Helping you trace your family history in Australia and elsewhere
Helping you trace your family history in Australia and elsewhere
These records include: • Colonial Secretary’s Correspondence relating to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People 1859-1903 • Correspondence relating to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people 1894-1915 – Deebing Creek • Aboriginal War Census returns 1915-1916 Note: You can search…
This fact sheet has been developed to assist Australian Aboriginal people wanting to trace members of their family, within the collections of the State Library.
This site aims to assist Indigenous people find connections to family and access reunification and other services. The guide Finding Your Own Way is available online (PDF) and it details existing records of South Australian children’s homes and institutions. This…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.