How To Get Started
Where do you start, below are a few steps to help you get started.
Marriage Certificate
The first step is to find your parents’ marriage certificate.
- On this certificate will be the date and place of their marriage, witnesses, perhaps some information on their fathers.
- Each state in Australia has a Births Deaths and Marriages website in which you can search generally for free, however certificates will incur a cost.
The Trove Website
Trove is a very useful website. It is run by the National Library of Australia who are digitalising all papers across Australia. You can search for any word or place or a combination, there are newspapers as well as photographs, diaries etc. Trove is free and you can setup a free account in which you can then save articles that you are interested in to lists to access later.
The link is https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/
Cemetery Records
Again most towns or cities will have a website that allows you to search their cemetery records for free. A free site which has cemetery records for towns across Australia is Lorraine’s Burial Records.
The link is http://www.ozburials.com/CemsWA/waus.htm
Historical Societies
Finally Historical Societies in towns may have additional information, or libraries in cities and regional centres may be to assist with further research.