Official government site listing place names in Victoria.
http://services.land.vic.gov.au/vicnames
The National Library of Australia website includes family history subject guides, Picture Australia (digitised photographs), Historic Australian Newspapers 1803-1954 and Libraries Australia (combined catalogue of Australian libraries).
http://www.nla.gov.au
List of places in Victoria including historic names no longer in use.
http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~surreal/victowns
A unique collection of photographic, printed, manuscript and audiovisual material covering all aspects of the culture of travelling showpeople; their organisation as a community, their social history and everyday life.
http://www.nfa.dept.shef.ac.uk
Lots of information on Norfolk Island and its convict settlements.
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ausnorfo
A very comprehensive website for Rushden and District in Northamptonshire. Includes census transcriptions, wills index, workhouse records, trade directories, church and chapel register transcriptions and more.
http://www.rushdenheritage.co.uk
This site has a combined online catalogue for more than 50 archives in Scotland. Digital content is also available in the Virtual Vault including a database of passengers who emigrated from western Scotland to Australia 1852-1857.
http://www.scan.org.uk/index.html
Search over 17 million posts on message boards at Ancestry.
http://www.ancestry.com/community
Website of the Archives Office of Tasmania which includes an online database of archives, a photographic database and name indexes to convict, departure, naturalisation records and more.
http://www.archives.tas.gov.au
Information on the Gloucestershire regiment including a searchable database of over 40,000 soldiers who served in World War One.
http://www.glosters.org.uk
Free historical maps of Australia, London and some other parts of the UK. The site also includes some maps of Gallipoli.
http://archivemaps.com/mapco
Lists of Australian soldiers who served in the Boer War along with background information on the war. Part of the Perth Dead Persons' Society website.
http://members.iinet.net.au/~perthdps/military/index.html
Waikumete Cemetery is the main cemetery for the Auckland region. Scroll down to Genealogy Online Search to search their records.
http://www.waitakere.govt.nz/cnlser/cm/index.asp#genealogy
The Great Britain Family Names Profiling website has surname distribution maps for Great Britain in 1881 and 1998.
http://gbnames.publicprofiler.org
Database of over 160,000 UK place names many of which are also linked to maps.
http://www.digital-documents.co.uk/archi/placename.htm
Search for births, marriages and deaths in the London borough of Tower Hamlets. Indexes are incomplete but cover 1837-1996 (births), 1837-1900 (marriages) and 1862-2004 (deaths). Certificates can be ordered online.
http://www.thbmd.co.uk
Part of the State Library of Tasmania's website. Includes digitised photographs and indexes to newspapers, government records, place names and more.
http://www.statelibrary.tas.gov.au/tasmemory
Lots of lists including passenger lists, school rolls, directories, lighthouses and barmaids! Many relate to Wellington but other parts of New Zealand are also covered.
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~ourstuff
Searchable database of the New York Times archives. Use advanced search to specify a particular date range. Archives are free for the period 1851-1922 and 1987 to the present.
http://www.nytimes.com
Website with information about the SS Asturias II which operated as a migrant ship 1946-1952. Includes photographs, passengers' stories and some passenger lists with more to be added later.
http://www.ssasturias.net
