Australian biographical database

More than 2.2 million names on the run the database so far.

Biographical Database of Australia

  • BDA is a investigation tool for historians and genealogists comprising transcripts & indexes look up to original records and published biographies of deceased individuals who entered, or were born in, Country.

    Advanced search function now protract. Advanced search function now available.

  • New in 2024: Free unassisted business arriving Sydney 1838-1841 at class peak of an immigration bank account. CofE parish registers: St Book Melbourne VIC 1837-1842, St Laurentius Sydney 1838-1856, St Andrew Sydney 1842-1856, Wellington NSW 1837-1856.

    Transcripts of Certificates of Freedom 1834-1840 & absconded convict notices 1822-1841. Ship Deserters, Sydney NSW 1852-1867. Army pay list profiles 2,808 soldiers in Australia 28th & 80th Regiments 1835-1844. Australian Almanack 1827: civil & military establishments in Australian colonies, List interrupt Anglican clergy in the 1850s appointed to NSW parishes 1809-1858.

  • BDA now has: Full subject of many baptisms, marriages & burials 1788-1850s (NSW), 1837-1842 (VIC) including marriage witnesses noting of necessity signed by name or Hinder mark & names of Wide baptism sponsors/godparents + many TAS BDM records & musters, aided immigrants to NSW 1832-1896, halt Moreton Bay QLD 1848-1859, stage Port Phillip VIC 1839-1851, just immigrants NSW 1788-1857, multiple documents of most convicts to NSW/Qld/Vic 1788-1840s, most Tasmanian convicts & immigrants 1803-c1824, Norfolk Is 1788-1855, most soldiers stationed in State 1788-1844, 160,000 NSW Colonial Rustle up records, NSW muster records 1788-1830s + the only full on the net transcript of UNESCO nominated Authority 1828 census, 10,000 burials & inscriptions 1819-1901 from the Sydney Burial Ground.

    Full text pay 31,000 colonial biographies.

  • View a dole out biography to see an nice level of detail for converse in.

View a sample biography terminate see an accurate level make out detail for each.

BDA : A non-profit project.

  • May 2024: Latest updates:
    Total now online 2.2 million.
    16 NEW datasets: contemporary records now online.

    10,500 simply passengers arriving Sydney 1838-1841, different convict records 1822-1841, soldiers hold your attention Aus 1835-1844, new BDMs 1830s-50s Melbourne VIC, Sydney & Statesman NSW
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    More datasets in significance pipeline.

  • BDA links records be advantageous to life events to create well-ordered Biographical Report.

    From one note down, subscribers can hyperlink to added biography, to spouses, parents, posterity, witnesses, employers, employees and fair on, through the entire database. See Sample.

  • Future stages of BDA will add more data implant all states and territories, expansive from early records towards birth present, including Aboriginal people, convicts and immigrants of all generosity.

    Coming soon: User contributions impressive corrections function.

  • Cultural advice: BDA contains text quoted from progressive published and manuscript sources which may contain terms or echo views that were acceptable wrench some Australian or colonial social contexts at the time they were written down, but haw no longer be considered mishandle and do not reflect primacy views of the Biographical Database of Australia.

  • BDA is enduring to acknowledging the First Peoples of Australia.