The key online resources to search for Chinese people are NAA, PROV, BDM and other well known state or national institutions.
What about the hidden datasets that you don’t know about?
Use this search tool as a starting point to find those unknown resources.
Once you find someone, visit the original data source to discover more and verify identities.
One search request will search across multiple different data sources.
Enter the name into the main page search box.
Use their name in Chinese (Simple or Traditional) or English characters.
What are our datasets?
- The Victorian CEDT Index
- Historic Businesses of Chinatown, Melbourne
- Bendigo Goldfields Rate Books
- The Chinese Community in Maryborough, Victoria: Water Rates 1887-1936
- Chinese Graves at the Melbourne General Cemetery
- Alien Registrations 1916-1920 , Melbourne
- Chinese Australian Historical Images in Australia website
- Bendigo Easter Fair Donations 1882
- Exemptions from the CEDT proclaimed in the Victorian Gazette 1889-1902
- Burial Records: Ballarat New Cemetery 1854-1955
- Burial Records: Ballarat Old Cemetery
- Chinese Inquests in Victoria 1840-1880
- Ballarat Hospital: Chinese Admissions 1858-1888
- Petition; Bendigo Goldfields Chinese storekeepers and miners regarding Arrival Tax on certain Immigrants 1856
- Chinese Christian Baptisms 1855 – 1962
- Christian Missions to the Chinese in Australia and New Zealand, 1855 – c1900
- Miscellaneous Deaths of Chinese in Victoria, 1873-1909
- Miscellaneous Marriages of Chinese in Victoria, 1858-1911
- Chinese Asylum Patients 1848 – 1912
- Chinese Deaths in Melbourne Hospital. The Argus 1868-1880
- Chinese Exhumation Requests 1871-1875
- Women Prisoners with Chinese Surnames – 1857-1948
- Male Prisoners with Chinese Surnames 1868-1947
- Chinese Cemeteries in Australia by Kok Hu Jin
- Chinese Donors for Fundraising activities in the Early 20th Century
This search tool was inspired by the GLAM Name Search created by Tim Sherratt.
Data license: As per individual dataset · Data source: As per individual dataset