Index:		Scotland  2006 By Bronwen
1. Search Engines   2. Breakfast Time   3. Haveagoodweekend & Travel   4. Converters   5. Genealogy Sites   6. Wars   7. Surname Interest    8. Township Interest Aust + O/S	9. Relatives Home Pages    10. Software Downloads 11. Shopping NSW + Aust 12. Interests & Useful Sites 13. Family Tree Layout
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Quick Australia Check: Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet - Australia ~ Colonial Secretary 's Papers 1788-1825 ~ Mariners and Ships in Australian Waters ~ National Archives of Australia ~ Naturalization Index 1834-1903 ~ Newsgroup Google Australia & NZ ~ NSW Registry of Births Deaths & Marriages ~ State Library of NSW ~ State Records of NSW ~ The Ryerson Index - Newspaper Notices

Quick Overseas Check: Genuki UK & Ireland ~ World Connect.RootsWeb ~ Worldwide Genealogy Resources

*** Please take in account that some sites on the Internet for viewing are Genealogists own research taken from various sources, the sources may not be accurate. 

Information on Birth, Baptism, Marriage & Death Certificate may also be incorrect, the informant may have 'miss information' along with Bibles & Grave Inscriptions. ***

It would be wise also to mark all your research information with a Reference, if in doubt in the future, you can return to your original source.

HAPPY FAMILY RESEARCHING  - time consuming - but fun.

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73rd Regiment of Foot NSW AUSTRALIA - About the 1st Battalion History, Uniforms & Equipment, Arms, Aims & Objectives, Gallery, Nominal Roll 1809-1815 etc.

1901 English Census - The Census of England and Wales Online.

Ancestory.Com - USA Site Careful, part of this site is accessible with a charge only. Australian Site ~ WorldWide Site

Antique Print Room - Rare Prints, Photographs, Paintings Australia.

ANZAC Day - (25 April) commemorates the slain of the Australia New Zealand Army Corps who died in World War I at Gallipoli, in Flanders and elsewhere around the world. It is observed in Australia, New Zealand, the Cook Islands, Tonga and Western Samoa. There are plenty of great links here also. 

Archive CD Books - The Archive CD Books Project exists to make reproductions of old books, documents and maps available on CD to genealogists and historians, and to co-operate with libraries, museums and record offices in providing money to renovate old books in their collection. 

Assorted Miscellaneous Sites: Yahoo Australian History Assorted in Alphabetical Order

Atlas des Deutschen Reichs - German Atlas - The atlas of the German Empire - useful for German Genealogy interests. 

Atlapedia - Atlapedia Online contains full colour physical and political maps as well as key facts and statistics on countries of the world. Great for school projects as well. 

Atomic Participants Nominal Roll - This site does not appear to work at present - kept for reference :: Pullumn Koka is here ~ Others This nominal roll contains the names of 16,716 members of the Australian Defence Forces (ADF), and Australian civilians who participated in the British Atomic Tests program conducted in Australia from 1952 to 1963.

Archaic Medical Terms - Find out what is meant on those death certificates. eg: "Camp Fever" - same as Typhus. ~ Dr Paul Smith's Site

Australia - Everything great for school projects.

Australian Cemeteries - Some online information, some help offered, some links to historical societies which can help also. -- Great site.

Australia Day 26th January - The celebration of Australia Day on the 26 January each year has become the single largest event in the nation.

Australian Dictionary of Biography Online Edition [Melbourne University Publishing] Australia's pre-eminent dictionary of national biography. Here are over 10,000 scholarly biographies of persons who were significant in Australian history.

Australian Genealogy Links - Not a bad site, some all over Australia cemetery links here and bits and pieces.

Australian Genealogy Websites & Links to sources within Australia - There are links and more links here. Information also before heading off to the Library - take down some notes to save some Library research times. What a "brilliant" site. 

Australian General Genealogy Links - A great site by Jenny Fawcett, plenty a great links to look through here. This lady is always updating this site so keep going back to this one. :-:- This link is not working at last look, I have left the link in as the site was worth viewing.

Australian History Links - This requires no comment, the title states it all. 

Australian Mailing Lists @ RootsWeb.com This has many interesting genealogy bits and pieces taken from the Australia & NZ Newsgroups. 

Australian & New Zealand Passenger Lists - A great site. The site has changed a bit, but with so much effort put into this site I just hope it continues, there are a few dead end areas on this site, but keep looking there is plenty of information to be found here. Help this site out and contribute to the information. Unfortunately I only know of five ships for my relatives, and this information is already here, I am still looking for "Edward Meaney Chapman" and "Christian Frisch" their arrival ship and date to Australia. ~ See also Passenger List.

Australian Place Names -  Where some of the Suburb and Town names came from in NSW and a few others of interest are shown here as well - These are the names of the places Lachlan and Elizabeth Macquarie mentioned  in their journals in the period 1809 - 1822 is overwhelming, especially in the light of Lachlan Macquarie's propensity to create and register new names in all the places that he visited during his tours of inspection. It should also be noted that it was Macquarie who first proposed (based on his reading of Matthew Flinders' charts) that the name 'Australia' should be officially applied to the continent that he governed.

Australians At War ~ Australians at War ~ Australia at War ~ Australia at War Timeline - The title states it all. 

Aust Family Tree Connection Magazine - Some useful information and links here.

Australian Genealogy Resources, Records & Guides available on the Internet - What a site, many useful links here.

Australia & NZ Family History Research Help - At this site - Archives & Records Offices - BD&M "All" - Cemetery Records - Church Records - Databases TAS AUS, QLD AUS, NZ - Directories - Immigration, Emigration & Passenger Lists "All" -  Libraries & Museums - Mailing Lists, Message Board & Surname List - Maps - Military - Research Aides - Societies - Surnames - Miscellaneous - AUS/NZ Genweb.

Australian & NZ Genealogy - Brandis - Jenny Brandis, this site has not been updated for some time, still a great site for information also has it's own "Search Engine". 

 Australian Periodical Publications 1840-1845 -  The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River general advertiser [computer file]. Life dates: Vol. 1, no. 1 (Saturday, Jan. 7, 1843)- Ceased v. 50, no. 7128 (Saturday, Dec. 30, 1893) (Volumes / issues available) Published: Maitland, N.S.W. : Thomas William Tucker and Richard Johns, 1843-1893) This is of interest to me as my relatives came from this area of NSW AUS.

