Summary of updates to Australia & NZ collections

Below you'll find my summary of the new and updated Australia and New Zealand records released by the major genealogy database suppliers since my last update in July.

These regular listings of additional sources are designed primarily to help family historians whose Irish ancestors emigrated to Australia or New Zealand, but you don't have to have heritage from Ireland to use them!

They may prove useful to any researchers looking for a brief update of what's relatively recently available for the two countries.

Unless otherwise stated, the figures in parenthesis reflect the number of records uploaded to a new collection, or the total number in a recently topped-up collection (if that info has been provided by the database owner).

NEW Collections

Ancestry

• Victoria, Australia, Coroner Inquest Deposition Files, 1840-1925 (106,350)
• Victoria, Australia, Divorce Records, 1860-1940 (39,606)

Family Search

• Australia, Sydney Branch Genealogical Library, Cemetery Inscrips, 1800-1960 (157,869)
• Australia, Queensland, Toowoomba, Prison Records Index, 1864-1906 (7,634)
• Australia, Convict Tickets of Leave, 1824-1874 (60,093)

MyHeritage

• Australia Death Notices, 1860–2019  Free (7m+)
• Australia, Military Lists and Awards  Free (960,081)
• Australia, Index of Burials, 1900-2019  (438,587)
• Inwards Unassisted Passengers to Victoria 1852-1923  (1,813,245)

UPDATED Collections

Ancestry

• New Zealand, Cemetery Records, 1800-2007 (2,129,22)
• Australia and New Zealand, Find A Grave Index, 1800s-Current  (5m+)

FamilySearch

• Australia, South Australia, Immigrants Ship Papers, 1849-1940
• New Zealand, Archives NZ, Probate Records, 1843-1998  (637 added. Total 475,157)
• Australia Deaths and Burials, 1816-1980 (3,977 added. Total 106,769)
• Australia Births and Baptisms, 1792-1981 (464,727)
• Australia Marriages, 1810-1980 (Total 139,366)
• South Australia, Immigrants Ship Papers, 1849-1940 (145,165 added. Total 576,167)
• Australia, Victoria, Inward Passenger Lists, 1839-1923 (164,023 added. Total 883,350)

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