Looking for new records to search? Online? Well, load up your computer, and get browsing, as there is a whole heap of new Australian genealogy records which have recently made it online, just waiting for you to search.

Please note, some of these site you do need to pay to view records, others are free.

ANCESTRY.COM.AU (pay)
Ancestry.com.au continue to add to their collection, by adding or updating the following:
Australian records:
Australia Birth Index, 1788-1922
Australia Marriage Index, 1788-1949
Australia Death Index, 1787-1985
Australia Cemetery Index 1808-2007
Australia and New Zealand Obituary Collection
South Australia Government Gazettes 1867-1884
Sydney and New South Wales Street Index 1861-1930

ARCHIVES OFFICE OF TASMANIA (free)
The Archives Office of Tasmania has recently added three new databases: arrivals, inquests, and a general index. All of these together with other indexes are available to search free.
General Index – indexes contents of a range of records, mainly names, but some subjects
Index to Inquests c.1828 – c.1930
Index to Passengers & Ships Arrivals to Tasmania in the 19th Century

FAMILY HISTORY SA (free)
Family History SA, a site dedicated to South Australian records has recently added the following to their collection:
Deaths of Returned South Australian Servicemen
South Australian Land Purchases 1869-1890

FAMILYSEARCH (free)
FamilySearch has certainly bee busy adding millions of records online in the last few months, unfortunately no new Australian ones in this lot, and just one new New Zealand title … but I can tell you more Australian records are due soon from FamilySearch so keep an eye on their site.
New Zealand Immigration Passenger Lists 1871-1915

FINDMYPAST.COM.AU (pay)
findmypast.com.au took over WorldVitalRecords.com.au earlier this year, and now they are just starting to add a few new records to their collection.
Goomeri Cemetery Index
Mundubbera Cemetery Index
Queensland Commonwealth Electoral Roll 1959
Queensland School Pupils Index 2
Queensland School Pupils Index 3
Queensland School Pupils Index 4
Ravenswood Cemetery Index

QUEENSLAND STATE ARCHIVES (free)
The Queensland State Archives has been very busy adding new data online long list of newly added records to their collection. The newest addition to their collection is the Queensland Wills Index 1859-1925. The files contain documents which include information such as name, address and occupation of the deceased, date and place of death, next of kin, an inventory of property and its value and disposition.

Other recent additions to the Queensland State Archives site are:
Bureau of Investigation papers on land and irrigation development c01/01/1932-31/12/1973 (Open)
Co-ordinator General’s Office Miscellaneous Plans, Maps and Diagrams c01/08/1936-14/05/1947 (Open)
Education Department Inspectors’ Reports c19/03/1878-05/06/1991 (Partially open)
Lands Department District Working Maps c01/01/1879-31/12/1999 (Open)
Local Government Association of Queensland Executive Committee Minutes 14/08/1896-10/12/2009 (Open)
Mining Warden, Burketown/Mining Warden, Cloncurry Register of Miners’ Rights 27/03/1899-25/08/1960 (Open)
Police Station, Croydon Circular Memoranda and Order Books 19/01/1887-12/08/1925 (Open)
Police Station, Croydon Letterbooks c01/11/1892-08/06/1916 [with gaps] (Open)
Police Station, Croydon Register of Pay and Allowances 10/09/1903-29/11/1915 (Open)
Police Station, Harrisville Letterbooks 21/08/1904-26/04/1917 (Open)
Police Station, Irvinebank Letterbooks c03/07/1912-03/12/1915 (Open)
Police Station, Normanton Memoranda and Letterbook 30/10/1909-21/05/1952 [with gaps] (Open)
Port Brisbane Authority/Corporation Cairncross Dock Plans 18/11/1942-01/12/1972 (Open)
Registers of Applications under the Liquor Act, Croydon c03/04/1929-30/12/1940 (Open)
Port Brisbane Authority/Corporation Correspondence and Papers 18/08/1905-27/04/2005 (Partially open)
Registers of Resumptions 01/06/1935-31/12/1994 (Partially open)
State Butchers Department Register of Letters Received 26/12/1918-30/10/1920 (Open)
The Gap State High School Admission Registers 25/01/1960-17/05/1993 (Open)

