Irish Genealogy Toolkit

The Irish Genealogy Toolkit includes :
• Advice and tips for beginners
• Downloadable free family history forms and charts in formats used by professionals, a selection of free family tree templates , and even old maps of Ireland
• Info about Irish civil registration and Irish census records, and how to access them
• How to trace family history through Irish church records
• The very latest news about groups, meetings, resources, and all Irish genealogy issues
• An insight into the daily life, Irish crafts, social customs and Christmas traditions of your ancestors and well-known symbols of Ireland
• The importance of land and property records in Irish genealogy
• The story of Irish emigration to Canada, Britain, Australia, New Zealand and the USA
• Recommendations for recording and preserving your genealogical discoveries
• Information about Ireland, from visitor facts to in-depth articles.

British History Online

British History Online is the digital library containing some of the core printed primary and secondary sources for the medieval and modern history of the British Isles.  Indexes are available by place, subject, period and source and a number of primary and secondary history sources have been digitized.

Genealogy and Family History Podcasts

For those unfamiliar with them, a podcast is an audio or video file that is made available on the Internet for download and playback using a computer or a mobile device such as an Ipod.
Podcasts of the BBC Radio genealogy programmes are now available online.  Tracing Your Roots was a series of talks on BBC Radio 4, and Digging Up Your Roots is BBC Radio Scotland's genealogy programme.
The National Archives in Britain also have a series of podcasts available on a variety of topics.

South Australian BMDs

Were your ancestors pioneers of South Australia? Perhaps they were among SA's early settlers. Find out by searching the shipping passenger lists, birth, marriage, death and cemetery records.  Searchable databases include : Colonial South Australian Pioneers [arrivals, births, marriages, deaths & burials] ; Passenger lists of shipping arrivals in South Australia 1803-54 ; Births in South Australia 1836-54 ; Marriages in South Australia 1836-55 ; Deaths in South Australia 1836-50 ; Cemeteries & burials in South Australia [with maps].  Go to www.familyhistorysa.info/

Local cemeteries

These links are to cemeteries in Campaspe or Murray Shire.  All have contact information and several have headstone photographs or other information available.
Echuca Cemetery
http://www.australiancemeteries.com/vic/campaspe/echuca.htm
Kyabram Cemetery
http://kyabramcemetery.com/
Rochester Cemetery
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ausvsac/Rochester.htm
Whroo Cemetery
http://www.australiancemeteries.com/vic/campaspe/whroo.htm
Tongala Cemetery
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ausvsac/Tongala.htm
Colbinabbin Cemetery
http://www.australiancemeteries.com/vic/campaspe/colbinabbin.htm
Corop Cemetery
http://www.australiancemeteries.com/vic/campaspe/corop.htm
Mathoura Cemetery
http://members.bordernet.com.au/~denifhg/mathoura.html
Moama Cemetery
http://www.australiancemeteries.com/nsw/murray/moama.htm

Historic Irish Church Records

Now available free online are the Catholic Church records for Dublin City, Carlow, Cork and Kerry.  Go to churchrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/ to search and keep an eye on the site for more counties coming online in the future.

Northern Ireland Wills

The Public Records Office of Northern Ireland now provides abstracts of wills from the District Probate Registers for Armagh, Belfast and Londonderry from 1858-1919 and 1922-1943.  Go to www.proni.gov.uk/index/search_the_archives/will_calendars.htm to search.  The site hopes to expand the areas and dates covered in the future.