This index of historical local, regional and national Australian newspapers, periodicals and gazettes includes MyHeritage’s advanced optical character recognition (OCR) of articles dating back to 1803. Every state and territory is represented, though the bulk of the collection consists of material from New South Wales and Victoria. Newspapers are a fantastic resource for historic and genealogical research as they can contain rich information about people in your family tree, through vital record substitutes such as birth, marriage, death notices and obituaries.<br><br>More information about the history of a community can be discovered through society pages and stories of local interest that can contain detailed records of activities and events and often provide more information about the persons involved, as well as the context of the times in which an ancestor may have lived.<br><br>The images in this collection are provided courtesy of <a href="http://trove.nla.gov.au/" target="blank"> Trove - The National Library of Australia</a>
