Electronic resources beginning with ‘N’

This site provides a searchable database of more than two million citations to, and abstracts of, technical reports and research papers from NASA research centers and labs. Many of the reports deal with physics, aeronautics, computing, and environmental science. The full texts of some of the reports are available. The NASA astrophysics data system is also available for searching.

(National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation, Australia)

NACCHO is the national peak body representing Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services throughout Australia.

A site devoted to astronomy and space exploration, from the history of NASA's space missions to multimedia features on the latest developments.

The National and State Libraries Australasia Honorary Fellowship (NSLA) is the peak body representing state and territory libraries and the National Library throughout Australia.

This site provides historical information about the national anthem. The words and music are also provided.

The National Archives of Australia holds material on immigrants and refugees, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, members of the defence forces, government employees, subjects of surveillance by security and intelligence agencies, or as prisoners of war or internees. Records held by the Archives were generally created after 1901. It does not hold records of convicts, of colonial migration, or of nineteenth century Australian history such as the gold rushes or colonial administration.

This site provides information about genealogical material held in the Archives, including the Ireland–Australia transportation database.

This database covers transportation records of convicts sent from Ireland between 1791 and 1868. Note that all transportation registers prior to 1836 were destroyed. Therefore if the convict was not the subject of a petition prior to this date, they will not appear. The names of the convict family members that came to Australia as free settlers may also be listed. This is an index only. Microfilm copies of the original records are held in the Family History Service at the State Library of NSW. These records were received in 1988 as a gift from Ireland to commemorate the bicentenary of white settlement in Australia.

This site provides an online index to records relating to transportation from Ireland to Australia covering the period from 1788 to 1868. Results of searches contain details such as name, age, crime, sentence, and the ship on which the convict was transported.

Note that all transportation registers prior to 1836 were destroyed. Therefore if the convict was not the subject of a petition prior to this date, they will not appear. The names of the convict family members that came to Australia as free settlers may also be listed.

This is an index only. Microfilm copies of the original records are held in the Family History Service at the State Library of NSW. These records were received in 1988 as a gift from Ireland to commemorate the bicentenary of white settlement in Australia.

The National Archives has launched a set of more than 60 'research signposts' under the headings Life Events, Military Personnel and Civilians to simplify the process of researching an ancestor.

The short, clearly written guide points you to the most useful resources, whether these are online or original documents, held at The National Archives or elsewhere.

The National Archives Catalogue contains 10 million searchable descriptions of records from central government, courts of law and other UK national bodies. The records (and their descriptions) are arranged under the different government departments that originated them.

This site provides information about the National Australia Day awards, Australians of the Year and celebrations.

This site lists the winners of the Australia Day awards.

(National Breast Cancer Centre, Australia)

Information on risk factors, detection, treatment and statistics on breast cancer. Also has details of support groups, programs, advocacy groups and personal stories.

The Federal Department of Education, Science & Training's National Centre for History Education is a gateway to the teaching and learning of history in Australia's schools

The leading statistical survey of Christianity and church life in Australia, the NCLS is conducted after each national census and data correlated with it and other statistical sources. All major denominations included, representing 80% of church attenders. Website includes 'ChurchSEARCH' a comprehensive directory of churches.

This site provides links to news and weather, commodity prices and markets, as well as technical and government information.

Current information on geography, science and the environment.

The British National Maritime Museum's guide to tracing members of the merchant and Royal Navies, as well as ships and passenger records.

The National Museum of Australia's establishment of the Centre for Historical Research has consolidated the study of Australian history and museum issues.

Online features include:

(1) Collaborating for Indigenous Rights - explores the campaigns waged in postwar Australia to overturn discriminatory laws and expose racism.

(2) Cook's Pacific Encounters - explore more than 300 artefacts collected during James Cook's three voyages to the Pacific.

(3) Into the Simpson desert - audio blog. Listen to archaeologist Dr Mike Smith tell his story of discovery, comrades and camels.

This site provides information on what native title is and what the Tribunal does, media releases, information on how to apply, official guidelines and a time line of native title applications for all regions of Australia.

This site provides information on what native title is and what the Tribunal does, media releases, information on how to apply, official guidelines and a time line of native title applications for all regions of Australia.

(National Occupational Health & Safety Commission, Australia)

Includes statistics and reports related to work fatalities, injuries and compensation, as well as guidelines for implementing occupational health and safety standards and training.

This site provides descriptions of the holdings of local record offices, national and university libraries, specialist repositories, museums and other bodies in the United Kingdom and abroad. It can be searched by personal names, organisational names and placenames.

The official site of the NRL, containing live scores and statistics, news and player profiles.

This site provides access to government-sponsored United States and worldwide scientific, technical, engineering, and business-related information.

NationMaster compiles data from such sources as the CIA World Factbook, United Nations, World Health Organization, World Bank, World Resources Institute, UNESCO, UNICEF and OECD. NationMaster can be used to compare statistics about different nations by generating maps and graphs on specific topics.

Produced by the Ned Kelly Museum at Glenrowan, Victoria.

This site provides useful ways public libraries can use the Internet.

The governing body for netball in Australia. Includes national and international news and competitions, player biographies, fixtures, history and links.

A research and teaching resource on the world wide web devoted to the history, public works and arts projects of the New Deal and the Great Depression.

Includes links to Acts, Regulations, Bills and Parliamentary Dabates or Hansard.

This site provides information on how to gain access to the Aborigines Welfare Board, Aboriginal Lands Trust and Department of Community Services and Aboriginal Services branch records. The guide also lists holdings of records of the Aborigines Welfare Board 1883–1969 and state archives from other government agencies relating to Aboriginal peoples.

Information on how to access the records of the Aborigines Protection Board, later renamed the Aborigines Welfare Board. The time period covered is 1833-1969. The Board's records include details of children removed as well as detailed information on all aspects of life on stations and reserves, such as financial statements, salary and employment details, tenancy agreements and applications to leave the reserve. The site also includes contact details for help with Indigenous family research.

Information on how to access the records of the Aborigines Protection Board, later renamed the Aborigines Welfare Board. The time period covered is 1833-1969. The Board's records include details of children removed as well as detailed information on all aspects of life on stations and reserves, such as financial statements, salary and employment details, tenancy agreements and applications to leave the reserve. The site also includes contact details for help with Indigenous family research.

Information on how to access the records of the Aborigines Protection Board, later renamed the Aborigines Welfare Board. The time period covered is 1833-1969. The Board's records include details of children removed as well as detailed information on all aspects of life on stations and reserves, such as financial statements, salary and employment details, tenancy agreements and applications to leave the reserve. The site also includes contact details for help with Indigenous family research.

This site provides information such as local government annual reports, standards, acts and regulations, publications, council maps and positions vacant.

This map links to Portable Document Format (PDF) files of individual Commonwealth electoral division maps for New South Wales and to an index map of Sydney electoral divisions.

This site provides information on the history of the New South Wales flag and includes links to information on New South Wales historical flags covering the periods from 1867 to 1870 and 1870 to 1876.

This site provides access to the current issue of the NSW Government gazette as well as quarterly indexes from October 2000 onwards. The gazette is in PDF format and in Microsoft Word format. The latest issue is available from 2 pm every Friday.

This second volume of the AGCI (Australasian Genealogical Computer Index) contains 830,000 personal names indexed from the NSW Government Gazette from the Gazette's commencement in 1832 until the end of 1863.

Published in 2005 by the Society of Australian Genealogists at 120 Kent Street, Sydney, this is the data which could not be included on the first AGCI CDROM due to lack space. This second disc now completes the CD-ROM coverage of the original microfiche edition of the AGCI (see FH AGCI folder for fiche).

The NSW Government Gazette is a major published resource for NSW's early colonial history. This volume indexes the personal names found in Gazette notices about convicts, ship and military deserters, land transactions, unclaimed letters, government appointments, bankruptcies, etc. Keyword searches by surname, forename, year, locality and record type are possible.

A microfilm version of the NSW Government Gazette, for the period 1832-1892, is held in SRL at RAV/FM4/1154RR. A hardcopy NSW Government Gazette, for the period 1882-1900, is on the Mitchell Library reference shelves at REF/MDQ328.6/N for viewing only. There is also an index to the NSW Government Gazette for the period 1832-1883 and a searchable online online NSW Government Gazette for the period 1836 to 1851.

This site provides links to NSW government information. It includes links to media releases, individual government agencies, Olympics information, NSW tourism and rural information.

Authorised reports of the New South Wales Supreme Court.

Digitised and searchable issues of the New South Wales Police Gazette and Weekly Record of Crime for the periods 1862 to 1875 and 1881 to 1910, in compendiums of 5 years per CDROM: 1862-1865, 1866-1870, 1871-1875, 1881-1885, 1886-1890, 1891-1895, 1896-1900, 1901-1905 and 1906-1910.

Issued by New South Wales Police Inspector-General, the Police Gazette was compiled to be distributed amongst the Police Force only and public access is only available 70 years after publication.

The Gazette includes court lists,lists of warrants issued, appointments and changes in the Police Service, lists of Justices of the Peace, lists of arrests and discharges and descriptions, escaped prisoners, and missing persons as well as notices of liquor, wine sellers, tobacco sellers, auctioneers and billiard licences. Notices from Police Gazettes from other states are also often included.

New South Wales Police Gazette and Weekly Record of Crime is also held on microfilm in Mitchell Library at REF 1/MAV/FM4/10916 for the period 1862-1985; 1887; 1889-1900; and September 1902-1930.The title changed to Police Gazette NSW on January 9, 1974, and it ceased publication in 1982.

From 1852 to 1862 the 'New South Wales Reports of Crime etc. for Police Information' was the forerunner of the New South Wales Police Gazette and was issued weekly to all police stations. It contains details of crimes committed, wanted criminals, descriptions of stolen property, and other police notices. NSW State Records reels AO 3128 and AO 3129 hold part of this series.

This site contains current and historical information including non-spatial or plain data, spatial or map data, photographic and hypertext (links to related data sources) on the New South Wales railway network.

This is a joint project by the NSW Government and the Returned and Services League of Australia (NSW Branch) to document over 3,000 war memorials estimated to be in NSW, using the combined resources of local councils, RSL sub-branches and schools. Currently, 921 NSW memorials and 86,947 veteran names are documented. Instructions on how to contribute to this database are provided.

The NSW war memorial database allows you to click on the 'Browse' button to access a list of memorials documented within an alphabetical list of suburb/towns. Alternatively, you can undertake a 'Veteran Search' by last name (first name optional) or a memorial 'Location Search' by place and/or postcode.

Veteran details provided can include rank, conflict, status, service and gender. Memorial details include an image of the actual memorial and a description, the dedication date, the inscription, the total number of veterans names recorded and the conflicts commemorated.

There is a list of links to other relevant webpages, notably the Australian War Memorial (in Canberra), the National Archives of Australia, the Commonwealth Department of Veteran Affairs and the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Other related resources are also listed, notably, War Memorials in Australia, A Tribute to ANZAC, UK National Inventory of War Memorials and The Anglo-Boer War Memorials Project.

This website also provides details on the following military commemorative traditions: The Last Post; Laurel Wreaths; The Ode - For the Fallen; Poppies for Remembrance; Memorial Days - ANZAC Day and Remembrance Day; and The State Funeral.

This site allows you to interactively practice online for the Driver Knowledge Test.

This site contains an alphabetical list of sporting and recreational organisations in NSW. Each entry provides contact details for the organisation.

Provides annotations in the way of case references and legislative history to NSW Acts.

Useful resource for locating information about NSW Legislation, including repealed legislation.

Provides information about repealed legislation in New South Wales.

This site allows you to search for unclaimed money held by the NSW Office of State Revenue from 1996 onwards. Unclaimed money can include interest, dividends and savings, and superannuation benefits deposited by employers, government agencies, local councils and other sources.

Digests or summaries of court cases were reported in The New South Wales Weekly Notes.

You will find any case here that may have come before the courts. Some examples:

bankruptcy

violence

murder

probate and claims under wills or cases of intestacy

restraining injunctions

right of custody

divorce - for adultery drunkenness etc

criminal cases

assault

libel

a business or institution against an individual

an individual against a business or institution

... and much more

Any of our forbears could have been involved in many of these cases, either as a plaintiff or defendant - or simply as a witness or a person affected by the outcome. Other family members may be mentioned, sometimes date of birth, marriage and death and other events in a person's life. Some reports are quite brief others run to several pages.

NYPL Digital Gallery provides access to over 300,000 images digitised from primary sources and printed rarities in the collections of The New York Public Library, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints and photographs, illustrated books, printed ephemera, and more.

This site provides daily news stories plus the politics, business, technology, science, and sports sections of the newspaper.

The New York Times (1851-2006) offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue.

New Zealand Electoral Roll 1881

Produced by the New Zealand Society of Genealogists in 2004, this CDROM lists voters in the New Zealand general election of 1893. The election was held on November 28 to elect a total of 74 MPs to the 12th session of the New Zealand Parliament. The official turnout was 302,997 voters, representing 75.3% of the electorate. Elections for the 4 Maori seats by the Maori vote were held on 20 December. There were no actual electoral rolls for the Maori seats until 1948-9.

When Governor Glasgow signed the New Zealand Electoral Bill on 19 September 1893, New Zealand became the first self-governing nation in the world where women had won the right to vote (over 21 and including maori women) and women voted for the first time in the 1893 election. The election was won by the Liberal Party and Richard Seddon became Prime Minister.

For New Zealand's first parliamentary elections in 1853, voting was restricted to any male British subject aged 21 years or older who owned freehold property worth £50 or more; or paid at least £10 a year to lease property; or lived in a house with an annual rental value of at least £10 (in a town) or £5 (outside a town). 'Aliens' (that is, people who were not British subjects, such as Chinese) were specifically excluded. In 1860 the right to vote was extended for the first time - to gold miners. Any male British subject over 21 who held a miner's right (that is, a licence, which cost £1 per year) was entitled to vote without having to enrol.

In 1859 the British Crown Law office confirmed that Maori could not vote unless they had individual title granted by the Crown. Very few Maori could qualify to vote under the property requirement because they possessed their lands communally (as iwi, hapu or whanau groups) and not under individual freehold or leasehold title like Europeans.

In 1867 Parliament established, as a temporary measure, 4 Maori seats in the House of Representatives in which all Maori men over 21 could vote for their own representatives. As a result of the 1867 legislation, Maori men achieved universal manhood suffrage 12 years before European men. However, since the Maori population in 1867 was about 50,000 and the European population about 250,000, Maori were significantly under-represented with only 4 seats compared with the European 72 seats. In 1876 these 4 seats became permanent. The seats were allocated on a geographical basis (North, South, East, West). The number of reserved seats remained fixed until the recent change in the New Zealand electoral system in 1993.

In 1879 the franchise was extended to all adult European men, regardless of whether they owned or rented property. In 1889 plural voting was abolished, which confirmed the principle of 'one man, one vote'. This ended the practise of men who owned or leased property in several different electorates being able to enrol and vote in each of them. Plural voting had been made easier by the fact that until 1881 elections in different seats were usually held on different days.

A separate Maori electoral roll was not established until 1949 but Maori were not legally obliged to enrol until 1956. From 1975 Maori could choose to enrol on either the General or Maori roll: the only qualification for enrolment on the Maori roll was self-identification as Maori. Prior to 1975 Maori with at least one full-blood parent were obliged to enrol on the Maori roll, whilst those with a lower proportion of Maori blood could choose to enrol on either the European (now General) or Maori roll. In 1986 there were 1,920,256 people (both Maori and non-Maori) on the General roll and 70,564 on the Maori roll.

Futher details on the history of the New Zealand vote at the Elections New Zealand website at Elections New Zealand - History of the Vote .

The NSW State Library Family History Service holds New Zealand electoral rolls on microfiche for the period 1865-1900; 1902-1903; 1905-1906; 1908; 1911; 1914; 1919; and 1922-1981.

New Zealand Government website providing online indexes to the following:

* Births up to 100 years ago

* Still births up to 50 years ago

* Marriages up to 80 years ago

* Deaths up to 50 years ago or the deceased's date of birth was at least 80 years ago

The date coverage of NZ BDM fiche indexes held in the Family History Service are different: 1840-1990 Births, 1848-1990 Deaths, 1840-1990 Marriages, 1911-1960 Maori BDM. Furthermore, the NZ BDM certificate numbers used on the online index are different to the numbers used on the fiche indexes held in the Family History Service.

When ordering online certificates there is an option to order a birth certificate or a birth printout. A printout will give the best genealogical details (but cannot be used for legal purposes). The certificate has less information on it.

The NZ burial locator is a directory containing over 3 million names. Its purpose is to assist in the location of a burial or death, generally in New Zealand, but includes some that occurred overseas.

This New Zealand Society of Genealogists index contains approximately 1.7 million names.Its principal purpose is to help identify the matching entry to a marriage in the Registrar General Office's index of marriages 1856-1956.

A small number of entries (fewer than 500) do not have a corresponding match. The non-matched entries, in most cases, reflect errors in the NZ Registrar General Office index.

No further years will be added as the name of the matching spouse can be found beside each entry in the microfiche indexes from 1957 (see FH cabinets - to 1990).

Each entry will give the NZ Registrar General offices's Folio number, spouse's surname and year of marriage.To find the full name of the spouse, re-enter the Folio number and the corresponding entry should be found.

There are some 22,500 names for marriages before 1856 and for these early marriages only names, year and a reference number are given. The reference number provides access to the names of both bride and groom in the same way as the RGO's Folio number.

The index does not contain details from the marriage certificate.Copies of a certificate can be obtained from the NZ Registrar General's Office, quoting name(s),year & place of marriage, at: Central Registry, Births, Deaths and Marriages, PO Box 10 526, Wellington, New Zealand.

Freephone:0800225252 Email:bdm.nz@dia.govt.nz website:www.bdm.govt.nz

A centralised register of archival collections in museums, local government bodies, libraries, historical societies, community repositories, and in-house business, educational, religious and sporting archives. NRAM is not a comprehensive database of all archives held in all the country's repositories. Researchers are encouraged to also search the databases of individual repositories (many of which are listed on the NRAM links page) or to forward specific enquiries to repositories likely to hold relevant information.

Sponsored by the New Zealand Ship & Marine Society, the Miramar Ship Index ( domiciled in the suburb of Miramar, Wellington, New Zealand ) is an historical database listing both merchant powered ships of about 100 gross register tons and above and naval ships of even smaller tonnage displacement; and also composite, iron & steel sailing ships. The site presently contains over 413,000 index names, linked to over 228,500 ship entries in the Single Ship Reports.

The index can be searched by using one search criteria (such as a ship name) or many (such as ship name and ID). Searching by ship name will return all ships that contain the word you entered. For instance, if you search by ship name with victor, the search result will contain such names as Victoria, Victory, Albert Victory, and so on. There is also an option to search by Shipyard which lists ships built at a specific site. There is a guide to the ID numbering System and the Abbreviations used in the index.

This site provides a searchable database of the New Zealand White pages telephone directory.

Published by the New Zealand Society of Genealogists in 2005, this index contains information from the following sources:

(1) NZ Expeditionary Force Nominal Rolls 1914-19

(2) 1st and 2nd Division Rolls of the Expeditionary Force Reserve

(3) New Zealanders who served with the Australian Imperial Force

(4) Military Defaulters Lists 1919-21

(5) Native Reserve Lists

(6) New Zealanders who served with the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve

(7) Index of New Zealanders who served with Allied Forces

(8) Roll of Honour, Section 3

(9) British Section, New Zealand Expeditionary Force

(10) Fijian Contingent, New Zealand Expeditionary Force

(11) Terry Stock's Index.

This site provides a searchable database of the New Zealand Yellow pages business telephone directory.

This site provides access to mailing lists for various aspects of New Zealand family history.

The ‘Blue Books’ detailed statistical information from New Zealand’s early Colonial period (1840-1855). They contain information about population, revenue, military, trade, shipping, public works, legislation, civil servants, foreign consuls, land transactions, churches, schools, and prisons.

Maintained by the Newcastle Region Library, this website allows you to search the collections of the Newcastle Region Art Gallery, the Newcastle Region Library and the Newcastle Regional Museum.