Australian Periodical Publications 1840-1845 - The home page - Welcome to Australian Periodical Publications 1840-1845 - a digital library of Australian journals that began publication between 1840-1845. The site has been developed as part of the Australian Cooperative Digitisation Project and one of the Project's key aims was to ensure access to and preservation of the selected titles through a process of preservation microfilming and digitisation. The digitised titles have been made available on the Web as multipage PDF files. To view the PDF files you will need to obtain an Adobe Acrobat viewer. You can download this free from the Adobe Acrobat site. - A wealth of information can be found here, select the "Browse" first just to give you an idea what is available.

Australian Town Index - Tourist Home Pages - Some have the History of the Town given.

Australian War Memorial - Canberra ACT AUS - One of the world's great museums. During the First World War, Australian troops were officially encouraged to collect relics of the battles in which they had fought. That tradition of acquisition and preservation continues today, enhancing the written record of war, and has produced one of the finest military artifact, document and media collections in the world. This web site makes some of those collections accessible on-line to everyone for the first time. 

Australian War Records - A searchable database for copies of war records. Also other interesting information can be found here.

*/* BAN: Flora BAN born 02-09-1920 Split Yugoslavia met her husband on board "Scagum" arriving in Australia 29-11-1949, she married Pullumb Anthonio KOKA at St Anthony's Chapel Greta Maitland NSW AUS on 10-12-1949, they had one child Robert Henry KOKA. See Koka for further information.

Bass & Flinders ~ Bass & Flinders ~ Bass ~ Matthew Flinders :- BASS & WILSON'S PROMONTORY - Wilson's Promontory, first seen by George Bass in January 1798 ~ Family records in the William WILSON / George GRAHAM family stated that William WILSON was with Bass in the  In 1797, in an open whaleboat  and was one of the crew of six, Bass sailed to Cape Howe, the farthest point of south-eastern Australia. From here he went westwards along what is now the coast of the Gippsland region of Victoria, to Westernport Bay, almost as far as the site of present-day Melbourne. The family records state that Wilson's Promontory was named after William WILSON who had a daughter Mary WILSON who married George GRAHAM son of John and Elizabeth GRAHAM. George & Mary GRAHAM resided in Liverpool NSW AUS. 

Belltrees Gundy Road Scone NSW AUS - Bell Trees A hundred years ago it was said that you could travel from Queensland to just north of Sydney and spend every night on a White family property. ‘Bell Trees’, a sheep station in Scone, NSW, was one of those family residences. Up until 1920, 100 people worked in the shearing shed where 180,000 sheep were shorn. 3,000 bales of wool were exported to England. The sheep enterprise eased in 1960 and was replaced by the Angus Beef cattle breading venture. The first generation of White's (James White 1829) came out from England to develop the Merino sheep industry in Australia. They purchased Belltrees station in 1853 and set up a huge pastoral dynasty. Today around 5,000 head of cattle are grazed with major live export sales to Japan. I have a soft spot for this place as my "Harrison - Willis" ancestors worked and lived here.

Bialaczow - Broel Plater Palace - A fellow relative's site - my mother's name "Beryl Helene nee de PLATER WIEBE" - probably only interesting for fellow "de Plater" relatives. -- This site has lost it's links to the other pages, our cousin Mervyn B de Plater died in QLD Australia in April 2005, his fantastic work and endless hours of family research will be missed by all his relatives worldwide.

Birth, Deaths & Marriages - NSW Registry of - Search for Births between 1788-1905, Deaths between 1788-1945 &  Marriages between 1788-1945. This will save Certificate costs, further information throughout the site. See also "Search Tips" for a better result for those tricky surnames etc. ~ Early Church Reference Codes ~ Cost of Certificates ~ and NSW Australian "The Ryerson  Index Newspaper Death Notices" plus some other States - this site is run by the DP Society of NSW.

BD&M TAS AUS - Colonial Australian Family Links - Tasmania search for BD&M's.

BD&M The St. Catherine's Marriage Index - 1843-1861 South East England Search.

BMD Britain - Free BMD This is a "Free" BM&D lookup - Welcome to FreeBMD. FreeBMD stands for Free Births, Marriages, and Deaths. The FreeBMD Project's objective is to provide free Internet access to the  Civil Registration index information for England and Wales. The Civil Registration system for recording births, marriages, and deaths in England and Wales has been in place since 1837 and is one of the most significant single resources for genealogical research back to Victorian times. The FreeBMD project only contains index information for the period 1837-1983.

Book Look Up or CD-ROM Look Up - This is a list of Books / CD-ROMs  with their owners who can be contacted through email, the owners will look up any information in regards to these resources.

Books  New, Used and Rare - A Big List of Book Stores ~ AbeBooks ~ Alen & Unwin ~ Angus & Robertson ~ Antique Bookshop & Curios ~ BibliOz ~ BookFound ~ Bookworm ~ Books&Collectibles ~ Bookmark Australia ~ Booktopia ~ Borders ~ BSP Gallery Fine and Rare Books ~ Collins Book Store ~ Cornstalk Bookshop ~ Co Op Bookshop ~ Dymocks Books ~ Gould Books ~ Hince Old Fine Books Australia ~ Independent A/NZ Books ~ Mr Pickwicks Fine Old Books ~ Old Fine & Rare Books ~ Online Booksellers ~ Oz Book Sellers ~ Readers Digest ~ Time Booksellers ~ Used & Antiquarian

Bowerbird's Nest - "A collection of the historical, phantasmagorical, and allegorical links that didn't quite fit into the framework for my Favourite Genie Links, but I couldn't throw them out! "

Campbelltown District Family Historical Society NSW AUS - Newsletters online, publications on the district to purchase & some excellent links to go to ~ Campbelltown History

