For Victoria there’s a $0.99 fee per page of results you view, but a few weeks ago I made a trip to the State Library of Victoria where the Victorian Birth, Death and Marriage registries are available for searching on CD-ROM. The search results are free to view for WA and NSW (the only states other than Victoria where I’ve tracked down ancestors) and for WA in particular there’s quite a lot of information in the search results alone. So far I’ve done most of my research using the various state Birth, Death and Marriage registries.
I’ve started to compile a full listing of the resources I’ve used on my Family Research page, and will also write about new sources on this blog as I encounter them. It’s amazing the amount of information that’s freely available on the internet, and I’ve decided to start documenting my progress here in the hopes that the sources I’m uncovering will be useful to other people researching their family trees.
WEBTREES SOURCES ON FAMILY LINKS UPDATE
Now, two months on, I’ve managed to document eight generations going back to 1819 with ancestors coming to Australia from Ireland, England, San Francisco and New Zealand! Recently I also discovered a few generations further back on, but I’m still in the process of verifying the sources before I update my tree. So over the summer holidays I kicked it off with two Birth Certificates, two Death Certificates and a Marriage Certificate from my aunt. After listening to one of the guys telling me about his various family connections, and his annual family reunion, I decided it’s time for me to do some research and find out more about my family history. I knew my ancestors had come from England and Ireland at some point, but I didn’t know when or exactly where they were from. Someone asked where my family is from, and I told them I wasn’t really sure. Late last year, a group of people at work were discussing their family origins.
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