Helping you trace your family history in Australia and elsewhere
Helping you trace your family history in Australia and elsewhere
The National Archives collection includes thousands of records documenting Australia’s rich migrant history. Research your family’s migration to Australia, find out more about Australian citizenship and discover a wealth of information about post-World War II immigration.Records covered include:• Passenger arrival…
From 1869 through to 1939 (1948 to British Columbia) it has been estimated over 100,000 children were emigrated from the United Kingdom to Canada to be used as indentured farm workers and domestic servants. Believed by Canadians to be orphans,…
This site has been developed for the former children of the Fairbridge Farm School, Molong who migrated from Britain to Australia between 1938 and 1974. The site aims to preserve the history and the memories of the Farm School and…
A family history research guide, by the State Library of Victoria, for adopted people, Forgotten Australians and child migrants.TIP: Check state libraries and state archival repositories for similar guides
National Archives of Australia’s Research Guides – You can browse and purchase copies from the online shop or download them for free from this site. Guides available include: • Twenty seven research guides covering immigration (British, Chinese, Jewish, child), foreign…
The index can be searched here but the associated site by Elspeth Grant, that shares the stories of 172 British youths aged 15 to 19 who arrived in South Australia as part of the State Government’s farm apprentice scheme, is not…
This site is designed to assist descendants of those who were part of the British child emigration scheme to Canada 1870-1957.
‘Forgotten Australians’ and ‘Lost Innocents’: child migrants and children in institutional care in Australia is a background note by Dr Coral Dow and Janet Phillips, November 2009. It provides an overview and history of the arrival of child migrants from…
These interviews are held by the National Library of Australia, Digital Collections – Oral Histories.
Over half a million Australian children experienced institutional care in the 20th century. To acknowledge and remember the experiences of these children, the Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs is funding the National Museum of Australia and…