SHIPPING LINKS, SOURCES and ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

 I'm sure you appreciate just how much work has gone into creating this CD.
Transcribing almost 3000 passenger lists to create a database of nearly 60,000 families,
then to create graphics of all the lists and webpages has taken many many hours or work.
Without the help of the following, this project may never have been completed.

Special thanks to: my husband Ken and family, Malcolm Frost, Peter Lawson, The Dead Persons Society, Cyndi's List,
Ron Parsons, Barry Leadbetter, Robert D Blair, Brad Collins, Robert Janmaat, Sue Swiggum, Graham Jaunay, Sue Woods
and all SAGEN Listers and every researcher who likes to hear these words - THANK YOU.


1852 ONWARDS: I'm sure you can understand the immense amount of work to be done for the next stage of this project.
Unfortunately I have to bow out (strict orders from my family).

I have quite a lot of lists from 1852 to 1866 and am willing to pass them on to anyone willing to take up the challenge.
Someone will - maybe you. If so - please email me (see bottom of this page)


SOURCES: principally from The South Australian REGISTER newspapers (1836-1860s);
STATE LIBRARIES: South Australia, Victoria, Canberra and West Australia;
MORTLOCK LIBRARY, SOUTH AUSTRALIA: OFFICIAL PASSENGER LISTS and RECORDS covering United Kingdom to South Australia

LATTER DAY SAINTS Family Research Centre, at Fairfield (Melbourne) and elsewhere;
BOOKS: MIGRANT SHIPS FOR SOUTH AUSTRALIA 1836-1860 by R Parsons; FREE PASSAGE TO PARADISE, by P Button;
                    BAREFOOT AND PREGNANT (covering Irish Orphan Girls scheme) by Trevor McClaughlan; and various books by Don Charlwood
MICROFICHE AND CDs: South Australian Births Registrations 1842 to 1906, South Australian Deaths Registrations 1842 to 1915;
                    South Australian Marriages Registrations 1842 to 1916; BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX SA 1836-1885;
OTHER RESOURCES: HARZ MOUNTAINS (KINGDOM OF HANOVER) Government Sponsored Emigration 1848-1854 to Adelaide And Beyond
                    Family histories (family papers, diaries published books, on internet); and many of the websites below.

If you have not located your family via my webpages, I recommend you visit THESE RESEARCH LINKS:

CONVICTIONS - click CONTINUE at bottom of page, then choose any of the items listed in PUBLIC INDEXES.
This site contains shipping and passenger information for Australia and, to a lesser extent, New Zealand.
As well as arrival and departure details, where possible, background information is also provided.

MALCOLM FROST managed a really excellent website for Graeme Jaunay. Unfortunately this is now no longer available.
GRAHAM JAUNAY'S Online sourcing of Australasian Passenger Lists 1836-1840

VICTORIA:
PROV (Public Records of Victoria) Their online searchable Index of Unassisted Passengers to Victoria 1852-1911 is excellent.
                    Immigrant Index Port Phillip, 1839-51

NEW SOUTH WALES:

Ships docking at Australian ports were required to lodge a list of their crew with local customs authorities. It was not unusual for crew lists to be deposited with passenger lists.

Mariners and Ships in Australian Waters The lists on this site are being transcribed from the Australian Archive Office Reels of the Shipping Master's Office,
Inwards Passengers Lists, commencing in January, 1873 and will be added to progressively. Plus Genies' Jottings, Lists, and lists and more lists
Alex Roger's Australian Immigrant Ships - mainly Sydney.

The Australian Government organised a Work for the Dole program, where participants created a new National Archives database of migrant passenger lists containing 130,000 names of migrants who came to Australia by ship between 1926 and 1928. The new database can be found at www.naa.gov.au - click on RECORD SEARCH, then search as a guest or registered user and click on passenger index at the top of the screen. The database is certain to be welcomed by researchers and family historians eager to trace their heritage. This FACT SHEETS link takes you to the National Australian Archives (an Australian Government website) with the following information:
Fact Sheet 172 - Passenger records held in Melbourne       Fact Sheet 184 - Passenger records held in Hobart
Fact Sheet 190 - Passenger records held in Brisbane          Fact Sheet 38 - Passenger records held in Canberra
Fact Sheet 56 - Passenger records held in Perth                 Fact Sheet 64 - Passenger records held in Sydney
Fact Sheet 87 - Family history sources held in Adelaide       Fact Sheet 220 - Index to passenger arrivals arriving at Fremantle, Perth Airport and outports.

The DEAD PERSON'S SOCIETY Melbourne, Victoria, Australia A great website which includes:
* Shipping Lists, by the Dead Persons Society
* Plus some really interesting Links to Genealogy in England

THE LATTER DAY SAINTS A really good SEARCH FACILITY FOR ANCESTORS almost anywhere in the world. This information has been
taken from the quarterly reports sent by the Minister of each parish to their Bishop - these are referred to as 'The Bishop's Transcripts'.

THE EDITHBURGH MUSEUM website, THE SHIPS LIST website and many others were consulted for comparisons

CYNDI'S LIST - AUSTRALIAN LINKS

LOTS OF LISTS Ships and passenger lists sourced by Jenny Brandis. Most of these are readable on line

SKELETON CLOSET Research data includes not only the ship names, but statistical information about the ship, port and date of embarkation,
port and date of arrival, cargo information, passenger numbers, and in some cases passenger lists.

KEN BLAIR'S LINKS to records of immigration to Australia and New Zealand.

Note: The contents of these pages are the combined work of many people and whilst we aim for accuracy in all we do, remember Murphy's Law.
Should you discover your family name or similar on these lists, remember this - many of the names on Passenger lists were written as the writer heard them,
and many of the passengers were unable to read or spell their own names.