Family history
Destination: Australia: the curator’s favourites
Issue 10 April 2013
Archives curator Tracey Clarke shares some of her favourite images from the vast Immigration Photographic Archive. Continue reading
Tags: 1950s, 1960s, Destination Australia, immigration, Issue 10, photographs, refugees
Categories: Archives, Economy, Family history, Immigration, Research, Social history
In brief: Issue 9
Issue 9 January 2013
Latest exhibition news, funding for innovative research, Shake Your Family Tree events, Archives supporting abuse inquiries, and more. Continue reading
Tags: Antarctica, events, exhibition, family history, Issue 9, photographs, training
Categories: Archives, Arts and culture, Communications, Family history, Information management, Research
Meet the Hoogenhouts
Issue 8 October 2012
Amy Lay introduces the Hoogenhout family and a new website featuring thousands of photographs of people who have migrated to Australia. Continue reading
Tags: Destination Australia, Dutch migrants, immigration, Issue 8, photographs
Categories: Archives, Family history, Immigration, Social history
Archives vintage: the good wife
Issue 7 August 2012
How do you measure up as a 'good wife'? We take a look back at expectations of wives in 1950s Australia, as represented in the Archives' photographic collection. Continue reading
Tags: 1950s, Anne Fogarty, fashion, Issue 7, photography, Women's Weekly
Categories: Archives, Family history, Social history, Uncategorized
The Montevideo Maru tragedy: the missing link?
Issue 7 August 2012
A document recently received by the National Archives sheds light on Australia's greatest maritime tragedy. Continue reading
Tags: Issue 7, Montevideo Maru, prisoners of war, World War II
Categories: Archives, Defence, Family history, Research
Family connections: bringing the past to life
Issue 6 April 2012
Director-General David Fricker discusses his family's defence service records, discovered in the Archives. Continue reading
Tags: David Fricker, Issue 6, World War I, World War II
Categories: Defence, Family history
Tags: Antarctica, exhibition, Issue 5, Jikji, Minister, preservation, records authority, Simon Crean, training, World War I
Categories: Archives, Defence, Environment, Family history, Information management, News, Politics, Social history
Death register sheds light on those laid to rest
Issue 4 October 2011
Between 1832 and 1984, more than 570 people died at the North Head Quarantine Station. Archives records tell the stories of some of those buried there. Continue reading
Tags: cemetery, Issue 4, public health, quarantine, World War I
Categories: Archives, Defence, Family history, Health and welfare, Immigration