THE SHIPS LIST (free)
Passengers:
– barque Alice Brooks, from Melbourne, to Port Adelaide 7th December 1855 … with passengers
– barque Bielefeldt, from Hamburg, to Melbourne 25th November 1855 .. plus two families
– barque Asa Sawyer, from Hamburg, to Melbourne 26th November 1855
– barque Steinwaerder, from Hamburg, to Port Adelaide 19th December 1855
– barque Helene, from Hamburg, to Port Adelaide 23rd January 1856
– ship Europa, from Hamburg, to Port Adelaide 25th June 1856
– barque August, from Hamburg, to Port Adelaide 17th August 1856
– ship Adele, from Hamburg, to Port Adelaide 14th September 1856 .. Melbourne 11th October 1856
– barque Heinrich, from Hamburg, to Port Adelaide 18th September 1856
– brig Vesta, from Hamburg, to Port Adelaide 29th November 1856
– barque Ramillies, from Plymouth to Port Adelaide 11th November 1860
– ship Schah Jehan, from Plymouth to Port Adelaide 1st December 1860
– barque Verulam, from London to Port Adelaide 27th December 1860

Immigration Reports:
– Assisted Passage from United Kingdom to South Australia, 1862

AUSTRALIAN NEWSPAPERS (NLA and TROVE) (free)
The National Library of Australia’s “Australian Newspapers”really deserves a blog post of it’s own, but for ease of use for finding what records are new, I decided to leave it in . As you can see from the extensive list, the people at NLA have been extremely busy scanning and putting the images online for all to see and use for free … and while heaps of papers have already been scanned, there are HEAPS more still to come!!

The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA: 1889-1954)
* From 1862-01-01 to 1865-12-30
* From 1868-01-02 to 1867-12-31
* From 1868-07-01 to 1869-12-31
* From 1876-10-02 to 1877-09-29
* From 1875-10-01 to 1876-09-30
* From 1877-10-01 to 1878-06-29
* From 1878-10-01 to 1879-09-30
* From 1879-10-01 to 1880-07-31
* From 1880-09-01 to 1869-06-30
* From 1881-04-01 to 1881-06-30
* From 1881-07-01 to 1882-03-01
* From 1882-04-01 to 1882-07-31
* From 1882-09-01 to 1883-12-31
* From 1888-10-01 to 1888-12-31
* From 1889-01-01 to 1889-03-30
* From 1895-04-01 to 1897-03-31
* From 1896-04-01 to 1897-03-31
* From 1898-04-01 to 1899-03-31
* From 1899-04-01 to 1900-03-31
* From 1928-08-01 to 1928-11-30
* From 1929-08-01 to 1929-11-30
* From 1929-12-02 to 1930-04-30
* From 1930-09-01 to 1931-02-20
* From 1931-10-01 to 1932-01-30
* From 1930-05-01 to 1930-08-30
* From 1937-06-01 to 1937-09-30
* From 1939-05-01 to 1939-05-29
* From 1939-07-01 to 1939-07-30
* From 1940-08-01 to 1940-08-31
* From 1940-10-01 to 1940-10-31
* From 1947-01-01 to 1947-05-31

Australasian Chronicle (Sydney, NSW: 1839-1873)
* From 1839-08-02 to 1843-10-07

Braidwood Independent (NSW: 1867)
* From 1867-08-31 to 1867-10-16

Cairns Morning Post (Qld: 1907-1909)
* From 1909-01-04 to 1909-06-30

Camperdown Chronicle (Vic: 1877-1954)
* From 1879-01-03 to 1879-12-26
* From 1892-06-02 to 1893-02-28
* From 1901-07-02 to 1902-02-27
* From 1905-07-01 to 1906-02-27
* From 1910-03-01 to 1910-10-29
* From 1910-11-01 to 1911-06-29
* From 1918-04-23 to 1919-04-24
* From 1921-01-04 to 1921-12-31
* From 1933-07-01 to 1933-12-23
* From 1934-01-04 to 1934-06-30
* From 1930-07-01 to 1930-12-31
* From 1935-07-02 to 1935-12-31
* From 1938-01-04 to 1938-06-30
* From 1948-01-05 to 1948-12-30

