Monday, October 14, 2013
Biographical Database of Australia
The Biographical Database of Australia (BDA) has been launched and it already contains some 500,000 records. According to the
website, this first batch of records contain convict, muster, census, baptism,
marriage and burial records from New South Wales (1788 to 1828) and for Norfolk
Island & Tasmania (1802 to 1811). In the future, data will be added for all
states and territories. BDA is a not-for-profit database that is the result of
years of work by volunteer genealogists, historians and contractors. The indexes
can be searched for free but there is a fee to see the underlying records.
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I paid my $25 when the site launched. It was money well spent, although I did not find many new references to my convict ancesors for me I appreciated the reports prodcuded by the site. Any new genealogist with early Australian ancestry would find that this resource which gives clear references to documents would save lots of research time.
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It is wonderful how many projects like this are coming online. I'll be watching the site to see how it grows and how well it is used - I agree it should become even more valuable as records are added.
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