Hi Karen,
The pic of Dora came to me through a distant cousin I met via Ancestry. She has done a huge lot of research, travelled over England and Australia meeting other cousins. She intends to publish eventually.
My "go to" is TROVE.....National Library of Australia.
I look up newspapers and publications for social events (usually with pics), marriages, births, deaths, funeral notices, sale of estates, obituaries...everything!
My mum died when I was 7yo, so I had very little on her.
Now I have early pics of her at a cricket match, helping at a red x event, she was a nurse. Her 1st marriage and what became of it, and lots more about her father who was a rotter, and her mother, an actress.
The addresses came from the SA Library, Biographical Index list of early citizens.
I used to travel to Adelaide every so often and spend the whole day at the library, as I am on a small farm in the SE of SA, 360k's away.
More now online.
Sorry this is so long.
Just got to keep plodding along.
My brick wall was smashed by doing that!
I couldn't find my family's immigration for12 years!
Finally through Trove an obscure newspaper had been transcribed and there they were!!! 8 of them!
The paper only survived for 6 years.
Hope you have some luck as I have!
Cheers,
Chris