Moonee Valley Family & Local History Blog

Over the last year or so over 200,000 pages of Australian Jewish newspapers from between 1871-2008 have been digitised and made available online via Trove. This is thanks to a collaborative project between the National Library of Australia (NLA), the National Library of Israel (NLI) and the Australian Jewish Historical Society (AJHS). The following titles can now be found in Trove: § The Australian Jewish Herald (Melbourne, Vic. : 1920 - 1933) § The Australian Jewish News (Melbourne, Vic. : 1935 - 1999) § The Australian Jewish News (Melbourne, Vic. : 2000-2020) § Australier Leben = Australian life (Melbourne, Vic. : 1931 - 1933) § The Westralian Judean (Perth, WA : 1924 - 1925; 1929 - 1955) § The Australian Hebrew Times (Sydney, NSW : 1894) § The Dialectic : Jewish Monthly (Fitzroy, Vic. : 1875) § The Australian Zionist Pioneer (Sydney, NSW : 1929)   § The Australasian Hebrew (Sydney, NSW : 1895 – 1896)   § The Australian Jewish Chronicle (Sydney, N...

Trove is back online. After a week of tinkering Trove 7 is now live and able to be used again. Some of the updates that have been made include the publishing of the NSW Government Gazettes from 1832-2001. One of the big changes has been to newspaper searching. Gone is the map of where you would like to click, replaced with a narrowing search field that pops across the front of the screen. While this might take some getting used to, it allows for articles to be found faster than before. To discover what's new click here.  

If you have Welsh ancestry it might be time to check out Welsh Newspapers Online . Much like the digitised newspapers component of Australia's Trove , this site offers free access to over 7.6 million articles from over 100 newspapers published between 1804 and 1919, and other the last month they've added an extra 100,000 pages. Definitely worth a look if any of your ancestors came from Wales. Julia