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Genealogy in Australia and New Zealand
The homepage for the newsgroup SOC.GENEALOGY.AUSTRALIA+NZ
and the mailing list GENANZ-L
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GENANZ started as the name of the mailing list and digest list for the discussion of genealogy and family history of people of Australia and New Zealand. This mailing list is partnered to the newsgroup soc.genealogy.australia+nz. You can read our mail either via your newsreader or via your email. Read on for more information.
Our History
The newsgroup started in October 1995, the mailing list (GENANZ-L) started
in October 1996 and due to demand the digest (GENANZ-D) started in February
1997, quickly followed by a non-MIME digest (GENANZ-NMD) and a daily index
form (GENANZ-I). The lists are hosted by our wonderful friends here at
RootsWeb. If you want to read more
about the newsgroup and mailing list read the guidelines
/ FAQ. 1 January 2000
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Archives and searches
Searchable GENANZ mailing list archives - the full search access to the mailing list
Threaded GENANZ archives - later posts, available chronologically or subject threaded
GENANZ search page and hopefully quick and ready access to the messages
Snippets of interest or the NOW questions
- Universal Relation Chart otherwise known as 'Now, where is that chart so I can work out how we are related?'
- The Internet Code Guide for finding out 'Now which country have they posted from?'
- Occupations titles and their definitions for those who said 'Now what could that job have been?' Help add more!
- Medical conditions or 'Now what in the blazes is that disease in modern day terms?' Help add more!
- Change of Place and District Names During World War I or 'Now why change the place name?'
- Strine or 'Now what in the hell are those Aussies talking about?'
Name indexes
- NSW Stock Brands (1889) (list, 869 names / 42kb)
- Victorian Judicial Executions in 19th century (list, 167 names / 27kb)
- Indiana bounty immigrants [Glasgow to Launceston 1860] (list, 178 names / 11kb)
All of these snippets and indexes have been contributed by you, the readers. So if you think that you have some list that you think is worth adding to these web pages please get in touch. Lists, databases, or whatever. You don't have to find the space we will host them here at GENANZ at RootsWeb.
Boss Cocky's Memorabilia
There are some dedicated and vociferous correspondents at GENANZ. One of them has named the listowner 'Boss Hogg' or her Australian version 'Boss Cocky'. Another facetiously suggested the Boss Hogg Memorabilia Room.Well this, is that listowner's revenge. What follows is some classic postings demonstrating some moments of New Zealander and Australian humour at its best and worst.
Alternatively called 'Outrageously off topic but oh so funny'
- I.B. Kidding: Supervision of Pat Rossi nominated by Boss Cocky himself
- Pat Rossi: Dunnies and other trivia nominated by Pearl Wilson
Related interests
RootsWeb's Resources information
From these resource pages, you can:See what mailing lists are available, get to their archives!
See what sites are are at RootsWeb
Register your genealogy pages at the RootsWeb with RootsLink
- Australian Resources table of contents from here
- New Zealand Resources
Calendars - there is a general calendar for each country and also one for each Australian state. Under-utilised in my opinion.
Classified Buy and Sell Boards
- Australia Wanted to Buy For Sale
- New Zealand Wanted to Buy For Sale
Australia & New Zealand Projects
- Australian and New Zealand Surnames Page is for the purpose of providing a site to which GENANZ readers can send the surnames of interest (managed by John Williams and Graham Jaunay)
- Australian & New Zealand Passenger Lists a similar page for our immigrant ancestors (managed by Malcolm Frost and Graham Jaunay).
- Central Register of Indexing Projects in Australia is Judy Webster's neverending project to both help us keep track of what we are indexing and the prevention of duplication. If you have an indexing project please register it with Judy.
- BDM Exchange project is the worldwide effort to compile a list of official records that people have tucked away and are willing to share. Even you can contribute, see the following page:
- Australasian BDM Exchange managed by Leith Hutton.
- First Families a project being put together by Vicnet and the State Library of Victoria for all Australians.
Australia & New Zealand Miscellaneous
- Australian Family History Compendium
- ARIA-L (and other mailing lists) - a mailing list for Australians and New Zealanders who are researching their Italian Heritage, Culture and Ancestry
- Australian Geographic Placename Database. This is THE site for finding some place in Australia (towns, rivers, mountains, …), hopefully no matter how small or obscure it will be there with a MAP.
- New Zealand Geographic Place-Names Database
- David's list of Australian and New Zealand GenWeb sites for those researchers who have taken the effort to put their research on the web. Have a look here and find out how to get David to link to your web site.
- Genealogical Society of Victoria striving to be the best genealogical society in Australia.
- Tasmanian Family Links - the homesite of the Archives Office of Tasmania
Victorian Goldfields - vicinity of Ballarat, Bendigo, Maryborough, Ballan, Gordon- Victorian Public Record Office
- New Zealand Genealogical Resource Bureau Leith's page of New Zealand information.
International Internet Genealogical Society (IIGS)
- The internet genealogical society, IIGS.
- See the information lectures compiled by one of our Australian correspondents in the University section.
- Enjoy and participate in the Internet Relay Chat (IRC) channel #Australia (click for more details) or see the announcements of topics in our newsgroup/mailing list
- BDM Exchange THE GLOBAL INDEX a compilation of all the indexes of all the countries, plus the site for the project countries that are not covered elsewhere.
The GenWebs
- WorldGenWeb project
- USGenWeb
- PacificGenWeb (part of the WorldGenWeb project)
- Australian GenWeb (part of the WorldGenWeb project)
- New Zealand GenWeb (part of the WorldGenWeb project)
At RootsWeb
- Mailing lists - more than you can poke a stick at.
- American genealogy at ROOTS-L
- FreeBMD is a marvellous new project aimed at transcribing ALL the indexes of the General Registry Officeof England and Wales birth, marriage and death certificates and displaying them on the web. You all can help, follow the link to find out more, join one of the mailing lists to either help out with the project or just to keep up with the goings on.
- WorldConnect - upload your GEDCom file for others to peruse. It is great! You can leave an electronic post'em note to link the GEDCom to your interests, leave your URL.
- RootsWeb Surname List (RSL) - somewhere for you to leave your interests (names and locales)
- Personalised Mail - a great little tool RootsWeb has set up for sponsors. One can get delivered to their email the surname information from any of RootsWeb's information sources, (ie. mailing lists, message boards, RSL, ...). No longer the need to subscribe to all those lists in a vain hope, or no need to subscribe to that busy list for that little snippet of information. For me it is a winner! And a timesaver!
Everywhere else
- Cyndi's list of Genealogical Sites on the Internet (a work of art - bigger and better at Cyndi's own site, hosted by RootsWeb)
- GENUKI - the home of our friends doing contra-Antipodean genealogy
- The Genealogy Homepage
- BDM Exchange project is the worldwide effort to compile a list of official records that people have tucked away and are willing to share. Here are the other countries
- United Kingdom BDM Exchange managed and the brainchild of Graham Pitt >- Java warning!
- Ireland BDM Exchange managed by Vicki Lindsay
- Australasian BDM Exchange managed by Leith Hutton.
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