Cemeteries in General - National Library of Australia Information Site. Select "Parish Registers-Cemetery Transcripts-Monumental Inscriptions: by Placename". This site gives Family History Sources on Open Access [Microfiche & Microfilm] in the Newspaper/Microform Reading Room Arranged by SUBJECT within a State or Country: NEW SOUTH WALES, General  Births/Baptisms–Marriages/Divorces–Deaths/Burials Parish Registers-Cemetery Transcripts-Monumental Inscriptions: by Placename, Census, Convicts, Directories-Almanacs, Directories-Telephones, Electoral Rolls, Government Records, Immigration,  Inquests/Probate, Land Records, Naturalization, Newspapers, Orphans & Other. Print this information off before going to the Library - will make your research easier. N.B.: Some of this information is available at other sites "Online", the 1828 Census can now be bought on a CD. ~ AUST Assorted Sites ~ Altona Memorial Park VIC ~ Australian Historic Cemeteries ~ Campbell's Hill Cemetery West Maitland NSW [map only] ~ Canterbury NSW AUS ~ Centennial Park SA AUS ~ Eastern Suburbs Cemetery NSW AUS ~ Maitland District NSW AUS ~ Newcastle NSW AUS ~ Old Burial Grounds Sydney NSW AUS ~ QLD AUS Australia ~ South West Victoria ~ Western Australia ~ Worldwide + Australia

Census Online - 1841 Census AUS ~ 1901 English Census

*/* CHAPMAN: My grandmother Ruby Graham [nee CHAPMAN] de PLATER 1883-1799 - Please email me if you have information on this family -- we can swap & share. Ruby's father Edward Meany CHAPMAN 1840-1824 was born in Dublin City Dublin Ireland, he married 1874 Christiana Matilda GRAHAM Campbelltown NSW AUS - Issue: Constance, Millie, William, Laura, (Michael) Graham, Ruby, Archibald, Harold all with the middle name of "GRAHAM" including the females CHAPMAN.

Chapman Code - A collection of Canadian and United States postal codes, Chapman codes, three letter ISO codes for nations, Norwegian standard county codes, Swiss canton postal abbreviations, plus many abbreviations we invented for historic German and Austrian states and other areas. The codes are also used in all genealogy documents worldwide.

Cindy's List - See Cyndi's List of Genealogy

Claim a Convict - I can claim connection to Michael BYRNE, William FOWLER, Alexander MACDONALD - and related to Sarah BENTLEY, John WARBY, John GRAHAM, Samuel HARRISON, Eliza DEWSNAP &  others. 

Convict Information - See the site below - See also "First Fleet".

Colonial Secretary Index, 1788-1825 AUSTRALIA - The NSW Colonial Secretary Index - before the internet, many of us painstakingly sat down and copied information relating to our families from the Fiche held in Libraries, now here it is, on the Internet to just "Copy and Paste". Follow the "State Archives- Search our online indexes".

Convicts to Australia - Gangs, Censuses & Musters, Serendipity, Links, Bibliography, Glossary, Claytons Convicts, Quiz and Project.  + All the Convict Ships, WA Convicts, WA Pensioner Guards, NSW Convict Women and Convict Tales, Timeline, and with its own Search Engine. 

Convicts to Australia Plus Irish Listing - 1st Fleet ~ 2nd Fleet ~ 3rd Fleet - [Catherine Mooney (William Wilson's 2nd Wife)] ~ Convict Ships ~ Convict Women NSW ~ Fellowship of the 1st Fleeter's ~ Various Shipping Sites

Convict Ships - NSW 1788-1800, NSW 1801-1849, Norfolk Island, Tasmania, Queensland, Victoria, Western Australia. - Also First, Second and Third Fleet. 

Convicts Tasmania AUS - Convict Number, Name and Ship - Please remember this is a guide ONLY and original records should always be referred to. Some pages take a long time to load depending on the amount of names on the page, so please be patient.; database has 11,253 convicts.

*/* Cowling: My uncle Bruce Cowling, his father Albert Edward COWLING & wife Olive M BEADMAN, his father James C COWLING & Annie Agnes ROUGHAN.

Cyndi's List - The very best Genealogical site on the Whole Wide Webb. AUS & NZ  Information Site - If you are just starting your Family History Research for the first time - start here at this site. If you can not find your information source here - then start looking at all these other sites. Good Luck.

Death Notices SMH - NSW Australian "The Ryerson  Index Newspaper Death Notices" plus some other States - this site is run by the DP Society of NSW.

Dead Persons Society - Perth WA AUS - Boer War. 

Dead Persons Society - Perth WA AUS - Home Page showing Convicts, Military, Names, Shipping, Cemetery, Humour, Pioneers and some links to others. 

*/* de PLATER: My mother Beryl Helene [nee de Plater] Wiebe's maiden name - Please email me if you have information on this family -- we can swap & share.

Emigration / Ship Lists and Resources - Mainly immigrants to U.S.A., but there are a couple of links with AUS & NZ information.

England's Telephone Directories on the Web - Infobel, 192.com, PhoneNetUK, Ask Alex, YellCom, Scoot, Scoot People Finder, Electronic Yellow Pages, The Freephone Directory, GT Online Telepages Directory Enquires, UKPhoneBook, Colour Pages, UK White Pages.

Family History Library LDS - Search for Ancestors, Share Information, Ancestral File, International Genealogical Index [I.G.I.], Pedigree Resource File, Vital Records Index. - Once of the better site available on the internet with it's own site search engine.

Family Records Gov UK - Civil registration of life events was introduced in England and Wales in 1837. Indexes to the certificates are held by the Family Records Centre. It is also worth trying the Free BDM website which is a searchable database of the Birth, Death and Marriage indexes - this is a volunteer-run project and the database is not yet complete.  The National Library of Wales also has copies of the ONS indexes for Wales and England. 

FEEFHS Map Room - The FREEHS East European Map Room has a 51 map collection from the Comprehensive Atlas and Geography of the World (published by Blackie & Sons in 1882 Edinburgh Scotland) it covers almost all of central & eastern Europe, including all of the German Empire & the Russian empire. This includes European Russia (east to the Urals) and trans-Ural Asian Russia (Siberia & the Pacific). 

Find-A-Grave By City: London England - This site even tells you where Queen Alexandra's pets were buried being at Marlborough House, London, England. George Harrison [Beatle] has his cremation recorded here also along with many other interesting people.

First Fleet - Objectives, Learning, Sources, Stories, Investigating, Database, Links, Discussion. 

Flinders, Matthew - The Investigator, Matthew Flinders and early Explorer circumnavigated Australia around 1802. This site has the history, games, ships, maps etc.

