Research Help

Australian Army War Diaries

http://www.awm.gov.au/database/diaries/index.asp

Once you have found which battalion they belonged to don't forget to look and see if that battalion has there diary listed, a wealth of information may be found in these about where they served and what they endured.

Australian Wills and how to obtain them

http://www.jaunay.com/wills.html
Proformat has a great page on how to obtain Australian wills

State Records of NSW

http://www.records.nsw.gov.au/archives/indexes_online_3357.asp

Has an ever growing online database to search with a wealth of information to be found, such as
Census Records
Colonial Secretary
Main Series of Letters Received, 1826-1982
Letters Relating to Land
Colonial Secretary Papers, 1788-1825
Convicts
Certificates of Freedom, 1823-69
Convict Bank Accounts, 1837-70
Convict Exiles, 1846-50
Pardons, 1791-1825, 1837-47
Tickets of Exemption from Government Labor, 1827-32
Tickets of Leave, Certificates of Emancipation and Pardons, 1810-19
Tickets of Leave

QLD State Archives - Indexes

Qld State Archives has limited indexes online
http://www.archives.qld.gov.au/research/indexes.asp

Some of the indexes available

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NSW Genweb

A fantastic site for researching in NSW - NSW Genweb
http://ausnsw.bluefido.net/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl

Passenger Lists for Australia

A great service is: http://mariners.records.nsw.gov.au

and the best way to use thisservice is to use google type in
site:mariners.records.nsw.gov.au name here
of whom you are searching, quick and easy and saves you trolling through pages and pages of possibles

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