The website provides access to the following Newcastle region databases:

(1) Hunter Photobank - Newcastle Region Library's digital image database. It contains a large collection of historical and documentary images of Newcastle and the Hunter Region.

(2) Hunter Sports Database - the Hunter Sports Database and the Hunter Region Sporting Hall of Fame document the sporting achievements of the regions best sports people. You can search for pen portraits, images and the records of over 800 champions from the Hunter area in all fields of sporting endeavour.

(3) World War One Diggers Database - a listing of the war service records of Hunter men and women who served in World War One. You can search for your great-grandmother's war nursing record or discover how many miners enlisted from your suburb.

(4) The Newcastle Earthquake Database - a comprehensive collection of published and unpublished records, photographs, audio and video information on the 1989 Newcastle Earthquake. There are 3,600 bibliographical records with abstracts available on the database. Of these, 2800 records are available as electronic full text records and there are digitised images, sound and video files.

(5) Artsearch - a database of the Newcastle Region Art Gallery collection.

(6) Newcastle Regional Museum Collection - a database of the Museum's collection of some 10,000 social, Indigenous, technological and natural history objects, which covers the broad spectrum of Newcastle's story. You can search for objects from industrial equipment to wedding dresses.

This site provides access to an index for the Newcastle Morning Herald from 1869 to 1943. Maintained by the Newcastle Regional Local Studies Library.

The Web site of the Center for New Crops & Plant Products, at Purdue University. NewCROP provides windows to new and specialty crop profiles. Contains some very useful Australian content. As well as crops, the site includes weeds, medicinal plants and historical material.

This site provides current news stories from the News Limited newspaper network in Australia. Newspapers covered include The Australian, The Weekend Australian, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph (Sydney, NSW); Courier Mail and Sunday Mail (Brisbane, Qld); The Advertiser and Sunday Mail (Adelaide, SA); Mercury and Sunday Tasmanian (Hobart, Tas.); Herald Sun and Herald Sun Sunday (Melbourne, Vic.); and Sunday Times (Perth, WA).

This site provides links to more than 3500 newspapers.

This site provides a searchable database to more than 6400 newspapers and magazines.

This site provides a searchable database of various media resources.

A searchable listing of Australian and New Zealand newspapers, including a directory of local and regional newspapers. Includes headlines from major papers.

This website is a City of Sydney Archives project which, with the help of volunteers, aims to bring together historical information about the Municipality of Newtown.

Currently, the site holds the Minutes of the Borough Council of Newtown for the years 1863 to 1918, with aims to cover up to 1948. The Minutes are being transcribed from the original volumes to an electronic file using voice recognition software. The Newtown Municipal Council Rate Books for property owners and Assessment Books for property occupiers, for the period 1864 to 1900, are also being reproduced as images of the original pages. Only 1889 has been completed ( as of Feb 2009).

An online Sands Directories for Newtown, for the years 1865 to 1932, is transcribing the Newtown section of the Sands Directory and has completed up to 1882. The Sands Directory was a residential and business directory for the City and Suburbs of Sydney. There is an online Short History of the Streets of Early Newtown , Newtown Maps for 1885 & 1890 and a Newtown Picture Gallery which covers local buildings (especially along King St) and the pubs.

Other online holdings include Newtown Jubilee Souvenir Books for 1912 & 1922 to mark the 50th and 60th Jubilee anniversaries of the declaration of Newtown as a municipality, a list of Mayors and Councillors of the Newtown Municipal Council - 1863-1948, Biographies of Early Newtown Aldermen and a Chronology of Events in Newtown.

This pathfinder site provides links to sites relating to Australian literature. Links to online journals, organisations and associations, resources available in Australian universities and information about the National Library of Australia's literary seminars are included.

A National Library of Australia Digitisation Project to provide free, full- text, historic Australian newspapers online.

Newspapers currently being digitised include: the Argus; the Brisbane Courier; the Canberra Times; the Courier-Mail; the Hobart Town Gazette and Southern Reporter; Hobart Town Gazette and Van Diemen's Land Advertiser; the Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser; the Mercury; the Perth Gazette and Western Australian Journal; the South Australian Advertiser; and the Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser.

A National Library of Australia maps database that searches over 100,000 maps of Australia held in Australia's libraries, from the earliest mapping to the present. To date, there are about 4,000 map images (digitised maps) on Maps of Australia.

Maps of Australia provides 'Define Area' search to find maps. By drawing your area of interest on the overview map, catalogue records and images may be found for that area. 'Define area' search uses map coordinates and other information included in the map catalogue record. A keyword search is also provided to allow searching on known topics or place names.

Limit to scale

Since maps are often defined by the scale of the map, an optional limit is provided to include only maps of a certain scale in the results. This can be useful when searching for more detailed maps, such as those used by a bushwalker planning a route.

The scale of a map is the ratio between the distances on the map and the corresponding distances in reality. For example a topographic map of scale 1:50,000 shows a distance of 50,000 cm (500m) on the ground as 1 cm on the map.

You can select one or more map scales to limit your results, as below:.

> 1:1,000,000 [large area with limited detail on map, eg a world map]

< 1:1,000,000 > 1:500,000

< 1:500,000 > 1:250,000

< 1:250,000 > 1:100,000

< 1:100,000 > 1:50,000

< 1:50,000 > 1:25,000

< 1:25,000 [small area but highly detailed map, eg a planning map]

Limit to map type

You can also limit to map type, using the following categories:

* Agriculture, forestry and natural resources [national parks, land use]

* Coastal and nautical charts [maritime, aeronautical charts]

* Discovery and exploration [exploration routes and surveys]

* Earth sciences [geology, soils, water resources, minerals & mining]

* Industry and power supply [industries, power, water supply]

* Land use and divisions [property or cadastral maps, town plans, boundaries]

* Military [armed forces, conflicts]

* Social geography [social mapping, demographics, statistical]

* Topographic [land surface features]

* Tourism, transport and communications [travel, touring, recreation]

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This is the official site of the Nobel Foundation. It provides historical information about the prizes and laureates as well as about the life of Alfred Nobel.

The Noel Butlin Archives Centre is a nationally significant collection of primary source material relating to business and labour. The NBAC holds archives of industrial organisations, businesses, professional associations, industry bodies and the labour movement. It makes them available for research and use by the University and the wider community.

This site provides information on the history of the Norfolk Island flag.

A Norfolk Island telephone directory including mobile and facsimile numbers.

Produced by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1998, this 8-disc CDROM set contains information on more than 4.6 million christenings, births, and marriages that occurred in the United States and Canada from about 1631 to 1888.

The 8 discs contain the following: (1) Family history resource file viewer; (2) Births and christenings: A-Z; (3) Marriages: A-Cn; (4) Marriages: Co-G; (5) Marriages: H-K; (6) Marriages: L-O; (7) Marriages: P-Ss; (8) Marriages: St-Z. The Family History resource file viewer 4.0 software should be loaded onto the computer before you access the 7 data discs. An additional update from a series data disc also has to be uploaded for access purposes.

Records that appear in the index generally contain names of the individuals, parents’ names, the date and place where the birth, christening or marriage took place, the name of a person's spouse, and reference information which allows you to locate the original record on a microfilm from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) world-wide network of Family History Centers. You can locate your nearest center on the LDS web directory at Find a Family History Center Near You .

Names in this index have been standardized. This means that variant name spellings are listed under a common name. For example, Smyth, Smithe, Smeith, would all be indexed under the name Smith. This allows you to search a name without knowing the exact spelling. However, you are still able to search under the exact spelling of an individual's name if you wish.

The records that comprise the index are extracted records, which means that someone copied selected pieces of information from the original record. However, not all of the genealogically important information was extracted. Therefore, you should use the reference information provided in this index to locate the original record on microfilm and evaluate the original record yourself.

It is not a complete index. Your ancestor may not appear in this CDROM set even though you know that he or she lived in a time and place covered by the index.The amount of information available varies greatly by time period and locality.

The North Sydney Heritage Centre, Level 1 in Stanton Library, houses (1) the David Earle Local Studies Collection; (2) the Merle Coppell Oral History Collection, which has over 300 interviews relating to the local area; (3) the North Sydney Community Archives , which is the archival repository for the record collections from public institutions, private companies and individuals associated with North Sydney, such as Luna Park artist Arthur Barton and the Marion and Neil Shand Collection relating to May Gibbs; and (4) a significant proportion of the North Sydney Council Archives. The Council Archives dates from 1869 to the present and includes rate and valuation books, building registers, correspondence files, minute books and maps and plans useful for conducting research into buildings and sites as well as North Sydney history in general.

Some of above material is also available online in the Library's Heritage Databases. Databases include The Face of North Sydney Image Library of over 8,500 photos; Naming North Sydney Index detailing the history behind the naming of North Sydney's streets, parks and localities; North Sydney Council Building Application Plans Archive of original Building Plans lodged during 1930 to 1949; 1890s Block Plan Maps of North Sydney drawn between 1890-1896; The Mosman Daily Index from January 2004; North Shore Historical Society's Journals Online from inception in 1959 to 2008; Index to St.Thomas Cemetery, Crows Nest; and the Just For Fun Image Library which contains the Kathy Day collection of world amusement park and seaside resort postcards.

There is also an online Heritage Leaflet Series which cover the following topics: Aboriginal Tribes; Local Government in North Sydney; 'Firsts' in North Sydney; Local History Museums; Ivycliffe Villa; Holtermann at Lavender Bay; Greenwood School; Luna Park; Boat Building in North Sydney; Conrad Martens and North Sydney; The Independent Theatre; Sydney Harbour Bridge; The Suspension Bridge; Memorials to World War 1; A Walking Tour of Historic North Sydney; St Leonards Park; Waverton Park; Stanton Library; St Thomas Rest Park - a walk through history; Picture Theatres of North Sydney; Greencliffe; Graythwaite; Harold Cazneaux; The World of May Gibbs; Commodore James G. Goodenough; Reverend William Branwhite Clarke; Medical Services Heritage walk; Cremorne Point Heritage walk; North Sydney Oval Heritage walk; Waverton Peninsula Heritage walk; Faces of Federation Heritage walk; Set in Stone - Heritage walk; Taking the Ferry; Kurraba Point; From Milson to Medium Density - Kirribilli walk; From Filigree to Federation - Holtermann Estate walk; From Track to Tarmac - McMahons Point walk; St Thomas Rest Park - Sailors, soldiers and civil servants; & Heritage Plaques Walks.

Details of records held by Northern Ireland's General Register Office, including birth, death and Roman Catholic marriage registers from 1864, and non-Roman Catholic marriage registers from 1845. Other records held include adoption registers, marine births and deaths, consular births deaths and marriages, and war deaths. The site includes an online application service for birth, death, marriage and adoption certificates.

Includes links to Acts, Regulations, Bills and Parliamentary Dabates or Hansard.

31,000 records of Northern Territory related Deaths for the period 1824 to 2004, extracted from cemeteries,registers, headstones, newspapers, probates and police journals. Includes some Territorians who died or where buried outside of the Northern Teritory.

Index of Northern Territory combines information from census records, directories and electoral rolls and includes lists of government officials. The surviving census of the Northern Territory 1881 to 1921; the electoral rolls 1884 to 1940; and the directories 1908 to 1930 are transcribed in to this publication.

This site provides information on the history of the Northern Territory flag.

This site provides links to Northern Territory Government information. It includes information about the parliament, ministry, tourism and business.

Produced by the Department of Justice, Northern Territory of Australia, Office of the Registrar General, in 2004.

The NT Attorney-General's Dept., Office of the Registrar- General,produced a more limited version in 2000, on microfiche, entitled Northern Territory births index 1903 - 1918, deaths, marriages indexes 1903 - 1913 (see REF 10/N929.39429/33).

NoveList has over 155,000 fiction titles, Recommended Reads reading lists covering both fiction genres and topics, Discussion Guides, suggestions for further reading, Award Lists, etc.

(NPS National Prescribing Service, Australia)

Consumer information on many medications that are available in Australia.

Compiled and published by Wyong Family History Group in 2007, this CDROM indexes and transcribes all records held by Simplicity Funerals Bateau Bay, NSW, up to 2006. The records include the former Funeral Directors, James Brown and Lakes District Funeral Service, incorporated into Simplicity Funerals in 1992.

Index entries for each individual include date and place of death, date and place of burial, age at death, religion and remarks such as religion and occasionally date of birth.

A 2006 hardcopy edition, indexing records up to 1975 is also available in ML at Q929.50994/ 187.

Produced by the Family History Group of Bathurst in 2005, some 20,000 entries were transcribed from headstones and other records.

Sources of Bathurst information :

(a) Godfrey Smith & Renshaws Funerals records

(b) newspapers, family trees, printed histories

(c) old cemetery maps - see reverse side for Bathurst Cemetery plan

(d) Council records at Bathurst Library

(e) inscriptions from known missing headstones taken from previous index

(f) replies to notices placed in Bathurst & Sydney newspapers & Family History Group of Bathurst's magazine

(g) from records held by Betty Beasley - Cemetery coordinator

Sources of Kelso information:

(a) no inscriptions - name, date of death and age only. Transcribed by Frank Paterson

(b) unmarked grave information taken from Information Board at Holy Trinity Cemetery, Funeral Directors & other sources

Further information is available from the Curator of Historical Records, PO Box 1177, Bathurst.

Photo's of headstones only available from J. E. Beasley, Family History Group of Bathurst Inc., at 173 Ryans Road, The Lagoon, 2795.

Produced by the Family History Group of Bathurst in 2007, this CD provides details of some 5,239 19th Century Bathurst pioneers (31,750 including spouses & children) from over 750 contributors to the register. Some 200 names are alternative spellings which point to another entry.

Information includes where and when the pioneers were born, married, died, worked and immigrated, as well as brief information about events that coloured their lives. There are maps with some place names that are no longer used and an index of place names to help you find them.

Features include:

(1) Clickable links from a pioneer's spouse children etc to their pioneer entries

(2) Clickable link to contributor's details, including email address

(3) Index of all persons mentioned including spouses, children, parents and pioneers

(4) Text searching facility to find places, ship names, property names, date etc

(5) Create bookmarkes so you can instantly return later to a particular entry

(6) 19th Century descriptions of local places, extracted from Baillierre's 1866 Gazetteer

(7) Parish maps covering the Bathurst district ( with permission from the NSW Lands Department). These maps show landholders and some property names.

A print version of this title is available in ML at Q929.39944/2.

Produced by Rod and Wendy Gow in 2008, this index contains over 6,500 entries, encompassing the three year period of 1875 and 1880 to 1881. Although based in Bombala, the 'Bombala Herald and Delegate, Cooma, Eden and Coast Districts general advertiser' carried news and articles covering the districts from Goulburn to the coast including Bega, Eden, Pambula, etc.

The index details references to the following events - Accident, Advert, Agistment, Apology, Appointment, Arrival, Article, Assault victim, Auction, Auction license, Award, Benefit, Bequest, Birth, Building, Business bought, Business sold, Cargo, Cemetery, Church, Church service, Coach builder, Coach sale, Construction, Cricket, Death, Death (still born), Departure, Discovery, Divorce, Donation, Editorial, Election, Entertainment, Escape attempt, Escapee, Estate, Exam, Execution, Exhibition, Family, Farewell, Farm auction, Finance report, Fire, For sale, Formation, Funeral, Grave, Headstone fund, Hotel, In Memoriam, Inheritance, Inquest, Insolvent, Land deeds, Land inquiry, Leaving district, Lecture, Left business, Left district, Legal, Legal notice, Letter to editor, Livestock, Livestock auction, Livestock buyer, Livestock sale, Lodge, Mail contract, Marriage, Medical, Meeting, Memorial poem, Mineral lease, Missing person, Mortgagee sale, Murder victim, Naturalisation, New business, New store, Newspaper, Notice, Obituary, Partnership, Petition, Ploughing match, Premises, Presentation, Prize donor, Prize list, Prize winner, Probate, Promotion, Property sale, Publican's license, Real Estate, Recapture, Relief fund, Repair, Rescue, Resignation, Retirement, Return thanks, Reward, Robbery victim, School, Search party, Sheep sale, Shipping, Shipwreck, Shooting match, Show, Social, Sport, Stud horse, Subscription, Subscription article, Telegraph, Tender, Testimonial, To let, Transfer, Visit.

Further information at Gow Newspaper Indexes.

The Bombala Herald and Delegate, Cooma, Eden and Coast Districts general advertiser is available at the State Library of NSW on microfilm at RAV/FM4/1695 for the period April 1875 to August 1911 (imperfect).

Produced by the Campbelltown District Family History Society in 2002, this CDROM includes the many cemeteries of the Campbelltown area. Entries appear with the transcription of the headstone on one half of the screen, and its photograph on the other.

Compiled by Esma Hannah for the Campbelltown District Family History Society, this second edition was produced in 2005. Names, dates, events and photographs, as well as corrections to errors, have been entered which failed to make the first CDROM edition published in May,2000.

This CDROM includes the many cemeteries of the Cambelltown area, entries appearing with the transcription of the headstone on one half of the screen, and its photograph on the other.

A hardcopy version of the first edition is located in SRL at REF 10/NQ929.39446/3 and in ML at Q929.39446/7

This CD was published by the Liverpool Genealogy Society in 2005, assisted by funds allocated to the Royal Australian Historical Society by the NSW Arts Ministry.

It is an index to personal notices from local newspapers published in Campbelltown, Fairfield and Liverpool between 1993 and 2003.

Notices indexed include: Births, Deaths, Funerals, Memorials, Probate, Birthdays, Engagements, Marriages and Anniversaries. The database contains 13,000 entries.

Papers indexed are:

Campbelltown - 'Macarthur Advertiser' & 'Macarthur Chronicle'

Fairfield - 'Fairfield Advance' & 'Fairfield Champion'

Liverpool - 'Liverpool Champion' & 'Liverpool Leader'

A microfiche version of this index is available at MAV/FM6/869

Alphabetical indexes of burials at historic cemeteries of the City of Canterbury, Sydney. Cemeteries include Moorefields at Kingsgrove; St Barnabas's and St Saviours at Punchbowl.

Produced by the Central Coast Family History Society in 2006, this database of Charles Kinsela Funeral Directors Registers can be searched under surname, given name, date into Parlor, place of death or late residence, age, burial location, grave location, for the period 1905 to 1982.

Cemeteries and photographs for Coffs Harbour, Lawn Karangi, Coramba, Corindi, Bucca, Bellingen, Fernmount, Dorrigo, Urunga, NanaGlen, Glenreagh and Woolgoolga.Includes WW1 and WW2 servicemen and women.

This is an ongoing project updated each year by the Orara Valley Historical Society. First copy January 2003, updated January 1st 2006.

Compiled by Margot Crestani and Pamela Valentine for the Liverpool Genealogy Society in 2003, this is an index to two registers recording casual employment of convicts, showing locality and name of employer/s. The length of employment and rate of pay is sometimes also shown.

The Indexes have 10,000 entries covering:

(1) the Liverpool Bench from 14 Feb 1824 to 14 Oct 1826.

(2) Argyle Police District, Berrima/Throsby Park from 3 Apr 1826 to 2 Apr 1827;

(3) Argyle Police District, Goulburn Plains from 13 Nov 1827 to 31 Jan 1835.

(4) NSW convict/employer registers 1 & 2, 1843-1845.

This work has been assisted by funds allocated to the Royal Australian Historical Society by the NSW Arts Ministry.

The actual Magistrate Court records are contained on microfilm CY reel 366 held in the Mitchell Library.

An index to the Magistrate Court records is also available on 1 microfiche in the Mitchell Library at MAV/FM6/840.

Trial and transportation details on over 14000 convicts, including some Port Phillip and Van Diemen's Land records.

Produced by Lesley Uebel in 2000, this index to convicts sent to Port Jackson between 1788 and 1842 lists convicts by ship, place of trial, year of arrival and gives name, arrival date, ship, trial place and year, sentence and age. It also lists ships with date of arrival.There are some 120,000 entries.

Compiled by Rod & Wendy Gow in 2007, this Cumberland River newpaper index contains over 8,200 entries, covering court cases, births, deaths, marriages, funerals, inquests, obituaries, probates etc for the years 1875, 1876 and 1878. There are no surviving newspapers for 1877.

