Australia and New Zealand 

British Isles

Other Countries

<a href="http://ancestrylibrary.proquest.com">Ancestry.com</a> 
Ancestry.com offers a large range of family history resources including free and subscription-based databases. Free access to the database and related image is available onsite at the State Library.

<a href="https://yvng.yadvashem.org/">Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names</a> 
A database of Jewish victims of the Holocaust during the Second World War. Includes date and place of birth, place of residence, name of father and date and place of death.

<a href="http://www.cyndislist.com/">Cyndi's list of genealogy sites on the internet</a> 
Contains links to genealogy sites across the world. Browse by subject or search using keywords.

<a href="https://www.familysearch.org/">FamilySearch</a> 
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has filmed birth, baptism and marriage records on a world-wide basis. Not all records within a country have been filmed. Church members have also added their own records and Web sites. This is an extensive index of these records. Registration is free but you will need to register in order to view the records.

<a href="http://immigrantships.net/newcompass/pcindex.html">Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild</a> 
Transcribed shipping lists to read on-line. Incomplete coverage. Heavy American bias, but some Australian lists including WW2 European immigrants to Australia up to 1966.

<a href="http://www.infobel.com/en/world">Infobel.com</a> 
Provides access to the telephone directories of more than 180 countries. Often email and business directories are also available.

<a href="http://www.rootsweb.com/">Rootsweb.com</a> 
Rootsweb provides access to a large number of databases including surnames, mailing lists and message boards.

<a href="http://www.theshipslist.com/">Ships List</a> 
A database of information about immigrant ships travelling between Australia, Canada and other countries, with links to related sites of interest. It includes information about the major shipping companies and their vessels,immigration depots, some passenger lists, ships' arrivals and official immigration reports.

<a href="http://www.germanroots.com/onlinelists.html">What passenger lists are online?</a> 
"A directory of passenger records available on the Internet to help find your immigrant ancestors." Links to North American, Australian, New Zealand and various other lists. There are also links to other genealogy resources and lists from many European countries.

Worldwide

<a href="http://www.copyright.org.au/">Australian Copyright Council Online Information Centre</a> 
The ACC provides a number of information sheets on copyright issues relevant to family historians and others.

<a href="http://www.bing.com/translator/">Bing Translator - Text translation and web page translation</a> 
Automatic translater from the Bing search engine. Translate words or whole web pages from English into several other European languages, and from the same languages, into English.

<a href="https://sites.lib.byu.edu/familyhistory/print-forms-research-helps/">Brigham Young University (BYU) Family History Library</a> 
Contains a range of useful aids such as pedigree and family group charts to help you map your family tree, also helpful tips on how to write a family history.

<a href="http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~jfuller/gen_mail.html">Genealogy mailing lists</a> 
There are a large number of mailing lists available and they can be useful in contacting others with specific interests.

<a href="http://www.publicprofiler.org/">Public Profiler</a> 
Search the origin and location of family names, throughout the British Isles and the major English speaking countries. Various statistics about the geographical spread of the surname are provided.

<a href="http://www.learnwebskills.com/family/intro.html">Researching your family tree : an introduction to genealogy</a> 
This free interactive family history tutorial is American but useful for understanding how to use pedigree and family groups sheets and the importance of birth, death and marriage indexes.

Research aids

This is a collection of quality websites selected by information professionals for family and local historians. It includes sites from across Australia and overseas. Links to the most important parts of&nbsp;a website are included.

Useful websites for family historians