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General Genealogy Resources

• CousinConnect - Australia ~ post your Australian Genealogy queries on Cousin Connect. This site allows you to link your message to any one of a number of geographical locations so if you want to link your query to, for example, Australia, Canada and the U.S. (down to state or county, if you wish), it's as easy as a few clicks to highlight these areas. Cousin Connect allows visitors to e-mail you without divulging your address, if your message relates to their research.

• Queensland Surname Site - register your interest in specific surnames here or view the names others are interested in

• http://www.australiagenweb.org
  Australia GenWeb
  "AustraliaGenWeb is maintained entirely by volunteers who host websites representing each of the Australian States and territories which act as transcription depots. The project as a whole, depends on the support of local genealogists and historians to proactively donate or transcribe source documents and transcipts pertinent to their area."

• http://lightning.prohosting.com/~bvgs/
  Bega Valley Genealogy Society Home Page
  Bega Valley Genealogy Society a resource for the study of the History and Culture of our Shire, its people and their origins. New South Wales AUSTRALIA and beyond.

• http://millennium.fortunecity.com/blossom/821
  Newton Kids Family Tree
  Researching convicts, marines and early settlers of New South Wales and Victoria, AUSTRALIA. Having connections in England, Ireland, Scotland, USA and Denmark. Major surnames in the database include: Armstrong, Brown, Bushell, Crossland, Fleming, Gold, Gray, Kelly, Lergessner, Lyle, Meade, Morris, Newton, Priestley, Quenault, Rose, Rowe, Satterthwaite, Sebo, Sharples, Smith

• http://www.cohsoft.com.au/afhc/
  Australian Family History Compendium
  

• http://www.nationalarchives.ie/search01.html
  National Archives of Ireland Transportation Records Database
  Searchable index! From the site, "The National Archives of Ireland holds a wide range of records relating to transportation of convicts from Ireland to Australia covering the period 1788 to 1868. In some cases these include records of members of convicts' families transported as free settlers. To mark the Australian Bicentenary in 1988, the Taoiseach presented microfilms of the most important of these records to the Government and People of Australia as a gift from the Government and People of Ireland. A computerised index to the records was prepared with the help of IBM and is available for use at various locations in Australia. "

Aboriginal Related Links

• http://rosella.apana.org.au/~jgk/aborigene/menu.html
  Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Genealogy in Queensland
  "This site is being developed to encourage those with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ancestry to research their family history, based on contemporaneous documentation and the scientific method, rather than family stories and populist history."

• http://www.aiatsis.gov.au
  Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Stduies
  

Some additional excellent resources for your research are :

• Interment.net ~ Cemetery Transcriptions on the net.

• Ancestry.com ~ A huge compilation of databases some of which are free and some of which require a paid subscription.

• Kindred Konnections ~ Search the World's Largest Pedigree-linked Database.