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AUSTRALIA

Ancestors On Board
Online records covering people leaving the UK on long-distance voyages between 1890 and 1919.

Australian National Maritime Museum
Information about ships, including pictures.

Australia's Virtual Immigration Wall of Honour
Record your ancestors on the Virtual Wall and contact others connected with your family.

Convictions
Shipping and immigration information for Australia and some for New Zealand.

Graham Jaunay’s passenger list links
Locate passenger lists for migrant ships to Australia & New Zealand.

Immigration Museum
Explore stories of people from all over the world who have migrated to Victoria from the 1800s through to the present day.

Lenore Frost’s shipping links
Ships logs, journals, pictures and passenger list links for Australia & New Zealand.

National Archives of Australia
Guide to post 1900 immigration records at NAA.

Public Record Office of Victoria
Guide to finding immigration records at PROV - ships passenger lists, assisted immigrants, ships' crew, etc

Public Record Office of Victoria
Index to registers of assisted British immigrants 1839-1871.

Public Record Office Of Victoria
Outward Passengers to Interstate, UK, NZ and Foreign Ports 1852-1886

Public Record Office of Victoria
Index to unassisted immigration from British and Foreign ports 1852-1923.

Public Record Office of Victoria
Guide to finding ships and shipping movements records at PROV.

Queensland State Archives
Index to assisted immigration, 1848-1884.

South Australia Passenger Lists
Links to Passenger Lists for virtually every ship that arrived in South Australia between 1836 and 1851.

State Records of New South Wales
Indexes to assisted emigrants, 1839-1896, for Port Phillip, Moreton Bay, Sydney and Newcastle.

OVERSEAS

Castle Garden New York
Landing place for immigrants from 1820-1913 before Ellis Island opened.

CLIP - the Crew List Index Project
Access to the records of British merchant seafarers of the late 19th century.

Ellis Island, New York
Passenger search, 1892-1924.

Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild
Volunteers transcriptions of passenger lists and related materials.

National Maritime Museum, Greenwich
Maritime history, including photograph collection.

TheShipsList
Links for ships, passenger records, contemporary immigration reports, newspaper records, shipwreck information, ship pictures.