Australia Australian
Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies. The Family History Link
offers access to resources to help with tracing Indigenous family history. These include
the online
Aboriginal Biographical Index (ABI),
a family history information kit which
includes 23+ printable fact sheets and a Brief Guide to Indigenous
Family History Research. There are Online Collections
which include the Koori Mail (1991-2011), Dawn and
New Dawn magazines (1952-1975) plus other
resources.
Remembering
the Mission Days - Stories from the Aborigines' Inland Missions. This site by the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and
Torres Strait Islander Studies
features the magazines published by the Aborigines Inland Mission of
Australia (AIM): •
Our Aim - a monthly record of the
Aborigines’ Inland Mission (September 1907 to May 1961, with gaps), records
the activities of the Mission at many locations in New South Wales, and later
Queensland and the Northern Territory. • Australian Evangel -
(September 1929 to May 1961, with gaps), was produced for circulation to
people on the missions. It contains gospel messages and other features,
with contributions by Aboriginal people and lists of births, deaths and
marriages at the missions.
Infokoori.
An index to the Koori Mail from May 1991
plus an index to biographical information from Our Aim
(1907-1961), Dawn (1952-1969), New Dawn
(1970-1975) and Identity (1971-1982). Digitised copies of the Our
Aim (1907-1961), Koori Mail (1991-2011), Dawn and New Dawn
magazines (1952-1975) are
available on the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
Studies site.
Mura
Gadi. An online guide to manuscripts, pictures and
oral histories relating to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders held in the
National Library of Australia. There are online index searches, searches by
region and links to digitised copies of the material if available. This site was
archived on PANDORA in June 2012. Mura Gadi's records are now available on
the National Library of Australia's Catalogue and in Trove. Updated
National Archives of Australia
- Records About Indigenous Australians. This site details records held for the Northern Territory
and Victoria plus details of government policies on Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander affairs. There is a link to Publications and other resources
about Indigenous Australians
which includes information on the Bringing Them Home name index (not
online), links to online fact sheets, research guides, books and relevant
websites.
Australian
Aboriginal Genealogy Resources by Paul
Mackett provides access to extracts and transcripts from a wide range of
publically available documents and records such as birth, death and marriage
indexes, prison records and mission records.
Indigenous
Australians at War by Garth O'Connell. A
site dedicated to Indigenous Australians who served in war and peacetime.
Includes bibliography, roll of honour, photographs, links and
more.
New South
Wales
Indigenous Communities brings together the
many resources held by State Records
New South Wales. These include
Archives in Brief fact sheets, a Guide to NSW
State archives relating to Aboriginal people,
plus online indexes to Aboriginal
Colonial Court Cases (1788-1838) and Aboriginal People in the
Register of Aboriginal Reserves (1875-1904) and links to other indexes that may be relevant.
Milton
Ulladulla History Website. The
Aboriginal category includes resources and
indexes for researching indigenous families from the South Coast of New
South Wales.
Queensland State Library
of Queensland - Aboriginal
and Torres Strait Islander family history. This site has a getting started
guide plus information on major resources held, including the Norman
Tindale genealogical collection and Margaret Lawrie collection. There
is also information on the various types of records and links to other
related Internet sites. Updated
Queensland
State Archives. Online indexes include Colonial Secretary's Correspondence relating to Aboriginal
and Torres Strait Islander People 1859-1903.
South
Australia State
Records of South Australia
Aboriginal Services offers information about access to the records held
plus details of available publications such as the Aboriginal Resource
Kit.
Find Your Way Home
with SA Link-Up aims to assist Indigenous people find connections to
family and access reunification and other services. The guide Finding Your Own Way is
available online (PDF) and it details existing records of South Australian
children's homes and institutions. This site also details SA
Link-Up's book Aboriginal Missions in South Australia which covers the history of the missions and the names of
people who lived
there.
Tasmania
LINC Tasmania.Brief Guide 18: Records relating to Tasmanian Aboriginal
people. This guide has links to two other related guides (nos. 16 and 17).
Victoria Public Record Office Victoria -
Koorie Records Unit aims to highlight Aboriginal records within the PROV’s
collection. There is a link to Finding
Your Story: A Resource Manual to the Records of the Stolen Generations
in Victoria. This manual is available as a free download (PDF).
Looking
West. A detailed guide to Aboriginal
records in Western Australia, published by the Records Taskforce
of Western Australia. This site has been archived in
PANDORA.