Australia Births, Marriages and Deaths
Indexes to Australian births, marriages and deaths may be found at at local, state, national and genealogical society libraries on microfiche and CD. Some Registrars' websites include free or fee-based index search facilities. Certificates may be ordered from the Registrar of the appropriate state or territory. Online ordering and delivery of certificates is available on some Registrars' web sites. Death information may also be obtained from inquests, wills, newspaper and other indexes.
State Registrars' Details and Costs of Certificates:
http://www.coraweb.com.au/bdmaut.htm
This table lists the names and addresses of the Registrars of Birth, Deaths and Marriages in each state and territory of Australia and indicates the current cost of certificates. Please check the identification requirements before ordering certificates. Costs current as of 11 September 2006.
Ryerson Index
http://www.rootsweb.com/~nswsdps/dpsindex.htm
The Ryerson Index is an index to death notices appearing in current Australian newspapers. It also includes some funeral notices, probate notices and obituaries.
Because the Index was originally created by the Sydney Dead Persons Society, it concentrates on notices from NSW papers, although some papers from other states are included also. Within NSW, the bulk of the entries are from the two Sydney papers, the "Sydney Morning Herald" and the "Daily Telegraph".
The index itself cannot by definition be considered a primary source of data, but is purely a research aid to direct the researcher to the original source of a notice.
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South Australia Deaths These searchable databases are Indexes. They are Finding-Aids to the records on the Society’s library computers. They include the Cemetery Index, Newspaper Deaths and Government Gazette databases. |
Colonial Tasmanian Family Links Database
The Colonial Tasmanian Family Links database is designed to provide an initial online genealogical research resource. It links individuals with other members of their families living in Tasmania in the 19th Century. The information about individuals is based primarily on records of births, deaths, and marriages and similar events, held in the Archives Office and the linkages have been developed by family historians associated with the former National Heritage Foundation in the late 1990s. The database contains approximately five hundred thousand entries.
Western Australia - BDMs
Pioneer Index Online 1841 - 1905 Births to 1931 & Deaths to 1936 (no parents listed after 1905), Marriages to 1916 http://www.justice.wa.gov.au/_apps/pioneersindex/default.aspx
WA - Marriages 1905-1943
http://www.openwindows.com/marriage/search.htm
WA - Cemetery Board - Index for Karrakatta, Fremantle, Guildford, Midland and Pinaroo Cemeteries http://www.mcb.wa.gov.au/NameSearch/GenResearch.html