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), The China Weekly Review (1923-1950), and Millard's Review of the Far East (1917-1921). 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, 1756-1963. Find newspaper titles by region and date from 1790 to current.
Explore a wide range of content from the National Library of New Zealand archives. Collections include newspapers magazines and newsletters, letters and diaries, parliamentary papers and books. Date rangs vary for each title and category.
Discover an archive of nearly a century of one of the most popular Hong Kong English-language newspapers. Includes South China Morning Post (1903-2001) and South China Sunday Morning Post (1950-2001). 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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