Ancestry Library Edition
Key resource for genealogical research. Databases include Australian convict index, Australian electoral rolls, United Kingdom census records, British Army World War One pension records, United States census records and much more.
SLWA Guide to Searching Ancestry.
Provider: ProQuestSLWA Guide to Searching Ancestry.
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APAFT: Australian Public Affairs Full Text
Australian database focusing on the business, law and health sectors plus social issues. Search for articles in journals published by various Australian genealogical and historical societies such as Early Days (Royal Western Australian Historical Society) and Descent (Society of Australian Genealogists).
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Australian Newspapers
Access historic Australian newspapers from 1803 to 1954, digitised as part of the Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program.
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British Newspapers 1600 - 1900
Combined searching of the 17th - 18th Century Burney Collection and 19th Century British Library Newspapers
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CHRONICLES: The Australian Chronicles
A useful resource for genealogists, historians and researchers for locating biographical information on Australians.
Provider: InformitAustralian
Findmypast Australasia
Findmypast Australasia is one of the leading suppliers of online family history, with an ever-growing collection of over 650 million family history records. This will enable the process of tracing your family history easier. The database includes; Australian electoral rolls, criminal records, Australian State Government Gazettes and much more.
Findmypast Australasia is only accessible onsite at the State Library.
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Findmypast Ireland
Findmypast Ireland is brought to you by Eneclann, an award-winning research and publishing house with extensive experience in family history in Ireland, and Findmypast, a leading family history website. Together, they have worked to build a website which will help you to understand your Irish heritage and make amazing discoveries about your ancestors.
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Findmypast UK
Findmypast UK is one of the leading suppliers of online family history, with an ever-growing collection of over 650 million family history records. This will enable the process of tracing your family history easier. The database includes the 1911 UK Census and other UK census records, military records, UK Birth, Marriages and Death records and much more.
Findmypast UK is only accessible onsite at the State Library.
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Gale NewsVault
Gale NewsVault allows you to search across all the following newspapers: 17th-18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers, 19th Century British Library Newspapers Parts 1 and Parts 2, Illustrated London News and the Times Digital Archive.
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Illustrated London News Historical Archive (1842-2003)
The introduction in 1842 of The Illustrated London News marked a revolution in journalism and presented a vivid picture of British and world events. Explore more than a 150 years of the world's first fully illustrated weekly newspaper, reproduced in high-quality colour facsimile images.
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Irish Newspaper Archives
The Irish Newspaper Archive contains over 6 million pages in over 500,000 issues of Irish Newspaper publications spanning back as far as 1763. The contents of all issues are fully text searchable and reflect the full context and layout of each page.
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Nineteenth Century British Library Newspapers Parts I & 2
Over 2 million pages from 19th century newspaper titles held in the British Library. Newspapers were selected from all over Britain including Ireland, Scotland and Wales as well as England.
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Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
An illustrated collection of more than 57,000 specially written
biographies of the men and women from around the world who shaped all
aspects of Britain's past.
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Post Office Directories (Western Australian, The)
The post office directories published by H. Pierssené and then by H. Wise & Co. are an invaluable source of information for anyone who is doing family history or research on Western Australia during the period 1893-1949.
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Seventeenth - Eighteenth Century Burney Collection Newspapers
Nearly 1 million pages of rare 17th and 18th century material published in Britain and the colonies including pamphlets, broadsides and newspapers.
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Sydney Morning Herald Archives 1955 - 1995
Search all articles, captions, birth, death and marriage notices and advertisements in The Sydney Morning Herald and The Sun-Herald between 1955-1995. Full-text results are returned in an exact digital reproduction of the printed pages as they were originally published.
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The West Australian Archive Digital Editions
A digital archive edition of the West Australian newspaper covering July 2004 until yesterday. It contains the same content, editorial and photographic material that you’ll find in the printed version with the exception of The West Magazine and commercial inserts which are not included.
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Times Digital Archive 1785 - 2006
Find every page published in The Times newspaper over a 200 year period, covering political, legal, business and social news. It includes all articles, editorials, birth and death notices, advertisements, illustrations and photographs.
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Who's Who and Who Was Who
Who’s Who: the essential directory of the noteworthy and influential in every area of public life, published worldwide, and written by the entrants themselves. Who Was Who, an invaluable historical archive going back to 1897, which includes the entries of over 100,000 people, now deceased, who were included in previous editions of Who's Who.
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