State Library of Victoria – Aboriginal People and Family History Research Guide
This guide covers Victorian and national resources as well as other states and territories. Use the tabs at the top of this guide to navigate your way around.
Helping you trace your family history in Australia and elsewhere
Helping you trace your family history in Australia and elsewhere
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders
State Library of Western Australia- Indigenous Family History Guide
This is a guide to Aboriginal family history at the State Library of Western Australia.
Looking West
A detailed guide to Aboriginal records in Western Australia, published by the Records Task force of Western Australia. This site has been archived in PANDORA.
Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
The Finding your Family Link offers access to resources to help with tracing Indigenous family history. These include the online Aboriginal Biographical Index (ABI), a family history information kit which includes 44+ printable fact sheets and a Brief Guide to…
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…
National Archives of Australia – Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
This site details records held mainly for the Northern Territory and Victoria. It also holds records on the development of Australian Government policies on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander affairs, as well as records on the amendment of the 1967…
Australian Aboriginal Genealogy Resources
This site 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.
Remembering the Mission Days – Stories from the Aborigines’ Inland Missions
This site by the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies features the magazines published by the Aborigines Inland Mission of Australia (AIM):• Our Aim – a monthly record of the Aborigines’ Inland Mission (September 1907 to May 1961, with…