Frisch/Frish/Freisch: My true maiden name - Please email me if you have information on this family -- we can swap & share. Christian Johann Freisch 1830-1863(?) See end of this Homepage. 

Genealogy Computer Programs - The biggest list of genealogy programs I have ever seen - now all I have to do is decide which one to try. I use the "Family Origin" program at present with "Gedcom", I can import to other programs with this same feature.

Genealogy Germany - Tips for researchers.

The Genealogy Home Page - This is an American site with some interesting links ~ Our Lost Family in America This is another American site with some great links not only in America but worldwide. Some of the links are not working, do not let this stop you from looking further.

Genealogy Today - a page with some useful links, stories etc.

Genie & History Links - Many links for Australian Genealogy here.

GENUKI - England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, the Channel Islands, and the Isle of Man Genealogy - This site is a must to visit for all of the above mentioned areas - Look at this site first before heading off into others.

German Genealogy - Newsgroups and Search Engines.

German and Polish TownFinder DataBase - 56914 locations with over 20,000 name changes once, and 5,500 trice. All locations are EAST of the Order and Neisse rivers and are based on borders of the eastern provinces in Spring 1918. City and Province entries along with closest city searches. 

Google - This has to be the very best ever search engine with not only subject search, but searches also can be made looking for Images: Groups: Directory: News: Answers: Blogger.com :Zeitgeist. Have a go!!!!!

Gould Books - Books, Stationery, Maps, Video, Microfiche, Computer Software. You can buy the 1828 Census here. 

*/*Graham - My great grandfather's surname James Graham 1808-1852, his father John Graham 1774-1809 Convict "Ganges" 1797- Please email me if you have information on this family -- we can swap & share.

*/*Graham Family Campbelltown - James GRAHAM married Mary Ann WARBY, They owned a Hotel / Tavern in Campbelltown called the Wheelwright Arms

Greg's Aussie Genealogy Pages - This is a one I have just come across, has some great sites.

Grevilles Post Office Directory for 1872 AUS - One person painstakingly typed up this Directory, what a fantastic effort. Thanks. 

*/* Harrison: My father's mother Adeline Olive Pearl Harrison Wiebe's  1893-1965 maiden name - Please email me if you have information on this family -- we can swap & share. Adeline's Father Samuel Harrison 1869-1947.

*/* Henning: My uncle Horace Henning, his father George Albert Henning, his father John Peter Henning. John Peter Henning & his wife Ann(a) May Legge arrived in Australia in 1853. 

Historic House Trust of NSW AUS - All the up to date information you need for visiting historic houses and places in NSW. 

Historical Text Archives Australia - The HTA publishes high quality articles, books, essays, documents, historical photos, and links, screened for content, for a broad range of historical subjects. Founded in 1990 in Mississippi as an anonymous FTP site, when the World Wide Web became readily available in the US, it became a Web site as well.

History of Places in Australia - This is a wonderful site.

Hunter River [NSW AUS] Project - The Virtual Coquun - Hunter River Project is a collaborative endeavour begun in December 2000 which aims to create a digital repository of early accounts and descriptions of the Hunter Region.

Hunter Valley [NSW AUS] Genealogy - Great site with so many sites and information.

Image Gallery - A British site Renaissance Studies, clothing, houses, map, people. - These are the headings: urban life, rural pleasure & labour, the new state & nation, the new family, the new church, the new subject.

Images - Tasmania AUS, State Library of

Immigrant Index 1844-59 - State Records NSW AUS, look for the "Search our On-line indexes".

Irish Convicts - This database contains details of Irish convicts who were transported to New South Wales in the period 1791 - 1825. The database contains: Irish State prisoners, convicts who were tried in Ireland, and convict who were tried outside Ireland whose native place was in Ireland. While every effort was made to correctly transcribe the Shipping Indents, not all Indents showed the native place of their respective convicts.

Irish Genealogy Resources - Databases, General Information, Passenger Lists - AUS & Worldwide, Family Associations, National Resources, Local Resources, History & Archeology, Misc sites.

Internet History Resources - NSW AUS Family History Document Service -  A very cheeky site asking for money to access their site, have not tried it myself - heck it may even be worth the annual membership fee. 

John Snow's References and Sites - Maps, History of London, Diseases, Images, a bit of everything that is very interesting.  

*/* KOKA: Pullumb Anthonio KOKA born 26-01-1924 Tirana ALBANIA met his wife onboard the "Scagum" which arrived in Australia on 29-11-1949. Pullumb married Flora BAN at St Anthony's Chapel Greta Maitland NSW AUS on 10-12-1949. They had one child Robert Henry KOKA who married Bronwen Kerry WIEBE 05-07-1974 Rockdale Methodist Church Bay Street Rockdale NSW AUS, they have two children Alex Clayton KOKA & Amelia Ruby KOKA both born Sutherland Hospital Caringbah NSW AUS ~ Pullumb was the son of Sami KOKA & Asie FRASHERI. ~ Albania at war 1939 - 1944 ~ Albania WWW-VL: HISTORY: ALBANIA

Kythera - An 'interactive heritage museum" from the Greek island of Kythera. The site documents the stories of those living there and invites emigrants to contribute. One site to keep returning to, so much to look at and read.

Library - Mitchell Library at the State Library of NSW AUS, Macquarie Street Sydney NSW 2000.

Lorraine's Top Family History Internet Sites - This was a great site, but the link at present is not working it may come good, check and see. 

Map of London Motco - The database currently contains the following maps. The first four are major maps in the history of London, each associated with an original survey. We have created place name indexes.

Map of London Motco - Fairburn Map of London, Westminster and the New Docks 1802 - Section of the map containing the location of King Street (Wilson Street) (Top Right Corner) off Brick Lane North. - J.L. Desormeaux lived Great Pearl Street Spitalfields London - occupation silk dyer. John Graham stole a wooden cart, linen bags and thrown silk from a James Lewis Desormeause. Pearl St, located off Wheeler Street. 

Map of London in 1859 - This map is like an aerial view - can be zoomed in. The "Graham" family were from King St London EC cross road Cheapside & Gresham (Look near the last "E" in Cheapside). This may not be so, new information states that King St was located at Spitalfields London area. See Motco map above.

