, 1885-1962
• Record of members, 1882-1953; annual genealogical report (form E), 1931-1951
• Australia, births and baptisms, 1792-1981
• Australia, deaths and burials, 1816-1980
• Australia, marriages, 1810-1980
• Australian mission : list of 19th century members
• Index to church records
• Index to marriages solemnized in South Australia, 1836 to July 1842
• Thomas Davies Mutch card indexes
• The Official year book of the Catholic church of Australia, New Zealand and Oceania 1962-1963 : containing ordo divine officii and the official acclesiastical directory for Australia, New Zealand and Oceania including an alphabetical list of the clergy of Australia and New Zealand and the fullest Catholic information …
• Extracts from the letters of James Backhouse : whilst engaged in a religious visit to Van Dieman’s land, New South Wales, and South Africa. World Christianity Union Collection
• Register of baptisms, 1868-1911; Membership rolls, 1913-1943 of Angaston Circuit (South Australia)

Court Records

• Australia, Tasmania, Miscellaneous Records, 1829-2001, index & images
• Criminal registers for Middlesex, 1791-1849
• Police gazette or Hue and cry, 1797-1810, 1828, 1830-1840
• Registers of convicts, 1815-1849

Description & Travel

• The Australian captive: or, An authentic narrative of fifteen years in the life of William Jackman …, also including, with other appendices, Australia and its gold, from the latest and best authorities
• The illustrated Australian magazine, vol. 1, 1850-1851
• The land of gold: the narrative of a journey through the West Australian goldfields in the autumn of 1895
• Silver’s guide to Australasia and itinerary to and in the colonies
• Spinifex and sand: a narrative of five years’ pioneering and exploration in Western Australia
• Advance Australia!: An account of eight years’ work, wandering, and amusement, in Queensland, New South Wales, and Victoria

Employees, Officials, & Occupations

• Papers relating to candidates from employment as surgeons on convict ships, 1830-1833
• Register of surgeon’s appointments to ships, 1851-1894
• Teachers roll, 1869-1908
• The law list of Australasia

Encyclopedias & Dictionaries

• Hutchinson’s Australasian encyclopædia : comprising a description of all places in the Australasian colonies, an account of the events which have taken place … and the biographies of distinguished early colonists

Ethnic Records

Indigenous Records

• The Aborigines of Victoria: with notes relating to the habits of the natives of other parts of Australia and Tasmania
• Among cannibals: an account of four years’ travels in Australia and of camp life with the aborigines of Queensland
• An Australian language as spoken bei the Awabakal, the people of Awaba or Lake Macquarie: (near Newcastle, New South Wales); being an account of their language, traditions, and customs
• Pedigree charts of Torres Straits Islanders
• The Aborigines of Victoria: with notes relating to the habits of the natives of other parts of Australia and Tasmania

Minorities

• Chinese coolie emigration to countries within the British empire
• Deutschstämmige in Ungarn, Australien, Neu-Guinea und Neuseeland, 1750-1943

Genealogy

• Alphabetical index to some McGregor, Lord, Holcroft and Ward families
• Australia, miscellaneous genealogical records, 1776-1980
• Australia, New South Wales, alphabetical index to newspaper cuttings, 1841-1987
• Miscellaneous Australian genealogical records
• Alphabetical index, newspaper cuttings, births, deaths, marriages & memoriums (Australia)
• Australia, miscellaneous genealogical records, 1776-1980
• Australia, New South Wales, alphabetical index to newspaper cuttings, 1841-1987
• An Australian genealogical research compilation
• Thomas Davies Mutch card indexes
• Major genealogical record sources in Australia
• Miscellaneous Australian genealogical records
• Family crests of Gt. Brit., Ireland, Australia, & Canada : excerpted from Genealogical Quarterly, notes and queries dealing with British and American family and clan history and biography
• Family group sheets, April 1958-January 1984
• A genealogical and heraldic history of the colonial gentry
• Genealogical collection of L. F. M. Van de Pas
• A genealogical history of pioneer families of Australia
• Lady Juliana and Bellona 1790-1793
• Miscellaneous Australian genealogical records
• Some early Australian pioneer families : magazine cuttings
• He must have swum!: tracing your ancestor’s arrival in Australia

Heraldry

• Family crests of Gt. Brit., Ireland, Australia, & Canada : excerpted from Genealogical Quarterly, notes and queries dealing with British and American family and clan history and biography
• A genealogical and heraldic history of the colonial gentry

