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Resources

Australian Research Links

Australian Genealogy Research

Are you an Australian looking to discover a connection to a Mayflower passenger or just starting to research your Australian family history as a hobby? Or perhaps you're an American who has discovered a family member who immigrated to Australia and want to learn more?

Either way, you'll find the Australian research resources below a useful starting point. These websites include searchable Australian State and Federal records of births, deaths and marriages, shipping lists, newspapers, defence personnel and more. Also included are a range of other sites which may assist Australians with their family history search.

35 million people worldwide are thought to be descended from the Mayflower passengers. As you trace your Australian relatives back to their origins, you may ultimately find that you're one of them!

For more useful Mayflower research sites, go to our main Resources page.

There are an estimated 10 million living Americans and 35 million people worldwide who are descended from the Pilgrims, according to the General Society of Mayflower Descendants.

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Australian National Resources

National Archives of Australia (NAA) Managed by the Australian Federal Government, the NAA site has information from government records about military service, migration and most types of contact that an individual may have had with the government throughout their life.

Trove provides records of newspapers, gazettes, and archives, records and collections from the National Library of Australia and hundreds of partner organisations around Australia.

The Ryerson Index contains transcribed Australian Obituaries.