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1. FreeUK Outbound Passenger Lists 1890 onwards

Find My Past Ltd.: Produced in association with The National Archives (UK), this database, available through the ancestorsonboard.com website, features BT27 Outward Passenger Lists for long-distance voyages leaving the British Isles from 1890 to 1909. Coverage will gradually expand to 1960. Search for records of individuals or groups of people leaving for destinations including Australia, Canada, India, New Zealand, South Africa and USA featuring ports such as Boston, Philadelphia and New York. Passengers include not only immigrants and emigrants, but also businessmen, diplomats and tourists. Images of the passenger lists are available to download, view, save and print.

2. FreeULAN: Union List of Artist Names On Line

J. Paul Getty Trust: ULAN is a structured vocabulary that contains thousands of names and other information about artists. The coverage is from antiquity to the present, and the geographic scope is global. The scope includes any identified individual or corporate body (ie a group of people working together) involved in the design or creation of art and architecture.

3. FreeUnassisted Immigrants 1842-55 : New South Wales

State Records NSW: This index, compiled by the State Records Office of NSW, lists unassisted (or free) passengers who came to New South Wales at their own expense, during the period 1842-1855. The list includes ships' crew. This index refers to records of ships' passenger and crew lists, which are available on Open Access in the Newspaper Reading Room, microfilm drawer no. 5, call no. mfm N 229

4. FreeUnassisted Immigration to Victoria: Index of Inward Passenger Lists for British and Foreign Ports 1852-1923

Public Records Office Victoria: This index can be searched for names of unassisted passengers who boarded ships to Victoria, Australia, from British and Foreign ports between 1852 and 1923. The results screen displays some detail on each passenger and Port type (B, F or N), fiche and page numbers where more detail can be found in the passenger lists. These registers are available on microfiche at mc N 1135 (Foreign ports, mc N 1655 (British ports) and mc N 2256 (New Zealand Ports) in the Newspapers and Microforms Reading Room on Open Access.

5. FreeUNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger

UNESCO: The Atlas lists about 2,500 languages considered to be endangered. For each language, the Atlas provides its name, degree of endangerment, the country or countries where it is spoken, numbers of speakers, relevant policies and projects, sources, ISO codes and geographic coordinates.

6. FreeUN Human Rights Treaty Information Portal

United Nations: Site devoted to the UN human rights treaty system. Complete information on the seven core UN human rights treaties. Searchable by subject matter. Unique system for assisting with individual complaints. The UN human rights treaties are at the core of the international system for the promotion and protection of human rights. Every UN member state is a party to one or more of the seven major human rights treaties. It is a universal human rights legal system which applies to virtually every child, woman or man in the world. The purpose of this portal is to enhance the access of human rights victims and their advocates to electronic information concerning the human rights treaty system. Has links to UN, Academic and Non-Governmental Organizations.

7. FreeUnited Nations: print resources

National Library of Australia: The Library holds many publications about the United Nations as well as an extensive collection of official United Nations publications. This guide contains selected print works only.

8. FreeUnited Nations Treaty Collection Online

United Nations: Texts of bilateral and multilateral treaties and international agreements. Also details the status of treaties eg which member states signed, ratified or lodged declarations, reservations or objections etc.

9. FreeUnited States congressional publications and information

National Library of Australia: This is a guide to primary sources of information held at the National Library of Australia for students of United States history and current United States foreign and economic policy.

10. FreeUniversity of California Press eScholarship Editions

Hundreds of the University of California Press eScholarship Editions are available free of charge to the public while other titles are restricted to the UC faculty, students and staff. The books cover a wide range of subjects including art, science, history, music, religion, natural history, and fiction.

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