Helping you trace your family history in Australia and elsewhere
Helping you trace your family history in Australia and elsewhere
These 500 images were identified by Department of Veterans’ Affairs (DVA) staff member Courtney Page-Allen, a recipient of the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust Fellowship. To find them, she spent 18 months searching through the 16,000 World War I images held…
This archive of primary documents, compiled by World War I Military History List volunteers, is international in focus.
This comprehensive site is a multimedia history of World War 1. It contains a vast amount of valuable cultural, historical and social documentation for the Great War.
Queensland State Archives holds archival information about the Boer War. First World World and Second World War. Boer War: Records relate to the six contingents of the Queensland Defence Force which fought in the Boer War from 1899 to 1902…
This database hosted by the Australian Centre for the Study of Armed Conflict and Society (ACSACS) at UNSW Canberra draws on a wide range of official sources including personal files on the National Archives website, and Embarkation and Nominal Rolls…
During the First World War 1000+ Russian born servicemen fought in the Australian Imperial Force. They were the largest national group in the AIF after British, New Zealand and Canadian born servicemen. Their story is told in the book Russian…
Explore the Illawarra, its people, history and environment using these categories: • Local Studies -Explore the Illawarra, its people, history and environment• llawarra Images – Illawarra Images is a fascinating collection of more than 26,000 photographs of the Wollongong area…
This comprehensive site by Peter Mayberry features:Irish Convicts and Databases• Irish convicts to NSW 1788-1849. A fully searchable database database which provides full details from the convict indents held by State Records New South Wales and other sources.• 1798 &…
The Official Histories and War Unit Diaries include:• Digitised Official Histories for First World War and Second World War • Information on non-digitised official histories for the Korean War, South-east Asian conflicts and Peacekeeping and Post-Cold War operations• Unit and…
State Records of South Australia has links to an A-Z for researchers; Aboriginal services; fact sheets; family history information; indexes and special lists plus passenger lists. Some records are freely available online at FamilySearch. Use the indexes on this site…