Australia

Listed below are some key Australia-wide family history resources. For information relating to a specific State or Territory, please select the appropriate link on the left of the screen.

Archives and Libraries

The National Archives of Australia
The National Archives houses Commonwealth government records such as military, immigration and naturalisation papers. Records date from Federation in 1901 although, for some government departments, earlier material dating back to the mid-1850s is held. Over 18 million records have been digitised and are searchable by selecting RecordSearch from their home page. Other material can be viewed in their State and Territory reading rooms.

The National Library of Australia
The National Library website includes the following of interest to family historians:

• Family history and genealogy subject guides
• Historic Australian Newspapers, 1803 to 1954
  Digitised newspapers from around Australia. This site is not yet complete.
• Libraries Australia
  Combined catalogue of Australian libraries.
• Picture Australia
  Digitised photographs, artworks etc. from around Australia
• First Families 2001
  This site has been archived as part of the National Library's Pandora Archive project. It is a database of names and a collection of stories about the people of Australia and was completed to celebrate 100 years of Federation.

Gateways

Use the SLWA Genealogy Tags page on the social bookmarking site, Delicious, to find websites for Australia recommended by the Family History Subject Specialists. Simply click on any heading of interest e.g. australia-newspapers to see a list of websites relating to this topic. The larger a tag appears, the more websites appear on the list.

The following sites are also useful gateways to Australian family history material:
Web Sites for Genealogists by Cora Num
Australian family history and genealogy selected websites by the National Library of Australia

Journals

The Genealogist / Australian Institute of Genealogical Studies
Australian Family Tree Connections
To search for particular names or topics in this journal see the:

• AFTC Index
• Australian Family Tree Connections website