This up-to-date, easy to use book has been designed to help you find arrival records for members of your family who emigrated to Australia after 1924.
The latest Internet resources are included with details on how to use them. Paid sites are identified by "$$", and it includes lots of Internet sites and other resources to extend your search. You will also find 'sticky notes' throughout the book with plently of helpful hints and suggestions.
Topics covered include: Using the National Archives of Australia resources, passenger records, naturalisation records, alien and internee records, Hamburg passenger lists, FamilySearch, child and youth migration schemes, online newspapers, Google books, Trove, finding ships' pictures, pictorial databases, Immigration Photographic Archive and Welcome Walls.
Contents:
1. Begin the search
- How to begin
- Arrival categories
- Clues for finding arrival details
- Online information sheets
- Guide book
2. Understand the records
- Where are the records?
- Types of records
3. Search the records
- National Archives of Australia
- Other online immigration and passenger indexes
- FamilySearch
4. Child and youth migration
- Child migration
- Barnardos
- Fairbridge Farm Schools
- youth migration
- Dreadnought Scheme
- British Farm Apprentices: South Australia
- Barwell Boys
- Big Brother Movement
- Research guides
- Further reading
- Internet sites
5. Extend the search
- Australian newspapers
- Trove
- National Library of Australia catalogue
- Google books
- Some book examples
- Research the ship
- Ships' pictures
- Australian National Maritime Museum
- Pictorial databases
- Other sites for ships' pictures
Other places to extend the search
- State Records New South Wales
- The Immigration Photographic Archive
- Welcome Walls
- Migration histories
My Notes