See also "John Snow's References and Sites" ~ Dickens London   

Maps of Australia - Historical Maps of Australia and the Pacific This site shows amongst the many maps the first proposed division of Australia in 1838.

Maps Australia - Choose the "Maps" on the menu bar.

Maps Australia Historic  

Maps World - Quick maps with some details of the countries.  

Mariners & Ships in Australian Waters - Masters, crew, a stowaway or two, cabin passengers, steerage passengers, births at sea, deaths at sea, deserters, vessels with one crew and one passenger and those with 60 crew and hundreds of passengers, simple single sail boats, barques, brigs, large steam ships, whaling voyages, regular coastal passenger trips, voyages from other Australian ports, London, San Francisco, China and other exotic ports - you will hopefully find them all here. Transcribed from the State Records Authority of NSW Reels of the Shipping Master's Office, Inwards Passengers Lists concentrating in the 1870s and will be added to progressively.

Maritime Museum UK - "Our aim is to present a wide ranging collection of articles covering all aspects of maritime history, although the general emphasis will reflect reflect our own interest in naval history. We will continue to publish original naval documents from the end of the 18th and the beginning of the 19th centuries." This site has so many other interesting links as stated above from the 1700's through to the 1900's. WWI and WWI information, Vietnam, etc.  

Matthew Flinders - The intrepid British explorer, marks the bicentenary of his epic circumnavigation of Australia (1801-03) - this site presents over 100 rare and stunning 18th century treasures. An exhibition was showing at the State Library of NSW AUS till 13 January 2002.

Matthew Flinders Collection-Online - William Wilson (a relative) came to Australia aboard the Reliance with George Bass, Matthew Flinders and Capt John Hunter.  

Medical Terms - Old Medical Terms for use by Genealogists.~ Archaic Medical Terms ~ Was your ancestor a Doctor?

Military Historical Society of Australia - Australian soldiers, sailors and airmen and the British Army in Australia.  

Musters and Census - Australia, details of what information can be obtained from these.

National Archives of Australia - Family History, an abundance of material of interest to family historians. While the Archives hold some colonial records, the richest sources in their collection for genealogists are those records created during the 20th century.  Don't forget to look at the other information on this site also which may be of interest.  

National Gazetteer of Australia - to determine the Longitude and Latitude. Geoscience Australia spatial Information for the Nation. The National Mapping division. Try this site out - it is fun - just put in your suburb name and see what information you end up with.

News Classified - Announcements BD&M all Aust & NZ - Current Date Only.

Newstext - contains nearly 30 million articles from over 150 News Corporation newspapers worldwide, and is updated daily. Most of the newspapers are published in Australia. The archive dates back for some newspapers to 1984. Click here for more information on archive dates for our collections. Newstext is a user-pays site, and you must subscribe to download articles. In doing so you must agree to Newstext's terms and conditions of use. All material on this site is subject to copyright. Note: Newstext is a text-only editorial archive, and contains no advertisements, classifieds, public notices, photographs, graphics or tables - Also note, there may be enough information shown to find what you want and this will help you work out which paper you can look up at your local Library for further information on the article sort.

NSW AUS Convict Women - Click on these links for the listing Convict Ships to NSW 1788-1800,  Convict Ships to NSW 1801-1849.  

Newtown [NSW AUS] Project - This web site has been created by volunteers working in the City of Sydney Archives to bring together historical information about the Municipality of Newtown. We hope it will be of information to researchers, local residents and all who have an interest in Newtown. The Sands Directory for Newtown from 1858 to 1891 is here to view or download. My own interest is Australia Street, King Street & Whitehouse Lane.

NSW State Library - See State Library of New South Wales.

Outwood - Local Government Web Site Index for:  America, Australia, Great Britain, Europe, New Zealand & South Africa. Just put your cursor over the country required.  

Passenger Arrivals - AUSNZ Passenger Lists 1788-1920 This is a great site, you may be lucky and find your relative here, but there is still a lot of "Ship" only information with the information on passengers still to be added. If you do know the ship in question, look up the "Reel Number" and go off to your local family history library and look the information up ~ Australia Passenger Indexes ~ Australian Shipping 1788-1968 ~ D.P.S. Perth WA AUS ~ Genseek Ships Lists ~ Irish Convict to NSW AUS 1791-1820 ~ Passenger Lists UK to AUS 1910 ~  Immigration ~ Note: some of these links may be linked to the same sites.

Passenger Lists - State Records NSW The New South Wales Government's Archives and Records Management Authority - Select the "State Archives" Tab, Select the "Indexes online", scroll through the selections. 

Photographs - The Original Genealogy Photo Archives "Welcome to Dead Fred's Genealogy Photo Archive, a free, fun web site devoted to helping you visualize your heritage!" Scan your photographs of your "unknown" pics, or of your known relatives and send them to this site.

Photo Gallery of NSW Railway - Stations & Locations from 1900 this is a very interesting site, photographs of West Maitland in flood are also shown here.

Picman - An index to pictures and manuscripts AUS.  

Picture Australia - Great for all Australian images, great for school projects as well.  

Pictures Catalogue National Library of Australia's Pictorial Collection - Paintings, Prints, Photographs Black & White and Colour. Some copied text.  

Prince William Country Fairfax Virginia USA Home Page - Pullumb & Flora KOKA lived here for around 15 years (my parent's in-laws) hence the interest.

RootsWeb.com - An American site - watch this one, may have to pay for your information. There is a bit of free useful information to be found here as well.

Scotland People Gov UK - Welcome to the official government source of genealogical data for Scotland.

Search Engine Colossus - A page full of useful Search Engines.

Search Engine - Germany - Along with Deutschland A-M  Germany - Allemagne - Alemania.

Ship Pictures - Mystic Seaport Steamship Images Collection The collections [1862-1927] at Mystic Seaport, the Museum of America and the Sea, include images of many ships that brought immigrants to the United Stated in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. While these images have always been available from the Museum, we are introducing them to you via the internet to make the process more convenient. Check the Vessel List for the images that interest you.

Simply Australia - MountainTracks - Australia has a rich heritage and this is reflected in its folklore, its oral and social history as well as its music and song. What a great site, this I found through the Genealogy Newsgroup, it belong in this section of Genealogy, I can not put in a small amount of words what this site show, it has everything; songs, stories, letters, poetry etc etc etc.

