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Title
Searching for your family history
In
Department of Communities website
Imprint
Deapartment of Communities, State Government of Western Australia, 2021
Url
https://www.wa.gov.au/organisation/department-of-communities/searching-your-family-history

Related Entries

Archival Collections

  • Records of the Department of Child Protection and Family Support, and predecessors (1894 - )

Archival Series

  • Admission Registers of the Government Receiving Home [Walcott Street, Mt Lawley] (1894 - 1988)
  • Bridgewater Admissions Register (1969 - 1983)
  • Client Files, Child Protection and Family Support [and its predecessors] (1921 - )
  • Former Child Migrants Blue Index Cards (1947 - 1968)
  • Former Child Migrants Referral Index (1913 - 1968)

Organisations

  • Department of Communities, State Government of Western Australia (2017 - )
  • State Records Office of Western Australia (2001 - )
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Last updated: 18 January 2023
Cite this: https://www.findandconnect.gov.au/ref/wa/bib/WP0000140.htm
First published by the Find & Connect Web Resource Project for the Commonwealth of Australia, 2011

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