Our Special Collections Research & Support team are back with answers to more common questions that can help can uncover your ancestors' migration story.

Our Special Collections Research & Support team have answered common questions that can help can uncover your ancestor’s migration story.

Learn about the Library's family history research charts and how to find the information to fill them in.

Find out how to get started with your family history research and how the Library can help along the way.

Read about how author Tess Scholfield-Peters explored her grandfather's early life as a teenager fleeing Nazi Germany in her new book 'Dear Mutzi'.

Delve into our collections with our Research Librarians and uncover your family history.

Use this guide to find squatting and pastoral maps, parish surveys and real estate plans that provide invaluable insights into land ownership and movements across Australia.

Tess Scholfield-Peters

From January 1788, when the First Fleet of convicts arrived at Botany Bay, to the end of convict transportation 80 years later, over 160,000 convicts were transported to Australia.

In our second blog, find out how to find information on births, deaths, addresses and property records.

In the first of two blogs, learn about birth certificates, First Nations family history, electoral rolls, and cemetery records.

Learn how to access historical gazetteers, Ordnance Survey maps, and early atlases to uncover your family's origins in England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales.