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Useful Books for the Beginner

Our military ancestors: a guide to sources in the J S Battye Library of West Australian History by Glenda Oakley

AUSTRALIAN ARCHIVES
Relations in records: a guide to family history sources in the Australian Archives
Canberra: Australian Government Publishing Service, 1988. [Q016.92939 AUS]

Australian Joint Copying Project Handbook parts 1-11
Canberra: National Library of Australia, 1972- [Q994 NAT]

AUSTRALIAN SOCIETY OF ARCHIVISTS
Directory of Archives in Australia
O'Connor, ACT: Australian Society of Archivists, 1992. [027.094 DIR]

BRADLEY, Joyce
Roll call, a guide to genealogical sources in the Australian War Memorial
Canberra: Australian War Memorial, 1986. [016.92939 ROL]

DRAPER, Patricia
Australian local and family histories: consolidated surname index
Melbourne: Macbeth Genealogical Books, 1992- [929.42 DRA]

FAMILY INFORMATION RECORDS BUREAU
Finding out about your Aboriginal family history
[East Perth, W.A.] : Family Information Records Bureau, [2003] [Q929.3941 FIN]

HAWKINGS, David T.
Bound for Australia
North Sydney, NSW: Library of Australian History, c1987. [929.39 HAW]

How to trace your family history on the Internet
London, Reader’s Digest, 2008. [929.1072 HOW]

JOHNSON, Keith A. & SAINTY, Malcolm R.
Genealogical Research Directory
[Sydney]: Library of Australian History, 1981-. [929.1 GEN]

LEONE, Bette
How to trace your Italian ancestors: a guide for Australians and New Zealanders
Sydney: Hale & Iremonger, 1994. [929.1 LEO]

MAXWELL, Ian
How to trace your Irish ancestors: an essential guide to researching and documenting the family histories of Ireland’s people
Oxford; How To Books, 2008. [929.1072 MAX]

MCCLAUGHLIN, Trevor
Barefoot and pregnant?: Irish famine orphans in Australia: documents and register
[Melbourne]: Genealogical Society of Victoria, c1991. [929.1 MCC]

MCCLAUGHLIN, Trevor
From shamrock to wattle: digging up your Irish ancestors .
[Melbourne]: Genealogical Society of Victoria, 1990. [929.1 MCC]

MONTAGUE, Ronald H.
How to trace your military ancestors: in Australia and New Zealand
Sydney: Hale & Iremonger, c1989. [929.1 MON]

MUTZELBERG, Owen
How to trace your German ancestors: a guide for Australians and New Zealanders
Sydney; N.S.W.: Hale & Iremonger, c1989. [929.1072 MUT]

OAKLEY, Glenda
Our military ancestors: a guide to sources in the J.S. Battye Library of West Australian History and the State Archives of Western Australia
[Perth, WA]: Library and Information Service of Western Australia, 1991. [016.92939 JSB]

O'MARA, Gillian
Convict records of Western Australia: a research guide
Northbridge, WA: Friends of Battye Library, 1990. [929.1072 OMA]

REAKES, Janet
How to trace your family tree (and not get stuck on a branch)
Sydney: Hale & Iremonger, 1998. [Q929.1072 REA]

REAKES, Janet
How to trace your missing ancestors
Sydney: Hale & Iremonger, 2000. [929.1 REA]

REAKES, Janet
How to write the family story
Sydney: Hale & Iremonger, c1993. [Q929.1072 REA]

REAKES, Janet
Overseas research from Australia
Pialba, Qld: J. Reakes, 1992. [Q929.1 REA]

THE RECORDS TASKFORCE OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA
Looking west : A guide to Aboriginal records in Western Australia
[Perth, W.A,] : Records Taskforce of Western Australia, 2004. [Q929.3941 LOO]
Also available online.

REID, Ralph S.
Into history
North Ryde, NSW: R.S. & A.F. Reid, c1996. [Q929.1 REI]

RICHARDS, Joanna A. et al
Index to the microform collection of the Society of Australian Genealogists as at 31 January 1990
[Sydney]: The Society, 1990. [016.92939 SOC]

ROADS : an index of locations and access to adoption records / Adoption Service, Department for Community Development
[Perth, W.A.] : The Department, 2005. [Q362.734 ROA]
From 1898-2003, approximately 21,000 adoptions have been granted in Western Australia. The aim of this book is to help people who were involved in adoption to find information about themselves or their family. It provides details of various records held by the Department for Community Development, non-Government sources, hospitals etc, which will held the individual to locate records. Also available online.

SAUL, Pauline
The family historian's enquire within
Newbury, Berkshire: Federation of Family History Societies, 1995. [929.1 SAU]

Signposts : a guide for children and young people in care in Western Australia from 1920
[Perth, W.A.] : Information Services, Dept. for Community Development, 2004. [Q362.73 SIG]
Contains contact details and information about government and non-government bodies which had children in their care from 1920 onwards, including young people who lived in supported accommodation. Provides a history of each organisation including name changes and notes what records are available. Also available online.

SMITH, Diane Everly
Lookin for your mob: a guide to tracing Aboriginal family trees
Canberra: Aboriginal Studies Press for the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Islander Studies, 1990. [929.1 SMI]

SONDALINI, Sue (compiler)
The Genealogy Centre resource list : Australasia
[Perth, W.A.] : LISWA, c1999. [Q016.929394 LIB]

STATE ARCHIVES OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA
Order in the court: a guide to the records of the Supreme Court of Western Australia
[Perth, WA]: Library and Information Service of Western Australia, 1990. [016.347941035 STA]

VINE HALL, Nick
Parish registers in Australia: a list of originals, transcripts, microforms and indexes of Australian parish registers
Middle Park, [Vic]: N. Vine Hall, c1990. [016.92939 VIN]

VINE HALL, Nick
Tracing your family history in Australia: a guide to sources
Adelaide: Rigby, 1994. [929.39 VIN]

WESTERN AUSTRALIAN GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY INC.
Members' interests directory
[West Perth, WA]: WAGS, 1998- [Q929.1072 WES]

WEBSTER, Judy
Specialist indexes in Australia: a genealogist's guide
Brisbane, Qld: J. Webster, 1998. [016.929394 WEB]