Ancestry Australia has a huge collection of Australian records including: immigration records, census and electoral rolls, BDMs, church records, biographies and family histories, convict records, military records, school and university records, hospital records and so much more. Each offers you a new clue in helping piece your family history together.

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The listing of records available to search for free are:
–  1828 New South Wales, Australia Census (Australian Copy)
– 1828 New South Wales, Australia Census (TNA Copy)
– 1841 New South Wales, Australia, Census
– 1891 New South Wales, Australia Census
– 19-Century Emigration of ‘Old Lutherans’ from Eastern Germany to Australia, Canada, and the United States
– 1901 New South Wales, Australia Census
– A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Colonial Gentry
– A History of the Wedgwood Family
– ANZAC Memorial, 1914-1918
– An Australian Biographical Dictionary
– An Epitome of the Official History of New South Wales, 1788-1883
– Ancestors of Welding Ring and His Wife Ida Malvina Mailler
– Australasia, Medical Directories, 1883-1915
– Australia Cemetery Index, 1808-2007
– Australia Historical Postcards
– Australia and New Zealand, Obituary Index, 2004-Current
– Australia’s Fighting Sons of The Empire. Portraits and Biographies of Australians in the Great War
– Australia, Birth Index, 1788-1922
– Australia, Births and Baptisms, 1792-1981
– Australia, City Directories, 1845-1948
– Australia, Commonwealth Public Service Lists, 1904, 1920
– Australia, Convict Index, 1788-1868
– Australia, Death Index, 1787-1985
– Australia, Discovery and Settlement of Port Phillip
– Australia, Electoral Rolls, 1903-1980
– Australia, Fox’s History of Queensland
– Australia, Handbook and Almanac, 1886
– Australia, List of Convicts with Particulars, 1788-1842
– Australia, Marriage Index, 1788-1950
– Australia, New South Wales, The Federal Directory of Newcastle and District for 1901
– Australia, Newspaper Vital Notices, 1831-2001
– Australia, One Thousand Place Names in New South Wales
– Australia, Pastoral Directories, 1913-1954
– Australia, Sydney Harbour Bridge Construction, 1922-1933
– Australia, The Aldine Centennial History of New South Wales, 1888
– Australia, The Cyclopedia of New South Wales
– Australia, The Cyclopedia of Western Australia, Vol. 1
– Australia, The Cyclopedia of Western Australia, Vol. 2
– Australia, The First Settlement of the Upper Murray, 1835 to 1845. With A Short Account of over Two Hundred Runs, 1835-1880
– Australia, The Jubilee of the Law school of the University of Sydney, 1890-1940
– Australia, The New South Wales Calendar and General Post Office Directory, 1832
– Australia, WWI Service Records, 1914-1920
– Australia, Walch’s Tasmanian Almanac, 1863-1904
– Australia, World War II Military Service Records, 1939-1945
– Australian Convict Transportation Registers – Other Fleets & Ships, 1791-1868
– Australian Convict Transportation Registers – First Fleet, 1787-1788
– Australian Convict Transportation Registers – Second Fleet, 1789-1790
– Australian Convict Transportation Registers – Third Fleet, 1791
– Australian Dictionary of Dates and Men of the Time, 1542-1879
– Benedictine Pioneers in Australia, Vol. 1
– Benedictine Pioneers in Australia, Vol. 2
– Camberwell and Waverley, Australia, Rate Books, 1857-1927
– Canterbury, New Zealand, Provincial Rolls, 1868-1874
