Chapter 1 – Begin the search          

Chapter 4 – Child and youth migration

How to begin 

Child migration         

Arrival categories

  Barnardos    

Useful resources for locating clues to arrival           

  Fairbridge Farm Schools     

Chapter 2 – Understand the records

Youth migration        

National Archives of Australia holds the records

  Dreadnought Scheme          

  Fact sheets   

  British Farm Apprentices – South Australia

  Research guides       

  Barwell Boys           

  Books

  Big Brother Movement       

  Papers and podcasts

Child and youth migration research guides

  Snapshots of the collection

Further reading          

Records held by National Archives of Australia

Chapter 5 – When you know the ship

  Passenger records    

Trove digitised newspapers  

  Naturalisation and citizenship records

Access eResources from home         

  Department of Immigration Citizenship Index

  Online overseas newspapers           

  Alien registration forms

Ships’ pictures

  Migrant selection documents

Ships’ journals and diaries    

Chapter 3 – Search the records

Chapter 6 – Extend the Search       

National Archives of Australia resources

Use Trove to search for information

  RecordSearch          

eBooks – a new way to search

  How to use RecordSearch

  Sites with eBooks

  NameSearch on RecordSearch

Background information

  PhotoSearch on RecordSearch

  Some book examples

  RecordSearch - Passenger arrivals index 1921-1950

Other places to extend the search

  Obtaining copies of items found on RecordSearch

  State Records New South Wales

Overseas online migration resources

  The Immigration Photographic Archive

Other Australian online migration resources           

  Welcome Walls       

FamilySearch

  Internet sites

  What is FamilySearch?

  What does FamilySearch have?      

  Historical record collections on FamilySearch

  Migration collections – Australia and New Zealand

  Historical record collections – Europe

  Use the Family History Library Catalog on FamilySearch

  Organise to use FamilySearch records locally