The index has references to Abduction, Accident, Anniversary, Apology, Appointment, Arrival, Assault victim, Auction license, Bagatelle license, Baptism, Billiard License, Birth, Birthday, Body Recovered, Butcher’s License, Council Rate Levy, Death, Desertion, Divorce, Escapee, Estate, Farewell, Funeral, Grave, Hawker’s license, In memoriam, Inquest, Insolvent, Leaving Colony, Leaving District, Legal, Lightning Strike, Marriage, Medical, Memorial, Missing, Monument, Murder victim, Name Change, Naturalisation, Obituary, Prize Winner, Publican’s license, Railway Accident, Rates Appeal, Rescue, Resignation, Retirement, Return Thanks, Reward, Robbery victim, Shipwreck, Slaughter license, Snake Bite Victim, Wine license.

To facilitate research, the format states the date of the edition and the P & C (page & column) number within that edition.

Further information at Gow Newspaper Indexes.

The Cumberland Mercury (and Rural Gazette ) is on microfilm at RAV/FM4/382 for the period 1875-1895 (impf.) This newspaper, based in Parramatta, serviced all of Sydney and surrounding districts from Campbelltown to Hornsby and west to Penrith and Windsor-Richmond districts, and featured many reports from these centres and also further afield.

Miss Mathilde E. Deane, working at the Public Record Office in London in 1929-1930, compiled an index (sometimes referred to as The Settlers' Letter Index) to miscellaneous letters by or about settlers, military and individuals in the Colonial Office series of records including (in the early portion), both New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land.

She indexed by name of the letter writer only with a precis of the contents and notation of persons' names mentioned therein. This CD is a composite index of all names noting whether the person listed was the writer or subject of the letter and cross-referencing both letter writer and subject. There is a large volume of correspondence exchanged between public figures of the day, much concerned with political wrangling and court cases. This index contains 16,189 records.

The Colonial Office series CO 201 is held in the Mitchel Library as part of the Australian Joint Copying Project. When you have found a name of interest you should refer to the original Deane Index to verify whether the letter is held in the CO201 series.

This CD is one of a series of six produced by Paskeys and Gould Genealogy as part of the NSW Immigration Index Series. The State Library has the other five titles in this series. They are:

(1) Immigration Deposit Indexes;

(2) Free Railway Passes (NSW) index 1880-1892;

(3) Convicts & Employers(NSW) Index 1828, 1832-33, Jan 1838-Jan 1844;

(4) Paskeys Miscellaneous Indexes - Unclaimed Letters index 1836-1852, Unemployed Registers 1860, 1884 Index and Wages Paid to Orphans Index 1842-1856;

(5) Unassisted Arrivals (NSW) Index 1842-56 and Ships & Masters to Sydney Index 1842-56.

Monumental inscriptions of 319 NSW cemeteries, with over 87,000 entries, transcribed by David and Julie Dern in 2005. Each entry gives surname, first names, date, age, comments, type & cemetery.There is a guide to abbreviations used.

The 319 NSW cemeteries covered are from the following:

ALECTOWN; ALSTONVILLE; ARDLETHAN; ARMATREE-Sunnyside; ASHFORD; ATTUNGA; BALDRY; BALLINA - Fenwick Park Pioneer Wall; BARADINE; BARELLAN; BARRINGUN; BEDGERABONG; BELLATA; BENA; BENDEMEER; BEN LOMOND R.C.; BEXHILL; BIMBI; BINALONG Anglican ; BINNAWAY; BLACKMAN FLAT; BLACKWELL; BLACK MOUNTAIN; BLACK SPRINGS - old & new; BOGAN GATE; BOGGABILLA; BOMERA; BONALBO - old & new; BONSHAW; BOOKHAM; BOURKE; BOWLING ALLEY POINT; BOWNING; BREADALBANE; BREEZA; BREWARRINA; BROKE - Anglican & R.C.; BROKEN HILL - TIBOOBURRA RD - 1 GRAVE; BRUNGLE; BUGALDIE; BULGA St Marks; BUNDARRA; BUNNAN St Judes; BURRAGA - old & new; BURREN JUNCTION; BYNG Wesleyan; BYROCK; CADIA; CANBELEGO; CAMBERWELL St Clement; CANONBA; CAPERTEE; CARAGABAL; CARAGABAL inc.St Peters; CARGO; CARINDA -BREWON RD - 2 GRAVES; CARINDA ; CAROONA Union Church; CARROLL; CASSILIS - KURRAJONG PARK, St Josephs & old; CHERRY TREE HILL; CHINAMANS BEND; CLUNES; COBBORA; COLLARENEBRI; COLLIE - old & public; COLLY BLUE; COME BY CHANCE; COOKAMIDGERA; COOLABAH - inc. St Matthews; COOLAC; COOLAH; COOLATAI - 1 GRAVE; COONABARABRAN - old & new lawn; COONAMBLE - inc.old; COPMANHURST; CORAKI; CORAMBA; COUTTS CROSSING; CRUDINE; CUDAL; CUDGEGONG; CULLEN BULLEN; CUMNOCK; CURLEWIS; CURRA CREEK; CURRABUBULA; DALTON - inc. St Matthews & Uniting Church; DANDALOO; DARBYS FALLS; DARK CORNER; DEEPWATER; DELUNGRA; DENISON TOWN; DINTON VALE - Formerly St. Johns; DORRIGO; DRAKE; DUBBO - BUTLERS FALLS; DUNDEE; DUNEDOO; DUNGOWAN; DUNOON; EAST GUYONG; EBOR; ELONG ELONG; ELSMORE; EMMAVILLE (FORMERLY VEGETABLE CREEK); ENNGONIA; EUABALONG; EUCHAREENA; EUGOWRA; FIFIELD; FORBES FREEMANTLE - “KILLONBUTTA” ; GALONG R.C.; GARRA; GEORGES PLAINS ; GEURIE; GIANTS CREEK St Johns; GILGANDRA; GIN GIN - “WAMBOOL” - 1 GRAVE; GIRILAMBONE; GLENCOE; GLENREAGH; GLENRIDDING - Presbyterian & Uniting ; GLENRIDDING; GOANGRA; GOOBANG; GOODOOGA; GOOLGOWI; GOOLOOGONG; GRABBEN GULLEN ; GRAMAN; GREENTHORPE St James; COLUMBARIUM; GULARGAMBONE; GUM FLAT; GUNBAR; GUNDAROO - inc. St Lukes & St Patricks; GUNNING; GUNNING FLAT - 1 grave; GWABEGAR; HALLSVILLE ; HANGING ROCK; HARGRAVES - inc. Pioneer & R.C.; HARTLEY; HAZELGROVE; HERMIDALE; HILL END; HILLGROVE; HILLSTON; HOBBY’S YARDS - Presbyterian; ILFORD; ISABELLA; JERRYS PLAINS R.C.; JUGIONG; KINGSTOWN; KIRKCONNELL St Marys; KYOGLE; LAGGAN R.C.; LAKE CARGELLIGO; LANGS CREEK Anglican; LAWRENCE; LEADVILLE; LEGUME; LISMORE - BARNHAM ST PIONEER; LIGHTNING RIDGE; LITTLE PLAIN; LOWER BUCCA; LOWTHER R.C.; LUE; MACQUARIE PLAINS; MANILDRA; MANILLA; MARCH - St Phillips & Uniting; MARRA - St Mary ; MEADOW FLAT; MENDOORAN; MERRIWA Holy Trinity; MERRIWAGGA; MILLTHORPE; MITCHELL HIGHWAY - MEMORIAL; MOLONG; MOLONG - FAIRBRIDGE REST AREA ; MOONBI; MOORILDA - St Davids; MORONGLA; MT. LAMBIE Presbyterian; MT. THORLEY Anglican; MT. YORK; MT. WILSON St George; MUDGEE - “GRATTAI”; MURRINGO; MURWILLUMBAH - BANNER STREET; MUTTON FALLS - St Phillips; MYLNEFORD; NANGUS; NARRABRI-WEE WAA RD - 1 GRAVE; NARROMINE; NEVERTIRE; NEWBRIDGE; NEWELL HIGHWAY - 1 GRAVE; NIMBIN; NULLAMANNA; NUNDLE; NYMBOIDA; NYNGAN; NYRANG CREEK; OBERON - General, St. Barnabas & old Methodist; OBLEY; O’CONNELL; FLAGSTAFF; OPHIR – GOLDFIELD; OWENS GAP; PARKESBOURNE Methodist; PEAK HILL; PEEL; PEELWOOD; PERTHVILLE Uniting; PILLIGA; PIPERS FLAT; PORTERS RETREAT; PYRAMUL.; PYRAMUL ; QUAMBONE; QUIPOLLY St Chads; RAMORNIE WORKS; RANKIN SPRINGS; RAWSONVILLE; RED RANGE; ROCKLEY; ROUS MILL; RUNNING STREAM St Johns; RYDAL - inc. St. Matthews; SALLYS FLAT R.C.; SHOOTERS HILL; SODWALLS; SOFALA - inc. Anglican; SOUTH BOWENFELS R.C.; SOUTH GUNDURIMBAH - LISMORE MEMORIAL PARK; SPICERS CREEK; SPRING HILL; SPRING RIDGE; STANNUM; STUART TOWN (FORMERLY IRONBARKS); SUNNY CORNER; TABULAM; TALLIMBA; TAMBAR SPRINGS; TAMBAROORA; TANGMANGAROO All Saints; TANNABUTTA; TENTERFIELD; TOMINGLEY; TOOGONG; TOORAWEENAH; TORRINGTON; TOTTENHAM; TRANGIE; TRUNDLE; TRUNKEY; TUCKI TUCKI; TUENA; TULLAMORE; TULLIBIGEAL; TUMBLONG; TURONDALE; TYALGUM; UARBRY; ULAN; ULMARRA; UNGARIE; UPPER HORTON; UPPER TOOLOOM; URALLA; URBENVILLE; WALLABADAH; WALLANGRA; WALLENDBEEN; WALLERAWANG - BARTON PARK; WARDELL; WARKWORTH - St. Phillips; WARREN; WATTLE FLAT - inc. R.C., Anglican & Presbyterian; WEETHALLE; WELLINGROVE - Presbyterian; WELLINGTON - R.C. & Pioneer; WILLOW TREE - FORMER CHURCHYARD; WILSONS DOWNFALL; WINDEYER; WINDEYER - inc. R.C.; WINGEN; WINTON; WOMBAT; WOODBURN; WOODENBONG; WOODSTOCK; YENDA; YEOVAL; YETHOLME - St. Pauls; YETMAN

Monumental inscriptions of 319 NSW cemeteries, with over 87,000 entries, transcribed by David and Julie Dern in 2005. Each entry gives surname, first names, date, age, comments, type & cemetery.There is a guide to abbreviations used.

The 319 NSW cemeteries covered are from the following:

ALECTOWN; ALSTONVILLE; ARDLETHAN; ARMATREE-Sunnyside; ASHFORD; ATTUNGA; BALDRY; BALLINA - Fenwick Park Pioneer Wall; BARADINE; BARELLAN; BARRINGUN; BEDGERABONG; BELLATA; BENA; BENDEMEER; BEN LOMOND R.C.; BEXHILL; BIMBI; BINALONG Anglican ; BINNAWAY; BLACKMAN FLAT; BLACKWELL; BLACK MOUNTAIN; BLACK SPRINGS - old & new; BOGAN GATE; BOGGABILLA; BOMERA; BONALBO - old & new; BONSHAW; BOOKHAM; BOURKE; BOWLING ALLEY POINT; BOWNING; BREADALBANE; BREEZA; BREWARRINA; BROKE - Anglican & R.C.; BROKEN HILL - TIBOOBURRA RD - 1 GRAVE; BRUNGLE; BUGALDIE; BULGA St Marks; BUNDARRA; BUNNAN St Judes; BURRAGA - old & new; BURREN JUNCTION; BYNG Wesleyan; BYROCK; CADIA; CANBELEGO; CAMBERWELL St Clement; CANONBA; CAPERTEE; CARAGABAL; CARAGABAL inc.St Peters; CARGO; CARINDA -BREWON RD - 2 GRAVES; CARINDA ; CAROONA Union Church; CARROLL; CASSILIS - KURRAJONG PARK, St Josephs & old; CHERRY TREE HILL; CHINAMANS BEND; CLUNES; COBBORA; COLLARENEBRI; COLLIE - old & public; COLLY BLUE; COME BY CHANCE; COOKAMIDGERA; COOLABAH - inc. St Matthews; COOLAC; COOLAH; COOLATAI - 1 GRAVE; COONABARABRAN - old & new lawn; COONAMBLE - inc.old; COPMANHURST; CORAKI; CORAMBA; COUTTS CROSSING; CRUDINE; CUDAL; CUDGEGONG; CULLEN BULLEN; CUMNOCK; CURLEWIS; CURRA CREEK; CURRABUBULA; DALTON - inc. St Matthews & Uniting Church; DANDALOO; DARBYS FALLS; DARK CORNER; DEEPWATER; DELUNGRA; DENISON TOWN; DINTON VALE - Formerly St. Johns; DORRIGO; DRAKE; DUBBO - BUTLERS FALLS; DUNDEE; DUNEDOO; DUNGOWAN; DUNOON; EAST GUYONG; EBOR; ELONG ELONG; ELSMORE; EMMAVILLE (FORMERLY VEGETABLE CREEK); ENNGONIA; EUABALONG; EUCHAREENA; EUGOWRA; FIFIELD; FORBES FREEMANTLE - “KILLONBUTTA” ; GALONG R.C.; GARRA; GEORGES PLAINS ; GEURIE; GIANTS CREEK St Johns; GILGANDRA; GIN GIN - “WAMBOOL” - LONE GRAVE; GIRILAMBONE; GLENCOE; GLENREAGH; GLENRIDDING - Presbyterian & Uniting ; GLENRIDDING; GOANGRA; GOOBANG; GOODOOGA; GOOLGOWI; GOOLOOGONG; GRABBEN GULLEN ; GRAMAN; GREENTHORPE St James; COLUMBARIUM; GULARGAMBONE; GUM FLAT; GUNBAR; GUNDAROO - inc. St Lukes & St Patricks; GUNNING; GUNNING FLAT - 1 grave; GWABEGAR; HALLSVILLE ; HANGING ROCK; HARGRAVES - inc. Pioneer & R.C.; HARTLEY; HAZELGROVE; HERMIDALE; HILL END; HILLGROVE; HILLSTON; HOBBY’S YARDS - Presbyterian; ILFORD; ISABELLA; JERRYS PLAINS R.C.; JUGIONG; KINGSTOWN; KIRKCONNELL St Marys; KYOGLE; LAGGAN R.C.; LAKE CARGELLIGO; LANGS CREEK Anglican; LAWRENCE; LEADVILLE; LEGUME; LISMORE - BARNHAM ST PIONEER; LIGHTNING RIDGE; LITTLE PLAIN; LOWER BUCCA; LOWTHER R.C.; LUE; MACQUARIE PLAINS; MANILDRA; MANILLA; MARCH - St Phillips & Uniting; MARRA - St Mary ; MEADOW FLAT; MENDOORAN; MERRIWA Holy Trinity; MERRIWAGGA; MILLTHORPE; MITCHELL HIGHWAY - MEMORIAL; MOLONG; MOLONG - FAIRBRIDGE REST AREA ; MOONBI; MOORILDA - St Davids; MORONGLA; MT. LAMBIE Presbyterian; MT. THORLEY Anglican; MT. YORK; MT. WILSON St George; MUDGEE - “GRATTAI”; MURRINGO; MURWILLUMBAH - BANNER STREET; MUTTON FALLS - St Phillips; MYLNEFORD; NANGUS; NARRABRI-WEE WAA RD - 1 GRAVE; NARROMINE; NEVERTIRE; NEWBRIDGE; NEWELL HIGHWAY - 1 GRAVE; NIMBIN; NULLAMANNA; NUNDLE; NYMBOIDA; NYNGAN; NYRANG CREEK; OBERON - General, St. Barnabas & old Methodist; OBLEY; O’CONNELL; FLAGSTAFF; OPHIR – GOLDFIELD; OWENS GAP; PARKESBOURNE Methodist; PEAK HILL; PEEL; PEELWOOD; PERTHVILLE Uniting; PILLIGA; PIPERS FLAT; PORTERS RETREAT; PYRAMUL.; PYRAMUL ; QUAMBONE; QUIPOLLY St Chads; RAMORNIE WORKS; RANKIN SPRINGS; RAWSONVILLE; RED RANGE; ROCKLEY; ROUS MILL; RUNNING STREAM St Johns; RYDAL - inc. St. Matthews; SALLYS FLAT R.C.; SHOOTERS HILL; SODWALLS; SOFALA - inc. Anglican; SOUTH BOWENFELS R.C.; SOUTH GUNDURIMBAH - LISMORE MEMORIAL PARK; SPICERS CREEK; SPRING HILL; SPRING RIDGE; STANNUM; STUART TOWN (FORMERLY IRONBARKS); SUNNY CORNER; TABULAM; TALLIMBA; TAMBAR SPRINGS; TAMBAROORA; TANGMANGAROO All Saints; TANNABUTTA; TENTERFIELD; TOMINGLEY; TOOGONG; TOORAWEENAH; TORRINGTON; TOTTENHAM; TRANGIE; TRUNDLE; TRUNKEY; TUCKI TUCKI; TUENA; TULLAMORE; TULLIBIGEAL; TUMBLONG; TURONDALE; TYALGUM; UARBRY; ULAN; ULMARRA; UNGARIE; UPPER HORTON; UPPER TOOLOOM; URALLA; URBENVILLE; WALLABADAH; WALLANGRA; WALLENDBEEN; WALLERAWANG - BARTON PARK; WARDELL; WARKWORTH - St. Phillips; WARREN; WATTLE FLAT - inc. R.C., Anglican & Presbyterian; WEETHALLE; WELLINGROVE - Presbyterian; WELLINGTON - R.C. & Pioneer; WILLOW TREE - FORMER CHURCHYARD; WILSONS DOWNFALL; WINDEYER; WINDEYER - inc. R.C.; WINGEN; WINTON; WOMBAT; WOODBURN; WOODENBONG; WOODSTOCK; YENDA; YEOVAL; YETHOLME - St. Pauls; YETMAN

Index of graves in Botany Cemetery and Eastern Suburbs Crematorium. Details include internment date, age, location and map. Produced by the Botany Cemetery and Eastern Suburbs Crematorium Trusts.

CDROM Index of F. Arnold & Sons Pty Ltd Stones of Rememberance Order Books for the period 1879 to 1977, with approximately 42,000 listings in alphabetical/chronological order covering memorial work, historic monuments, buildings, churches, industrial & defence work. The index also covers direct commissions from architects & builders.

The actual order books are held in Mitchell Library Manuscripts at Ref. ML.MSS 3621/1-68.The collection comprises 70 volumes, 3 boxes and 1 portfolio.

Contents includes: (1) Expenditure, order and receipt books, 1879-1898, (2) Order Books, 1901-1927, (3) Contract Books, 1927-1977, and plans, mainly of monuments, c.1940 - c.1968. (Locn No.: MLMSS 3621/1-68)

Original unfilmed volumes MLMSS 3621/1-4, 6-15, 36-68, may be issued. Otherwise, Microfilm volumes are issued. The preservation microfilming of the Arnold Order Books is a continuing project.

Microfilm numbers are, as follows : CY 4453 (MLMSS 3621/5: 1904-05); CY 4495 (MLMSS 3621/16-17: 1923-24); CY 4496 (MLMSS 3621/18-19: 1925-26); CY 4497 (MLMSS 3621/20-21: 1927); CY 4498 MLMSS 3621/22-23: 1928-29); CY 4499 (MLMSS 3621/24-25: 1930-31); CY 4500 (MLMSS 3621/26-27: 1932-33); CY 4501 (MLMSS 3621/28-29: 1934-35); CY 4502 (MLMSS 3621/30-31: 1936-37); CY 4503 (MLMSS 3621/32-33: 1938-39); CY 4504 (MLMSS 3621/34-35: 1940-41).

There is a microfiche version of the F. Arnold & Sons' Order Book index, compiled by Ruth Keir (nee Arnold),in ML as follows:

PART 1: Ref.1/MAV/FM6/861 (5 microfiche): Order Books, 1879-1922 (MLMSS 3621/1-15), compiled 2003-2005.

