Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are advised that our website sometimes contains images of deceased persons.
This resource list was put together by the Public Libraries Victoria in collaboration with the Koorie Heritage Trust and the PROV Koori Records Unit.
Link-Up Victoria
Births Deaths Marriages Victoria
Births Death Marriages Victoria –Family History and Stolen Generations
Koorie Family History Service
AIATSIS Family History (includes toolkit, worksheets and checklists and more, easy to print off and access off line)
Bringing them Home – Report recommendations
State Library Victoria – Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander People Research Guides
National Library of Australia – Australian Indigenous Family History Research Guide
National Library of Australia – Collections – Indigenous
Public Records Office Victoria – Koorie Services
Public Record Office Victoria – Aboriginal Victorians (1830s – 1970s)
Public Records Office Victoria – Koorie Index of names (1839-1946)
National Archives of Australia – Researching your family
National Archives of Australia – Bringing them Home name index
State Library New South Wales – NSW First Nations Family History Research Guide
State Library New South Wales – Australian Indigenous Index
The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Biographical Index (a personal name index compiled by AIATSIS hosted on Trove)
Victoria. Aboriginal Honour Roll Inductees
Australian War Memorial – First Nations service in Australia’s armed forces in peace and war (an overview and searchable list)
Gather – Connecting Aboriginal communities with collections and stories from the State Library of NSW
State Library of Queensland – First Nations family history
State Library of Western Australia – Storylines (image database connecting First Nations people with their history)
Centre for Indigenous Family History Studies
Stolen Generations Testimonies
How to do an oral history
Ancestry Library Edition is available at every Victorian Public Library.