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Family History

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: ProQuest
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Australian Newspapers Beta

Access historic Australian newspapers from 1803 to 1954, digitised as part of the Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program.
Provider: NLA
Australian
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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).
Provider: Informit
Australian
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British Newspapers 1600 - 1900

Combined searching of the 17th - 18th Century Burney Collection and 19th Century British Library Newspapers 
Provider: Gale
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CHRONICLES: The Australian Chronicles

A useful resource for genealogists, historians and researchers for locating biographical information on Australians.
Provider: Informit
Australian

Nineteenth Century British Library Newspapers

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.
Provider: Gale
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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.
Provider: Gale
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The Western Australian Post Office Directories

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.
Provider: State Library of Western Australia
Australian
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Times Digital Archive 1785 - 1985

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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Provider: Gale
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