PART 2: Ref.1/MAV/FM6/853 (7 microfiche): Order Books, 1923-1977 (MLMSS 3621/16-68), compiled 1994-2003.

The ML hardcopy version of this index is part of the 'Ruth Keir - Stones of Remembrance: names index to order books 1879-1977 papers'. MLMSS 7711.

Frederick Arnold opened the Monumental Masonry Works, in March, 1879, which were then located at the corner of Wellington and Regent Streets, Sydney, N.S.W. In 1891, the works and show-yard were moved to the corner of 53 Regent & Outram Streets, Sydney. Herbert Thomas Arnold (father of Ruth Keir, nee Arnold - the Names Index compiler) was born at 53 Regent Street, on 4 December 1891. Frederick and Charlotte Arnold who had 9 children, rented the 53 Regent Street property from Mr. & Mrs. Bruce Palmer (ex Mayor) until c.1922, when the property was purchased by F. Arnold & Sons Ltd. In 1915, the works and machinery were moved to the stone Quarry at 110 Cascade Street, Paddington, Sydney, with the 53 Regent Street address being kept as a show-yard and Head Office only. In 1967, the show-yard and Head Office were also re-located to the Quarry at 110 Cascade Street, Paddington.

This project has been assisted by funds allocated to the Royal Australian Historical Society through the New South Wales Heritage Office.

Compiled from NSW Department of Lands parish maps of each county by Geoff Cannon and published in 2003, this CDROM includes:

(1) alphabetical lists of surnames of the first title holders and leaseholders in each parish, village or suburb at the time the map was printed

(2) dated grants of land in each parish with an additional chronological list

(3) portions of land with a register number are presented in separate lists

(4) Supplementary lists are compiled when the first title holder is not recorded by surname (i.e. financial institution, companies)

(5) lists of public facilities - cemeteries, churches, schools, historical features, recreation areas, dated prior to 1900

(6) private towns are listed when they occur

(7) All listings are cross-referenced and sourced by surname, area, date and grant reference number

(8) and maps, compiled from NSW Department of Lands maps

Microfiche version of this index is held in ML at MAV/FM6/857 with the following content details:

22 microfiche:

* County of Camden (5 fiche): parishes (fiches 1-2), supplementary lists (fiches 3-4), titleholder index (fiche 5)

* County of Cook (4 fiche): parishes (fiches 1-2), supplementary lists (fiche 3), titleholder index (fiche 4)

* County of Durham (4 fiche): parishes (fiches 1-2), supplementary lists (fiche 3), titleholder index (fiche 4)

* County of Gloucester (5 fiche): parishes (fiches 1-3), supplementary lists (fiche 4), titleholder index (fiche 5)

* County of Hunter (4 fiche): parishes (fiches 1-2), supplementary lists (fiche 3), titleholders index (fiche 4).

Product contact address is: P.O. Box 2014, Green Hills, NSW, 2323.

Produced by the Central Coast Family History Society Inc in 2006, this newspaper notice index covers births, deaths, engagements, marriages, anniversaries, probates, memoriams & inquests for the period 1897-1933.

The 'Gosford Times and Gosford and Wollombi Express' is available on microfilm for the period July 1897 to May 1906 at RAV/FM4/24.

The 'Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate' is available on microfilm for the period May 1906-07; July-Dec. 1911; 1915-40; Feb. 28, 1941, Jan. 30, 1942, July 16, 1943, Aug. 1, 1947, Apr. 20, July 9, Sept. 24, 1948; 1949-1962 at RAV/FM4/24.

Compiled by A Eliason for the Heraldry and Genealogy Society of Canberra in 2004, this CDROM contains approximately 8,000 transcripts of memorials from the following cemeteries: Goulburn General Cemetery, Old General Cemetery Mortis Street, St Saviour's, Jewish Burial Ground, St Patrick's Roman Catholic Cemetery Kenmore and the Towrang Burial Ground.

A 1988 edition by Pam Ray and Grahame Thom is located in Mitchell library at 929.5099447/10.

Dedicated to the history of the 240 km convict-built road from Sydney to the Hunter Valley. Includes a convict workers database. Also includes a description of the Iron Gangs, Road Gangs and Bridge Gangs involved in its construction.

Provides headstone inscriptions for the cemeteries in the Gunning Shire area. Site produced by Graeme Challinor.

Produced by Rod and Wendy Gow in 2008,

Further information at Gow Newspaper Indexes.

The Hawkesbury Courier, and Agricultural and General Advertiser is on microfilm at RAV/FM4/155 for the period 1844-46.

Produced by the Hay Historical Society in 2000, this database of the Hay district has over 250 listings, plus 22 maps, 32 photos, 150 files and over 1200 pages of information.Keyword searching of all text is possible.There are many references to the Riverine Grazier so the CDROM, in many ways, also acts as an index to this Hay newspaper.The Riverine Grazier is held on microfilm at RAV/FM4/308 from October, 1873, to the present.

This database contains the following:

(1) Churches - information about all the churches in Hay,mostly lists of ministers,priests or nuns. There is also information about the convent school St Mary's.

(2) Clubs and Societies - information on most of the organisations in Hay, including a list of all current office-bearers. Sporting groups which are featured are Tennis, Swimming, Golf and Football. There are histories of the Murrumbidgee Lodge and Waradgery Club and the Hay Pastoral and Agricultural Society.

(3) Directories & Census 1901 - listings and directories from 1879 to the present. The 1901 Census, the 1945 Riverina telephone directory, the 1960s Hay Shire lists and the 1999 Hay directory are the main groupings. A set of 17 maps, which accompany the 1901 Census, give a view of the whole district and the layout of properties.

(4) Gaol Museum Archives - listings of the archives held at the Hay Gaol Museum, which fall into two groups, the artifacts and the recent photographs, mostly taken by Gavin A. Johnston after 1985.

(5) Gavin Johnston Negative Index - index to the black and white negatives of the photos taken by the late Gavin A. Johnston between 1957 and 1985. One section deals with the loose collection, housed in envelopes, and mainly covering weddings. The other main section is bound and archived in 18 volumes, totalling nearly 2700 pages. The whole collection numbers 78,000 negatives, which have been identified and listed by the Hay Historical Society members 1996-1999. Names, dates and events are listed.

(6) Graves & Cemeteries - transciptions of all the cemeteries in Hay, including village and station cemeteries, giving detail on locations, dates and inscriptions. Entries start in 1959.

(7) Honour Boards, Plaques & Memorials - Plaques and honour boards in churches, schools and most of the public buildings of Hay are transcribed here and many photos are included. The war honour boards at the Memorial Hall and at the War Memorial High School are included, as are other High School honour boards and memorials at the Hay Gaol Museum. As the High School itself is a memorial, a history of the endowment scholarships is included.

(8) Hostels & Out of Town Students - covers the period 1918 to 2000 and lists most of the out of town students attending Hay schools in that time. Most resided in the various hostels in Hay, which accommodated students from a wide area of NSW.

(9) Land & Rural - includes several 1880s and 1890s listings of sheep numbers on Hay district holdings plus the Pastures Protection Board list for 1905, which gives information about all the properties in the area. There is an index to all the listings of Riverina land on the market on the books of Hidgcock & Co. between 1892 and 1913, and details about the present Rural Lands Protection Board and of the stock routes and reserves.

(10) Regional Towns & Villages - Information on Carrathool, Goolgowi, Tabbita, Maude and Darlington Point, which mostly consist of war service listings and some school lists. There is a larger section on Hillston, covering war service, old directory listings and a potted history of the town.

(11) Township of Hay - covers the progress of the town of Hay, from the 1872 Municipality petition, the signatories of which are listed here, through to the present day. Lists are of Mayors, Town Clerks, Shire Presidents, doctors, hospital matrons and postmasters. The Hay institutions of Hospital, Haydays Retirement Community and the Volunteer Ambulance are fully covered. There are statistics on the population of Hay and surrounding towns over the years, and also of electoral numbers and voting trends. Also included are notes on the early Chinese and Jewish residents of Hay.

(12) Trade & Businesses - Lists of trades and tradesmen, past and present. Many of the trades are no longer in existence. Several banks and their managers are listed, as well as hotel licensees from 1865 to 1882.

(13) War Service - information on the war service of Hay people, including lists of volunteers and those that have died in the Boer War, the Great War soldiers of 1914-1918 and an article on Pte. Billy Jackson V.C. World War 2 is covered with a recently compiled Honour Roll and a compilation of newspaper references. Listings are included of the Garrison Battalion, the Volunteer Defence Corps and National Servicemen. There are maps included showing the POW camps and the River Farm enterprise of World War 2.

Produced by Rod and Wendy Gow in 2003, this index contains over 6,200 entries, encompassing the entire content of the newspaper. This includes local, Hunter River District, Sydney, NSW, Moreton Bay, Port Phillip, Van Diemen's Land, South Australia, Western Australia, New Zealand and all overseas news.

To facilitate research, the format states the date of the edition and the P & C (page & column) number within that edition.

Further information at Gow Newspaper Indexes.

A 1998 microfiche edition of this index is available at REF 10/N929.39442/2 and in ML at MAV/FM6/704

The 'Hunter River Gazette and Journal of Agriculture, Commerce, Politics, and News' is available on microfilm at RAV/FM4/444 for the period Dec. 11, 1841 (Vol.1, No.1) to June 25, 1842 (when it ceased publication).

Compiled by Wollongong City Library in 1999.this CDROM contains approximately 7,000 historical pictures of the Illawarra District dating from 1832 to 1998 from the collection held in the Wollongong City Library.

A searchable database of convict ships and over 100,000 records of convicts who arrived in New South Wales and some in Van Diemen's Land between 1788 and 1842. Each record on the database contains the convict's name or alias, the ship on which he or she arrived and the date, and a reference to the relevant fiche and film that contains the original data.

Produced by Susan Lark in 2006, this index contains over 15,600 references to people mentioned in the Kiama Examiner from January 1859 to December 1862.

Whilst the newspaper carried stories from throughout NSW, the index only covers the area from Bulli in the north to Ulladulla in the south.

The 'Kiama Examiner' is held on microfilm for 1859-1862 at RAV/FM4/575

Lismore City Council's searchable database of Lismore Cemetery and Memorial Gardens. Includes date of death and may include location of grave, or funeral service details.

Published in 2004 by the Liverpool Genealogy Society , this CDROM lists Liverpool Asylum admissions & discharges for the period 1859 to 1883 (volume 1).

Information includes name, age, country,occupation, religion and sometimes name of ship and year of arrival of the person admitted; and name of person discharged, when, why etc.

This CDROM is one of 3 listed on this menu, the contents of which are as follows:

CDROM 1 - 1859-1883 : Index to Archives Office of NSW Microfilm vol. 1, 2 & 3, Archives Ref. No's V245, 246 & 249

CDROM 2 - 1882-1894 : Index to Archives Office of NSW Microfilm, AO 1399, v. 4, 5, 6 & 7, Archives Ref. No V247, 247, 258 & 259

CDROM 3 - v.3. 1874-1890; v.5. 1898-1902 : Index to Archives Office of NSW Microfilms, AO 1400-AO 1401.

There is also a microfiche version of this index at REF10/RAV/FM6/640 & MAV/FM6/859

Published in 2005 by the Liverpool Genealogy Society , this CDROM lists Liverpool Asylum admissions & discharges for the period 1874 to 1890 (volume 3) and 1989 to 1902 (volume 5).

Information includes name, age, country,occupation, religion and sometimes name of ship and year of arrival of the person admitted; and name of person discharged, when, why etc.

This CDROM is one of 3 listed on this menu, the contents of which are as follows:

CDROM 1 - 1859-1883 : Index to Archives Office of NSW Microfilm vol. 1, 2 & 3, Archives Ref. No's V245, 246 & 249

CDROM 2 - 1882-1894 : Index to Archives Office of NSW Microfilm, AO 1399, v. 4, 5, 6 & 7, Archives Ref. No V247, 247, 258 & 259

CDROM 3 - v.3. 1874-1890; v.5. 1898-1902 : Index to Archives Office of NSW Microfilms, AO 1400-AO 1401.

There is also a microfiche version of this index at REF10/RAV/FM6/640 & MAV/FM6/859

Published in 2004 by the Liverpool Genealogy Society , this CDROM lists Liverpool Asylum admissions & discharges for the period 1882 to 1894 (volume 4, 5, 6 & 7).

Information includes name, age, country,occupation, religion and sometimes name of ship and year of arrival of the person admitted; and name of person discharged, when, why etc.

This CDROM is one of 3 listed on this menu, the contents of which are as follows:

CDROM 1 - 1859-1883 : Index to Archives Office of NSW Microfilm vol. 1, 2 & 3, Archives Ref. No's V245, 246 & 249

CDROM 2 - 1882-1894 : Index to Archives Office of NSW Microfilm, AO 1399, v. 4, 5, 6 & 7, Archives Ref. No V247, 247, 258 & 259

CDROM 3 - v.3. 1874-1890; v.5. 1898-1902 : Index to Archives Office of NSW Microfilms, AO 1400-AO 1401.

There is also a microfiche version of this index at REF10/RAV/FM6/640 & MAV/FM6/859

A listing of over 3,000 entries taken from the registers and funeral receipts held by Max Perrams Funerals, 143 George St. Liverpool, NSW.

Forest Lawn Cemetery and Crematorium is also listed as Leppington Lawn Cemetery and Crematorium which is south of Liverpool.

Sydney Catholic Lawn Cemetery is located at Kemps Creek west of Liverpool. Pine Grove Cemetery and Crematorium is located at Minchinbury west of Sydney.

Northern Suburbs Cemetery is located at North Ryde and is now known as Macquarie Park Cemetery. Northern Suburbs Crematorium is located east of Macquarie Park Cemetery.

Compiled by Betty Biffin & Betty Shepherd for the Liverpool Genealogy Society .

A listing of over 5,700 entries from the registers and funeral receipts held by Max Perrams Funerals 143 George St. Liverpool NSW.

When checking against the receipts,it was found that family members were grouped together and some earlier burials were found in the recipts.

Forest Lawn Cemetery and Crematorium is also listed as Leppington Lawn Cemetery and Crematorium which is south of Liverpool.

Sydney Catholic Lawn Cemetery is located at Kemps Creek south west of Sydney. Pine Grove Cemetery and Crematorium is located at Minchinbury west of Sydney.

Northern Suburbs Cemetery is located at North Ryde and is now known as Macquarie Park Cemetery.

Northern Suburbs Crematorium is located east of Macquarie Park Cemetery.

Compiled by Betty Biffin & Betty Shepherd for the Liverpool Genealogy Society .

Published by the Liverpool Genealogy Society in 2004, this CDROM contains over 460 photographs taken in 1992 by Bruce and Betty Sheperd, with an index of all names on the Liverpool Pioneers' Memorial Park headstones and corresponding photograph and inscription number. Some of the headstones no longer exist due to vandalism and deterioration from the elements.

Produced by Rod and Wendy Gow in 2003, this index covers court cases, births, deaths, marriages, inquests, obituaries, probates etc for the period 1885 to 1889.

There are over 4,100 entries detailing references to Abduction, Absconded, Accident, Apology,Assault Victim, Austion License, Bailiff Sale, Benefit, Bequest, Billiard License, Birth,Booth License, Death, Deserter, Escapee, Estate, Executed, Exhumation, Funeral, Grave, Hawkers License, In Memoriums, Inquest, Insolvent, Legal, Marriage, Memorial Service, Monument, Murder Victim, Music License, Obituary, Packet License, Probate, Publicans License, Re-captured, Return Thanks, Sheriff's Sale, Shipwreck, Shooting, Slaughter License, Wine License.

To facilitate research, the format states the date of the edition and the P & C (page & column) number within that edition.

Further information at Gow Newspaper Indexes.

A 2003 hardcopy version of this index is also available in FH at REF 10/NQ929.39443/ 4 and in ML at Q929.39443/9.

The 'Macleay Argus' is available on microfilm at RAV/FM4/80 for the period Oct. 1885-Sept. 1887; July 1888-1907; 1909-1910; 1912-1913; 1915; 1918- to present

Produced by Rod and Wendy Gow & Judy Hoole in 2003, this index covers births, deaths, marriages, inquests, obituaries, probates etc for the period 1899 to 1914.

There are over 2,100 entries detailing references to Anniversaries, Bankruptcies, Benefits, Births, Condolences, Deaths, Estates, Funerals, In Memoriums, Inquests, Marriages, Memorial Services, Missing persons, Monuments, Obituaries, Probates and Return Thanks.

To facilitate research, the format states the date of the edition and the P & C (page & column) number within that edition.

Further information at Gow Newspaper Indexes.

A 2002 hardcopy version of this index is also available in FH at REF 10/NQ929.39433/1 and in ML at Q929.39433/ 1.

The 'Macleay Chronicle' is available on microfilm at RAV/FM4/166 for the period 1899-1952.

Produced by the Society of Australian Genealogists (SAG) in 2003, this CDROM provides inscriptions and index to graves from Sydney's Macquarie Park (formerly Northern Suburbs) Cemetery.

The cemetery covers approximately 160 acres and was dedicated in 1902 to be known as Northern Suburbs General Cemetery Trust. It is owned by the NSW Government and operated under the Trusteeship of Honorary Trust Board members. The first Trust appointed in 1921 comprised Rev J G M Taylor and Messrs, C B Thistlewaite, G Chalmers and A J Hare.

As was the custom in those days, the cemetery was divided into various denominational areas. The first burial took place on 20 April 1922, namely, Henry Mashman in the Church of England area (G1 Grave No. 5.)

A brief history follows:

* 1954 the opening of NSW’s first Catholic and General lawn burial areas

* 1985 erection of Jewish Ohel

* 1988 erection of Armenian open air chapel

* 1999 Catholic and General Lawn areas completely refurbished

* 1999 Christ the Redeemer Mausoleum opened

* 1999 trading name changed to Macquarie Park Cemetery

* 2000 Stations of the Cross area opened

* 2001 RSL site established

* 2004 crematorium opening ceremony 23 November 2004

* 2004 initiative by the Catholic Archdiocese of Sydney approving the burial of cremated remains in the area known as the Garden of Stations of the Cross of deceased who have not embraced the Catholic faith

* 2005 joint dedication of Catholic, Anglican and Protestant lawn burial area

There is some technical support for SAG CDROMs at Technical support for SAG CDs.

Published by Maitland City Council on February 8, 1999.this CD has 25,625 entries recording cemetery details in the Maitland City Council area.

Entries include name, age, religion, death date, burial date, from the following cemeteries: Campbells Hill, East Maitland, Glebe, Hiland Crescent, Morpeth, Oakhampton, Oswald & Rutherford.

In 2002, Maitland City Council published an updated Burial Register for local cemeteries, in print format, containing 40,000 entries. This is available in the Mitchell Library at Q929.50994/74

Produced by Rod and Wendy Gow between 2003 and 2007, there are 9 CDROMs variously indexing the Maitland Mercury newspaper notices for births, deaths, marriages, funerals, inquests, insolvencies etc for the period 1843 to 1850.

Total entries for each CDROM are : 1843 - 16,000; 1844 - 19,000; 1845 - 18,000; 1846 (Jan/June) - 19,000; 1846 (July/Dec) - 22,000; 1847 - 7,000; 1848 - 2,800; 1849 - 7,500; and 1850 - 7,200.

The indexes may have references to the following events: Abducted, Absconded, Accident, Apology, Army deserter, Assault victim, Attempted burglary, Auction license, Baptism, Benefit, Birth, Burial, Caution Notice, Confection License, Court Martial, Death, Deserter, Elopement, Escapee, Estate, Execution, Exhumation, Found, Funeral, Hotel license refused, Inquest, Insolvent, Land Grant, Legal, Legal Notice, License transfer, Marriage, Medical, Memorial, Missing, Monument, Murder victim, Pardon, Presentation, Public Notice, Publican’s license, Quit Rent, Recovered, Relief Fund, Religios vows, Relocation, Remains Found, Resignation, Retirement, Reward, Robbery victim, Serious Injury, Shark Attack Victim, Sheriff sale, Shipwreck, Stabbing victim, Still birth, Subscription list, Suspected Murder, To be Executed, and Wounded.

