Canberra History Web

A wonderful site by Ann Gugler containing the history of Stirling Park, Westlake, The Gap, the early construction camps in Canberra, including Howie's, and other interesting items on early Canberra

Need to know something about Canberra during the early construction days of the Depression? This is another of Ann Gugler's sites and she will tell you all about it.

Another of Ann Gugler's informative sites concentrating on Canberra early camps and settlements, such as Camp Hill, Acton, Westlake, the Brickyards, the Causeway, etc.

Ann Gugler continues with her historical knowledge on this website tracing Canberra's early construction camps such as Howie's Settlement and the No. 1 Labourer's Camp at Westlake, Stirling Park, and the Brickyards, Yarralumla, Oaks Estate, Riverbourne and Russell Hill camps.

Dave Reid has compiled various bits and pieces of information about Canberra's local areas - a wonderful website if you wish to know something quickly about a place or have an interest in an area. Check out his ARCHIVE for a complete listing of his pages.

For local history information and images on Canberra. Includes the ACT Memorial which honours men and women who have served in various conflicts throughout the world.

You will find many items of local interest on the catalogue or by using the Society's 'Gateway'.

Online searchable database for various cemeteries in Canberra, ACT.

Check out their Pictures Australia site for pictures on early Canberra. Also their Australian Historical Newspapers site for Australian newspapers, including 'The Canberra Times'. Great place for convict research.

For files on early Canberra; WW1 and WW2 military personnel records; court martial records; prisoner of war records; immigration records etc - and many other things for tracing your family history.

Many Online Indexes for family historians, especially those with NSW connections. Includes CONVICTS and the Colonial Secretary's early Australian records 1788-1825; IMMIGRATION & Shipping records; Census records; Land Records and many more - direct link: http://www.records.nsw.gov.au/state-archives/indexes-online/indexes-online#colonial-secretary

Contains 10,000 scholarly biographies for people significant in Australian history. Browse by People, Occupations or Authors. Search by name, gender, religious influences, cultural heritage, or occupation.

Large and extensive database with search facility.

Compiled from the British Home Office (HO) convict transportation registers 1787-1867, also available on microfilm. Name search available.

My other website concerning the Robert Stephens family of Sithney & Helston, Cornwall; John MacColl or McColl of Mull, Scotland; Patrick McKinery or Kinery of Hospital, Limerick, Ireland, and the Clan Cholla Genealogies - all families have links to Australia

Canberra's local family history society. If you haven't joined it, then you should, especially if you have any family history interests and live in Canberra & district. They have a wonderful library, full of local, Australian and overseas material, including journals exchanged with other societies around the world. You don't have to run off overseas to search for date - try here FIRST!

Australia's best website for anything to do with family history with annotated links to quality sites.

Online database for births, deaths and marriages for New South Wales. You can order your certificates direct from the Registry.

Online search for historical registration records.

Name Indexes for Tasmanian Wills, Convicts, incl. permission to marry; Departures/Arrivals, Inquests, Census records, Divorces and the Colonial Tasmanian family links database.

See their digitised records and indexes online at http://www.access.prov.vic.gov.au/public/PROVguides/PROVguide023/PROVguide023.jsp

Free online historical index of births, deaths and marriages from 1841.

Searchable online database for births only.

Searchable online database for South Australian marriages.

The South Australian Genealogy & Heraldry Society's webpage for searching deaths, cemeteries and lonely graves in South Australia.

My other website concerning the Robert Stephens family of Sithney & Helston, Cornwall; John MacColl or McColl of Mull, Scotland; Patrick McKinery or Kinery of Hospital, Limerick, Ireland, and the Clan Cholla Genealogies, deposited with me by a deceased cousin.

A Civil Registration INDEX for English/Welsh births, deaths and marriage certificates - with search facility and a link to FreeCEN, their English Census transcriptions.

For all your family history needs - world wide, including Australia.

Free family history and genealogy records and resources from around the world.

Images, online databases and records pertaining to the UK - great source for free online records at [Click on 'Records', then on 'Catalogues and online records')

Searching for a cemetery index - try here! Includes some Australian and overseas cemeteries as well.

A genealogical communication and information website - links to forums, blogs, software, heraldy, family reunions etc.

For transcriptions of NSW BDM certificates, and to order British & NZ certificates. Recommended.