Good Records to Start With

There are many series of records which are useful for genealogical searches. The most frequently used records are:

• Convict registers
• Passenger lists for immigrants
• Records of births, deaths and marriages
• State electoral rolls
• Wills and probate records
• Divorce records
• Inquests
• Naturalisations
• Land tenure
• State schools
• Maps,used to locate place names,parish maps often give