Find out how to access and use BDM records to link generations and branches of your family.

Find out how to locate burial information, cemetery and crematorium records that can lead to valuable discoveries in your family history.

Find out what time you were born using hospital records, birth announcements and family keepsakes.

Find out how to use electoral rolls to locate your family members or other peoples location or addresses over the years and who has living with them.

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.

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

The resources available for each house may be different, due to the fact the availability, organisation, and location of records vary from state to state.

Find immigration records, shipping and passenger lists for fare-paying passengers, assisted migrants and crew members to reveal key details about your family members arrival in Australia.

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.

Find out how to access over 60,000 passes issued to Indian people who came to Fiji as indentured labourers.

Beginner researchers can use this guide to find resources to help learn about their domestic family history or trace their ancestral origins overseas.

Access resources to help you research your Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander family history including records for births, deaths and marriages, missions, military service and information about the Stolen Generations. 

Trace the military history of your ancestors using resrouces and records from Australia, New Zealand and the British Army at the Library and beyond.

If you are looking for a soldier,  there are many published resources at the National Library to assist you.

Our Australian newspaper collections include digitised historic and modern newspapers accessible online.

The Australian Joint Copying Project (AJCP) is a collection of unique historical material relating to Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific dating from 1560 to 1984. 

A guide to finding biographies.

If you're trying to reconnect with friends or relatives, there are a range of resources and organisations that can help you.

Find out how to use electoral rolls to locate your family members or other peoples location or addresses over the years and who has living with them.