USEFUL SOURCES

BOOKS

Tracing Mining Ancestors: A Brief Guide to Resources in Australia and New Zealand by Shauna Hicks (Unlock the Past, 2014) Available from Gould Genealogy & History ( gould.com.au). WEBSITES

The Bendigo Regional Archives Centre

www.brac.vic.gov.au Hosts a free online resource to petitions relating to the Bendigo. These have been transcribed, indexed and digitised, giving an insight into the development of Bendigo from a transient mining area into an established town. Overland Gold 1851–1853 cornishvic.org.au/overland gold A research project of the Cornish Association of Victoria. How did miners, and sometimes their families, travel from one mining area to another? This project traces those who left the copper mines of South Australia for the gold mining rushes of Victoria. Sovereign Hill in Ballarat sovereignhill.com.au A historical mining village which is popular with tourists. If you can’t visit in person, you can take a virtual tour and discover what Ballarat was like in the 1850s.

The State Library of Queensland

slq.qld.gov.au/resources/ family-history/mining-accidents Has an online index, Mining Accidents 1882-1945, which is useful for anyone with Queensland mining ancestors. The State Library of Victoria guides.slv.vic.gov.au/ gold The library has created an online guide to gold miners and mining. Similar guides may be located in other state libraries.