To facilitate research, the format states the date of the edition and the P & C (page & column) number within that edition.

Further information at Gow Newspaper Indexes.

The 'Maitland Mercury, and Hunter River General Advertiser' is on microfilm for the period 1843-1893 at the State Library of NSW (location RAV/FM4/315). A digitised full text version is also available online for the period 7 January, 1843, to 29 December, 1855, undertaken as part of The Australian Cooperative Digitisation Project by the University of Sydney Library, the State Library of NSW, Monash University Library and the National Library. The project has digitised many mid 19th. century newspapers. See Australian Cooperative Digitisation Project : The Maitland mercury and Hunter River general advertiser

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Compiled by Nicholas Vine Hall in 1993 and published by Gould Genealogy in 2005, this CDROM is a fascimile of the 387-page book which is now out of print.

It not only contains much of the social history of Sydney's Northern Beaches, where the compiler lived for many years, but also records over 6,000 graves, some dating back more than 150 years. The compilation took over 20 years to complete and the index consists of a total 12,558 entries.

Records show that Manly Cemetery contains the graves of the reputed 'Man From Snowy River', a CBE, a CMG, a DFC, and decendants of the 'Flogging Parson', Rev. Samual Marsden, two Knights, a Baronet, a General, three MPs, three Mayors of Manly, several Professors, two Judges, two journalists, a Monsignor, a comedian, a town clerk, a potato merchant and seventeen clergymen. There are people from at least thirty-eight countries and every state in Australia.

Manly Cemetery is one of the oldest cemeteries in Sydney still in use. It is situated in Griffiths Street, Manly, and is divided into three sections, Church of England, Roman Catholic and General. It was consecrated as a burial ground in 1865 although it was only set apart officially by the Government in 1872. Soon after, Trustees were appointed to manage the cemetery and did so until 1969 when the administration was passed to Manly Council. Further details (including grave registers & cemetery plots) at Manly Cemetery.

A 1993 print edition is located in the Family History Service at REF/ N929.50994/14 and in Mitchell Library at REF 4/929.5099441/5A.

Compiled by Rod & Wendy Gow in 2007, this Manning River Chronicle newpaper index for 1887 contains over 5,900 entries.

To facilitate research, the format states the date of the edition and the P & C (page & column) number within that edition.

A list of names indexed, with associated event, is available at Gow Newspaper Indexes.

The Manning River Chronicle is available on microfilm at the State Library for the period September 1886 to 1887 at RAV/FM4/1217

Compiled by Rod & Wendy Gow in 2004, this Manning River newpaper index contains over 7,800 entries, covering anniversaries,court cases, births, deaths, marriages, funerals, inquests,licenses,probates etc for the period 1865 to 1873.

The index has references to Absconded, Accident, Anniversary (birth), Appointment, Apprehended, Assault victim, Attempted Robbery, Auction license, Bagatelle license, Benefit, Bigamy, Birth, Boat hire license, Burglary victim, Burial, Burns victim, Butcher’s license, Captured, Critically ill, Critically injured, Death, Distilling license, Escapee, Estate, Execution, Exhumation, Extension license, Found, Funeral, Hawker’s license, Injured, Inquest,Insolvent, Legacy, Legal,Legal appointment, License transfer, Manslaughter, Marriage, Medical, Memorial, Missing, Monument, Mortgagee sale, Murder victim, Music license, Naturalisation,Pardon, Poem, Postponed sale, Property sale, Publican’s license, Recaptured, Reinterred, Remains found, Rescued, Return Thanks, Reward, Robbery victim, Shipwreck, Shooting accident, Shooting victim, Slaughter license, Special license, Spirit license, Stock sale, Suspected death, Theatre license, Trespass notice, Wounded.

To facilitate research, the format states the date of the edition and the P & C (page & column) number within that edition.

Further information at Gow Newspaper Indexes.

The 'Manning River News & Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of NSW' is on microfilm at RAV/FM4/190 for the period April 15,1865,(Vol.1) to 1873.

Compiled by Judy Hoole and Rod and Wendy Gow in 2003, this Manning River newspaper index has over 6,000 entries, covering anniversaries, benefits, births, deaths, estates, funerals, headstones, inquests, In memorium, legal, marriages, memorial services, Obituraies, poems, probates and return thanks.

To facilitate research, the format states the date of the edition and the P & C (page & column) number within that edition.

A 2001 hardcopy version of this index is also available in FH at REF 10/NQ929.39442/ 4 and in ML at Q929.39442/ 18

The 'Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales' is on microfilm at RAV/FM4/191 for the period 1898-1907; 1913; 1921; 1925-1930; 1932-1968

Further information at Gow Newspaper Indexes.

Produced by Cathy Dunn and published in September, 2007, this CDROM includes a burial list of 170 people, a complete brief on each person and photos of headstones at the Milton Church of England Cemetery, located in Croobyar Road near the Princes Highway, Milton, NSW.

The burial list is compiled from death certificates, CE Burial register, newspaper references, headstones and other primary sources.

A list of people buried can be found at http://www.ulladulla.info/history/cemeteries/cemilton.html

Further information on Milton Ulladulla District cemeteries, which total over 30 in number, can be found at http://www.ulladulla.info/history/cemeteries/welcome.html .

Compiled by Dorothy Anderson and published by Port Stephens Family History Society in 2007, this CDROM includes colour photographs and transcriptions of all headstones and plaques at Nelson Bay Cemetery, Carumbah Memorial Gardens and Columbarium. The 344 page E-Book uses Flip Album software enabling turning of pages at the click of the mouse. Names are indexed alphabetically at the rear of the book and accessed by clicking on the name which takes you directly to the headstone photograph and corresponding transcription.

Headstone transcriptions of four significant cemeteries in the Newcastle area: Christ Church Cathedral Cemetery, Tarro Cemetery, Old Wallsend Cemetery and traces of North Waratah Cemetery. In time the index will be expanded to include a number of the larger cemeteries in the Newcastle area. Produced by Newcastle Regional Local Studies Library.

Produced by the Newcastle Family History Society Inc. in 2004,this CD provides copies of, and name indexes to, most of the Court Reports published in the Newcastle Morning Herald & Miners' Advocate from 1879 to 1898.

The main menu is divided into 2 sections. The first contains links to the alphabetic indexes which you can search for appropriate names. For multiple entries of the same name, it is suggested that you print the selected page/s which contain dates and page numbers for the Court Reports of interest. In the lower portion of the main screen there are links to the Report images, grouped by year. Select the relevant year and then the page numbers obtained from the above indexes.

The guide indicates that the most effective way to locate the person of interest is to print the selected Court Report page or enlarge the image on the screen using the Reader zoom. Each item on the report page is followed by its date of publication which helps to narrow the search. It has not been possible to make the report pages fully searchable because the deteriorated state of the print prevents the use of the OCR facility contained within the Adobe software.

Users should return to the first page of each alphabetic Name index or Court Report file for a link returning them to the main menu. Where available, use should also be made of Bookmarks and Page thumbnails on the left of the Adobe Reader screen.

The Newcastle Morning Herald & Miners' Advocate is available on microfilm at RAV/FM4/460RR for the period Apr.4, 1876-Oct.4, 1980.

Court Cases Births Deaths Marriages Inquests Obituaries Probates etc

Inventory of the Old Sydney Burial Ground. This cemetery was in use from 1792 to 1820, but was exhumed in 1869 to make way for the Sydney Town Hall.

Compiled by the Orange Family History Group in 2002, the CD provides over 21,000 records from Orange Cemetery as well as a map and aerial photo of the Cemetery.

Compiled by the Wyong Family History Group in 2006, this CDROM transcribes some 30,000 memorials, some dating back to 1935, from the Palmdale Lawn Cemetery and Memorial Park.

Palmdale was first established in 1970 to service the Central Coast and it was the first crematorium on the Central Coast.

The database allows searches by surname, forename, year of birth and age.

Produced by Rod and Wendy Gow in 2003, this is an index to court cases, births, deaths, marriages, inquests, insolvencies, Tickets of Leave etc. in the Parramatta Chronicle & Cumberland General Advertiser for the period 1843 to 1845.

The index contains over 7,000 entries, with references to court cases, births, deaths, marriages, inquests, insolvencies, Tickets of Leave., with reports not only from Parramatta, Sydney and the Hawkesbury, but from Port Phillip to Moreton Bay and from South Australia to Van Diemen's land. There are also court case reports from Berrima, Goulburn and Newcastle as well as many mentions of inmates of the Female Factory.

To facilitate research, the format states the date of the edition and the P & C (page & column) number within that edition.

Further information at Gow Newspaper Indexes.

The Parramatta Chronicle and Cumberland General Advertiser is held on microfilm at RAV/FM4/775 for the period Dec. 30, 1843-Sept. 27, 1845.

This 2007 Gould Genealogy CDROM is a fully searchable fascimile of the 1889 directory by William Hanson that details pastoral landholders (owners or leasees) in NSW in 1889, together with information on the property/ies they owned or leased.

The book is divided into 3 alphabetically arranged sections; the Eastern division, the Central division and the Western division, all containing information on the areas of land owned.

Information on each pastoral holding includes:

* the land district and county in which each pastoral holding is situated

* the area in acres

* the annual rent and licence fee

* the rate per acre and per section for each leasehold and resumed area respectively

* the names of the registered pastoral holders of the crown

* the date of notification in the NSW Government Gazette.

* a map

A microfilm version is avaliable in SRL and ML at RAV/FM4/1152 and MAV/FM4/10506 respectively and a microfiche version in the Family History Service at REF 10/N333.3355309/1.

Compiled by Rod and Wendy Gow in 2004, the Patriotic Fund Subscribers index contains over 30,000 subscribers and collectors names, with most entries stating the place of collection.

In February 1855, the population of the colony (along with all British colonies throughout the world) were asked to contribute to the Patriotic Fund for the support of widows and orphans of soldiers, sailors, or marines killed while in active service in the war against Russia - the Crimean War.

Australia eventually raised over £66,000. The Sydney Morning Herald and the Maitland Mercury (and Hunter River General Advertiser) published the details of contributors in NSW in list form, stating the names of contributors and, with a few exceptions, the location of the district where collected is noted.

Not all people living in NSW donated to this cause. However, this index, compiled from the leading city newspaper, the Sydney Morning Herald, and the leading country newspaper, the Maitland Mercury, may assist those trying to establish where their ancestors were in 1855.

The index states the date of the edition of the Sydney Morning Herald or Maitland Mercury and the page and column within that edition. Both newspapers are available on microfilm at the State Library of NSW. The newspaper will show the amount donated.

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser is held on microfilm at RAV/FM4/315 for the period 1843-1893 and the Sydney Morning Herald at RAV/FM4/461RR for the period 1842 to the present.

Further details on CDROM at Gow Newspaper Indexes.

Compiled by Liz Vincent and produced by Gould Genealogy in 2004, this CDROM indexes records based mainly on court and Catholic records in the Picton/Camden and Campbelltown Districts of NSW.

(1) The Court Records Index contains the following:

* Cawdor Bench Books 1825-1828

* Entrance Book to the Picton Lockup 1845-1861

* Picton Bench Books 1829-1883

Information includes people absconding, others giving evidence, tickets of leave, lunatic, forgery, disorderly behaviour, obscene language etc. Set out in column format, the index gives surname, first name/s, date (dd/mm/yyyy), page, and details (in brief).

(2) The Catholic Records Index contains the following:

* Stray Registers from Picton and Districts

* Stray Baptism, Marriage and Burial entries 1840-1948

The Catholic Records Index: contains 10 Catholic parish registers covering primarily Appin, Picton, Burragorang, Berrima, with a small number of entries from outer areas such as Campbelltown, Sydney and Prospect. Many baptisms, marriages and burials entries - believed to be as high as 50% - are not at the NSW Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages.

Burials:

* Parish Register of Appin 1841-1891 (123 entries), covers persons living in Appin, Picton, Berrima, Bargo, The Oaks, Rocky Water Holes, Burragorang, East Bargo, Wilton and Thirlmere

Baptisms:

* Parish Register of Appin 1840-1903 (1521 entries), covers persons living in Appin, Red Bank, Stonequarry, Picton, The Oaks, Berrima, Bargo, Mittagong, Bong Bong, Burragorang, Menangle, Hore Town (Douglas Park), Rock Water Holes, Upper Picton, Wilton, Prospect, Thirlmere and Cataract.

* There is also entries from Bulli, Illawarra, Sydney, Tumut, Cambpelltown, Dapto, Baulkham Hills, Smithfield, Sutton Forest, Hawkesbury Bridge, St Marys South, Liverpool, Balmain and Parramatta

Marriages:

* Parish Register of Appin 1840-1881 (88 entries), marriages took place at Appin, Red Bank, The Oaks, Picton, Berrima, Mittagong, Campbelltown, Bong Bong and Burragorang.

* State Register 1886-1897 (20 entries), marriages took place at Appin, Menangle and Picton.

* State Register c.1891 (1 entry), marriage took place at Menangle.

* State Register 1900-1902 (4 entries), marriages took place at Menangle and Picton.

* State Register 1866-1943 (153 entries), marriages took place at Picton, Appin, Douglas Park, Menangle, Avon Dam, Nepean and Bargo.

* State Register 1856-1888 (67 entries), marriages took place at Appin, Picton, Burragorang, East Bargo, The Oaks and Campbelltown.

* Parish Register 1844-1911 (42 entries), marriages took place at Burragorang, Campbelltown, The Oaks, Cox's River, Camden and Yerranderie.

* Parish Register 1911-1948 (50 entries), marriages took place at Yerranderie, Cox's River and Burragorang.

Produced by Lesley Uebel (see Claim a Convict ) in 2001, this CDROM is a collection of databases covering convicts who arrived into Port Jackson, Moreton Bay and Hobart during the 61 years of transportation.

Databases provided are, as follows:

(1) The 87,000 convicts who arrived into Port Jackson 1788--1849 by surname; Convicts to Hobart Town 1812 to early 1824; Convicts to Moreton Bay 1849--1850; and nearly 14,000 Ticket of Leave Numbers.

Information includes convict names, year of arrival, ship, place of trial & year, sentence and age.

(2) Convicts Permissions and Refusals to Marry (April) 1810-1851 - lists alphabetically the convicts who obtained permission to marry and also those applications that were refused either another convict or a 'free' person in NSW.

Information includes: name, age, ship & voyage number if a convict, sentence, condition (i.e. Free, Bond, FS, GS, TOL, Born Colony, Arrived Free and in some instances the ship of which they arrived), name of other party, age, Ship & voyage number if a convict, sentence, condition, year of approval, Clergy & district, reason for refusal

(3) Convict Death Index 1828-1879 - this index records the convicts who died while still under sentence, although many who had served their sentence are also listed along with a few children of convicts.

There are over 6,000 entries listed and many of these are not contained in the official death registers. Not every convict who died whilst serving their term was recorded on any documentation and therefore not included in this Index. Some names mentioned are convicts who originally were shipped to places other than Port Jackson and some were colonial convicts.

Information contained in this Index - name of convict (surname, given name) listed alphabetically by surname, ship on which they were transported, age noted at death, year of death or burial, district or parish & remarks.

(4) Assignments Register 1821-1825 - Includes date assigned, To whom assigned, residence, convict, ship, comments & remarks

(5) Families of convicts on Bounty Ships 1848-1855 - includes name, age, calling, native place, country, religion, education, ship and state of arrival

(6) Conditional Pardons Granted 1791-1825 and convicts Recommended for Conditional Pardons 1826-1856

(7) Absolute Pardons and recommendations for Absolute Pardons 1791-1846

(8) Marriage Licenses granted to free persons 1813-1827

(9) The Convict Transports - transport name and voyage number, date of arrival, tonnage, master and surgeon

Produced by Rod and Wendy Gow in 2007, these 4 CDROMs provide a last name alphabetical index to births, deaths, marriages, funerals, inquests, obituaries, probates, court cases etc for the periods 1882 to 1902, 1903 to 1910, 1911 to 1915 and 1916 to 1920.

Over 5,000 entries have been extracted from the Port Macquarie News, detailing references to: Accident, Anniversary, Apology, Appointment, Arrival, Auction license, Benefit, Birth,Birthday, Coach License, Dealer's License, Death, Departure, Died of Wounds, Drawing, Enlistment, Estate, Family, Farewell, Funeral, Furlough, Hawker’s license, Holiday, In Memoriam, Inquest,Insolvent, Interview, Killed in Action, Left District, Legal, Legal Notice, Marriage, Medical, Memorial Gates, Memorial Service, Missing, Name Change, Naturalisation, Navy, Notice, Nurse's Letter, Obituary, Overseas Trip, Partnership, Presentation, Probate, Promotion, Property sale, Rescue, Resignation, Retirement, Return, Return Thanks, Reward, Robbery victim, Sailor's Letter, Shark Attack, Shipwreck, Shooting accident, Shooting victim, Snake Bite, Social, Soldier's letter,Transfer, Visit, Welcome Home, Wounded.

To facilitate research, the format states the date of the edition and the P & C (page & column) number within that edition.

Further information at Gow Newspaper Indexes.

A hardcopy version of the 1903 to 1920 index is available in 3 volumes in ML at Q079.9442/ 7 and in the FH at REF 10/ NQ079.9442/ 2/ SET for the period 1911-1915.

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate is on microfilm at RAV/FM4/103 for the period July 1882-Oct. 1950.

Compiled by Nanette Hill and published by the Port Stephens Family History Society in 2007, this CDROM is an index of domestic notices in the Port Stephens Pilot newspaper between 16 July 1926 and 7 February 1930. Notices are indexed under the following categories: anniversaries, bequests, deaths, engagements, funeral notices, inquests, marriages, in memoriums, obituaries, probates, return thanks, sympathy messages and twenty-first birthdays (note that no births are listed in this newspaper).

The “Pilot” circulated in the following areas: Allworth, Anna Bay, Booral, Bullahdelah, Bundabah, Bungwahl, Karuah, Nelson’s Bay, Pindimar, Salt Ash, Tea Gardens, The Branch and the Myall Lakes District.

The Port Stephens Pilot is available on microfilm for the period July 16, 1926 to Feb. 7, 1930 at RAV/FM4/169.

Details of over 2500 pubs and publicans in the County of Cumberland, New South Wales, 1788-1850, covering from the Hawkesbury-Nepean River in the north, to the base of the Blue Mountains to the west and to Bulli in the south.

Includes transcriptions of surviving licence butts held by New South Wales State Records, plus licence details from a range of other published and unpublished sources. Also includes biographical notes about around half of the publicans mentioned, often including details of arrival in Australia, as well as family details and any convict details.

Index of mining leases for gold and other minerals for NSW mining districts for the period 1874 to 1953.

Compiled by Kaye Vernon and Billie Jacobsen, the data is in the form of a spreadsheet with the following subject columns:

(A) Register number of lease; (B) location; (C) number of application; (D) date of application; (E) date of possession; (F) applicants surname; (G) applicants christian name; (H) to whom receipt was issued; (I) other names relating to lease-surname; (J) other names relating to lease-christian name; (K) reel number; (L) item identifier; (M) surveyor surname; (N) surveyor christian name; (O) purpose of lease; and (P) file or region.

You can keyword search the spreadsheet by using Contol Find. Not all columns have an entry for a particular lease.

There are 4 spreadsheet options using the Index tabs at the bottom of the page. The default option, Index Surname, is an aphabetical sequence by applicants surname (column F). The other options are Index Other Name (column I), Index Area (column P) and Index Area Surname.

Mining districts covered include:

(1) Bathurst - Bathurst, Orange, Trunkey, Carcour, Tuena

(2) Lachlan - Parkes, Cargo, Forbes, Grenfell, Bourke, Young, Barmedman, Temora

(3) Mudgee - Hargreaves, Gulgong, Peak Hill, Windeyer, Wellington, Parkes, Tomingby

(4) New England & Clarence - Drake, Fairfield, Lionsville, Tenterfield, Boorook

(5) Peel & Uralla - Barrington, Glen Innes, Armidale, Buladelah, Nundle, Bingara

(6) Southern - Nowra, Braidwood, Araluen, Nerriga, Nerrigundah, Moruya, Little Creek, Pambula, Milton

(7) Tambaroora & Turon

(8) Tumut & Adelong - Adelong, Tumut, Tumbarumba, Gundagai, Kiandra, Queanbeyan,Captains Flat, Albury, Cooma

The original records can be viewed at State Records NSW at SRNSW: CGS 10093-CGS 10101 Kingswood (7/3112-7/3166) and (7/3179-7/3229).