– Casino, New South Wales, Australia, Hospital Admissions and Burial Records, 1913-1997
– Centenary History of the Presbyterian Church in New South Wales
– Chronicles of the N.Z.E.F., 1916-1919
– Clan Macleod Society, Annual Report, 1910-1911
– Datus, A Chronology of New Zealand from the Time of the Moa, 1931
– Early History of New Zealand, From Earliest Times To 1845
– Encounter Bay, The Miniature Naples of Australia
– Far North Queensland, Australia, Pioneers & Settlers Registers, 1825 -1920
– Fifty Years of Progress In Australia 1878-1928
– Finley of Maberacolton and McArthur of Miltown, County Tyrone
– Frackleton Genealogy, 1700-1879
– Fremantle, Western Australia, Passenger Lists, 1897-1963
– Gosford, New South Wales, Australia, Pioneer Register, 1788-1900
– Grant of Arms and Pedigree of the Family of Grose
– Historical and Genealogical Account of the Family of Vance (Vans, Vaux, and De Vaux)
– Johns’s Notable Australians, 1906
– Journal of Samuel Rose Parkinson No. 1
– Maryborough, Queensland Australia Immigrants from the British Isles & Germany 1861-91
– New South Wales and Tasmania, Australia Convict Musters, 1806-1849
– New South Wales and Tasmania, Australia, Convict Pardons and Tickets of Leave, 1834-1859
– New South Wales, Australia 1828 – 1842: Bounty Immigrants List
– New South Wales, Australia Convict Ship Muster Rolls and Related Records, 1790-1849
– New South Wales, Australia Historical Electoral Rolls, 1842-1864
– New South Wales, Australia, Applications and Admissions to Orphan Schools, 1817-1833
– New South Wales, Australia, Assisted Immigrant Passenger Lists, 1828-1896
– New South Wales, Australia, Bailliere’s Gazetteer and Road Guide, 1870
– New South Wales, Australia, Butts of Marriage Licenses, 1813–1835, 1894
– New South Wales, Australia, Certificates for Publicans’ Licences, 1830-1849, 1853-1899
– New South Wales, Australia, Certificates of Freedom, 1810-1814, 1827-1867
– New South Wales, Australia, Certificates of Naturalization, 1849-1903
– New South Wales, Australia, Colonial Secretary’s Letters, 1826-1856
– New South Wales, Australia, Colonial Secretary’s Papers, 1788-1856
– New South Wales, Australia, Convict Applications for the Publication of Banns, 1828-1830, 1838-1839
– New South Wales, Australia, Convict Death Register, 1826-1879
– New South Wales, Australia, Convict Indents, 1788-1842
– New South Wales, Australia, Convict Records, 1810-1891
– New South Wales, Australia, Convict Registers of Conditional and Absolute Pardons, 1788-1870
– New South Wales, Australia, Convict Savings Bank Books, 1824-1886
– New South Wales, Australia, Cowra Military Camp, Selected Personnel Photo Index, 1940-1947
– New South Wales, Australia, Criminal Court Records, 1830-1945
– New South Wales, Australia, Departing Crew and Passenger Lists, 1816-1825, 1898-1911
– New South Wales, Australia, Depasturing Licenses, 1837-1846
– New South Wales, Australia, Entrance Books for the Vernon and the Sobraon, 1867-1911
– New South Wales, Australia, Gaol Description and Entrance Books, 1818-1930
– New South Wales, Australia, Government Gazettes, 1853-1899
– New South Wales, Australia, Hospital & Asylum Records, 1840-1913
– New South Wales, Australia, Immigration Deposit Journals, 1853-1900
– New South Wales, Australia, Index to Deceased Estate Files, 1859-1958
– New South Wales, Australia, Industrial School Registers, 1867-1925
– New South Wales, Australia, Land Grants, 1788-1963
– New South Wales, Australia, Land Records, 1811-1870
