Dan Morgan: bushranger
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It is 150 years since the death of the bushranger known as Dan Morgan.
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Pre-1901 Irish census records available on Find my past Ireland
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Last week the The National Archives of Ireland and Find my past anounced the release of over 600,000 Irish census records. These records cover the period 1821-1851 and have been made available through… Read More ›
SA postal directories going online
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For those of you like me researching South Australian family history you will be pleased to know that the State Library of South Australia is gradually making most of the… Read More ›
Occupational sources for Family Historians
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Researching the occupations of your ancestors can be a great way to flesh out their lives, to demonstrate their social status and possibly to explain why they migrated around the country or… Read More ›
New Research Guide on the Victorian Sheriffs Office Warrants
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Our guest bloggers, Lucy Shedden and Shona Dewar from the Australian Manuscripts collection at the Library introduce us to a new online research guide on the Victorian Sheriffs Office warrants… Read More ›
Play essential in early literacy
On Wednesday 14 August the State Library will host a special Storytime with best-selling children’s author Jeannette Rowe as part of Play Group Victoria’s state-wide library playgroup week.
UK National Archives Discovery Service
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The State Library of Victoria is now subscribing to the UK National Archives Discovery Service . This provides free access to the digitised documents available on the National Archives website.… Read More ›
NAIDOC Week 7 – 14 July 2013
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NAIDOC Week is being held in 2013 from 7 to 14 July and it is a good time to remind Family Matters readers of our online family history research guide Aboriginal… Read More ›
Under the Southern Cross – A goldfields experience. The Eighth Victorian Family History State Conference
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From 3-5 May I had the good fortune of attending the conference Under the Southern Cross – A goldfields experience held in the beautiful grounds of the ACU Aquinas Campus,… Read More ›
agIdeas at the Library
To celebrate agIdeas, the Library will host three displays including a body of work by French poster designer Alain Le Quernec, large-format vinyl lettering by type designer Nadine Chahine, and… Read More ›
