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#AtoZChallenge - D is for Databases and Dictionaries

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If you've got a library card, you have access to all sorts of Databases.  Most public libraries in Australia (to the best of my knowledge) will give you free access to the Library edition of Ancestry.   And at the Redcliffe, Strathpine, Caboolture and North Lakes branches of the Moreton Bay Region Library service you also get access to Find My Past.   SLQ eResources gives you access to The Age Library edition and Sydney Morning Herald 2006-2017 as well as the Sydney Morning Herald archives (1955-1995), British Library Newspapers 1800-1860 , Irish Newspaper Archives (depending on the title - anywhere from 1738 - present), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Times Digital Archive 1785-2010 and Who's Who in Australia. The National Library of Australia eResources gives you access to American National Biography Online, Bibliography of British and Irish History, British Library Newspapers, China Core Newspaper Database, Dublin Castle Records 1798-1928, Early E...