– New South Wales, Australia, Medical Registers, 1925-1954
– New South Wales, Australia, Miscellaneous Records, 1787-1976
– New South Wales, Australia, Passengers Arriving at Port Phillip, 1846
– New South Wales, Australia, Police Gazettes, 1854-1930
– New South Wales, Australia, Public Service Lists, 1858-1960
– New South Wales, Australia, Record of Appointments to Government Offices, 1814-1825
– New South Wales, Australia, Registers for the Randwick Asylum for Destitute Children, 1852 – 1915
– New South Wales, Australia, Registers of Convicts’ Applications to Marry, 1826-1851
– New South Wales, Australia, Registers of Coroners’ Inquests, 1821-1937
– New South Wales, Australia, Registers of Land Grants and Leases, 1792-1867
– New South Wales, Australia, Registers of Police Employment, 1847-1885
– New South Wales, Australia, Registers of Seamen, 1859-1936
– New South Wales, Australia, Returns of the Colony, 1822-1857
– New South Wales, Australia, Settler and Convict Lists, 1787-1834
– New South Wales, Australia, Sheriff’s Papers, 1829-1879
– New South Wales, Australia, St Peters Cooks River Select Births, Marriages and Burials, 1839-1963
– New South Wales, Australia, St. John’s Parramatta, Baptisms, 1790-1916
– New South Wales, Australia, St. John’s Parramatta, Burials, 1790-1986
– New South Wales, Australia, St. John’s Parramatta, Church Records, 1838-1918
– New South Wales, Australia, St. John’s Parramatta, Confirmations, 1911-1925 and 1960-1966
– New South Wales, Australia, St. John’s Parramatta, Marriages, 1790-1966
– New South Wales, Australia, Surveyor General Field and Sketch Books, 1794-1903
– New South Wales, Australia, Sydney Improvement Board, 1871-1896
– New South Wales, Australia, Teachers’ Rolls, 1869-1908
– New South Wales, Australia, Tickets of Leave, 1810-1869
– New South Wales, Australia, Unassisted Immigrant Passenger Lists, 1826-1922
– New South Wales, Australia, Wives & Children of Irish Convicts, 1825-1840
– New South Wales, Census and Population Books, 1811-1825
– New South Wales, Teacher Applications and School Records, 1850-1960
– New Zealand Army Medal Rolls, 1860-1919
– New Zealand Army WWI Nominal Rolls, 1914-1918
– New Zealand Army WWI Reserve Rolls, 1916-1917
– New Zealand Army WWI Roll of Honour, 1914-1919
– New Zealand Army WWII Nominal Rolls, 1939-1948
– New Zealand Expeditionary Force Record of Personal Service, 1914-1918
– New Zealand Index, 1899, 1908, 1915 & 1939
– New Zealand WWI Military Defaulters, 1919-1921
– New Zealand, Army WWI Casualty Lists, 1914-1919
– New Zealand, Auckland, Chapman’s Gazetteer, 1867
– New Zealand, Bankruptcy Notices, 1893-1904
– New Zealand, Birth Index, 1840-1950
– New Zealand, Cemetery Records, 1800-2007
– New Zealand, City & Area Directories, 1866-1954
– New Zealand, Death Index, 1848-1966
– New Zealand, Early Wellington, 1839-1850
– New Zealand, Electoral Rolls, 1853-1981
– New Zealand, Jury Lists, 1842-1862
– New Zealand, Maori Land Claims, 1858-1980
– New Zealand, Maori Voter and Electoral Rolls, 1908 & 1919
– New Zealand, Marriage Index, 1840-1937
– New Zealand, Naturalisations, 1843-1981
– New Zealand, Notices of Deceased Estates, 1880-1950
– New Zealand, Officiating Ministers, 1882-1920
– New Zealand, Police Gazettes, 1878-1945
– New Zealand, Registered Ships & Owners, 1840-1950
– New Zealand, Registers of Medical Practitioners and Nurses, 1873, 1882-1933
– New Zealand, Roll of Honour, 1840-1903
– New Zealand, School Registers and Lists, 1850-1967