Sir Joseph Banks - letters received - very interesting reading ~ BANKS, Sir Joseph (1744-1820). There is a mention of a "William Wilson" in these letters, it is now known that this William Wilson is not related to the "Wilson / Graham" family connection.

State Library of NSW AUS - Internet Resources with a Search Engine ~ Current exhibitions

State Records NSW AUS  - A very good site for extracting NSW AUS history, go through the "Access to Archives" selection and look at other selections as well to learn what this site can offer. 

Surname Navigator - Worldwide - If you do not want nine sites opened up together on your computer, tick the boxes one at a time. Also try selecting a country of choice and try another search.

Surname Register Australia - This list is a collection of names being researched by family historians. 

Surname Web - May find some information here, this site is updated constantly so keep this in mind.

United Kingdom & Ireland Church Records (GENUKI) ~ Find a Church UK - The UK Church Directory.

UK Street Map - Lookup plus an "Aerial View" of the area as well. ~: UK Street Map 1792-1799

U.S. History Outlines and Charts - If you want to know about American history and their involvement in the war, this site has it all.

Dept of Veterans' Affairs - Office of Australian War Graves.  

Victoria AUS - Public Record Office Victoria's Archives - Alphabetical Lookup.  

Victorian 19th Century - 151 links to just about any sort of information during the 19th century.

War Graves ~ The Commonwealth War Graves Commission  ~ British War Memorial Project War Grave Search - Australian, Canadian, Indian, New Zealand, South African, UK & Former Colonies.

*/* Warby - My great-great grandmother Mary Ann Warby Graham's (1812-1904) maiden name - Please email me if you have information on this family -- we can swap & share. Mary's father John Warby (1767-1851).

*/* Warby Family Campbelltown NSW AUS- Search Word "Barns" choose the Leameah images of "Barns" ~ Search Word "Stables"  choose Leameah Warby "Stables" ~ Search Word "Warby"

Warby, Charles Kable - Charles Cable Warby stood indicted for stealing in the month of December, 1834, one mare, value £20, the property of Mr. Robert Armstrong, near Parramatta -- found not guilty.

Web Sites for Genealogists - An Australian Gateway Site for Tracing your Family History.

WhereIs - Where Is Online Australia "Map Search", "Place of Interest Search" & "Directions".

*/* Wiebe - My maiden name - Please email me if you have information on this family -- we can swap & share.

Wilson, William - Papers of Sir Joseph Banks 1786 + which have letters received from William Wilson of Liverpool whose daughter, Mary, married George GRAHAM, son of John and Elizabeth GRAHAM.

Worldroots.com - Newsgroups and Search Engines

Yass - Yass Courier From 1857 - there is very interesting information at this site "Oldest married couple in the world are living at Marulan, he is the stepfather of Mr O'Neill, publican and wheelwright, the husband is 111 years old and his wife is 107, she is the second wife. He arrived on the first fleet in 1788 and spent 75 years in the colony. Another notice says he died last Thursday and she was not expected to live much longer. They were both bed ridden and being looked after by Mr O'Neill. Yass Courier 25.2.1863" 

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Wars:

World Pre WWI - Pirates & Shipping : Boer War - War Museum of the Boer Republics ~ War Graves.

World War I -  ANZAC Day Commemorative Committee ~ ANZAC NZ Site ~ ANZAC Somme ~ ANZAC Site ~ Australian Govt ANZAC ~ The "Diggers" War ~ First World War.com ~ Pictures of the Past - WWI ~ Trenches on the Web ~ Visit Gallipoli ~ WWI Sites ~ WWI Sites ~ WWI Sites

World War II - Aircraft ~ Aircraft WWII ~ Aircraft WWII British ~ Aircraft WWII British ~ "G" for George ~ "G" for George ~ Kokoda Trail/Track ~ Kokoda Trail ~ Little Known Facts ~ Pacific War (Australian) ~ Photo Collection ~ Planes & Pilots WWII ~ Photographs B&W taken England & Europe ~ POW's Under Japanese ~ Russians at War ~ Ships ~ Sydney Under Attack Japanese Midget Subs ~ The Third Reich in Ruins ~ US History ~ WWII Battles ~ WW II Vehicles :: Also search through Google Search Engine, many other great sites available.

World War I & II - Aust Aviation ~ Australian War Memorial ~ Battleships ~ Bi Plane Fighters ~ Diggers At War ~ Land Warfare  ~ Memorials ~ NavSource Naval History US ~ Rob's Panther Page ~ S Boats ~ Submarine Index ~ Through the Looking Glass ~ The Fourth Armored Division ~ Tank Museum Russia ~ Tanks ~ U-Boat ~ War Journals Of the Australian War Memorial -- Last Post Sheet Music.

Misc - Airforce Technology Today ~ Army Technology Today ~ Navy Technology Today Keen to know about the latest, have a look at these sites. 

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Surname Interests: 

Baker, Ban, Barber, Barnet, Barwell, Bayly, Bent, Bentley, Bollard, Borthwick, Brooker, Broughton, Browne, Byrne, Calderwood, Chapman, Chippendale/Chippindale, Christiansen, Clarke, Clegg, Colls, Condron, Couthread/Colethread/Collthread, Cowling, Croese, Crofts, Dean, de Plater, Dewsnap, Dilley, Doran, Doyle, Dreamer, Duffus, Frazier/Fraser, Frisch/Freisch/Frish, Fowler, Geiger, Gibbons, Gill, Goetz, Golledge, Graham, Graham & Eyles, Gregory, Gunnell, Hammond, Hanson, Harrison, Henning, Hood, Hughes, Hume, Kappellier/Kappella, Kay, Kearns, Kendall, Kennedy, Koka, Levido, Lintott, MacDonald/ McDonald, Mc Kinnon, Maseby, Maziere, Meaney/Meany/Meinay, Meredith, Miles, Morgan, Nicholls Nicholson, O'Brien, Parsons, Petersen/Peterson, Phillipson, Piper, Porter, Ranclaud, Robertson, Rusten, Rutter, Schafer, Schmidt/[Smith], Schneider, Shaw, Swan, Tickle, Throsby, Tucker, Waddy, Warby, Waters, Wiebe/Weibe, Willis, Wilson/Willson.   My e-mail bkoka@bigpond.net.au if too much SPAM again, I will delete this.

