Newspapers online

The Age from 2006

You can access online copies of The Age, from 2006 to the present, as part of the National Library of Australia’s eResources. More details about the National Library of Australia’s eResources are provided below.

Google newspaper archive

Access to a wide range of Australian and overseas newspapers is available via this site.

National Library of Australia’s eResources

The National Library of Australia offers many eResources on its website here. To access some of those resources (e.g. licenced resources) you will need to have a National Library of Australia library card. You can apply for one online here. National Library of Australia library cards are free and available to anyone who lives in Australia and can supply a residential address.

You can browse the available eResources by category, or by an A-Z resource list.

Sydney Morning Herald 1955 > 1995

For Australian family history enthusiasts who have family in New South Wales, the digitised copies of ‘the Herald’, which are part of the The National Library of Australia’s eResources, will prove very useful. More details about the National Library of Australia’s eResources are provided above.

Sydney Morning Herald from 2006

You can access online copies of The Sydney Morning Herald, from 2006, as part of the National Library of Australia’s eResources. More details about the National Library of Australia’s eResources are provided above.

Trove

Trove is a website hosted by the National Library of Australia. It contains digitised records of Australian newspapers (up to 1954), government gazettes, and various other content from libraries, museums, archives and repositories around Australia. And it really is a ‘treasure trove’ of information for many Australian history researchers – including those who are researching their family trees. I can’t say enough good things about this site! I have found it to be particularly useful for family notices, obituaries and even wedding descriptions.

The link above is to the Trove ‘home’ page, and this link is to the main ‘help’ page for the site.

This link will take you directly to the ‘newspapers’ home page.

It is useful (and free!) to create a login and password, to register as a user of the site. As time goes on you might find yourself wanting to correct some of the digitised text or add tags (e.g. people’s names) to newspaper articles. These tasks are easier with your own login details.