BROWSING THE INTERNET
Ballarat & District Genealogical Society Inc website
www.ballaratgenealogy.org.au
www.ballaratgenealogy.org.au/bgmain.htm
Central Highlands Regional Library Corporation - Ballarat Library
www.chrlc.vic.gov.au
Ballarat & District Genealogical Society - collection in Australiana Room of Ballarat Library
Directories, newspapers, school records, hospital admissions, cemetery records, electoral rolls, court indexes, shipping, BDMs Australia wide and overseas.
B&DGS Members' Interests Directory
Genealogical Research Directory - National and International
Volunteer helpers
Public Record Office of Victoria - shipping records online
www.prov.vic.gov.au/archivesvictoria
Ballarat Archives Centre - Glass House cnr Mair & Doveton St Nth, Ballarat
Local government records, rate books, court records, inquests, wills, children's registers, shipping, land records, government gazettes
Genealogical Society of Victoria
http://www.gsv.org.au/
Seniors Hobbies and Interests : Genealogy
Quite an extensive and attractively set out list. Of course you don't have to be a Senior Citizen but lots of leisure time (and a broadband connection) would help in joining the millions who are searching their family history online.
www.aboutseniors.com.au/HobbiesGene.html
Google search engine
http://www.google.com
See if you can find others who are researching your family surname
Genealogical Research Directory (country and county abbreviations)
A Key Reference Work for Worldwide Family History Research
members.ozemail.com.au/~grdxxx/index.htm
Victorian Place Name Abbreviations by Carolyn Harris
members.westnet.com.au/talltrees/resources/vic_abbr.htm
First Families 2001 - Australian Timeline
A Parallel History of Australia and the World
www.firstfamilies2001.net.au/resource/welcome.htm
The National Archives of Ireland : Transportation Records
Database of convicts from Ireland to Australia covering the period 1788 to 1868. Australian Bicentennial Gift 1988. Online search
www.nationalarchives.ie/search01.html
The Old Bailey Online (newspaper article)
www.oldbaileyonline.org
Woady Yaloak Historical Society
www.wyhs.goldlinksweb.com
Jennifer Burrell : Family History Research : Gene Links
users.ncable.net.au/~jburrell/gen/genelinks.html
