References and Style Guide

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Common Date Formats

  • Dates are entered as follows: 1 January 2001

Reference Abbreviations: Repositories

These are generally primary sources.

  • AOT: Archives Office of Tasmania; Hobart, Tasmania (Website)
  • AJCP: Australian Joint Copying Project
  • BDM NSW: New South Wales Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages; Sydney, New South Wales (Website)
  • BDM QLD: Queensland Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages; Brisbane, Queensland
  • BDM SA: Office of Consumer and Business Affairs, Births, Deaths and Marriages; Adelaide, South Australia (Website)
  • BDM TAS: Tasmanian Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages; Hobart, Tasmania (Website)
  • BDM VIC: Victorian Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages; Melbourne, Victoria (Website)
  • BDM WA: Western Australian Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages; Perth, West Australia (Website)
  • HRA: Historical Records of Australia
  • CSO NSW: Colonial Secretarys Office; Sydney, New South Wales (Website)
  • CSO TAS: Colonial Secretarys Office, Archives Office of Tasmania; Hobart, Tasmania (Website)
  • ML: Mitchell Library; Sydney, New South Wales
  • NAA: National Archives of Australia (Website)
  • NLA: National Library of Australia (Website)
  • OB: The Proceedings of the Old Bailey (Website)
  • PROV: Public Records Office of Victoria; Melbourne, Victoria (Website)
  • SLT: State Library of Tasmania; Hobart, Tasmania (Website)
  • SLV: State Library of Victoria; Melbourne, Victoria (Website)
  • SRCT: Southern Regional Cemetery Trust - Cornelian Bay and Kingston Lawn Cemeteries (CD-ROM Resource)

Reference Abbreviations: Archives Office of Tasmania

  • CEN: Census
  • CON: Convict records
  • CUS: Customs
  • GO: Governor's Office
  • LC: Lower Court of Tasmania
  • LD: Lands Department
  • LSD: Lands Survey Department
  • MM: Miscellaneous microfilm
  • POL: Police records
  • SC: Supreme Court
  • TC: Tasmaniana & Crowther Collection

Reference Abbreviations: Websites.

These are generally secondary sources.

  • ADB: Australian Dictionary of Biography (Website)
  • AF: Ancestral File, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Website)
  • Collins' Order Books: Collins, David, General and Garrison Orders 1803-1808 (Website)
  • Gencirles: Gencircles (Website)
  • IGI: International Genealogical Index, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Website)
  • WC: Rootsweb WorldConnect (Website)

Reference Abbreviations: Newspapers and gazettes.

Newspapers and gazettes are also secondary sources. Nearly all newspaper references have been retrieved from the National Library of Australia's Historic Australian Newspapers site, and the newspapers which are online at the NLA site have the annotation NLA at the end of their entries in following list. Websites, where available, are given for those newspapers and publications not on the NLA site, but which are online elsewhere.

England.

New South Wales.

  • MM: The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (Newcastle 1843–1893) - NLA
  • NSW Gazette: New South Wales Government Gazette (NSW & Vic 1836-1851) - SLV (Website)
  • SG: The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser (1803–1842) - NLA
  • SH: The Sydney Herald (1831–1842) - NLA
  • SMH: The Sydney Morning Herald (1842–1954) - NLA

South Australia

  • Advertiser: The Advertiser - NLA

Tasmania.

  • CT: Colonial Times and Tasmanian Advertiser (Hobart 1825 – 1827) and Colonial Times (Hobart 1828–1857) – NLA
  • Courier: The Courier (Hobart 1840–1859) – NLA
  • Examiner: The Examiner (Launceston) - AOT
  • LC: The Launceston Courier (Launceston 1840-1843) – AOT, and NLA Fergussen Project (Website)
  • HTG: The Hobart Town Gazette and Southern Reporter (1816–1821) or Hobart Town Gazette and Van Diemen’s Land Advertiser ( 1821 – 1825) or Hobart Town Gazette (1825–1827) - NLA
  • HTC: The Hobart Town Courier (1827–1839) or The Hobart Courier and Van Diemen’s Land Gazette (1839–1840) – NLA
  • Mercury: The Hobarton Mercury (1854–1857) or The Hobart Town Mercury (1857) or The Hobart Town Daily Mercury (1858–60) or The Mercury (Hobart 1860–1954) – NLA
  • Tasmanian: The Tasmanian (Hobart) – AOT

Victoria.

  • Argus: The Melbourne Argus (1848–1854) or The Argus (Melbourne 1848–1954) – NLA
  • MA: The Melbourne Advertiser (1838) – SLV (Website)
  • MWC: The Melbourne Weekly Courier (1844–1845) – SLV, and NLA Fergussen Project: (Website)
  • NSW Gazette: New South Wales Government Gazette (NSW & Vic 1836-1851) - SLV (Website)
  • PP Gazette: Port Phillip Government Gazette (Vic 1843-1851) - SLV (Website)
  • PPH: Port Phillip Herald. (Melbourne) – SLV, and (Website)
  • Vic Gazette: Victoria Government Gazette (1851-1997) – SLV (Website)

Reference Abbreviations: Bibliography and frequently used texts.

  • Boyce: Van Diemen's Land - Boyce, James: Van Diemen's Land, Black Inc Publishing, Melbourne, Victoria, 2008
  • Lord: Inscriptions in Stone - Lord, Richard: Inscriptions in Stone - St. David's Burial Ground 1804-1872, Hobart Municipal Council, Hobart, Tasmania, 1976
  • Nicholls: Knopwood Diaries - Nicholls, Mary, Ed.: The Diary of the Reverend Robert Knopwood 1803-1838, Tasmanian Historical Research Association, Hobart, Tasmania. 1977
  • Schaffer: Lists - Schaffer, Irene: Land Musters, Stock Returns and Lists – Van Diemen’s Land 1803-1822, St. David’s Park Publishing, Hobart, Tasmania, 1991
  • Schaffer McKay: Exiled Three Times Over - Schaffer, Irene and McKay, Thelma: Exiled! Three Times Over, St. David's Park Publishing, Hobart, Tasmania. 1992
  • Summers: Carrolls of Circular Head - Summers, Judy: The Kildare Carrolls of Circular Head, published privately, 2002
  • Tipping: Convicts Unbound - Tipping, Marjorie: Convicts Unbound: the story of the Calcutta convicts and their settlement in Australia, Viking O'Neil, South Yarra, Vic., 1988
  • Weidenhofer: Garryowen's Melbourne - Weidenhofer, Margaret Ed.: Garryownen's Melbourne - A Selection of Extracts from The Chronicles of Early Melbourne, 1835 to 1852 by Garryowen (Edmund Finn), originally published in two volumes by Ferguson & Mitchell, Melbourne, 1888

Footnotes.

Generally footnotes don't end in full stops, unless there is more than one reference in the single footnote.

Birth, Death and Marriage registrations.

  • Repository or Website, Event, Registration year and number. e.g. - AOT Marriage Reg. 1000/1000.

Printed Material.

  • Surname, First Name, Title, Publisher, Year, sometimes page number/s.

Web References.

  • Surname, First Name or Institution, Title, Address, sometimes date viewed.

Email References.

  • Surname, First Name, Title, Recipient, date received. We don't publish addresses as this encourages spammers.