Locations: NSW Australia.

Aberdeen, Airds, Ashfield, Bexley, Brighton Le Sands, Burwood, Camden, Campbelltown, Campsie, Dartmoore, Dulwich Hill, Dungog, Earlwood, Glebe, Junee, Lidcombe, Liverpool, Maitland, Marrickville, Mosman, Newcastle[& Suburbs], Neutral Bay, Picton, Redfern, Riverwood, Scone, Sydney, Wagga Wagga,  Werris Creek, Windsor + various other Sydney Suburbs.

Locations: QLD Australia.

Bowen,  + various other Brisbane & Suburbs.

Locations: VIC Australia.

Brighton, + various other Melbourne Suburbs.

Known Shipping: Alfred, Alfred, Asia VI, Baring I, Barwell, Carmichael, Charlotte, Commodore Perry, Coromandel, Fea, Ganges, Glatton, Guildford, Helene, Indispensable, John Berry, L Wellington, Lady Juliana, Lady Penrhyn, Lammershagen, Lansborough, Larkins, Mangles, Mary Ann I, Morayshire, Neptune, Pitt, Pitt, Reliance, Rolla, Royal Sovereign, Scarborough, Shipley II, Sirius I, Sirrocco II, Skagum, Wellington, William Miles, William Turner, Windham + others still unknown.

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Township Interest in Australia & Overseas:

All these towns are in NSW AUS if not stated after the town name. ~ Aberdeen, Appin, Ashfield, Bowen QLD AUS, Campbelltown, Concord, Danzig GER, Dublin City Dublin IRE, Dungog, Earlwood, Engadine, Frankfurt on Maine GER, Glebe, Gundegah, Yokohama Japan, Liverpool, London EC ENG, Maitland, Narellan, Newcastle, Newtown, Parramatta, Randwick, Scone, Sydney, Tamworth, Wentworth Falls + many others.

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Relatives & Friends Home Pages ETC:

Ron Bennett - SMH Notice  "Two days before Ron Bennett died he told the doctor caring for him that his trousers were too short. Many Australian men would have paid heed to such an admonition not so long ago, when Bennett was an arbiter of fashion. Many still would today". ... My mother's next door neighbour & friend when young until Mum or Ron's family moved away.

Borthwick - 1873-1883 John Borthwick m. Sarah E Graham

Broel de Plater - The home page of Mervyn B. de Plater the page has lost it's other link to finish the information, what information is shown is still very interesting.The Broel Plater Family ~ Milada Broel de Plater [Site is not working at present - review]  ~ Jaked Broel de Plater [Site is not working at present - review]  ~ See de Plater below also. ::-This site has lost it's links to the other pages, our cousin Mervyn B de Plater died in QLD Australia in April 2005, his fantastic work and endless hours of family research will be missed by all his relatives worldwide.

Chapman, Michael Graham - Co-inventor of Pup Motor Boat Engines. Plough Books.- To find the information CTRL + F for find and put in CHAPMAN and search.

Cooma Pioneers - Assorted relatives.

de PLATER - My mother's maiden name (Beryl Helene nee de PLATER, WIEBE)  

www.platerowie.com - The Plater Genealogy Pages ~ Google Search results for "de Plater" Australia ~ Prominent Poles Emilia Plater

Dean - Charles Cable WARBY married Elizabeth DEAN 1840 at St John's COE Parramatta NSW AUS.

Doll's Hospital ® - 38a Stoney Creek Road Bexley NSW AUS - The homepage of Sydney's original and famous Doll's Hospital. Geoff Chapman, head surgeon, now runs the many wards of the hospital, after it was passed down through the generations starting with his grandfather. The Doll's Hospital has cared for dolls, teddy bears, prams, rocking horses, and many other items for almost a century now, and believes that no job is too big or too small. In addition, the Doll's Hospital also sells dolls, starting at around $20 for a regular doll, to the more expensive, rare collector's dolls. Geoff's grandfather started this shop in 1918, then his son Harold, now Geoff. **Harold Graham CHAPMAN 10-03-1914 to 08-08-2003 R.I.P, we will all miss him, he will always remain in our hearts forever** http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/08/21/1061434984043.html

Duffus - On my mother's side of the family, Charlotte Price DUFFUS b. 1813 c West Indies  daug.of  Thomas DUFFUS & Fannie PRICE. Thomas & Susannah DUFFUS she resided at 5 Guildford Place Cold Bath Fields Clerkenwell England. Charlotte Price Duffus was married by her brother the Rev. John to a Polish nobleman, Count Lucien Stanislad de Broel Plater at St James Church, Clerkenwell in Middlesex on the 13th October 1836. The witnesses who  signed the marriage certificate were William and Peter Hardy and Alice Duffus. The Duffus family was related to the Hardy family and the son of Charlotte's cousin, was Sir Thomas Hardy, the famous novelist. Lucien & Charlotte arrived in Australia 07-01-1840 "Alfred", they both died at Parramatta NSW AUS. Issue 8: 1. Emily Laura, 2. Ferdinand John, 3. Lucien Stanislas, 4. Rachel Kosciuszko, 5. Josephine Hedwiga, 6.  Louis Felician Peter, 7. Emilian Paul Casimir, 8. Michael Augustus Ladislas de PLATER. ~ Elizabeth Paul DUFFUS

Eaton, Jill & Phill (my cousins) - Wooden Folk Art Supplies 369 Caboolture River Road Upper Caboolture QLD 4510 AUS. Ph: 07 5498 9262  Wooden Folk Art Supplies are at Caboolture Markets Lindsay Pavilion every Sunday. 

Erica and Tom's Place - (Portelli) - Related (we think) through the CHAPMAN family - Genealogy and great Craft information. 

Freebody, Simon - Assorted relatives.

Henning, Alan (my cousin) - Accusound ®  Australian Speaker Manufacturers produces Hi-Fi and Home Theatre Loudspeakers for the Australian domestic market and exports Loudspeakers overseas. These superb Accusound Delta, Sigma and Eclipse Series Loudspeakers have been designed to provide optimum performance with Dolby Digital, DTS, THX and Dolby Pro Logic II. (* Dolby is a trademark of the Dolby Corporation).

