WA Family Histories Fund

Our WA Family Histories Fund supports your research into the ‘hatchings, matchings and dispatchings’ of your and other Western Australian families’ history. With the State Library holding an overwhelming amount of records, ephemera and collection items and providing a wide range of family research resources, we are the go-to for everyone wishing to dig deeper into family histories.

Our quarterly Family History Talks continue to be a popular starting point for many who wish to discover more about their family’s history. Our various digital research resources, including our Dead Reckoning WA Family History Research Guide, the Ancestry database, Find My Past and Trove, are complemented by the opportunity to look at original family material in our Leah Jane Cohen Reading Room.

The WA Family Histories Fund will support the extension of our research tools to databases that cover a wider geographical range, reflecting that a third of Western Australians and more than half of their parents were born overseas.

Your support can help unlock access to still unknown knowledge and help us deepen our understanding of where we are from. Depending on your individual circumstances and level of giving, we may also be able to assist with social opportunities to connect with wider family.

Things your support could help fund:

• Quarterly Family History Talks at the State Library
• Improving records for significant WA family collections
• Digitisation and transcription of significant family collections
• Enhancing research tools for Non-British Isles and migrant families
• Ancestry, Find My Past and Trove subscription services for the State Library and WA Public Libraries