
Lookin for your mob : a guide to tracing Aboriginal family trees by Diane Smith and Boronia Halstead.
Lookin for your mob : a guide to tracing Aboriginal family trees by Diane Smith and Boronia Halstead.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are advised that this research guide contains the names and images of people who are now deceased.
Talk to as many family members as you can. Family members will often have valuable information such as names (including nicknames), dates and firsthand accounts of events like births, deaths or marriages. You may like to ask the following questions:
Collect or copy any relevant documents such as birth certificates, newspaper articles, letters or diaries etc. that you or other family members may have. This type of information will assist you with your research.
Write down as much information as you can about your family.
We recommend the material on the AIATSIS Family History Page as a very useful guide for beginners.
Detail from Map showing the distribution of the Aboriginal tribes of Australia [cartographic material] / by Norman B. Tindale.
TINDALE GENEALOGIES
Norman Tindale wrote many family history tree charts in the 1920s and 1930s called the ‘Tindale Genealogies’. Visit the AIATSIS website and see where you can view these genealogies.
Aboriginal people do appear on Australian electoral rolls prior to 1967. Read more about the history of the Indigenous vote on the archived Australian Electoral Commission website.