– New Zealand, Settlement of Otago, 1898
– New Zealand, Sheep Returns, Owners and Officers, 1879-1889
– New Zealand, Teacher and Civil Service Examinations and Licenses, 1880-1920
– New Zealand, The New Zealand Gazette, 1860-1894
– New Zealand, White Wings, 1924, 1928 (Volumes 1 & 2)
– New Zealand, Who’s Who in New Zealand and the Western Pacific, 1908, 1925, 1938
– New Zealand, World War I Service Records, 1914-1920
– New Zealand, World War II Appointments, Promotions, Transfers and Resignations, 1939-1945
– New Zealand, World War II Ballot Lists, 1940-1945
– Northern Territory, Australia, Probate Index, 1911-1994
– Perth, Western Australia, Australia, Rate Books, 1880-1946
– Port Phillip, Australia, Directory, 1847
– Port Stephens, Australia, Area Cemeteries, 1845-2010
– Principal Women of The Empire: Australia and New Zealand, Vol. 1
– Proceedings of the Parliament of South Australia, 1888 and 1900
– Queensland Brands Directory 1913
– Queensland, Australia, Bailliere’s Gazetteer and Road Guide, 1876
– Queensland, Australia, Government Gazettes, 1903-1910
– Queensland, Australia, Licensed Victuallers Index, 1900-1903
– Queensland, Australia, Mining Accident Index, 1882-1945
– Queensland, Australia, Passenger Lists, 1848-1912
– Queensland, Australia, Police Gazette Index, 1881-1945
– Queensland, Australia, World War I Soldier Portraits, 1914-1918
– Rockingham, Western Australia, Australia, School Indexes, 1830-1970
– Sands Directories: Sydney and New South Wales, Australia, 1858-1933
– Shoalhaven, Australia, Index to Births, Marriages, Deaths and Obituary Notices from the Shoalhaven News, 1867-1873
– South Australia Government Gazettes 1867-1884
– South Australia, Australia, Bailliere’s Gazetteer and Road Guide, 1866
– South Australia, Australia, Passenger Lists, 1853
– South Australia, Australia, Police Gazettes, 1862-1947
– Souvenir of the Broadhurst Wilkinsons: Descendants of Joseph Edmondson
– Sydney and New South Wales, Australia, Sands Street Index, 1861-1930
– Sydney, Australia, Anglican Parish Registers, 1814-2011
– Sydney, Australia, Cemetery Headstone Transcriptions, 1837-2003
– Sydney, Australia, Morgue Registers of Bodies, 1881-1908
– Tasmania, Australia, Bailliere’s Gazetteer and Road Guide, 1877
– Tasmania, Australia, Baptisms of Children of Convicted Women, 1833-1854
– Tasmania, Australia, Convict Court and Selected Records, 1800-1899
– Tasmania, Australia, Deeds of Land Grants, 1804-1935
– Tasmania, Australia, Immigrant Applications and Bounty Tickets, 1854-1887
– Tasmania, Australia, Immigrant Lists, 1841-1884
– Tasmania, Australia, Index to Birth Notices in The Mercury, 1854-1930
– Tasmania, Australia, Index to Death Notices in The Mercury, 1854-1930
– Tasmania, Australia, Index to Marriage Notices in The Mercury, 1854-1962
– Tasmania, Australia, Insolvency and Petty Sessions, 1829-1902
– Tasmania, Australia, Land Applications and Warrants, 1868-1887
– Tasmania, Australia, Passenger Arrivals, 1829-1957
– Tasmania, Australia, Police Gazettes, 1884-1933
– Tasmania, Australia, Railway Employment Records, 1903-1977
– Tasmania, Australia, Teacher Employment History Cards, 1886-1945
– Tasmania, Despatches of the Governor’s Office, 1823-1855
– Tasmania, Passenger and Crew Lists, 1834-1837, 1841-1887
– Tasmania, Reports of Crime, 1861-1883
– The Australian Portrait Gallery and Memoirs of Representative Colonial Men
– The Cyclopedia of New South Wales, 1907
– The Cyclopedia of New Zealand, 1897-1906 (Volumes 1-6)