Produced by the Griffith Genealogical & Historical Society in May 2001.

Published by the Society of Australian Genealogists in 2002, this CDROM has over 235,000 names transcribed from headstone inscriptions in Rookwood Cemetery between 1981 and 1992.

Rookwood Cemetery, opened in 1867, is the largest working cemetery in the southern hemisphere and is the burial place for over 600,000 people.

Searches are possible by surname, forename, inscription or year of death and each entry shows the complete transcription and grave location.

Published in 2004 by the Australian Jewish Genealogical Society , this CD covers the Old Jewish Section of Rookwood Cemetery.This section has over 2,400 burials.

The earliest burial is 1 June 1837. 106 pre-1867 burials were relocated from Devonshire St. Cemetery to Rookwood in 1901. Some burials later than 1905 are also included.

Overall, there are: 1100 graves with headstones; 600 burials without headstones that have been identified and their position located; & 70 burials identified, but not yet located.

Contents include: compilation of images; Rookwood Cemetery maps; transcriptions of the English; transcriptions of the Hebrew; references to the death certificate registration number; death notices from newspapers,where available; details from the burial registers,where available; relocation details,where available.

Searchable database for Shoalhaven cemeteries and crematorium, maintained by the Shoalhaven Council. Includes date of death, date of burial, location of grave and option to request more information on each grave.

Produced by Susan Lark in 2006, the index contains over 10,000 references to names of residents of Illawarra, Shoalhaven, the Southern Highlands and Northern Rivers.

The South Coast Herald and Illawarra Guardian is held on microfilm for 1898-1902 at RAV/FM4/954.

Compiled by the Shoalhaven City Library, this is a selective index to the South Coast Register for the period 8/01/1926 to 19/05/1949 and also 3/01/2002 to 6/07/2009 (as of July 2009).

The index provides access to a selection of articles about the Shoalhaven area. The emphasis is on Council affairs, building, environmental issues, local identities, organisations and social issues.

The South Coast Register is held on microfilm for the period 1926; 1929-1931; 1933-1955; and 1957 to the present, at RAV/FM4/695.

Some 17,500 entries, with marriages and engagements being cross referenced.

The St. George and Sutherland Shire Leader is a twice weekly local newspaper. Two editions are produced, one for Sutherland and one for St.George. Births, deaths, marriages, engagements etc will not vary but some miscellania may. If an entry cannot be found then the alternative edition should be checked.

Compiled by Lyn Vincent for the Hurstville Family History Society in 2002.

The St. George and Sutherland Shire Leader is available on microfilm at RAV/FM4/458 for the period June 29, 1960 to present.

Compiled by Jean Jehan and Lyn Vincent for the Hurstville Family History Society in 2002, the index covers 2,633 entries.

The St. Georges Advocate is available on microfilm at RAV/FM4/107 for the period February 4, 1899, to September 26, 1903.

3,300 transcriptions and burial register entries and 2,970 photographs (JPEG format) from the Sydney Catholic Lawn Cemetery, Kemps Creek, NSW, for the period 1965 to 2004, with a few for 2005.

The bronze plaques were photographed with digital photography and are cross referenced with the register entries and transcriptions. 330 entries are not included on the plaques.

Compiled by Bruce Shepherd for the Liverpool Genealogy Society , assisted by funds allocated to the Royal Australian Historical Society by the NSW Arts Ministry.

Sydney Catholic Lawn Cemetery is located on Weston Road, Kemps Creek, approximately 20 minutes from Liverpool. It is situated on 10 hectares of land burials, commenced in 1965 and to date has recorded 3,300 burials. The cemetery averages 110 burials each year and the majority are Catholic but other denominations are catered for.

Compiled by Moore College and published by Gould Genealogy in 2007, this 3-set CDROM is a fascimile of the yearbook for the Church of England Diocese of Sydney, in 3 compendiums for the periods 1881-1900,1901-1910 and 1911-1920.

The annual Sydney Diocesean Sydney directories contain lists and details on all the Anglican clergy, cathedrals, committees, societies and schools of NSW, as well as Anglican clergy lists for all other states in Australia. Detailed biographical information on those who held office in the Anglican church at the time is included.

The fascimile annuals have been bookmarked for easy navigation and pages can be searched, browsed, enlarged and printed out if required.

The hardcopy version of this annual is held in SRL at DS283.911/1 for the period 1881, 1886, 1888, 1893-1896, 1899-1901 and 1903-1920 and in ML at 283.91/S for the period 1881, 1886, 1888, 1894-1896 and 1899-1920.

Compiled by Malcolm Sainty and Keith Johnson this 2003 CDROM index of 23,000 people is a reproduction of the 4-volume index published in 1972 and subsequently on microfiche which are now out of print.

The compilers created index cards from every notice of births, marriages, deaths and funerals in every edition of the Sydney Morning Herald newpapers from 18 April 1831 (the first day it was published) to 30 September 1853. Every person mentioned in each notice has a separate card.

Sorted alphabetically by surname, the information contained in most entries consists of surname, given name/s, event (ie. marriage, birth etc.), on (date of event), at (where the event took place), and the SMH date. This is an exact copy of the original bookform and can be read by scrolling through the sections.

The 4-volume hardcopy of this SMH index is available at the Family History Service at REF 10/NQ079.9441016/1-4 and in SRL storage at EQ079.9441016/SAI SET

The 4 volumes contains four alphabetical sections covering the following periods:

(1) 18 April 1831 to 30 July 1842;

(2) 1 August 1842 to 31 December 1847;

(3) 1 January 1847 [ie 1848?]-31 May 1851;

(4) 1 June 1851 to 30 September 1853'.

Rhonda McKinnon has compiled 2 microfiche indexes to Sydney Morning Herald birth, marriage, death & funeral notices for the subsequent periods 1853-1859 and 1910-1911. These indexes are held in SRL's Family History Service, respectively, on 3 microfiche at REF 10/NQ079.9441016/5 and 2 fiche at REF 10/N079.9441016/6.

Published by Gould Genealogy in 2006, this CDROM is an update of the New South Wales section of Nicholas John Vine Hall's Tracing your Family History in Australia - a national guide first published in 1994. The national guide has, in fact, grown so big that NSW is large enough to require its own volume.

This fully-searchable CDROM does not contain actual records. Rather, it is a guide to where records - such as passenger lists, convict records, bankruptcy records, published family histories, etc. that relate to NSW - can be found. It covers traditional published and manuscript sources as well as those on the internet, giving details of 41 record groups and major Sydney record centres. It also includes a bibliography.

Contents are, as follows:

1. Historical Background; 2. Population; 3.Immigration; 4. Birthplaces; 5. Religion; 6.Record Access; 7. Location of Records: Society of Australian Genealogists,NSW Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages, State Records Authority of NSW, National Archives of Australia, Mitchell Library; 8. Record Categories: Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders, Adoptions, Biographical and Genealogical Dictionaries, Business Records, Cemeteries, Census Returns, Change of Name, Civil Registration, Convicts, Directories and Almanacs, Divorce, Electoral Rolls, Family Bibles, Genealogical Charts, Genealogical Societies, Government Gazettes, Hospitals and Asylums, Inquests, Insolvency and Bankruptcy, Land Records, Local Government Records, Local History Societies, Manuscripts, Letters, Diaries and Heirlooms, Maps, Gazetteers and Place-Names, Marriage Licences, Declarations and Banns, Naturalisations, Occupational Records, One-Name Groups, Orphans, Parish Registers, Passenger Arrivals and Departures, Photographs and Pictures, Published Family Histories and Biographies, Published Local Histories, Research Directories and Indexes, Schools, Colleges and Universities, Shipping, Specialist Historical Societies, Undertakers' and monumental Masons' Records, Wills, Probates and Letters of Administrations.

The 2002 3rd edition of Nick Vine Hall's Tracing Your Family History in Australia : a National Guide to Sources is held in SRL's Family History Service at REF 10/ N929.394/ 33A and in ML at REF 1/929.394/34.

This CD includes two indexes previously published as separate microfiche sets (but have now been extended to 1856):

1. Unassisted Arrivals to New South Wales 1842-1856 Index - lists some 150,000 entries for Sydney arrivals.

It was compiled from 3 State Records NSW sources (1) Reports of Vessels Arrived 1842-56; (2) Passengers Arriving Sydney 1846; and (3) Shipping Master's Office (Passengers Arriving) 1854-56. It is also supplemented by over 25,000 additional names from the 'Sydney Morning Herald' Shipping Intelligence columns.

The list was then compared with the arrivals in the Shipping Gazette and Sydney General Trade List, a weekly publication reproducing shipping information as, on occasion, an arrival was omitted from one or other of the sources. All name variants were noted and, if sufficiently different, appear as separate entries with cross-referencing in the remarks column. If the 'Sydney Morning Herald' provided a full forename where the original record had only an initial, the full name has been placed in the index and not in the remarks column.

The index includes the name of any regiment noted plus any deaths on board. It also lists the name, age (when given), arrival date, status (master, passenger or crew - and crew only listed from 1854), departure ports, including foreign, coastal and interstate and a remarks column noting any additional information such as place of origin, nationality etc.

2. Ships and Masters to Sydney 1842-1856 Index - for those studying the ships and masters of this period, this index lists all of the ship arrivals (over 12,000 entries) with a separate list of the masters with name variations.

Although the State Records NSW records do not generally include ships arriving from Moreton Bay and New South Wales coastal ports such as Clarence River, Port Macquarie, Twofold Bay, Newcastle etc., they are reported in the 'Sydney Morning Herald'. These are included in this list.

Additionaly, there is also, separately listed, the 42 ships arriving from German departure ports.

This CD is one of a series of six produced by Paskeys and Gould Genealogy as part of the NSW Immigration Index Series. The State Library has the other five titles in this series. They are:

(1) Immigration Deposit Indexes;

(2) Free Railway Passes (NSW) index 1880-1892;

(3) Deane Index Re-Indexed 1823-1840;

(4) Paskeys Miscellaneous Indexes - Unclaimed Letters index 1836-1852, Unemployed Registers 1860, 1884 Index and Wages Paid to Orphans Index 1842-1856;

(5) Convicts & Employers(NSW) Index 1828, 1832-33, Jan 1838-Jan 1844

Published by the Society of Australian Genealogists in 2005, this CDROM provides information transcibed from Waverley & South Head General Cemeteries' headstones and plaques.

Waverley and South Head Cemeteries are located in the eastern suburbs of Sydney and are the most significant burial sites in that area. South Head General Cemetery opened in 1869 and Waverley in 1877. Both are still in use and over 56,000 headstone transcriptions, compiled by SAG volunteers up to 2002, are included on the CD.

This new CD allows the user to search not only by last name (including phonetic and wild cards), but by first name, year of burial and inscription. Each record shows the complete transcription, as well as denomination, section, row and plot number - and a map for easy reference. Nearby graves are also listed.

Six CDROMs produced by Rod and Wendy Gow, the 1911 to 1915 and the 1916 to 1920 indexes in 2003, the 1896 to 1900, the 1901 to 1905 and the 1906 to 1910 indexes in 2007 and the 1888 to 1895 in 2008. They each have around 6,000 entries and provide indexes to births, deaths, marriages, inquests, obituaries, probates etc.

References to the following events are included: Anniversary of births and marriages, Bankruptcy, Baptism, Benefit, Bequest, Bigamy, Birth, Death(KIA), Died of illness, Died of Wounds, Divorce, Engagement, Estate, Exhumation, Family, Funeral, Grave, Honeymoon, In Memorium, Inquest, Legal, Marriage, Memorial, Memorial (KIA), Memorial Roll, Memorial Service, Military Award, Missing, Missing in Action, Monument, Obituary, Photo, Pioneer, Poem, Prisoner of War, Probate, Reinterred, Return Thanks, Reunion, Roll of Honour, and Separated. Many articles within this newspaper refer to events of the early 1800's and these have been included in this index.

To facilitate research, the format states the date of the edition and the P & C (page & column) number within that edition.

Further information at Gow Newspaper Indexes.

A hardcopy version of the 1888-1895 index is available in FH at REF 10/NQ929.39441/16 and in ML at Q929.39441/28. A hardcopy version of the 1901-1905 index is available in the ML at Q929.39441/ 26 and for 1906-1910 at Q929.39441/ 25. A hardcopy version of the 1911-1915 index is available in FH at REF 10/NQ929.39441/11 and in ML at Q929.39441/20. A hardcopy 1916-1920 index is available in FH at REF 10/NQ929.39441/13 and in ML at Q929.39441/18.

The Windsor and Richmond Gazette is available on microfilm at RAV/FM4/355 for the period July 21, 1888-May 11, 1983.

Further information at Gow Newspaper Indexes.

The The Windsor express and Richmond advertiser is held on microfilm at RAV/FM4/157 for 1843-1844.

Produced by Rod and Wendy Gow in 2003, this is an index to court cases, births, deaths, marriages, inquests, insolvencies, licenses etc. to the editions of the 'Windsor, Richmond & Hawkesbury Advertiser' newspaper that have survived for the period 1873 to 1883.

There are over 4,400 entries, detailing references to the following events - Abandoned, Abducted, Absconded, Accident, Adoption, Assault Victim, Auction License, Award, Bailiff Sale, Benefit, Billiard License, Birth, Bus License, Carriage License, Caution Notice, Creditors Meeting, Death, Deed Errors, Divorce, Escapee, Estate, Execution, Funeral, Gaol Release, Hawker's License, Injured, Inquest, Insolvent, Leaving Colony, Leaving District, Legal, Legal Appointment, Legal Notice, License Extension, License Transfer, Marriage, Medical, Memorial Poem, Missing, Murder Victim, Obituary, Personal, Poem, Probate, Property Surrender, Publican's license, Remains Buried, Rescue, Resignation, Return Thanks, Reward, Robbery Victim, Shooting Victim, Slaughter License, Subscription, Timber License, Wine License.

To facilitate research, the format states the date of the edition and the P & C (page & column) number within that edition.

Further information at Gow Newspaper Indexes.

A 2003 hardcopy version of this index is located in FH at REF 10/NQ929.39441/ 10 and in ML at Q929.39441/ 23

The Australian, Windsor, Richmond, and Hawkesbury Advertiser is held on microfilm at RAV/FM4/154 for the following periods Sept. 27, 1873-Aug. 29, 1874; Sept. 9, 1876-Mar. 31, 1877; Sept. 18, 1880-Sept. 8, 1883; July 2, 1896; Jan-May 1899 and at RAV/FM4/988 for the day of Aug. 7, 1875.

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Produced by Rod and Wendy Gow in 2003, these 2 CDROMs provide indexes to births, deaths, marriages, inquests, obituaries, probates etc for the period 1886-1908 & 1911-1920.

The 1886-1908 index contains 3,700 entries, detailing references to Anniversaries, Awards, Benefits, Bequests, Births, Deaths, Divorces, Engagements, Estates, Funerals, In Memorium, Memorial Funds, Memorial Services, Missing Persons, Monuments, Obituaries, Return Thanks.

The 1911-1920 index has 4,100 entries (including for the Manning River Times of 1913), detailing reference to Anniversaries, Benefits, Births, Deaths, Died of Illness in War, Died of Wounds in War, Divorces, Engagements, Estates, Exhumations, Family Reunions, Funerals, Honeymoons, In Memorium, Inquests, Killed in Action, Legal, Marriages, Medical presentations, Memorial Services, Memorials, Missing in Action, Missing persons, Monuments, Obituaries, Photographs, Poems, Prisoners of War, Probates, Return Thanks, Rolls of Honour.

To facilitate research, the format states the date of the edition and the P & C (page & column) number within that edition.

Further information at Gow Newspaper Indexes.

A 2002 hardcopy version of these 2 indexes are also available. The 1886-1908 index is located in FH at REF 10/NQ929.39442/ 5 and in ML at Q929.39442/ 17. The 1911-1920 index is at REF 10/NQ929.39442/3 in FH and at Q929.39442/27 in ML.

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer is held on microfilm at RAV/FM4/1260 for the following periods - 1889-1894; 1896-1908; 1911; 1914-29; Apr. 17, 1930; 1931; 1933-1962; 1964-65.

Published by the Central Coast Family History Society in 200?, this CD contains an incomplete index to the wives of convicts, and female convicts with accompanying children, mentioned in the NSW Musters and Other Papers 1825 - 1840 held at NSW State Records ( 2/8241 to 2/8282 & reels 2417 to 2428).

Produced by Gould Genealogy in 2007, this fully searchable CDROM is a fascimile of a 1900 book by Alfred G. Yewen which was the first broad attempt at publishing a complete directory of over 70,000 landowners throughout NSW.

The 600-page directory is divided into approximately 1900 postal localities, grouped under 87 larger districts. There is an introduction and summary to each district.

Yewen's Directory indicates for each landholder whether they are dairy farmers, graziers or agriculturalists and what crops are under cultivation in the following categories - wheat, maize, barley, oats, potatoes, tobacco, sugar, other crops, grapes and orchard fruits.

The main directory is supplemented by further useful information:

* a list of butter factories, creameries cheese and bacon factories, flour mills, sugar mills, ice works etc.

* a large fold out chart with a breakdown of crops under cultivation and livestock by district

* a summary table of the landed estate of New South Wales

* indexes to the districts, the postal localities and over 50 advertisers in the directory.

This directory is useful not only for locating forbears but also details about a neighbourhood/district.

The 1900 print edition is located in the Mitchell Library at Z/Q630.991/Y and also on microfiche at MAV/FM4/9380.

This Census of NSW, undertaken in November 1828, aimed to record all the inhabitants of the colony at the time. Over 36,500 people are reported. It does not include the military, although their wives and children were probably included in the general population. It is the only census to survive in full to the present day.

The 1828 Census was published on CDROM in 2001 and in hardcopy in 1980, both edited by Keith Johnson & Malcolm Sainty. It provides the individual’s full name,age, free or bond, ship, year, sentence, religion, employment, residence, district, total number of acres, acres cleared, acres cultivated, horses, horned cattle, sheep and remarks.

It was the first census to be conducted after if was found that a Governor had no right to compel free men to come to a muster. Although the census fulfilled the same functions as the previous musters, there were some differences.The census was taken by appointed collectors, responsible to the Commissioner or Bench of Magistrates, who completed printed forms for each household in the district allotted to them. The magistrates then checked the returns and forwarded them to the Colonial Secretary's Office where they were gathered together in order to extract statistics.

The 1980 hardcopy is located in SRL at REF 10/NQ312.09944/5 SET and in ML at REF 1/Q312.09944/1

Further information on the 1828 Census and other census records can be found at the NSW State Records website at Short Guide 12 - Muster and Census Records 1788-1901.

This is a State Records NSW index to the 1841 census which, according to Act 4 Victoria No. 26, required every householder, employer of servants and proprietor and occupier of land in the Colony of NSW to complete the census schedule on the second day ('or on the days immediately subsequent thereto') of March 1841.

The index has 9,354 entries and covers all the surviving householders' returns and abstracts of returns. As the returns record only the name of the head of the household, the names of the other people resident in the household are not identified. Also, for a number of places such as the Lachlan and Liverpool districts there are only statistical returns - no individual names are listed.

The 1841 census showed a marked advance over all preceding enumerations, the population being taken in police districts, counties and towns. The results included age groups, conjugal condition (married or unmarried), religious denomination and civil condition. Civil condition provided statistical information on the number of bond (convict) or free males and females in a household, whether they were born in the colony, arrived free, held a ticket of leave, and whether they were in government employment or private assignment.

Common abbreviations used in musters and censuses are, as follows: B.C. = Born in the Colony; C.F. = Came Free; F.S. = Free by Servitude; A.P. = Holding an Absolute Pardon; C.P. = Holding a Conditional Pardon; T.L. = Holding a Ticket of Leave; C. = Convict; C.S. = Colonial Sentence; and G.S. = Government (or Assigned) Servant.

