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