UPDATE – RootsWeb sites (owned by Ancestry.com) are currently unavailable while they resolve some security issues. If and when the sites are restored, we’ll make the links live, until then, we’ve included the links in parentheses.

RootsWeb (http://userdb.rootsweb.ancestry.com/intl/) has free Australia Genealogy Records online from user-submitted transcriptions, indexes, and record compilations.

RootsWeb is now hosted by Ancestry.com and some databases have been made searchable, and still free, including these Australian genealogy records:

• Australia: Book Index: Notorious Strumpets and Dangerous Girls: Convict Women in Van Diemen’s Land, 1803-1829 by Phillip Tardif

• Australia: Death Notices from Australian Newspapers

• Australia: Grafton 1880 Electoral Roll, New South Wales

• Australia: Grandma! Where did I come from? Book 2 – Carden to Australia

• Australia: Index to “Letters of the 20th Century”

• Australia: McDonald Family

• Australia: Ryerson Index #1  (death and funeral notices in Australian newspapers 1803-present)

• Australia: Ryerson Index #3

• Australia: Ryerson Index #4

• Australia: Ryerson Index #5

• Australia: Ryerson Index #6

• Australia: Ryerson Index #7

• Australia: Ryerson Index #8

• Australia: Ryerson Index #9

• Australia: Ryerson Index #10

• Australia: Ryerson Index #11

• Australia: Ryerson Index #12

• Australia: Ryerson Index #13

• Australia: Ryerson Index #14

• Australia: Ryerson Index #15

• Australia: Ryerson Index #16

• Australia: Ryerson Index – additional entries 27-28 Nov 2002

• Australia: Ryerson Index – additions since August 2002

• Australia: Ryerson Index Additions Nov 29th – Jan 16th

• Australia: Ryerson Index Additions Nov 29th – Jan 16th

• Australia: The Queenslander and other papers; 1880-early 1900

• Australia: KENDALL Surname Vital Records

• Australia: New South Wales: Grevilles Post Office Directory, 1872, New South Wales

• Australia: New South Wales: Finley Cemetery

• Australia: NSW: Blue Mountains Gazette Births, Deaths and Marriages Announcements

• Australia: NSW: Greville’s Post Office Directory – 1872

• Australia: NSW: Greville’s Post Office Directory of NSW, Australia – 1872

• Australia: NSW: Greville’s Post Office Directory of NSW, Australia – 1872

• Australia: Penrith Dispensary Registers   –   Australia and New Zealand Data

• Australia: Queensland: Obituary & Death Index from unknown Newspapers, Queensland, Australia

• Australia: Ravenswood/Queensland: Ravenswood (FN Queensland) Cemetery Records up to 1923 only

• Australia: VIC: ALGER Surname Deaths in VIC, AUS to 1888

• Australia: Victoria: Bailiff’s Appointments – Victoria, Australia – 1860-1870

• Australia: Victoria: PMG Tech-in-Training Exam 1964

• Australia: Western Australia: Australind Pioneer Cemetery (aka Mt. Claremont Cemetery)

• NSW: Sydney: Rouse Hill Cemetery Inscriptions

• QLD: Crows Nest Shire Cemeteries, SE-QLD, Australia

• Victoria: Creswick and Clunes Advertiser Newspaper Index, 1859-1865

• Victoria: Index to Local History Books – Australia and New Zealand Data

• Victoria: Trentham Cemetery – Australia and New Zealand Data

• Victoria, Australia – Index to Local Histories – Book Indexes

• New South Wales

• Australia: Clarence River Co: New South Wales: Clarence River electoral Roll 1880, New South Wales, Australia

• Auckland: Early Auckland Births – Australia and New Zealand

Searches require a Surname (using at least 3 letters) and then any combination of parameters including First Name, Country, Record Type, or Year.