There are now many online resources which allow you to trace your ancestors - some of these sites are commercial sites which charge a fee, but others are free to use.
- Coffs Harbour District Family History Society Inc
- Births, Deaths and Marriages Registeries (BDM's)
- Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
- The Ryerson Index - The Ryerson Index Online Database contains 3,053,630 death notices and obituaries from 188 different Australian newspapers.
- Australian cemeteries - a gateway site for Australian cemeteries
- Australian Cemeteries Index - a different cemeteries index which is particularly good for local cemetery information, including Coffs Harbour Historic, Karangi Lawn, Woolgoolga, Bucca, Coramba and Corindi
- NSW: Immigration and Shipping - New South Wales Assisted Immigrants arriving in Sydney and Newcastle 1844-1859, Sydney 1860-1896, Moreton Bay, 1848-1859, Port Phillip 1839-1851
- NSW: Unassisted Immigrants 1844-1855
- Unassisted Passenger and Crew Arrivals 1854-1900 - indexes primarily New South Wales unassisted arrivals including coastal shipping to Sydney (incomplete)
- Ships Musters 1816-1825 - passengers and crew departing from Sydney
- Convict transportation registers 1787-1867
- Convict records at State Records NSW
- Convicts to Australia: a guide to researching your convict ancestors
- First Fleet online
- AIF Project - provide details on the 330,000 men and women who served overseas in the (First) Australian Imperial Force, 1914-1918.
- World War II Nominal Roll - provide brief details of WW2 service personnel.
- Nominal Roll of Australian Veterans of the Korean War - provides information from the service records of individuals who served during the Korean War
- Australian War Memorial - provides biographical databases such as nominal commemorative and honour rolls, honours and awards, Australian Army war diaries, wounded missing and prisoner of war files and general information about Australian involvement in overseas conflict and peacekeeping.
- Mapping our Anzacs - investigate Australian WW1 service personnel by locality of birth or enlistment
- Debt of honour register (Commonwealth War Graves Commission) - lists details of men and women of the Commonwealth forces who died during the two world wars and Commonwealth civilians who died as a result of enemy action in the Second World War
- Australian War Graves in South Africa 1899 - 1902 - a searchable database of information from Australian Boer War memorials
- Genealogy online - web sites for genealogists
- Family search Internet genealogy service - International Genealogical Index (IGI)
- Australian family history compendium
- South Australian family history and genealogy
- Internet family history association of Australia (IFHAA)
- Cyndi's list of genealogy sites on the Internet - Australia
- Rootsweb - Australian and New Zealand records
- Genealogy and family heritage
- National Archives of New Zealand
- Ancestry.com - subscription website
- Newspaper indexes
- Family History - Australia and New Zealand (State Library of NSW)
- Family History - Pathfinders, mailing lists, tutorials and surnames (State Library of NSW)
- Australian Family History and Genealogy on the Internet (National Library of Australia)
- Web sites for genealogists by Cora Num (An Australian gateway site for tracing your family history)
- FamilySearch (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints)
- Cyndi's list of Genealogy sites on the Internet - A huge database of useful sites
- GENUKI - UK & Ireland Genealogy (An excellent site. Also, checkout their suggested research strategy - 'Getting Started')
World GenWeb Project
http://www.worldgenweb.org
(Divided into various regions of the world)
- IHR - Internet History Resources (New South Wales Family History Document Service)
- Resources for Indigenous Communities - (State Records NSW)
- Australia Resources at RootsWeb