Microfilm copies of the NSW 1841 Census are available in the Family History Service as NSW State Record Reels 2222-2223 & 2508-2509. Reel contents are, as follows:

* 1841 Census: Abstract of returns : Berrima-Goulburn [X946] Reel 2222; Hartley-Norfolk Island [X947] Reel 2222; Parramatta-Paterson [X948] Reel 2222;Patrick Plains-Port Phillip [X949] Reel 2222; Queanbeyan-Sydney [X950] Reel 2223; Wellington-Yass [X951] Reel 2223

* 1841 Census: Householders' returns and affidavit forms : Illawarra [4/1243] Reel 2508; Port Phillip [4/1244] Reel 2509

This site provides links to agricultural sites relating to Australia and New South Wales. It also contains a searchable index to Agfacts and other material published by NSW Agriculture.

This database contains indexes of death and marriage records only for New South Wales from 1919 - 1945. You can search by place of registration and parents' names as well as surname and given name for flexible searching.

Use this site to find contact details of adult and community education providers across New South Wales.

This 2002 CDROM, indexed by Marj Knight, contains nearly 60,000 records of bounty or assisted immigrants arriving in NSW from 1829 to 1842, compiled from 64 NSW State Records microfilm ( reels 1286 to 1349 ).

This includes the following :

(1) The Persons on early migrant ships, 1828-32 (reel 1286) - records, for each immigrant, name, age, sex, country and calling, and status as a passenger (cabin or steerage).

(2)The Persons on early migrant ships, May 1832-Jan 1833 (reel 1286) - is similar to the earlier volume but also includes a list of mechanics and females who received advances of money from the British Government to pay the cost of their passage to New South Wales.

(3) For each certificate in the series Entitlement certificates of persons on bounty ships, 1832-42 (reels 1286 to part-1349) - the name of the ship and the ship's agent; and the native place, calling, age, health, religion and name of the immigrant are recorded. Each certificate is endorsed with a character reference and a certificate of baptism.

Fields used in the database are: Surname, Given name; Age in years; Year; Ship; Native place; Occupation; Religion; Notes; and Reel.

According to the Queensland State Archives Brief Guide to the use of Immigration Records, the Bounty system, established in NSW in 1837, involved the payment of set amounts of money or 'bounties' per immigrant to person who arrived and paid for the passage of certain categories or immigrants such as female domentic servants, shepherds, mechanics, agricultural labourers, etc. , which were needed in the colonies. The system was financed from the sale of Crown lands.

Futher details see NSW State Records at Guide to Using Assisted (Bounty) Immigrants Records

Index of 22,574 records from the 1832-33 NSW Government Gazette of assignments (male & female), absconders, absconders apprehended and a small list of those with their Ticket of Leave cancelled. Also included are convict records from State Records NSW of assignments to assist in harvesting and surveying.

The index lists the name,age (where noted), occupation, whether convict or employer,native place (where noted),date of record,type of record (ie: assignments,absconders etc),location, reference, ship, and a remarks column for employer cross-indexing (when given).

Can use Toolbar Search button for Keyword search of name, place etc of pdf file. Alternatively, click bookmark tab on left to select letter, right click mouse for 'go to bookmark' for surname list at letter chosen.

This CD is one of a series of six produced by Paskeys and Gould Genealogy as part of the NSW Immigration Index Series. The State Library has the other five titles in this series. They are:

(1) Immigration Deposit Indexes;

(2) Free Railway Passes (NSW) index 1880-1892;

(3) Deane Index Re-Indexed 1823-1840;

(4) Paskeys Miscellaneous Indexes - Unclaimed Letters index 1836-1852, Unemployed Registers 1860, 1884 Index and Wages Paid to Orphans Index 1842-1856;

(5) Unassisted Arrivals (NSW) Index 1842-56 and Ships & Masters to Sydney Index 1842-56.

This database is an electronic version of the Convicts Permissions to Marry which is part of the Archives Office of New South Wales Genealogical Research Kit. It contains an alphabetical list of convicts and also lists their age, ship, sentence and status, and the name of their spouse, spouse's age, ship, sentence, status, as well as the year, name of clergy and district of the marriage.

This index is being compiled from State Records NSW Duty Paid files. This index is not yet complete but covers a number of years in this date range.

Connecting Kin is a 383-page NSW Department of Community Services guide to NSW records from 1900 onwards aimed at helping people separated from their birth families (through adoption, fostering etc) to locate records about their separation and their families. The Guide was published in September 1998.

Since 1924, over 100,000 children, both Aboriginal and non - Aboriginal, have been made wards of the State of NSW. Thousands more have been placed with other families under adoption or other arrangements.

The guide includes : a brief history of child welfare in NSW; a chronology of key events in NSW child welfare; listing of records at NSW Government welfare agencies, non government agencies, public hospitals and NSW Government non-welfare agencies; Appendix 1 : Services and other sources of information; Appendix 2 : chronological summary of child welfare agencies in NSW; Appendix 3 : brief history of missions in NSW; Appendix 4 : brief history of Aboriginal reserves in NSW; Appendix 5 : definitions and abbreviations used in this Guide; and index.

The index is a key element of the guide as it indexes all the records in the guide by place name (eg: town or suburb name), name of agency (ie Department of Community Services) and name of home or program (ie Parramatta Training School for Girls) with extensive cross referencing. It also indexes the appendices which appear in the Guide.

Records referred to in the guide's 4 main sections ( NSW Government welfare agencies, non government agencies, public hospitals and NSW Government non-welfare agencies ) are grouped under the name, institution or program they relate to, and then are listed in 'series'. A series is a collection of records which usually have the same format ( eg:files, photographs, registers) and which were created for a particular function.

Before starting a search for your birth family, it would be useful to know your date and place of birth, where you were brought up (ie; the name of the children's home and/or the school you attended) and the name/s of your foster or adoptive parents. It is also important to know that for confidentiality reasons, there are a variety of conditions and procedures governing access to records.

A number of agencies which hold records offer support and counselling services. These include:

(1) Family Support Services, NSW Department of Community Services, (02) 9865 5961 or toll free 1800 049 956; (2) Anglican Adoption Agency (Careforce) (02) 9890 6855; (3) Barnardo's Adoption Agency (02) 9281 5510; (4) Centacare Adoption Service (02) 9744 7055; (5) Mercy Family Centre (02) 9487 3022; and (6) Salvation Army (02) 9266 9829.

In addition, there are a number of groups which offer advice, information, mediation and counselling. These include : (1) Adoption Triangle NSW Inc which has a number of country and interstate groups. Phone (02) 4965 5888 for the number of the nearest group to you; (2) Origins Inc (02) 9560 8808; (3) the Post Adoption Resource Centre (02) 9365 3444 or toll free 1800 024 256; and (4) Link-Up (NSW) Aboriginal Corporation (02) 4759 1911.

The online 'Connecting Kin' guide may be slow in downloading because it is a large pdf file. You could also go to related links on the righthand column of the NSW Department of Community Services webpage Are you a former ward?

Provides information about adoption services available through NSW Department of Community Services.

To ascertain past ownership to freehold land in NSW, the following indexes are publically available at the NSW Department of Lands basement public search area located at 1 Prince Albert Rd, Queens Square, Sydney, Monday to Friday 8.30am - 4.30pm.

The indexes are :

(1) The Old System Grant Index which covers the period 1792 to 31 December 1862 and includes all grants made in the colony. The Torrens Title System came into being on 1 January 1863 and from that date all grants were made under Torrens Title.

(2) The index to the Old Register which covers the period 1802 to July 1825. These registers were the first kept in the colony by the Judge Advocate and contain many entries beside those dealing with land.

(3) The Old System Vendors Index which covers the period 1 July 1825 to date. As there was no Purchasers Index for Old System covering private purchase until 1 July 1896 a search of the Vendors Index made against a person's name will (hopefully) show an entry relating to their sale of the land which will lead to a deed that reveals details of their original purchase.

(4) The Old System Purchasers Index which covers the period 1 July 1896 to date.

(5) The Torrens Title Purchasers Index which covers the period 1 January 1863 to date and includes purchases from the Crown as well as private sales.

This website also provides the following online guides to searching NSW land title records (1) the 80-page Searching the Records of the Registrar General; (2) the 27-page The Parish Map & Crown Plan in Family History Research; (3) the 37-page Torrens Title Searching; and (4) the 34-page History of the Registrar General's Maps & Plans.

The NSW Department of Lands Parish Map Preservation Project is converting the NSW's rapidly deteriorating parish, town and pastoral run maps to digital images that can be viewed online at Parish Map Search.

If you don't know the parish name of an area, use the Geographical Names Register to search by locality or suburb. The result of the search will include the parish name.

Copies of land records and historical maps, title deeds and land grant documents can be obtained from the NSW Department of Lands Head Office and online enquiries can be sent to Map sales enquiry .

This website provides an online User Guide - The Parish Map and Crown Plan in Family History and Genealogical Research and a Discussion Paper on the Parish Map Preservation Project, which is a joint project of Land NSW, the NSW Department of Land and Water Conservation, the Land Information Centre and NSW State Records.

Index to NSW Divorce Case Papers which are held at State Records NSW (series NRS 13495) for the period August 20, 1873 to 1930 and 1970. Currently the index goes up to 1923 and has some 20,000 entries. NSW was the last Australian colony to implement divorce legislation with the Matrimonial Causes Act, 1873.

You can also obtain copies of divorce case papers held at the State Records via their Divorce Case Papers Service. To order copies you will need to provide:the names of the couple (petitioner and respondent); year of divorce; registered divorce number; and the Container/Box number (if known).

The State Records NSW index was created from the Supreme Court of NSW's Family Law (Divorce) Index which covers a longer period, from 1873 to 1976. This longer index is available at both the Supreme Court of NSW and State Records NSW ( microfiche 6130 to 6410 ). This 1873 to 1976 index is arranged chronologically and then by the first letter of the surname and provides the registered number for the divorce case papers. From 1873-1925 the index also records year, petitioner, respondent and co-respondent(s) if named. From 1926-1949 and 1955-76 the entries give date of registration and date of final decree. Entries for names Kon-Z in the period 1970-74 are missing.

The contents of the divorce case papers have changed markedly during the years since 1873, particularly during the 1960s and 1970s when less evidence was required to obtain a divorce decree. Files for the years 1873 to 1900, and to a lesser extent, those for 1901 to 1920, contain detailed petitions for the dissolution of marriage, statements of issues, affidavits of evidence and supporting documentation, as well as correspondence, applications for divorce, judicial separation or other matters matrimonial, copies of the decrees nisi (initial conditional grant of divorce), and copies of decrees absolute (final grant of divorce). In instances where property division and alimony were in question, financial documents relating to income and capital are included.

For access to divorce case papers not held by State Records NSW contact the Family Law Clerk, Supreme Court of New South Wales, GPO Box 3, Sydney, NSW 2001. For divorce records after 1976 contact the Family Court of Australia at Family Law Courts National Enquiry Centre, GPO Box 9991, Parramatta, NSW. 2124. Ph: 1300 352 000 or email: enquiries@familylawcourts.gov.au or fax: 02 8892 8585

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A commercial site which provides images of historical documents of NSW during the period 1850 to 1920. Includes records in the following categories - Directories, Electoral Rolls, Miners and Mining Leases, Land Purchasers and Lessees, Farmers, Graziers, Shearers and Station Hands, Other Occupations Including Civil Servants, Teachers etc., Voters, Petitioners, Friendly Society Members etc. Much of the material is available freely on viewing the site.

A detailed selection of scanned documents and books, including the Sands directories, some early NSW electoral rolls and land title records and miscelleanous occupations.

This database contains indexes of birth, death and marriage records for New South Wales from 1889 - 1918. You can search by place of registration and parents' names as well as surname and given name for flexible searching.

Index of 23,899 entries compiled from surviving registers of applications for free railway passes. These passes were generally issued to NSW immigrants seeking employment in outer metropolitan or country areas in NSW, although many were issued for charitable reasons.

The date ranges of the registers are not indicative of how long the applicants were in the colony. Most entries note the applicant's native place, age, married or single, how long in NSW and sometimes other detail such as ship of arrival.

The Registers were transferred from the Chief Secretary's Department to the Mitchell Library in June 1934 and they are now at State Records NSW.

This CD is one of a series of six produced by Paskeys and Gould Genealogy as part of the NSW Immigration Index Series. The State Library has the other five titles in this series. They are:

(1) Immigration Deposit Indexes;

(2) Convicts & Employers(NSW) Index 1828, 1832-33, Jan 1838-Jan 1844;

(3) Deane Index Re-Indexed 1823-1840;

(4) Paskeys Miscellaneous Indexes - Unclaimed Letters index 1836-1852, Unemployed Registers 1860, 1884 Index and Wages Paid to Orphans Index 1842-1856;

(5) Unassisted Arrivals (NSW) Index 1842-56 and Ships & Masters to Sydney Index 1842-56.

Produced by the Newcastle Family History Society in 2004, this CDROM is a reproduction of the 1892 book by William Hanson (former Govenment Printer of NSW) entitled 'Geographical Encyclopædia of New South Wales: Including the counties, towns and villages within the colony; with the sources and courses of the rivers and their tributaries, ports, harbours, light-houses and mountain ranges; postal, money order and telegraph offices and savings banks; the Railways and stations on each line; the public schools and the county in which each school is located; with a map and diagram of light-houses on the coast'.

This 112-year old title has become a valuable aid to family historians trying to decipher geographical information enshrined in many old family documents. Geographical place names evolve over the years such that many names, familiar to NSW citizens of 1892, can no longer be located on current maps.

A hardcopy 2004 edition of this title is in SRL at REF 10/N994.4003/1 and in ML at REF 1/994.4003/1A.

This NSW Geographical Names Board provides a searchable register of over 80,000 place names in NSW, detailing location as well as origin, history and meaning if available. Discontinued names are retained in the register.

The Board is empowered by the NSW Geographical Names Act 1966 to assign names to places; to investigate and determine the form, spelling, meaning, pronunciation, origin and history of any geographical name; and to determine the application of each name with regard to position, extent or other reference.

NSW HSC Online aims to provide access to a rich range of current, quality assured resources prepared and developed by experienced HSC teachers and links to an extensive range of websites which have been identified as containing valuable and relevant information for all students studying for the NSW Higher School Certificate.

Immigration Deposit Journal records detail the money paid to the Colony to sponsor the transportation of people to NSW. This CD has 2 main indexes:

(1) Immigration Deposit Journals (NSW) Index 1853-1900: Immigration & Depositors - contains 67,199 records in separate indexes for depositors and immigrants. Many convicts and early immigrants established in the Colony sponsored relatives and employees and, in a large majority of entries, details such as location, parish, townland or address in the country of origin, ship etc are specified. This index lists the name and age of the proposed immigrant, sponsor(depositor), date of deposit, deposit number, State Records NSW microfilm reel number and, in a remarks column, codes for information where available in the original journal entry.

(2) Immigration Deposit Regulations Supplementary Index 1856-1857: Immigrants & Depositors - is an index of 4,297 records compiled from Embarkation Orders and Shipping Lists of arrivals between November 1856 to February 1858 with the actual lists for the period 1856-57 covering the period when only the Depositors' Journal survived in the Immigration Deposit Journal series. There are separate lists for both depositors and immigrants. Like the Immigration Deposit Journals these records provide that vital link between family and extended family, often cousins, uncles etc. with different surnames. Each immigrant's age is given and families are grouped. Five of the ships went direct to Moreton Bay.

This CD is one of a series of six produced by Paskeys and Gould Genealogy as part of the NSW Immigration Index Series. The State Library has the other five titles in this series. They are:

(1) Paskeys Miscellaneous Indexes - Unclaimed Letters index 1836-1852, Unemployed Registers 1860, 1884 Index and Wages Paid to Orphans Index 1842-1856;

(2) Convicts & Employers(NSW) Index 1828, 1832-33, Jan 1838-Jan 1844;

(3) Deane Index Re-Indexed 1823-1840;

(4) Free Railway Passes (NSW) Index 1880-1892;

(5) Unassisted Arrivals (NSW) Index 1842-56 and Ships & Masters to Sydney Index 1842-56;

The NSW Department of Commerce Office of Industrial Relations website provides online access to NSW industrial awards from January 2001 onwards. Instruction of how to search historical awards (pre 2001) is also included on the page.

Awards Online is not available between 10.30pm and 2.00am Australian Eastern Standard Time due to nightly updates of the database

This site provides biographical information about current members of the NSW Ministry.

(NSW Health, Australia)

Fact sheets on a range of health topics.

Source: NSW State Government, Australia.
Links to a wide range of government and non-government information sources on illicit drugs, including the latest information and strategies arising from the NSW Drug Summit following its conclusion on 21 May 1999.

The alphabetical surname index of pre-1900 NSW pioneers begins on page 305 and ends on page 368. Click on 'click here for index' in red at top of page 1 to go directly to this index.

An alphabetical list of all contributors, their address and sometimes email, can be found on pages 303 to 304.

Pioneer entries can provide information on births,marriages and deaths, children, family relationships, occupation etc. Each entry ends with the name and address of the contributor.The index was compiled by Julie Dern and published October 6, 2004.

This CD includes three indexes. These were originally published on separate microfiche, compiled by Pat Stemp & Aileen Trinder.

(1) Unclaimed Letters (Noting Ship or Regiment) Index for 1836-1852 - index of 2,790 unclaimed letters listed in the NSW Government Gazette. In many cases, as well as the addressee, the published lists included the expected locations of these persons in NSW and other colonies. Many of them also noted the ship of arrival of the addressee or current(or late) regiment.

A single microfiche version of Unclaimed letters is located at REF 10/RAV/FM6/607.

(2) Unemployment Registers 1860, 1884 Index - 494 entries listing name,age,occupation,marital status,date of interview,address,the State Records NSW reference,ship of arrival,where given, etc

A single microfiche version of Unemployed registers is located at REF 10/N331.1370994/14.

(3) Wages Paid to Orphans Index for 1849-1851 - 612 entries comprising Irish orphan girls,their employers & other relevant persons mentioned in the records and notes their status,event date, the event itself,the event location,source reference, ship name when given, etc

A single microfiche version of Wages Paid to Orphans Index is located REF 10/N362.7320994/4.

This CD is one of a series of six produced by Paskeys and Gould Genealogy as part of the NSW Immigration Index Series. The State Library has the other five titles in this series. They are:

(1) Immigration Deposit Indexes;

(2) Convicts & Employers(NSW) Index 1828, 1832-33, Jan 1838-Jan 1844;

(3) Deane Index Re-Indexed 1823-1840;

(4) Free Railway Passes (NSW) Index 1880-1892;

(5) Unassisted Arrivals (NSW) Index 1842-56 and Ships & Masters to Sydney Index 1842-56.

This database contains indexes of birth, death and marriage records for New South Wales from 1788 - 1888. You can search by place of registration and parents' names as well as surname and given name for flexible searching.

The NSW Premier's Literary Awards aim to honour distinguished achievement by Australian writers. This site lists the current and past winners of each of the Premier's Literary Awards.

An official list of NSW public holidays, produced by the NSW Office of Industrial Relations. Also includes NSW school term dates and local public holidays such as show days and racing carnivals.

The NSW Registry provides a free Online Historical Index to births (1788-1908), deaths (1788-1978) and marriages (1788-1958) in NSW.

Anyone can apply for a birth, death and marriage certificate if the event occurred 100 years ago or more for births, 30 years ago or more for deaths and 50 years ago or more for marriages. If the event dos not meet these criteria the certificate has restricted access for confidentiality and potential identify fraud reasons. Restricted records are normally only available to the person named on the certificate and identification is always required.

An “Online Historical Index” search result provides the following information: First Name; Last Name; Year the event was registered; District (place the event was registered); Unique Registration Number; and parent’s given names. NSW Registry birth, death or marriage certificates are cheaper if the registration number is included on the application form. Costs of certificates are indicated on the application form. Currently, with a registration number you receive a discounted fee of $26.00 per certificate compared to the standard fee of $39.00.

NSW Registry Family History Birth, Death or Marriage Certificate application forms can be found at Application Forms. Applications cannot be submitted online. You can print the form and then mail or fax a completed printout to: NSW Registry of Births Deaths & Marriages, GPO Box 30, Sydney, NSW 2001 Fax: (02) 9699 5120. You can also deliver the completed application form in person to one of the NSW Registry office locations (opening hours: Monday to Friday, 8.00am to 4.30pm) at : (1) 35 Regent Street, Chippendale, Sydney, NSW, 2008; 92) 2/74 Kembla Street, Wollongong, NSW, 2500; (3) 95 Tudor Street, Hamilton, Newcastle, NSW, 2300.

