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Dewey Classification - Outline of Relevant Classes The Dewey classification originated in the nineteenth century, and knowledge has vastly expanded since then. Although it is regularly updated, the main classes reflect their nineteenth century origins, and it was certainly not devised with genealogists in mind. However it is the most widely used general classification scheme in the world and does achieve its main purpose of bringing related material together, hence its continued use. The main numbers relevant to our genealogical collection are set out below. Most of the material is located in class 300 Social Sciences and class 900 History Geography Biography, with some items scattered throughout the other main classes. 200 Religion - Contains material about various religious groups such as Quakers, Catholics, Jews, as well as histories of specific churches 300 Social Sciences 300-309 Emigration / Immigration - there is also related material in 325 325 Shipping - arrivals and departures. Includes schemes such as Fairbridge 338 Industrial - Books about specific industries, such as timber, dairying, etc. 355 Military science - A large section containing much material relevant to genealogists: military history, marines, airforce, etc. Includes Broomhall’s The Veterans. 360-369 Social services - Includes hospitals and charitable bodies 363 Police - Including crime and criminals 364 Convicts - A large section, which includes Western Australian and eastern states convicts, Convict Group files, First Fleet material 370-379 Education - Including histories of particular schools, staffing etc. 380-389 Communication and transport - Includes railways, shipping, post offices, etc., general and specific material. 400 Language - Contains a small section of language dictionaries 600 Technology and Applied Sciences 610-619 Medicine - Including nursing histories 620-629 Engineering 622 Mining - Mining disciplines of engineering , especially gold, etc. 630-639 Agriculture - Includes books on farming, timber industry, forestry, etc. 640-649 Home economics - Includes hotels and publicans 700 Arts 720-729 Architecture - Includes works relating to heritage, public buildings 770-779 Photography and photographs - Includes works on the camera, dating of photographs, etc. 796 Sports - Including histories of sporting clubs, etc. 800 Literature 808 Writing - Includes family history, life stories 900 History Geography Biography 910-919 Geography - Includes atlases, street directories, voyages, travels, shipwrecks, ships’ journals, Log of logs. (Note: Many atlases are shelved with oversize volumes at the start of the collection.) 914 Place names, gazetteers, topographical dictionaries 919 Shipwrecks 920-929 Biography - Includes collected and individual biographies, the Western Australian Biographical Dictionaries, ADB, etc. 929.1 Genealogy - Including books about, indexes, guides, eg. Dead Reckoning, handbooks, etc. Guides to tracing your family tree, including online sources. 929.2 Family histories - Arranged alphabetically by name of family, not author of book. A large collection of works 929.3 Sources 929.4 Surnames 929.6 Heraldry 929.7 Burke’s Peerage, Debrett’s and similar works 940 War - Includes history of battles, battalion histories, etc. 941.1 Scotland - General then subdivided by counties 941.5 Ireland - General then subdivided by counties 942 England - General then subdivided by counties - arranged by geographical areas, not alphabetically 943 Germany 944 France 945 Italy 950 Asia 960 Africa 971 Canada 973 United States of America 990 Australasia and Oceania 993 New Zealand 994 Australia 994.1 Western Australia - Includes Swan River Pioneers and EPG files, Group Settlement Scheme, and other general material. 994.11 Perth and suburbs 994.12 Wheatbelt and South West region 994.13 Murchison region and Pilbara 994.14 Kimberley region 994.16 Goldfields region and Yilgarn 994.17 Esperence region 994.2 South Australia and subdivisions 994.29 Northern Territory 994.3 Queensland and subdivisions 994.4 New South Wales and subdivisions 994.47 ACT 994.5 Victoria and subdivisions 994.6 Tasmania and subdivisions 994.82 Norfolk Island
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