Helping you trace your family history in Australia and elsewhere
Helping you trace your family history in Australia and elsewhere
This site by Peter Higginbotham aims to provide information on all the many and varied institutions that became home for thousands of children and young people in Britain. These establishments range from orphanages, homes for those in poverty, or with…
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
Barnardos provides a service for people who have lived in Barnardos care. They hold files on old boys and girls of Barnardos who migrated to Australia under the Child Migration Scheme and can provide information on your files and general…
This site has 53,000+ names of local, interstate and overseas persons mentioned in records in Queensland, Australia. There is also 135+ pages of advice and indexes original records held by Queensland State Archives. Indexes to original records at Queensland State…
The online Victorian Historical Indexes include: • Index to Missing People found in Victoria Police Correspondence Records• Index to Women Lecturers in Victoria 1880-1905• Index to Wife & Child Deserters• Index to Victoria Police & Police Stations• Index to Criminal…
The Find & Connect web resource is for forgotten Australians, former child migrants and everyone with an interest in the history of out-of-home care in Australia. Use this site to find information, including documents and images, about institutions, organisations that…
This database by Heather Garnsey and Martyn Killion indexes 78,000 names plus there is a free search service available to check for any additional information. The asylum was established in 1818 as a philanthropic organisation to care for the needy…
This 383 page guide, published by the Department of Community Services (DOCS) in 1998, is available online as a PDF file. This guide provides information about where records are kept and how to access them. It covers both Aboriginal and…
The Find & Connect web resource is for forgotten Australians, former child migrants and everyone with an interest in the history of out-of-home care in Australia. Use this site to find information, including documents and images, about institutions, organisations that…
The Find & Connect web resource is for forgotten Australians, former child migrants and everyone with an interest in the history of out-of-home care in Australia. Use this site to find information, including documents and images, about institutions, organisations that…