this is an interesting topic in that other peoples favourite sites maybe unknown to you and opens up more avenues to search: mine at the moment are : London Lives - found my husband's 5th great grandfather as a Witness to a death in 1794- Trove- so much information to be found with patient searching for the Australian end of the families Burney Newspaper Collection and British Library Newspapers via NLA- another wealth of information, hope others add theirs, Jan