Findmypast is a subscription site which is available to use for no charge within the State Library of Western Australia building. It contains material relating to the United Kingdom and Ireland and all Australian states and New Zealand with a small amount of content for the Pacific Islands and Papua New Guinea. The Australian states with the largest amount of material are Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria. Content includes passenger lists, almanacs, Blue Books, electoral rolls, government gazettes, police gazettes and post office directories. The Ireland section includes will indexes, directories, cemetery transcriptions, land records and more. The largest collection is Irish prison records which includes information on over 3.5 million people. Most coverage for the United Kingdom is for England and Wales, including 1841-1911 census records. Census transcriptions for Scotland for 1841 through to 1901 are also available. Top content includes births, marriages and deaths including overseas BMDs, armed forces BMDs and BMDs at sea; UK outgoing passenger lists 1890-1960 and British Army service records (also known as Chelsea Pensioner records) 1760-1913.
http://catalogue.slwa.wa.gov.au/record=e1001846~S2
Various online directories. Most free, some on pay sites. Countries covered include Canada, Ireland, Thailand, UK and USA. This site is a work in progress.
http://sites.google.com/site/onlinedirectorysite
Included on this website are a collection of digitised maps of Dublin and Ireland, viewable in Google map format, a revised and improved townland database, scans and extracts from a number of directories, a guide to the important, and unique, system of land divisions of Ireland (townlands etc), and a brief introduction and guide to Irish records.
http://www.swilson.info/index.php
Database of over 550 links to Historic Directories of Ireland, available on free and subscription websites, and also includes directories for purchase on CD or download. Sources charging for access, or items for purchase are indicated with a $. Details shown include directory date, title and a direct link to relevant website. Online directories may be available as transcripts, ebooks (pdf, FlipBook etc), images or searchable databases.
http://www.swilson.info/dirdb.php
This directory gives details of cars, bicycles, dog carts etc. and who they were registered to for counties in Ireland. The rest of the site has lots of information about Lurgan in County Armagh.
http://lurgan-ancestry.co.uk/index.ph...or-directory-and-motor-annual-1911-12
This site has more than 19,000 transcriptions of gravestones. There are also photographs of graves and some directories etc.
http://www.from-ireland.net
