Helping you trace your family history in Australia and elsewhere
Helping you trace your family history in Australia and elsewhere
There are history publications, war history websites, a digital exhibition and veteran interviews to provide the education and wider communities with a greater understanding of Australia’s wartime experiences, both on the frontline and on the home front. Click on the…
During the First World War, 10 million people, servicemen or civilians, were captured and sent to detention camps. The ICRC Archives of the International Prisoners-of-War Agency 1914-1919 holds index cards, containing data on two million prisoners, primarily from the Western,…
Cairns Family History aims to promote family history and genealogical research in Cairns, Far North Queensland, Australia and beyond. The districts covered range from Cardwell in the south, Normanton in the west, and as far north as the tip of…
Launched to mark the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War this new interactive online map will map the global reach of the conflict using the official records of the First World War from The National Archives (UK) collection. The…
Explore stories, films and historical material about the First World War and contribute your own family history. Europeana 1914-1918 mixes resources from libraries and archives across the globe with memories and memorabilia from families throughout Europe. Browse by: • Types-…
This blog will have an associated website containing a database of volunteers with Coburg connections added in the next few weeks. New
This useful list is arranged alphabetically.
This website dedicated to the memory of Soldier Settlement in NSW aims to gather together a rich archival and oral history record that will:• Assess the relative success and failure of soldier settlement across a vast and geo-physically diverse area,…
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 original aim of The War Graves Photographic Project was to photograph every war grave, individual memorial, Ministry of Defence grave, and family memorial of serving military personnel from WWI to the present day. This aim has been extended to…