History

• Australia: comprising New South Wales; Victoria or Port Philip; South Australia; and Western Australia; their history, topography, condition, resources, statistics, gold discoveries, mines of copper, lead, etc., etc.
• Our Australian colonies: their discovery, history, resources & prospects
• Miscellaneous documents relating to Broken Hill and district: 27 December 1889 to 15 Jan 1890
• Thomas Davies Mutch card indexes

History – 1788-1851

• Founders of Australia and their descendants
• Gormly’s reminiscences
• Haylock’s notebooks
• Leaves from the Calvert papers
• The part borne by the Dutch in the discovery of Australia, 1606-1765
• Settlers; being extracts from the journals and letters of early colonists in Canada, Australia, South Africa, and New Zealand
• Some early Australian pioneer families : magazine cuttings
• Colonial Secretary’s Papers, 1788-1825

Government & Legal

• Register of acts and ordinances for Australia and New Zealand, 1847-1853

Government & Politics

• Federations and unions within the British Empire

Language

• An Australian language as spoken bei the Awabakal, the people of Awaba or Lake Macquarie : (near Newcastle, New South Wales); being an account of their language, traditions, and customs
• The library of his excellency Sir George Grey, Philology

Libraries, Museums, & Archives

• Index cards to the supplementary manuscripts catalogue in the Mitchell Library

Magazines & Periodicals

• The illustrated Australian magazine, vol. 1, 1850-1851
• Index cards to periodicals in the Mitchell Library, 1944-1960

Medical

• Australia, Victoria, Inquest Deposition Files, 1840-1925, index & images
• Medical directory of Australia, 1962

Names & Surnames

• Aborigine names and meanings

Newspapers | Newspaper Announcements

• Australia, Tasmania, Government Gazette, 1833-1925, index & images
• Australia, New South Wales, Alphabetical Index to Newspaper Cuttings, 1841-1987, index & images
• Alphabetical index, newspaper cuttings, births, deaths, marriages & memoriums (Australia)
• Australia, New South Wales, alphabetical index to newspaper cuttings, 1841-1987
• Australian newspaper abstracts
• Australia, miscellaneous genealogical records, 1776-1980
• Australia, New South Wales, alphabetical index to newspaper cuttings, 1841-1987
• Miscellaneous Australian genealogical records

Prisons & Prisoners

• Australia, Queensland, Toowoomba, Prison Records Index, 1864-1906, index
• Australia, Convict Tickets of Leave, 1824-1874, index links to images
• Australia, South Australia, Prison Records, 1838-1912, index links to images
• Criminal registers for England and Wales (counties other than Middlesex), 1805-1840
• In-letters, 1800-1849
• Miscellaneous correspondence and papers, 1823-1835

Public Records

• Australia, Queensland, Maryborough Public Records, 1847-1989, index & images
• Correspondence regarding New South Wales, 1789-1810
• Minute books, 1825-1870
• Proofs of age of public servants, required for superannuation purposes, 1897-1898

Australia Military Records

• Correspondence regarding New South Wales, 1789-1810
• Embarkation and disembarkation returns, foot battalions etc., 1789-1838
• Lists of Royal Marines, etc.
• Lists of volunteers for foreign service in the 1st Infantry regiment 1899
• Monthly returns for New South Wales
• The new annual army lists
• The new Navy list…
• Nominal rolls of deceased members of the Australian Imperial Force …
• Ordnance Office in-letters, New South Wales, 1838-1839
• Outletter books, 1855-1856
• Papers relating to candidates from employment as surgeons on convict ships, 1830-1833
• Pension returns, Australia, New Zealand and the Falkland Islands
• Register of surgeon’s appointments to ships, 1851-1894
• Returns of officers’ services
• Stambøger, 1848-1924
• A thousand men at war : the story of the 2/16th battalion, A.L.F.
• Various records of the New South Wales Regiment

Military records – Army

• Muster rolls and pay lists of the New South Wales Regiment, 1799-1823
• Nominal rolls, 1914-1918
• Quarterly pay lists of the Royal Staff Corps, 1826-1829
• Various courts martial, 1796-1900

Military records – Navy

• Various records pertaining to New South Wales, 1787-1809
• Vice-Admiralty courts, Australia

Military history

• A thousand men at war : the story of the 2/16th battalion, A.L.F.
• World War I diary, Aug 1914 – Apr 1917

Military records – Pensions

• Pension payments, 1845-1880

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