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  1. Brings together information about child and youth care facilities in Australia from the 1810s. Includes orphanages, benevolent institutions, asylums, etc. You can use Find and Connect to:

    • Read about orphanages, Homes and other residences
    • Track down records - where they are, who to contact
    • View images of places in the Gallery
    http://www.findandconnect.gov.au
  2. This site provides a detailed list of where to locate Aboriginal records for Western Australia.
    https://www.dcp.wa.gov.au/SupportingI...AndFamilies/Documents/LookingWest.pdf
  3. Daisy Bates (1859-1951) observed and worked with Aboriginal people for many years and copies of her papers are held at the State Library of Western Australia. Digital copies are available on the University of Adelaide site.
    https://digital.library.adelaide.edu.au/dspace/handle/2440/69252
    Tags: , by family_history (06 Oct 2015)
  4. Dawn and New Dawn were magazines published by the New South Wales Aborigines Welfare Board. The magazines contain a lot of information useful to family historians such as birth, marriage and death details and photographs. You can search under name, place, keyword or date.
    http://www.aiatsis.gov.au/collections/exhibitions/dawn/index.html
  5. AIATSIS has digitised historic annual reports from the Chief Protector of Aborigines and Commissioner of Native Welfare.
    http://www.aiatsis.gov.au/collections/exhibitions/remove/index.html
  6. Storylines is a new online access point for the State Library of Western Australia's Aboriginal heritage collections. The system brings together photographs, oral histories, sounds and videos, in order to repatriate them to Aboriginal people around Western Australia and record new stories. Explore some of the stories and photographs which have been uncovered and reinterpreted as the project continues to work with individuals, organisations and communities throughout Western Australia.
    http://storylines.slwa.wa.gov.au/archive/index.php
  7. Staff from the Family Information Records Bureau can help indigenous people trace their families by accessing government departmental files
    http://www.dcp.wa.gov.au/SUPPORTINGIN...es/Searchingforyourfamilyhistory.aspx
    Tags: , by family_history (05 Jan 2012)
  8. Plenty of information on researching your family tree from the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies.
    http://www.aiatsis.gov.au/library/family_history_tracing
    Tags: , by family_history (31 Dec 2002)

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