Social historians and people interested in the family ancestry will now be able to access information about millions of British people who emigrated from the UK to Australia in the late 19th and early 20th century, in search of a new life.
Ancestry.co.uk has amassed details of 8.9 million free settlers or legal immigrant workers to Australia, which includes approximately 2.2 million Britains.
Early Australia settlers are often thought of as the convict population, whereas many immigrants travelled to, and settled in Australia of their own free will. They often endured long arduous ship journeys and suffered hardships when they arrived. Nevertheless they settled, and populated the Australian continent building a modern country with a strong sense of identity.
The Australian population increased above one hundred times from 1826 to 1922 mostly due to immigration and a fast rising economy.
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