Australian Artists

The National Gallery of Australia
The E-Resources gateway has a number of useful links including the Australian Artists Obituaries Index. Details include artist's name, date of death, place of death, date obituary published and name of publication.

Australian Art Obituaries Index

Queensland Immigrants Index

Queensland State Archives have recently added an index to immigrants landed at Brisbane from 1885 to 1917. The records include the name of the ship and date of arrival. The following details may be recorded for each immigrant; name, age, marital status, trade or occupation, read, write, religion, country of origin, date left depot, address of employer or residence. This index contains a large number of Russian Immigrants. archives.qld.registers

Sale Cemetery

Sale Cemetery is located in Gippsland Victoria. An estimated 13,800 people were buried in the cemetery. The burial ground has been in operation since about 1855 and also contains a War Cemetery  and two memorial gardens for ashes placement. You can search the burial database at
http://www.salecemetery.com.au/

New South Wales Directories

The City of Sydney Archives have made the following digital resources available online; 1868, 1888 & 1918 Sands Sydney Directory. Please note some of these files are large and may take a while to download.
Sands Directory

Newspapers

W3Newspapers
If you don't know the name of a newspaper or magazine in another state, county or country have a look at this newspaper locater website. You can search by region or simply by the alphabetical list of countries. You can look at each state or county for the name of each publication. Click on the name of a publication to visit their website. W3newspapers

Hunting Kiwis

We all know how important monumental inscriptions can be when researching our family history. Unfortunately to often the old burial grounds become neglected and vandalised. Hunting Kiwis is a project to photograph and record all headstones in rural Canterbury New Zealand. Six cemeteries have been completed and four more are in the process of being recorded. The website details their progress and has links to other NZ cemeteries including their locations.
Hunting Kiwis

Belfast Cemeteries

Belfast City Burial Records http://www.belfastcity.gov.uk/burialrecords/index.asp/Records

You can now lookup burial records online for three cemeteries Belfast City Cemetery from 1869, Dundonald Cemetery from 1905 and Roselawn Cemetery from 1954. The records provide name, age, address, date of death and burial date. The Belfast City Council also maintain a number of historical cemeteries visit their website for further details.