Hood, Ken & Leslie - (My sister's and brother-in-law's homepage with links to their friends - this is now boring, come on guys fix it up).

Kendall - My niece married into the KENDALL family.

Lawrence of Arabia - Is he a relative or not? Lawrence of Arabia

Leafe's Place - This family has a connection into the Warby / Graham / Rutter Family ::- Surname listing

Rutter - John Champley - John married Emma Eleanor Graham, daughter of James Graham and Mary Ann Warby, in 1861 in Campbelltown, NSW. (Emma Eleanor Graham was born in 1838 in N.S.W. and died in 1922 in Ashfield, NSW AUS).

Tucker - Lily M WIEBE married Ernest Charles TUCKER 1903

Warby - Relationship see "family tree" at the end of this page.

Warby, Benjamin Warby Jnr married Sarah Jane Brien, this site "The Eleven Brien Children".

Warby, Charles Kable  & DEAN, Elizabeth ~ Warby, Charles Cable - A son of John Warby & Sarah nee Bentley Warby.

Warby, Charles Kable - Charles Cable Warby stood indicted for stealing in the month of December, 1834, one mare, value £20, the property of Mr. Robert Armstrong, near Parramatta -- found not guilty.

Warby  - - Group who settled in the Maitland District NSW AUS from Hythe Eng - not related to myself, a very interesting family.

Wiebe - My maiden name is WIEBE, though it should be FREISCH ---- long story ~ WIEBE ten & tarpaulin maker Albion Street Maitland West NSW AUS

Campbell - Vincent Edwin - My next door neighbour's family tree. Vessel to Tas AUS ~  "Bromielaw" 1857 ship's passenger listing.

Tony Gee - Black Diamond Photography this guy is good, and to have his camera --- I wish --- link gone will check later.

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Software Downloads:

16 Colour - The Internet movie machine provides you with free software to animate your own cartoons with a step-by-step tutorial to take you through it from beginners. You can also check out the work of other people and vote for your favourites.

Accountz ® - A fully featured accounting package for small business. With a free demo to download.

Adobe Acrobat Reader ® - With Acrobat Reader, you can also fill in and submit Adobe PDF forms online. This is a universal swap file program used by businesses and home computing.

Agent ® - Streamline the process of collecting binaries such as, pictures, and movies. Agent supports MIME, UUEncoding, and yEnc. Download and install the free version of Forte Agent and use that for your news groups as you can use a bogus name which will help stop the spamming.

Ages ® - is the easy-to-use software for your family tree ~ EziTree ® interface allows you to add and update individuals, events and relationships, and navigate through your file, as well as producing charts, lists and performing searches.

AVG Anti Virus ® - A "FREE" program, use this unique offer - AVG 6.0 Free Edition. Download, install and use AVG 6.0 Anti-Virus system to reliably protect your computer and data free of charge. Recommended by a newsgroup member.

Bryce5®- Tutorial - Create breathtakingly realistic 3D landscapes and animations with Bryce® 5. Striking an optimum balance between power and ease of use, this innovative software is an ideal way to integrate 3D technology into your creative process. Smooth Network Rendering as well as new Light and Tree Labs let you open whole new worlds of creativity. 

FireFox - The award-winning Web browser from Mozilla is now faster, even more secure, and totally customizable to your online life.

Reviewer ® - Genealogy Software, an "Add-on" genealogy application that can be used with any genealogy program that exports to GEDCOM format. GENViewer also reads PAF, TMG, FTW and Legacy files. It also helps you clean up all of those GEDCOM files that have collected on your computer.

Illustrator Tutorial - I have just had some training on this great program, but not enough I will give this site a try.

Keyboard Special Characters - Keyboard Help, International accent marks and diacriticals: Theory, Charts and tips for the QWERTY keyboard, most Windows. 

KStableau ® - The name of the program is KStableau, to publish a graphical family tree and analyze kinship. I have been having a bit of fun with this program, import your Gedcom file and view what charts can be made.

The Master Genealogists 4.0 ® - The Master Genealogist (or TMG) v4.0 is the complete family history project manager for Windows. Whether you are a weekend hobbyist or a professional researcher, TMG comes with everything you need to. 

Microsoft ® Home Page - The latest "Explorer" Browser can be downloaded here as well as Microsoft Program Help and Tutorials.

Microsoft ® Template Gallery - A great site to download templates for Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access etc.

Microsoft Word ® Help - About Word ~ Macro Word ~ MalekTips ~ Word Tutorial ~ Word 98/2000

Netscape ® Browser Update - Keep your browser updated with the latest version.

Pricelessware ® - Free software the best of the best in Windows © Freeware, as determined by the readers of alt.comp.freeware; it is not an exhaustive list of the best available Freeware. Most of the listings are well-known programs, but there are some hard-to-find goodies to be discovered. Although most categories will list only 1 or 2 selections, a few will list 3-4 programs. 

Parsons Technology ®  - Once of the many companies which provide software to records family research. This is my choice, there are plenty of others which are just as great if not better. --:: Update this program is no longer available.

PDF Files - Convert files into pdf files using "Easy PDF" - Create PDF document outlines/bookmarks with a few clicks. Use Easy PDF drag&drop support to easily create outlines/bookmarks for your PDF document.

Nonags - The Original & Best Genuine Freeware these "are" all free.

Treepad ® - TreePad saves you time, allowing you to keep your notes, documents, hyperlinks and images at the brief distance of a click. Download TreePad and enjoy better access, organization and control over all your data, notes, bills, projects, clients, addresses, letters, speeches, research, collections, classroom notes, Web pages, links, bibliographic listings, and whatever else your creativity enables you to entrust TreePad with, for good organization, easy access, and safe storage. There is a "Freeware" version to download.

Tutorials "On-Line" - From Adobe Acrobat to Bryce etc

Typequick®  - A demo, specialists in keyboard training, has developed what is recognised today as the fastest method of teaching touch typing, suitable for instructor-led or self learning on a PC. The self paced, structured course with artificial intelligence is part of a complete teaching system which is guaranteed to teach you to touch type. This program is used at TAFE's in NSW, Colleges, Schools and Businesses.