Research: Your Family's History

Exploring your family history can be a very rewarding and interesting experience and there are a variety of information resources available to you.

Some people can find their family information very easily, but for others it may take more time. Archival sources can be fragmentary and incomplete and some records may have been damaged or destroyed over time.

If information on your family does exist you may need to look in more than one place to find the information you are after.

Below are some helpful places to start your research:

You may also want to consider contacting similar agencies in your family's country of origin and/or port of departure.

Please note that the Western Australian Museum cannot research or verify information for your Welcome Walls registration.