Biographical Database of Australia are pleased to announce that Datasets containing 400,000 NEW records have been added to the Biographical Database of Australia (BDA), forming a huge and growing biographical research resource now almost doubled in size to 900,000 – NOW ONLINE.
Click here to explore nearly a million records, including 160,000 NSW Colonial Secretary records 1788-1825, many early colonial Catholic and Protestant parish registers and Christian and Jewish memorial inscriptions for colonial Sydney, military lists, transcribed for the first time, all otherwise only accessible in scrawled manuscripts on microfilm.
Twenty new datasets containing new records from all states have been transcribed by a team of volunteers and BDA staff from manuscript and published sources, including 15,000+ full text mini-biographies published 1879-1905 of middle class professionals, farmers and small businessmen in town and rural communities in all states (nearly 10,000 of them in Victoria) as well as of well-known historical figures.
