• BDA is a new research tool for historians and genealogists. The database contains tens of thousands of records of deceased people born or arriving in Australia.
• Stage 1 comprises convict, muster, census, baptism, marriage and burial records for much of the NSW population 1788-1828, along with full text short biographies of 11,000+ residents of most states published 1881-1909.
• Records of life events are linked to create a Biographical Report. From one report, subscribers can hyperlink to another biography, to spouses, parents, children, witnesses, employers, employees, through the entire database (see Sample).
• Future stages of BDA will add data from all states and territories, expanding from early records towards the present, including Aboriginal people, convicts and immigrants of all nations. User contributed data will be accepted after editorial checking (see Help us).
• This non-profit project will launch in 2013 with basic, advanced and keyword searches.
  

 

July 2012: We are hoping to launch in 2013.
8 May 2012: BDA has a web presence at last.
5 January 2013: The BDA database is under construction.