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11. FreeAustralia Dancing

National Library of Australia: This resource provides users with access to both current and historical information about dance in Australia. The directory of resources describes dance research materials held by the National Library of Australia, ScreenSound Australia, the National Screen and Sound Archive, and other selected institutions. The directory service is supplemented by other pages enabling discovery, location and access to information about dance in Australia through links to other relevant sites, and through current industry information provided by Ausdance and available on the Ausdance website.

12. FreeAustralian Cemeteries

Australian Cemeteries Mailing List: This site contains a list of all known Australian cemeteries. The list provides contact information for each cemetery. Also provided, if available, are links to online burial indexes and/or contact points for 'look ups' and transcripts of burial lists.

13. OnsiteAustralian Chronicles : An Index to Sources of Australian Biography (CHRONICLES)

Informit: Resource designed to assist genealogists, historians and researchers locate biographical information on as wide a range of Australians as possible. Its entries point to biographical information in a wide variety of sources, including Who's Whos, biographical dictionaries, topical and local histories, and published family histories. Entries cover all periods of Australian history.

14. FreeAustralian Dictionary of Biography Online

Australian National University: This is the Internet version of the ADB's traditional print volumes. The biographical articles are those found in the printed ADB: Volumes 1 to 16 in the continuing series and the Supplementary Volume. The articles are concise, authoritative accounts of the lives of significant and representative persons in Australian history. Also available in print in the Main Reading Room at RF 920.094 AUS.

15. FreeAustralian Medical Pioneers Index (AMPI)

State Library of Victoria: The database contains biographical information on over 3,000 pioneer doctors, from the 1700s through to 1875, who were registered or qualified in Australia, or visited Australia in a professional capacity. There's also ships' surgeons, convict doctors, general practitioners and medical specialists included.

16. Onsite(CDROM)Australian Military Contingents to the War in South Africa 1899-1902

Australian Defence Force Academy: CD-ROM version of the 1911 text of information relating to the Australian contingents in the Boer War by Lt Colonel P. Murray.

17. FreeAustralian National Maritime Museum

Pathfinder subject guides to assist researchers in a variety of ship and shipping topics. ANMM accepts reference enquiries.

18. FreeAustralian National Shipwreck Database

Commonwealth, State and Territory Governments: The Australian National Shipwreck Database includes all known shipwrecks in Australian waters and allows users to search for those historic shipwrecks protected by Commonwealth or State/Territory legislation. This information has been collected by each of the State historic shipwreck agencies and the data are subject to ongoing editing and refining. State or Territory agencies can provide the most up-to-date information about a particular shipwreck and also maintain databases for their State or Territory.

19. FreeAustralian Science and Technology Heritage Centre (Austehc)

University of Melbourne, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre: The Centre was formed by the University of Melbourne in 1999. It continues the heritage activities of the Australian Science Archives Project (ASAP). The Centre's aim is to develop programs that foster the preservation, promotion and development of the heritage of Australian science, technology and medicine. ASAP's popular online information resources include Bright Sparcs (biographical database of scientists), the Australian Science at Work Register and the online version of Technology in Australia 1788-1988.

20. FreeAustralian War Memorial Collection and Biographical Databases

A collection of databases covering rolls, manuscripts, the catalogue, photographs, sound recordings etc.

Our subject guides

"Australian biography: print resources"

The Library holds a large range of biographical material on Australians. This guide contains selected print works only.

"Cemetery records: print resources"

The National Library has a large collection of cemetery records for regions throughout Australia.

"Australian family history and genealogy: selected websites"

This resource contains links to a variety of information relating to family history and genealogy including guides, indexes and digitised images of documents. It also provides links to other informative sites and contact with other family historians via indexed family trees, mailing lists and bulletin boards.

"Australian birth, marriage and death records at the National Library of Australia"

This is a listing of indexes held at the National Library of Australia.

"Family history sources in the Newspapers and Microforms Reading Room"

A guide to Australian and selected overseas genealogy resources, including births, deaths and marriages registers, electoral rolls, government records, and shipping records. Arranged by subject within a State or Country.

"Ship and passenger records: print resources"

Ship and passenger records are found throughout the National Library in books, journals, newspapers, manuscripts, microform, pictures, maps and electronic media. Material includes information on ships, voyages, shipping companies, shipping and passenger lists and registers, shipwrecks, whaling, shipping arrivals and departures in Australian ports, logs, journals, diaries and voyage narratives, and ships' illustrations.