A guide to researching ancestors who emigrated to Australia from countries other than the United Kingdom
Newspapers can provide a wealth of information about your ancestors, including:
The State Library has many Australian newspapers published in languages other than English for the various ethnic communities in Australia. We also have a small collection of foreign language newspapers published overseas. Search the Library's online catalogue to find specific titles.
The library subscribes to a range of international newspaper databases, providing access to both historical and current titles.
These resources can be accessed from outside the Library if you are a registered Victorian Library user.
You can find a full listing of titles on our current and historic newspapers database pages.
A selection of some of these databases is shown below:
Discover an archive of over 120 years of Chinese newspapers including The North - China Herald (1850-1941), The Chinese Recorder (1868-1941) and The China Weekly Review (1923-1950). Articles are full-text, fully searchable and viewable as images.
Access the complete content of a huge array of historic regional and metropolitan American newspapers.
Explore a wide range of New Zealand newspapers from the National Library of New Zealand archive.
Discover an archive of nearly a century of one of the most popular Hong Kong English-language newspapers. Articles are full-text, fully searchable and viewable as images.
Discover an archive of 170 years of the oldest continuing English-language newspaper in India. Articles are full-text, fully searchable and viewable as images.
Explore papers from the 18th century through to the 20th century, by keyword searching from the home page. For a listing of the newspaper titles select the 'Help & FAQ' from the left hand panel.
In addition, a list of online newspaper archives is available on Wikipedia which includes free and pay per view newspaper archives from around the world in many languages.
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