The Colonist (Sydney, NSW : 1835-1840)
* From 1835-01-01 to 1837-12-28
* From 1838-01-03 to 1839-07-20
* From 1839-07-24 to 1840-12-31

Kalgoorlie Western Argus (WA: 1896-1916)
* From 1896-02-13 to 1896-07-27
* From 1896-09-03 to 1897-02-25
* From 1897-03-04 to 1897-07-22
* From 1897-07-29 to 1898-04-14
* From 1898-04-21 to 1898-11-24
* From 1898-12-01 to 1899-03-16
* From 1899-03-23 to 1900-01-25
* From 1900-02-01 to 1900-05-03
* From 1900-05-10 to 1900-07-26
* From 1900-08-02 to 1900-10-16
* From 1900-10-23 to 1901-01-01
* From 1901-01-08 to 1901-03-26
* From 1901-04-02 to 1904-05-10
* From 1901-09-17 to 1901-12-03
* From 1902-11-04 to 1903-03-31
* From 1903-06-23 to 1904-05-10
* From 1904-05-17 to 1904-08-02
* From 1904-08-09 to 1904-10-25
* From 1904-11-01 to 1905-06-20
* From 1905-06-27 to 1905-09-12
* From 1905-09-19 to 1905-11-28
* From 1905-12-05 to 1906-09-18
* From 1905-09-19 to 1905-11-28
* From 1906-09-25 to 1906-12-18
* From 1906-12-25 to 1908-04-14
* From 1908-04-21 to 1912-07-02
* From 1912-07-09 to 1912-10-01
* From 1912-10-08 to 1916-11-28

The Mercury (Hobart, Tas: 1860-1954)
* From 1925-07-01 to 1927-09-30
* From 1928-04-02 to 1928-09-29
* From 1929-10-01 to 1930-03-31
* From 1931-10-01 to 1932-06-30
* From 1930-04-01 to 1931-09-30
* From 1934-10-01 to 1935-03-30
* From 1935-04-01 to 1936-02-29
* From 1936-09-01 to 1937-02-27
* From 1937-09-01 to 1938-02-28

The Monitor (Sydney, NSW: 1826-1828)
* From 1826-05-19 to 1828-08-11

Morning Chronicle (Sydney, NSW: 1843-1846)
* From 1843-10-11 to 1846-07-08

Queanbeyan Age and General Advertiser (NSW: 1864-1867)
* From 1864-05-19 to 1866-12-27
* From 1867-01-03 to 1867-06-28

Queanbeyan Age (NSW: 1867-1915)
* From 1867-07-05 to 1876-09-21
* From 1878-01-05 to 1886-12-30
* From 1887-01-13 to 1889-12-11
* From 1898-01-05 to 1900-12-29
* From 1891-01-17 to 1897-12-11
* From 1900-01-03 to 1903-12-29
* From 1904-01-01 to 1907-12-31
* From 1908-01-07 to 1909-12-24
* From 1910-01-04 to 1914-12-25

Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer (NSW: 1915-1927)
* From 1915-01-05 to 1917-12-28
* From 1918-01-04 to 1920-12-24
* From 1921-01-04 to 1922-11-17
* From 1923-01-05 to 1924-12-23
* From 1925-01-02 to 1925-12-22
* From 1926-01-01 to 1926-12-31

Queanbeyan-Canberra Advocate (NSW: 1905-1927)
* From 1925-01-08 to 1925-11-19
* From 1926-01-07 to 1926-12-30

South Australian Gazette and Colonial Register (Adelaide, SA: 1836-1839)
* From 1836-06-18 to 1839-06-15

