In order to get more accurate results, our search has the following Google-Type search functionality:
If you use '+' in front of a word, then that word will be present in the search results.
ex: Harry +Potter will return results with the word 'Potter'.
If you use '-' in front of a word, then that word will be absent in the search results.
ex: Harry -Potter will return results without the word 'Potter'.
If you use 'AND' between two words, then both of those words will be present in the search results.
ex: Harry AND Potter will return results with both 'Harry' and 'Potter'.
If you use 'OR' between two words, then bth of those words may or may not be present in the search results.
ex: Harry OR Potter will return results with just 'Harry', results with just 'Potter' and results with both 'Harry' and 'Potter'.
If you use 'NOT' before a word, then that word will be absent in the search results.
ex: Harry NOT Potter will return results without the word 'Potter'.
Placing '""' around words will perform a phrase search. The search results will contain those words in that order.
ex: "Harry Potter" will return any results with 'Harry Potter' in them, but not 'Potter Harry'.
Using '*' in a word will perform a wildcard search. The '*' signifies any number of characters. Searches can not start with a wildcard.
ex: Pot*er will return results with words starting with 'Pot' and ending in 'er'. In this case, 'Potter' will be a match.
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Embark on a family history journey…
Family Journeys traces the histories of nine Australian families through records in the National Archives’ collection. Join us on the journey and learn how to start your own family history research.
We find out that gardening guru Jamie Durie has roots in Sri Lanka and England, and the Noni Hazlehurst comes from a talented family of theatre and radio performers who migrated to Australia as ‘ten-pound-poms’. Scientist Dr Karl Kruszelnicki tells us he arrived in Australia in 1950 as a young child with parents who survived Nazi concentration camps, and we’ve tracked down his family migration papers.
Read their stories and others. Be inspires to begin your own journey.