Northern Territory

Giant termites' nest, Northern Territory,
1950 [State Library of Western Australia,
274326PD]

Archives and Libraries

Northern Territory Archives Service
Website for the Northern Territory Archives Service which includes a list of holdings.

National Archives of Australia - Darwin reading room
The National Archives houses Commonwealth government records such as military, immigration and naturalisation papers. Records date from Federation in 1901 although, for some government departments, earlier material dating back to the mid-1850s is held. Over 18 million records have been digitised and are searchable by selecting Search the collection from their home page. Other material can be viewed in their State and Territory Reading rooms.

Northern Territory State Library
The Northern Territory State Library website includes their catalogue and subject guide for genealogy.

Websites

Use our SLWA Family History Bookmarks to find websites for the Northern Territory recommended by the Family History Subject Specialists. Simply click on any heading of interest e.g. northern.territory-newspapers to see a list of websites relating to this topic. The larger the tag, the more websites appear on the list.

Societies

Genealogical Society of the Northern Territory Inc.
Historical Society of the Northern Territory Inc.

Journals

The following journals are available in the Genealogy Centre on the 1st floor:
Progenitor: the official journal of the Genealogical Society of the Northern Territory
Journal of Northern Territory history / Historical Society of the Northern Territory (Online)
Journal of Northern Territory history / Historical Society of the Northern Territory

Other Resources

To find other material at the State Library try searching our catalogue using the keywords northern territory genealogy.

Page last updated: Thursday 14 February 2013