The Sun-Herald (Sydney, NSW: 1953-1954)
* From 1953-10-01 to 1954-12-31

The Sunday Herald (Sydney, NSW: 1949-1953)
* From 1949-01-01 to 1952-04-30

Sydney Chronicle (NSW : 1846-1848)
* From 1846-07-11 to 1846-12-30
* From 1847-01-02 to 1848-09-30

The Sydney Monitor and Commercial Advertiser (NSW: 1838-1841)
* From 1828-08-16 to 1832-05-16
* From 1832-05-23 to 1838-10-03
* From 1838-10-05 to 1840-04-15
* From 1840-04-17 to 1841-12-29

The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW: 1842-1954)
* From 1851-07-01 to 1852-11-29
* From 1853-12-12 to 1854-11-08
* From 1863-09-18 to 1865-05-04
* From 1865-05-05 to 1865-12-30
* From 1874-04-24 to 1874-12-31
* From 1879-07-26 to 1880-03-12
* From 1880-10-28 to 1883-02-12
* From 1890-05-05 to 1898-10-31
* From 1899-05-25 to 1907-07-20
* From 1907-07-22 to 1908-01-11
* From 1908-01-13 to 1913-02-07
* From 1928-01-02 to 1928-04-14
* From 1933-11-01 to 1934-02-17
* From 1935-06-01 to 1935-09-30
* From 1936-09-01 to 1936-11-30
* From 1940-01-01 to 1940-04-30
* From 1946-05-01 to 1946-08-31
* From 1948-04-01 to 1948-09-30
* From 1948-10-01 to 1949-02-28
* From 1952-05-01 to 1952-08-31
* From 1954-01-01 to 1954-02-28
* From 1954-07-01 to 1954-08-31

Western Argus (Kalgoorlie, WA: 1916-1938)
* From 1894-11-24 to 1896-02-06
* From 1916-12-05 to 1923-01-30
* From 1923-02-06 to 1930-10-07
* From 1931-03-03 to 1931-12-01
* From 1931-12-08 to 1934-12-25

Western Mail (Perth, WA: 1885-1954)
* From 1885-12-19 to 1890-08-02
* From 1890-08-09 to 1892-10-01
* From 1892-10-08 to 1893-02-11
* From 1893-02-18 to 1895-04-20
* From 1895-04-27 to 1896-05-22
* From 1896-05-29 to 1898-12-09
* From 1899-02-24 to 1900-09-15
* From 1900-09-22 to 1901-08-03
* From 1901-08-10 to 1901-12-28
* From 1902-03-29 to 1902-06-14
* From 1903-02-07 to 1903-04-25
* From 1905-04-22 to 1905-09-30

The West Australian (Perth, WA: 1879-1954)
* From 1923-08-29 to 1925-05-08
* From 1925-05-09 to 1925-10-01
* From 1926-02-19 to 1926-11-17
* From 1926-11-18 to 1927-04-01
* From 1927-04-02 to 1927-12-15
* From 1927-12-16 to 1928-04-04
* From 1928-04-05 to 1928-08-02
* From 1928-08-03 to 1930-01-09
* From 1930-01-10 to 1930-05-01
* From 1930-05-02 to 1932-02-18
* From 1932-02-19 to 1932-06-22
* From 1932-06-23 to 1933-07-03
* From 1933-11-03 to 1934-06-11
* From 1933-07-04 to 1933-11-02
* From 1934-06-12 to 1934-09-25
* From 1934-09-26 to 1935-04-23
* From 1935-01-05 to 1935-04-23
* From 1935-04-24 to 1936-02-28

West Australian Sunday Times (Perth, WA: 1897-1902)
* From 1897-12-19 to 1899-05-21
* From 1900-05-06 to 1902-03-23

If you are a website owner or just someone that keeps an eye out for new data, and you know of new Australian data that I’ve not mentioned – big sites or small – (I admit that it is impossible for me to keep an eye on ALL Australian genie sites, though I do try), please do send an email to me (Alona), so I can make mention of it for others to discover and use.

Happy searching … and keep an eye online for more good Australian data to come!!