Family Research
Are you thinking about researching your family but want information for free?
Western Australian research has lots of free sites:
- State Birth, deaths and marriages can be found online eg: WA site is https://www.wa.gov.au/organisation/department-of-justice/the-registry-of-births-deaths-and-marriages
- State records office archives include amazing records eg: WA site is https://www.wa.gov.au/organisation/state-records-office-of-western-australia
- Cemetery records for WA metropolitan interments: https://www.mcb.wa.gov.au/research
National sites:
- Australian National Archives includes Service records and immigration with offices in each state: https://www.naa.gov.au/
- Commonwealth War Graves: https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/
Read the hints to learn how to enter your information with sources, always starting with yourself.
Photos, reports, stories, newspaper articles and maps can be included in your database.
Beware Genealogy can be a consuming hobby, taking overtime allocated to housework, gardening etc and can lead to working late at night, tripping around the world to meet cousins or visit family sites and needing external hard drives to store or back up those precious records.
Most of all have fun.
Marg.
