12/22/2010
By Sunny McClellan Morton
If your British ancestors immigrated to Australia, these are the records you'll look for.
Business records
Look for small business license applications, bank ledgers and attorney’s files.
- Small business license applications listed in Government Gazettes for each state
Cemetery records
Available items include burial or undertaker records, gravestone transcriptions and cemetery plot maps.
- Gravestone transcriptions in regional libraries, archives and libraries
- Australian Cemeteries http://www.australiancemeteries.com
- Cemeteries in Australia edited by Martyn C.H. Killion and Heather E. Garnsey