One in five Australians are now researching their family history online making it one of Australia’s top 10 uses of the Internet.
Ancestry.com.au, Australia’s leading family history website, offers members access to 930 million searchable Australian and UK family history records.
Launched in 2006, Ancestry’s historical record collection reflects Australia’s multicultural heritage and enables members to explore their family’s history using Australian and international records including the convict and free settler lists, electoral rolls, passenger lists, English, Welsh and Scottish censuses, birth, marriage and death records as well as user-contributed family trees, and by connecting to millions of other members making their own discoveries.
Ancestry.com.au is part of a global network of Ancestry websites, which include Ancestry.co.uk in the UK, Ancestry.com in the U.S., Ancestry.ca in Canada, Ancestry.de in Germany, Ancestry.it in Italy, Ancestry.se in Sweden, Ancestry.fr in France and Jiapu.com in China.Ancestry.com.au is Australia’s No. 1 website* for family history resources. It is a subscription based website that enables members to research and build their family tree online.