– The Cyclopedia of South Australia, 1907-1909
– The Cyclopedia of Tasmania, 1900
– The Cyclopedia of Tasmania, 1931
– The Cyclopedia of Victoria, 1903-1905
– The Defenders of New Zealand
– The Descendants of Richard Kimber
– The Dictionary of Australasian Biography
– The Pedigrees of Lloyd of Dolobran, Montgomeryshire; The Wordsworth Family; Foster, late of Le Court, Hants; Hanbury of Holfield Grange, Essex; Wakefield of Sedgwick House, Kendal; and Wakefield of New Zealand and So. Australia
– The Rise and Progress of Australia, Tasmania, and New Zealand
– UK, Allied Prisoners of War, 1939-1945
– UK, Outward Passenger Lists, 1890-1960
– Victoria, Australia, Assisted and Unassisted Passenger Lists, 1839-1923
– Victoria, Australia, Asylum Records, 1853-1940
– Victoria, Australia, Bailliere’s Gazetteer and Road Guide, 1879
– Victoria, Australia, Birth Index, 1837-1917
– Victoria, Australia, Cemetery Records and Headstone Transcriptions, 1844-1997
– Victoria, Australia, Death Index, 1836-1988
– Victoria, Australia, Deserter, Discharged, and Prisoner Crew Lists, 1852-1925
– Victoria, Australia, Index to Naturalisation Certificates, 1851-1928
– Victoria, Australia, Index to the Children’s Registers of State Wards, 1850 -1893
– Victoria, Australia, Lunatic Estates and Register, 1867-1906
– Victoria, Australia, Marriage Index, 1837-1950
– Victoria, Australia, Police Gazettes, 1855, 1864-1924
– Victoria, Australia, Rate Books, 1855-1963
– Victoria, Australia, Selected Trial Brief and Correspondence Registers and Other Images, 1837-1993
– Victoria, Australia, St Peter’s Eastern Hill, Selected Records, 1848-1998
– Victoria, Australia, St. Peter’s Eastern Hill, Baptisms, 1848-1915
– Victoria, Australia, St. Peter’s Eastern Hill, Burials, 1848-1989
– Victoria, Australia, St. Peter’s Eastern Hill, Confirmations, 1872-1955
– Victoria, Australia, St. Peter’s Eastern Hill, Marriages, 1848-1955
– Victoria, Australia, Wills and Probate Records, 1841-2009
– Web: Australia, Convict Records Index, 1787-1867
– Web: Australia, University of Sydney Biographical Information Including World War I, 1880-1980
– Web: Global, Gravestone Photograph Index, 1265-2014
– Web: Lower Hutt, New Zealand, Index to Cemeteries, 1948-2012
– Web: Queensland, Australia, Death Inquest Index, 1859-1897
– Web: Queensland, Australia, Hospital Indexes, 1872-1908
– Web: Queensland, Australia, Immigration Indexes, 1848-1972
– Web: Queensland, Australia, Index to Aliens, 1913
– Web: Queensland, Australia, Naturalisation Index, 1851-1904
– Web: Queensland, Australia, Occupational Indexes, 1857-1922
– Web: Queensland, Australia, Prison and Reformatory Indexes, 1824-1936
– Web: Queensland, Australia, Property Indexes, 1842-1895
– Web: Queensland, Australia, Will Index, 1857-1900 (all Districts), 1901-1940 (Southern District)
– Web: Victoria, Australia, Outward Passenger Index, 1852-1915
– Western Australia Post Office Directory 1910
– Western Australia Post Office Directory 1926
– Western Australia, Australia, Convict Records, 1846-1930
– Western Australia, Australia, Crew and Passenger Lists, 1852-1930
– Western Australia, Australia, Land Leases, Licences, Applications and Selected Images, 1821-1938
– Western Australia, Public Service Lists, 1871-1905
– Western Australia, Railway Records, 1879-1986
– Who’s Who in Australia, 1921-1950
– Wonthaggi, Victoria, Australia Employee Records, 1909-1969

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