Australians have often gone to great lengths to see their favourite sporting teams, even back in the 1860s. This is evidenced ...

The internet is a valuable aid to research into family history. Australian websites contain a variety of information relating to family history and genealogy including guides, indexes and digitised ...

Following a comprehensive process, the library has selected the open-source FOLIO library services platform for its next-generation library management system. A library management system is the ...

Theses completed for higher research degrees (PhD, Masters or Honours) form an important body of original research. There are a number of places you can search for Australian theses, we have outlined ...

This part of the Handbook contains a listing of all microfilms reels in the AJCP collection in numerical order. It also includes a listing of institutions which held part or all of the AJCP at the ...

Access to Records by Forgotten Australians and Former Child Migrants Assistance with records searching is available if you are a Forgotten Australian, Former Child Migrant (sometimes referred to as a ...

The Cambridge Dictionary defines fake news as “false stories that appear to be news, spread on the internet or using other media, usually created to influence political views or as a joke.” Dictionary ...

You may find that not all information about a convict is recorded on the Ticket of Leave Butts 1827-1867, particularly for earlier records. There were consequences for not producing a Ticket of Leave ...

The resources available for each house may be different, due to the fact the availability, organisation, and location of records vary from state to state. The three sources most commonly used to ...

Electoral rolls list people who are registered and eligible to vote at federal, state, territory and local government elections and referenda. Before Federation and for some years afterwards, there ...

Australian newspapers in the Library's collection are categorized and stored according to format. You can identify if the newspaper you have located in our catalogue ...

Early nineteenth-century gazettes served as general newspapers as well as government gazettes. Before 1940, territory ordinances, including those of the ACT and Northern Territory, were published in ...