Web
Sites for Genealogists - An
Australian gateway site for tracing your family history by Cora Num
National Australian
Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies. This
site offers resources and guidance to help with tracing Indigenous family history. These include
the online Aboriginal
and Torres Strait Islander Biographical Index, a family history information kit which
includes 23+ printable fact sheets and a Brief Guide to Indigenous
Family History Research. There are Online Collections
which include the Koori Mail (1991-2011), Dawn and
New Dawn
magazines (1952-1975) plus other resources.
Infokoori.
An index to the Koori Mail from May 1991
plus an index to biographical information from Our Aim
(1907-1961), Dawn (1952-1969), New Dawn
(1970-1975) and Identity (1971-1982). Digitised copies of the Koori
Mail (1991-2011), Dawn and New Dawn
magazines (1952-1975) are available
on the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
site above.
Mura
Gadi. An
online guide to manuscripts, pictures and oral histories relating to Aboriginal
and Torres Strait Islanders held in the National Library of Australia. There are
online index searches, searches by region and links to digitised copies of the
material if available.
National Archives of Australia
- Records About Indigenous Australians. This site details records held for the Northern Territory
and Victoria plus details of government policies on Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander affairs. There is a link to Publications and other resources
about Indigenous Australians
which includes information on the Bringing Them Home name index (not
online), links to online fact sheets, research guides, books and relevant
websites.
Australian
Aboriginal Genealogy Resources by Paul
Mackett provides access to extracts and transcripts from a wide range of
publically available documents and records such as birth, death and marriage
indexes, prison records and mission records.
Indigenous
Australians at War by Garth O'Connell. A
site dedicated to Indigenous Australians who served in war and peacetime.
Includes bibliography, roll of honour, photographs, links and
more.
Department of Veterans' Affairs, Australia's War 1939-1945.
This site has a section titled
'All in' - Indigenous Service which looks at the
role played by indigenous Australians in World War II.
New South
Wales
State Records New South Wales Scroll down to the bottom of the page to
Researchers then click on Indigenous Communities for access to
many SRNSW resources including
Archives in Brief fact sheets, a Guide to NSW
State archives relating to Aboriginal people,
plus online indexes to Aboriginal
Colonial Court Cases (1788-1838) and Aboriginal People in the
Register of Aboriginal Reserves (1875-1904) and links to other indexes that may be relevant.
Milton
Ulladulla History Website. The
A
boriginal category includes resources and
indexes for researching indigenous families from the South Coast of New
South Wales.
Northern
Territory Northern
Territory Archives Service. Use the Archives Navigator link to access
the online information leaflet Researching your Aboriginal Family
History at the Northern Territory Archives Service. Other leaflets cover mission records,
oral history and images. There is also a subject guide to Aboriginal
People available.
Queensland
State Archives. Online indexes include Colonial Secretary's Correspondence relating to Aboriginal
and Torres Strait Islander People 1859-1903.
South
Australia State
Records of South Australia
Aboriginal Services offers information about access to the records held
plus details of available publications such as the Aboriginal Resource
Kit.
Find Your Way Home
with SA Link-Up aims to assist Indigenous people find connections to
family and access reunification and other services. The guide Finding Your Own Way is
available online (PDF) and it details existing records of South Australian
children's homes and institutions. This site also details SA
Link-Up's book Aboriginal Missions in South Australia which covers the history of the missions and the names of
people who lived
there.
Victoria Public Record Office Victoria -
Koorie Records Unit aims to highlight Aboriginal records within the PROV’s
collection. There is a link to Finding
Your Story: A Resource Manual to the Records of the Stolen Generations
in Victoria. This manual is available as a free download (PDF).