Four-month summary of new and updated Australian & NZ genealogy records

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 on 26 August.

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 been made available for the two countries.

Unless otherwise stated, the figures in parenthesis reflect the number of records uploaded to a new or updated collection. Where there is a second figure in parenthesis, it is the revised total number of records in an updated collection.

NEW COLLECTIONS

Ancestry

• Australia, Royal Australian Air Force Personnel Files, 1921-1948 (4,002)
• Australia, Queensland, Index to Government Railways Workers, 1878-1946 (40,940)
• Queensland, Australia, Gregson and Weight Funeral Records, 1972-2010

BritishNewspaperArchive (shared with FindMyPast)

• British Australasian 1884–1900

MyHeritage

• Australia, New South Wales Marriage Index, 1788-1966 (3,679,225)
• Australia, New South Wales Death Index, 1787-1986 (5,097,584)
• Australia, New South Wales Birth Index, 1787-1916 (4,913,072)
• Australia, Outwards Passengers from Victoria, 1852-1915 (1,753,944)
• Australia, Victoria, Will and Probate Index 1850-2009 (1,389,178)

UPDATED COLLECTIONS 

Ancestry

• Australia and New Zealand, Find A Grave Index, 1800s-Current (7,745,001)
• Australia, WWII Second Australian Imperial Forces/Citizen Military Service Records, 1939-1947 (14,405)
• Victoria, Australia, Assisted and Unassisted Passenger Lists, 1839-1923(1,856,643)
• Victoria, Australia, Death Index, 1836-1988
• Australia and New Zealand, Obituary Index, 2004-Current (1,891,525)

FamilySearch

• Australia, Victoria Coastal Passenger Lists, 1852-1924 (3,244,620)
• Australia Miscellaneous Genealogical Records, 1776-1980 (3,415)

NOTE: Researchers with Australian connections will also be interested to check out the Royal Australian Historical Society's launch of Finding Your Ancestors, a series of introductory videos and virtual seminars created to help the NSW Aboriginal community trace their ancestors. More...

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