Ships’ Passenger Lists
If you are trying to find the ship your ancestor arrived on in Australia, you need to look at the passenger list of ships that arrived here.
A good place to start is with a guide to immigration records and you can’t go past Cora Num’s excellent site:
Cora has also published the following books on the subject:
Shipping and Migration Research on the Internet – 2012
This book is designed to help you find arrival and migration records for those who came to Australia before 1924.Online resources such as indexes, databases, digitised original records, newspapers, digitised microfilm, research courses and eBooks are included with details on how to use them.
How Did They Get Here? Arrivals after 1924 – 2nd edition 2012
This book is designed to help you find arrival and migration records for those who came to Australia after 1924.Online resources such as indexes, databases, digital records, newspapers and eBooks are included with details on how to use them effectively.
