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Australian Cemeteries

Australian Cemeteries Index

A searchable data base for all cemetery inscriptions that have been recorded by the authors and contributors over several years.

Australian Cemeteries on CD The McClure Collection

Photographs of headstones and some complete burial records of various cemeteries in Victoria, NSW, Qld plus other information where known. Also typed transcripts of each headstone.

Australian Cemetery Geolocations

Information to help you locate a cemetery. Co-ordinates (including GPS) are given at the approx. centre of the cemetery.

BillionGraves - Australia Cemeteries

BillionGraves provides an app for smartphones so that users can take photos of gravestones at any cemetery worldwide and upload the photos to the BillionGraves web site. Users can then transcribe the gravestone information from the photos online. Use of the site is free. You can either earn or purchase extra features such as the "Record Watch" that will alert you when a specific search term of yours comes online. Earn some of these features through participation in the BillionGraves project by uploading and transcribing photos.

Cemeteries Around Australia

Commonwealth War Graves Commission

Details of 1.7 million members of UK and Commonwealth forces who died in the 1st and 2nd World Wars and other wars, and 60,000 civilian casualties of WWII. Gives details of grave site, date of death, age, usually parents/widow's address.

Department of Veterans' Affairs - Office of Australian War Graves

The Office of Australian War Graves is responsible for making available and for maintaining official commemoration either in a cemetery, crematorium or in an OAWG Garden of Remembrance, to a standard signifying the enduring respect of the nation, for those service personnel who have given their lives either in war or as a result of their war service.

FamilySearch - Australia Cemetery Inscriptions, 1802-2005 ^FREE

Cards of cemetery inscriptions from many cemeteries throughout Australia. The majority of the cemeteries are in Queensland, but there are some in New South Wales, Norfolk Island, Tasmania, and Western Australia. Some cards include information culled from local newspapers which sometimes include birth and marriage announcements. The cards are sometimes in reverse alphabetical order and there are sometimes many interfiled cards which do not belong to the sequence--generally these have a slash mark across the cards that do not belong in the sequence. The file was the product of many years of work by Jim and Alison Rogers.

FamilySearch - Australia, Deaths and Burials, 1816-1980 ^FREE

Index to selected Australian deaths and burials. Only a few localities are included and the time period varies by locality. This collection contains 106,767 records. Due to privacy laws, recent records may not be displayed. The year range represents most of the records. A few records may be earlier or later.

Gravestone Photographic Resource Australia Country Page

HAGSOC: Graves and Memorials of Australians in the Boer War 1899-1902

This project, by the Heraldry & Genealogy Society of Canberra, aims to publish the database of burial and memorial locations of Australians who died during the second South African Anglo-Boer War of 1899 - 1902. Also included are biographies, researched by the Society, of selected soldiers from each of the Australian States.

I Dream of Genealogy - Australia Cemeteries

List of cemeteries in Australia (Wikipedia)

Lorraine's Cemetery Records Pages

Australian headstone transcriptions from many cemeteries in New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia.

Mapping Gallipoli | Australian War Memorial

Plot maps of three ANZAC cemeteries from the First World War battle of Gallipoli. From the Australian War Memorial.

Sutton Veny - Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery

Wiltshire, England.

The War Graves Photographic Project

Families able to get copies of war grave photographs from cemeteries all around the world. Site working in association with The Commonwealth War Graves Commission.