The National Archives is holding a Shake Your Family Tree day to help Australians discover more about their parents, grandparents and other relatives. Archives staff will talk to people about how to go about finding their own family’s records.

25 February 2009 – 10.00am–4.00pm

National Archives of Australia
Darwin Office
Kelsey Crescent
Millner NT 0810

The National Archives of Australia holds over a million service records of Australians who served in the Boer War, World War I and World War II. The records cover service in the Army, including the AIF (First and Second Australian Imperial Forces) and the CMF (Citizen’s Military Forces); the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF); and the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). The defence service records research seminar will provide details of these records and how to access them.

22 April 2009 – 12.00–1.00pm

Conference room
Northern Territory Archives Service
25 Cavenagh Street
Darwin NT 0800

Patrol officer records in the National Archives

The Patrol Service was a section of the Native Affairs Branch of the Northern Territory Administration from 1936 to the 1970s. It was established to monitor changes and movements in the Territory's Aboriginal populations, to protect Aboriginal people from exploitation and to investigate complaints from both pastoralists and the Aboriginal people they employed. The talk will provide details about the Patrol officers and the work they did, including the places they patrolled throughout the Northern Territory.

13 May 2009 – 12.00–1.00pm

Conference room
National Archives of Australia
Kelsey Crescent
Millner NT 0810