Helping you trace your family history in Australia and elsewhere
Helping you trace your family history in Australia and elsewhere
This site is an English-language virtual reference work on the First World War. The multi-perspective, open-access knowledge base is the result of an international collaborative project involving more than 1,000 authors, editors, and partners from over fifty countries. Over 1,000…
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
Search this catalogue for collections of unpublished material such as manuscripts, pictures, photographs, ephemera, music, maps, oral histories, architectural plans, postage stamps and other objects. You can browse collection highlights including digitised paintings, digitised drawings/prints, contemporary digital collections, Indigenous languages,…
This site offers insights into the Gallipoli conflict from the viewpoint of the official World War 1 correspondents. It includes war images, accounts of battles, examples of censorship and discussions of the Australian legend. This site is no longer available…
Use the site search function to explore a growing selection of government records about Australians and New Zealanders in World War I and the Boer War covering soldiers, munitions workers, nurses, conscription, internment, wartime copyright and patents, defence correspondence and…