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It's good news week - or not

Doesn't matter really what the news is, or where it is, if you want to keep up to date with newspapers worldwide, you just have to use this special Newspaper Map.

WAGS and Western Australian genealogy and family history included, if you are wanting to know what local newspaper is current for just about anywhere in the world, you can't go past this. All states of Australia included, and massive numbers of newspapers worldwide available at the click of an icon.

Magic stuff with newspapers and maps....

Genealogy in Time annual survey - WAGS is a winner

WAGS has well and truly made it into the Genealogy in Time's worldwide Top 100 Genealogy Websites - first time in and arriving at number 71.

This is a terrific achievement by WAGS considering that we are up against the monsters in the genealogy world of websites. This including the likes of Ancestry, FamilySearch, FindMyPast, GeneaNet, Geni.com and a whole swag of other paysites.

2014 Christmas Eve gift for Florida family

On Sunday 5th March 1916, William Hollington Bonsey was presented with a bible.

It was a small, compact volume covered in black hide with an inscription on the flyleaf …….

WAGS Welcomes - Bassendean Local Studies

Bassendean has a long history of Aboriginal settlement, and as one of the earliest areas of European settlement in Perth, it also has a rich history of gentleman farmers, convicts and Pensioner Guards.

Further information is available via email or at the Local studies collection at the Bassendean Library.

WAGS welcomes the Bassendean Local Studies Collection as an Associate member of WAGS.

Gallipoli Dead from Western Australia

Every WAGS WA Interest Group member and all other volunteers and contributors should be very proud of being able to publish the results of the Gallipoli Dead from Western Australia Project.