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1. OnsiteFindmypast Australia

Findmypast: Findmypast.com.au is a family history and genealogy website containing over 50 million family history records covering Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea and the Pacific Islands. The records include selected police and government gazettes, cemetery records including Rookwood Monumental Inscriptions, probate, land & court records, migration records including Emigrants from Hamburg to Australia, criminal reports, some electoral rolls & censuses, school records, directories &almanacs and military records.

2. FreeIndex to passengers arriving at Fremantle, Perth Airport and outports, 1898-1978 (Western Australia)

National Archives of Australia: An online database that includes the names from passenger lists in the National Archives series K269, Inward passenger manifests for ships and aircraft arriving at Fremantle, Perth Airport and outports, chronological series, 1898-1978. The index is useful to those undertaking family history research because many ships bound for the eastern Australian states passed through Fremantle. The Fremantle passenger lists include all those passengers who disembarked in Fremantle and they often also include all other passengers who travelled further on the same ship and disembarked in other Australian or overseas ports.

3. Onsite(CDROM)Marriage index of Western Australia 1915 to 1933

Western Australian Genealogical Society: Index of marriage records from the Registrar General's Office of Western Australia.

4. FreeNewspaper Indexes at the National Library of Australia

National Library of Australia: This Guide contains a select listing of print and microfilm indexes that can assist you with access to the Library's large collection of Australian and overseas newspapers.

5. Onsite(CDROM)Passenger Arrivals in Western Australia, 1898-1925

Western Australian Genealogical Society:

6. FreeRegistry of Births, Deaths and Marriages (Western Australia)

West Australian Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages: Online index to Western Australian birth, death and marriage records provided by the WA Department of the Attorney General. The birth index covers the period 1841-1932, the marriage index covers the period 1841-1936 and the death index covers the period 1841-1971.

7. FreeShipping Databases of the Western Australian Maritime Museum

Western Australian Maritime Museum: Databases include: The Richard McKenna Memorial Pictorial Shipping Database, Western Australian shipwreck database, Strangers on the Shore: Shipwreck survivors and their contact with Aboriginal groups in Western Australia 1628-1956, Library bibliographic Database and an Artefact Database (over 25,000 records)

8. Onsite(CDROM)(Uniting Church) Baptisms September 1840-May 1999

Western Australian Genealogical Society: This CD-ROM contains the details of baptisms recorded in the registers that have passed through the Uniting Church of Australia, Synod of Western Australia Archives up to 1999. Approximately 72,000 entries show the following data - Surname, Given Name (of person being baptised), Father/Mothers Name, Family Residence, Father/Mothers Occupation, Birth/Baptism Dates, Denomination, Place of Baptism, Parish/Circuit, Minister, Register Index #1/2, Remarks.

9. Onsite(CDROM)WA Inquests 1876-1903: An Index of Inquests as Published in the Western Australian Police Gazettes

Western Australian Genealogical Society: This CD-ROM is an index of approximately 3,500 inquests that were held in various Western Australian police courts to investigate fatalities that occurred in WA during the period 1876-1903.

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Our subject guides

"Australian Birth, Death and Marriage Records Research Guide"

A guide to Australian Birth Death and Marriage records held at the National Library.

"Cemetery records"

A guide to cemetery records held at the National Library of Australia. Contains print sources only; microfiche guides are listed in the online guide called Family History Sources in the Newspapers and Microforms Reading Room.

"Ship and passenger records"

A guide to ship and passenger records held at the National Library of Australia. Includes records held in print, microform and online formats.