Birth, death and marriage certificates will vary in appearance based on how the event was originally recorded at the time of the registration. The means of capturing this event data has varied over the year from quill and ink in leather bound registers to computerised date capture. Between 1788 and 1855 certificates will be converted to a computerised format from Registry transcriptions of the Early Church Records. From 1856 to 1951 certificates will usually be digital reproduction of the actual entries that were handwritten across large registers. In cases where the ink has faded or the record is deteriorated, the certificate is converted to a computerised format. From 1952 to the present certificates will either be computer generated or printed copies of the original types or handwritten registration on microfilm.

Early church records of baptisms, burials and marriages (1788-1855) only have limited information, usually names of parties, date and place of event. From 1788 until 1855 the churches assumed responsibility for recording the details of baptisms, burials and marriages which they had performed. Both the NSW State Records and the NSW State Library has transcriptions of these pre-1856 early church records but copies can only be obtained from the Registry for copyright reasons. In 1856 civil registration was introduced and the NSW Government took over the function of recording all births, deaths and marriages from the churches.

In general, more recent standard birth, death and marriage certificates include the following information:

Birth certificates - full name, sex, date and place of birth; mother's details including full name and maiden name, age, occupation, place of birth; father's details including full name, age, occupation, place of birth; date and place of parent's marriage ; and previous children of the relationship. By law, the words illegitimate or spinster cannot appear on any birth certificate issued, even if the original registration included them.

Death certificates - full name, sex and age, date and place of death, place of residence, usual occupation and marital status at date of death; place of marriage, age when married, full name of spouse; children's name and ages; parent's names including mother's maiden name; cause of death and duration of last illness; and burial or cremation date and place.

Marriage certificates - bridegroom's full name, occupation, place of residence, conjugal status, place and date of birth, age, father's name and mother's maiden name; bride's full name, occupation, place of residence, conjugal status, place and date of birth, age, father's name and mother's maiden name; and celebrant's name and witnesses.

The NSW State Library has an online guide to its birth death & marriage indexes at Getting Started : Births, Deaths & Marriages.

The NSW Registry provides a free Online Historical Index to births (1788-1908), deaths (1788-1978) and marriages (1788-1958) in NSW.

A Society of Australian Genealogists (SAG) index derived from NSW State Records ships musters of both passengers and crew on ships departing NSW from 1816 to 1825.

For crew, details of their position on the ship are provided, along wih details of their Ticket of Leave, Certificate of Freedom or Pardon in the case of convicts or ex-convicts. For example, 'James Allen, free by Pardon No. 361, date 5 July 1819'. Convict ship of arrival is also often given.

For passengers, too, details of their status or condition are provided. Free persons not identified as previously convict generally have their ship of arrival stated. Children travelling without parents are identified by the name and residence of one of their parents. In a few instances a passenger is referred to by official position (e.g. 'Judge Advocate') rather than by name.

This SAG index is by the initial letter of each person's last name. Some had no last name recorded, or the name given was illegible, and they are grouped together at the start of the index.

Searching for a particular name is usually easier than browsing for it and searches will be more effective if you use simple search terms, as with the following example:

Starting a search for 'Richard Abbott' will look for exactly that phrase, but most of our databases have the first and last names stored separately - Richard Abbott will simply not be found. If you search for just 'Abbott', or even just 'Richard', you'll quickly spot Richard Abbott in the hit list.

Indexes provide last name, ship, year, type, COD number and State Record shelf number and reel number. The type code indicates the status of the named individual : A - Master of vessel; B - Crew; C - Crew - convict or former convict; D - Apprentice; E - Owner of vessel; F - Passenger; G - Former convict passenger; H - Naval; J - Convict passenger; and K - Military.

Few records of passengers departing from NSW were ever kept, let alone survive. In fact, it was not until 1898 that systematic records of departure began to be created by public officials. Prior to that time, there are only a few series of official departure records.

For further details of NSW departure records view the NSW State Records leaflet Archives in Brief 45 - Passengers departing from NSW.

The state heritage register online database lists items of particular significance to the state. It includes items subject to an Interim Heritage Order under the NSW Heritage Act.

This site (formerly known as the Archives Authority of NSW) contains information on useful resources such as the Colonial Secretary's papers. Several searchable databases can be accessed on this site, including many indexes such as convicts and assisted immigrants, deceased estate files, 19th century child welfare records and naturalisation records.

Several searchable databases can be accessed on this site, including many indexes such as convicts and assisted immigrants, deceased estate files, 19th century child welfare records and naturalisation records.

Includes the following indexes: Certificates of freedom, 1823-69; Convict Bank accounts 1837-70; Convict exiles 1849-50; Pardons, 1791-1825, 1837-41; Tickets of exemption from government labour, 1827-32; Tickets of leave, certificates of emancipation and pardons, 1810-1819; Ticket of leave passports, 1835-1869. Index of Bench of Magistrates 1788-1820; Index to (NSW) Quarter Session cases 1824-1837. Includes a guide to searching for a convict at State Records NSW.

This is a valuable resource relating to the New South Wales colonial justice system and will be of benefit to those of you researching criminals, convicts and crimes committed during the early years of the Colony.

This index contains the names of some passengers who paid their own fare and some assisted immigrants.

There are over 9000 entries to search.

State Records NSW guide to the following professions and occupations records held : Accountants, Apprentices, Architects, Attorneys, Bakers, Barristers, Chemists (see Pharmacists and Druggists), Chiropodists, Clergymen, Conveyancers, Dentists, Doctors (see Medical Practitioners), Druggists (see Pharmacists and Druggists), Firefighters, Hairdressers, Lift attendants, Marine Surveyors (see Seamen), Mariners (see Seamen), Medical Practitioners, Military, Newspaper printers and proprietors, Nurses, Optometrists, Pharmacists, Physiotherapists, Pilots (see Seamen), Police, Prison Officers, Public Servants, Publicans, Railway Employees, Sailors (see Seamen), School Teachers, Seamen, Ships' masters and crew (see Seamen), Solicitors, Squatters and Pastoralists, Surveyors, Tramway Employees, Veterinary Surgeons and Watermen (see Seamen).

Examples of records held include : NSW Teachers' Rolls for 1869 to 1908: Returns of the Colony, 'Blue Books' 1822 to 1857 and NSW public service lists 1858 to 1870; Railway Employment Records 1856 to 1890 and 1909 to 1932; and minutes of proceedings and registers of the NSW Medical Board, Dec 1838 to Sep 1972.

NSW State Records Maps and Land records include the following:

(1) Colonial Secretary's Letters Relating to Land - this index is part of the first stage in a long-term project to ensure the preservation and accessibility of the Colonial Secretary's papers, 1826-56.

(2) Closer Settlement and Returned Soldier's Transfer files, 1907-36, 1951 - this index will be of interest to local and family historians researching the transfer of land ownership originally obtained under the Closer Settlement and Returned Soldiers schemes.

(3) Court of Claims relating to Land, 1833-1835 - this index will be of interest to local and family historians researching early or disputed land ownership.

(4) Registers of Settlement Purchase, 1905-1929 - this index will be of interest to local and family historians researching land settlement under the Closer Settlement and Returned Soldiers schemes.

(5) Returned Soldier Settlement Miscellaneous Files - the indexing of two boxes of Qualification Certificates in these miscellaneous files has been a volunteer project. These appear to be the only surviving examples of World War 1 Qualification Certificates from New South Wales.

(6) Surveyor General's Maps and Plans, 1792-1886 - a complete listing of the Surveyor General's Select List of Maps and Plans (and Supplement) which is available in our reading rooms.

(7) Surveyors' Field Books, 1794-1860 - the index records surveyor's name, date and locality.

(8) Surveyors' Letters, 1822-55 - these are letters received from surveyors, mostly relating to matters such as the survey description of farms, reserves, churches, schools, rivers and mountain ranges, or forwarding tracings and plans of these after survey.

A NSW State Records index that lists some 5,500 people born outside the British Empire who became naturalised in NSW between 1834 and 1903.

Naturalisation was the means by which aliens (non-British subjects) gained the privileges and rights of citizenship held by British subjects or people born in NSW. There was no law covering naturalisation before 1849. Prior to that year, the process of naturalisation was known as denization and could only be performed through an Act of Parliament. Denization gave an alien the right to own land. The Act to Amend the Laws relating to Aliens, 1849 (No 11 Vic No 39) established the system of naturalization, which gave much broader rights and made denization obsolete.

Any person born outside the British Empire who had resided in NSW for a period of five years and who wished to vote or own land needed to become naturalised. This means that within the records, researchers will mainly find people from European countries as well as from countries such as China, the United States of America and South America. Researchers will not find people from Canada or Ireland as both of these countries were part of the British Empire. There are also few women listed in these naturalisation records.

Each naturalisation certificate shows: the person's name; native place; the date of certificate; and the relevant volume and page numbers in the register. For copying purposes the Item and Reel numbers have also been added to the Index.

The index was compiled from the following record series NRS 1042, Index to Registers of Certificates of Naturalization and Lists of Aliens to Whom Certificates of Naturalization have been issued, 1849-1903. The Index then leads to the following records: (1) Letters of Denization, 1834-47, NRS 1038, Reel 128A; (2) Certificates of Naturalization, 1849-76, NRS 1039, Reels 2688-2699; (3) Registers of Certificates of Naturalization, 1849-59, 1876-1903, NRS 1040, Reels 128A-141A; and (4) Lists of Aliens to whom Certificates of Naturalization have been issued, 1859-76, NRS 1041, Reel 130.

Applications for naturalization up to 1903 are not available to order unless a letter number and State Records item number is known. You can undertake research to find the numbers in the NSW State Records reading rooms.

The main difficulty with using naturalisation records relates to the accuracy of the records. Information concerning each individual was dependent on the information being provided by them and was therefore dependent on their own knowledge and memory. It is not unusual, for example, for date of arrival or name of vessel to be incorrect or unknown.

Naturalisation was the responsibility of each colony until the end of 1903. From 1 January 1904, under the Naturalization Act No 11 1903, the Commonwealth then assumed sole responsibility for naturalisation. Naturalisation records after 1903 are held by the National Archives of Australia.

For more information on naturalisation NSW State Records has an online 'Short Guide 9 - Naturalization and Denization Records 1834-1903' and an 'Archives in Brief 3 - 'How to use Naturalization records'

A brief overview of the major resources held by State Records NSW in relation to family history research.

NSW State Records offers online indexes to the following assisted immigrants records it holds :

(1) Assisted immigrants arriving at Port Phillip, 1839-51

(2) Assisted immigrants arriving in Sydney and Newcastle, 1844-59

(3) Assisted immigrants arriving at Moreton Bay (Brisbane), 1848-59

(4) Assisted immigrants arriving in Sydney, 1860-79

(5) Assisted immigrants arriving in Sydney, 1880-96

(6) Index to Miscellaneous Immigrants, 1828-43

(7) Index to Vessels Arrived, 1837-1925

The term 'assisted immigrant' refers to those people whose passage was subsidised or paid for through one of the several assisted immigration schemes which operated to New South Wales from the United Kingdom and other countries.

The NSW State Library Family History Service holds the Assisted (Bounty) immigrants to New South Wales, 1828-42 on CDROM which is listed on this menu. The NSW State Library also has a guide to its holdings relating to NSW assisted passengers at Getting Started : NSW Assisted Passenger Lists

An index to correspondence of the Colonial Secretary, covering the early administration of the colony of NSW from 1788 to 1825. These papers are held by State Records NSW and include: petitions by convicts for mitigation of their sentences; requests for permission to marry; memorials attesting to the worthy character of potential settlers; applications for land grants or leases; reports on official visits; and information about court cases and lists of assigned servants.

This index itself is primarily a personal one, concentrating on the early inhabitants of Australia - the convicts, settlers, indigenous Australians and colonial officials. However, the index does contain many entries relating to ships, subjects, towns and localities.

There is a subject hierarchy for similar subject terms in the index, as follows: (1) Ships of that name; (2) Places/subjects; and then (3) Individuals. For example:

'RICHMOND'. Convict transport RICHMOND see also HAWKESBURY DISTRICT

RICHMOND

RICHMOND, Magistrates

RICHMOND, Watch House

RICHMOND, George

RICHMOND, John

RICHMOND HILL

RICHMOND ROAD

A 63-fiche version of this index, and copies of the actual Colonial Secretary Papers on 312 microfiche, are available at the ML Information Desk. Copies of the Colonial Secretary Papers are also available on 72 microfilm reels (reels 6001-6072) in the ML Reading Room (MAV/FM4/10243-10314). Copies of these records can also be obtained via the State Records NSW Colonial Secretary Papers copy service.

Online indexes to NSW State Record insolvency records for the period 1842 to 1887 and to bankruptcy records for the period 1888 to 1928. From 1888 insolvency records were combined with bankruptcy records in NSW.

If the name of a known bankruptcy or insolvency does not appear in the index, researchers are advised to consult the NSW Government Gazettes in the relevant timeframe to assist in locating the file reference. There is a searchable, online NSW Government Gazette for the period 1836 to 1851.

Futher information can be found at State Archives In Brief 58 - Bankruptcy and insolvency records .

This is an ongoing index to records held by NSW State Records relating to the Orphan Schools which were run by the colonial government of NSW from 1801. This index records the date of petition or entry into the school, child's name, age, parents' names (where given), name of petitioner and reason for petition (such as admission/return of child or employment of child) item, page and reel/COD number. Records older than 100 years are open to public access.

At present the index includes entries from the following series: (1) Female Orphan School Admission Books, 1817-32; (2) Male Orphan School Admission books, 1819-47; (3) Applications for admission into the Orphan Schools, 1825-33; (4) Applications for children out of the Orphan Schools, 1825-33 ; (5) Colonial Secretary, Special Bundle List of 117 boys received into the Male Orphan Institution 1818-24; (6) Protestant Orphan School Admission Book (Female) 1827-86; and (7) Protestant Orphan School Admission book (Male) 30 Apr 1850-31 Aug 1886.

Additional orphan school records may be identified in Archives Investigator under the agency headings (1) Trustees of the Clergy and School Lands in the Colony of NSW; (2) Commissioners [of the Clergy and School Lands in the Colony of NSW] and (3) Protestant Orphan School.

An overview of major sources held by NSW State Records that relate to child care and protection can be found at Archives in Brief 59 - Child care and protection and at Archives Investigator : Activity Child Care and Protection - Related Series.

Information on the following institutions established for child care and protection in NSW can be found - in chronological order - at : (1) Female Orphan School, 1801-50; (2) Male Orphan School, 1819-50; (3) Roman Catholic Orphan School, 1836-86; (4) Protestant Orphan School, 1850-86; (5) Randwick Asylum for Destitute Children, 1852-1916; (6) The Vernon and the Sobraon, Nautical training ships for boys 1867-1911; (7) Newcastle Reformatory for Girls, 1867-1871, Biloela Public Industrial School and Reformatory for Girls, Cockatoo Island, 1871-87 and Shaftesbury Reformatory for Females at Watson's Bay, 1880-1904; (8) Industrial School for Females, Parramatta, 1887-1912 and the Girls' Training Home, Parramatta, 1912-1975 ; (9) the Boys' Reformatory schools and Farm Homes, 1895+; and (10) Farm Home For Boys, Mittagong (1906-1947) / Mittagong Training School For Boys (1947-1976) .

This NSW State Records index covers school records for (1) pupil admission registers, pupil punishment books and examination books; (2) applications for the establishment of schools, the school's progress, its physical provision and its teachers; and (3) files concerning unsuccessful applications for schools.

Pupil admission registers usually record pupil's name, age, name of parents /guardian, address, occupation, date of admission, year and class grade and sometimes reason for leaving or next school to be attended. Punishment books give the name of the pupil who was punished, the date, the offence and punishment. Punishment books are closed to public access (CPA) for 50 years. The contents of Examination Books vary. Some record pupils' examination results for each subject, total marks and place in grade while others contain samples of examination questions. Further details on pupil records can be found at Archives in Brief 76 - Pupil records.

An historical background to government assisted schools and a guide to records relating to individual NSW schools and their administration can be found at Archives in Brief 26 - Schools 1788-c.1979. A guide to records concerning teacher employment in the government sector between 1788 and 1979 can be found at Archives in Brief 19 - Teachers. There is also a subject guide to NSW Education Department files at Short Guide 6 - Department of Education Subject files, 1875-1948.

As not all school records are listed in this index, you should also try a school search on the NSW State Records on-line archives information and access system Archives Investigator.

This index to registers of the Randwick Asylum for Destitute Children held by NSW State Records, covering the period from 4 June 1852 to 14 August 1915, has 5890 entries. Record series used to compile the Index come from NRS 13362, Registers of Inmates. For an historical background and further details on Randwick Asylum records held see Archives in Brief 66 - Randwick Asylum for Destitute Children.

As children who were apprenticed from the Asylum may have appeared before local Courts of Petty Sessions, these records should also be consulted. Records of the various Courts of Petty Sessions and Local Courts are listed in the NSW State Records Archives Investigator. References to former Asylum inmates may also be contained in the New South Wales Police Gazettes 1862-1930 and the CDROM version can be keyword searched at the NSW State Library's Family History Service.

The Society for the Relief of Destitute Children opened Ormond House in Oxford Street, Paddington, for needy children in 1852. The children were normally between the ages of three and ten years and not eligible for admission to the Orphan Schools. Every child admitted (including voluntary admissions) was to remain the responsibility of the Institution until aged 19 or, in the case of a female marrying earlier, until her marriage.

The Asylum for Destitute Children relocated to Randwick in 1858. A building to accommodate 400 children was constructed on the site. The Randwick site included a farm where the boys learnt farming skills. Many of the boys and girls became apprenticed to the Institution when they reached 12. The children received a basic education. From 1877 they received a State education from teachers from the Council of Education.

The NSW Children Relief Act, 1881 authorised any State child under the age of twelve to be removed from an asylum and boarded-out. The Randwick Asylum began boarding-out children in 1883. The NSW Government ceased funding the home after 1888 and no longer used it to accommodate State children. Some children who were supported by their parents remained in the Asylum.

The premises were increasingly under-utilised until it was taken over by the Federal Government during World War I as a military hospital for wounded and disabled returned servicemen. In April 1915 the children remaining at the Asylum were sent to cottage style institutions or boarded-out.

The Mitchell wing of the NSW State Library holds the following : annual reports of the Directors of the Society for the Relief of Destitute Children from 1853; Randwick Destitute Children's Asylum : Deaths & Burials 1853-1916 by Beverley Smith; and Destitute Children's Asylum, Randwick, 1852-1916 by Frank Doyle & Joy Storey.

The Mitchell Library also holds the records of Australia's oldest charity - providing for the destitute - namely the Benevolent Society of NSW records dating from 1813 to 1996, including the admission records, and further records are expected. There is a Guide to the records of the Benevolent Society of New South Wales, 1813-1995, in the Mitchell Library. Written permission from the Benevolent Society must be obtained to access these State Library records, fees apply and permission is granted for a 10-year use period only. Further access details are at Procedure on how to access Benevolent Society Records at the Mitchell Library.

This State Records NSW index comprises unassisted (or free) passengers who came to NSW at their own expense between 1842 and 1855. The index includes the ships' crew from 1854 and there are 136,100 entries in total.

The index was compiled from 3 State Records NSW record series (1) Colonial Secretary; CGS 1291, Reports of Vessels Arrived 1842-56 (reels 1269-1281); (2) Immigration; CGS 5326, Passengers Arriving at Sydney 1846 (reel 2457); and (3) Shipping Master's Office; CGS 13278, Passengers Arriving 1854-56 (reels 399-402). It is also supplemented by over 25,000 additional names from the 'Sydney Morning Herald' Shipping Intelligence columns. Until 1854, many unassisted passengers (particularly steerage passengers) were not listed individually on a ship's passenger list. Newspapers for this period often reported a ship's arrival and these can contain the list of passengers.

All passengers named in the NSW State Archive records ( including persons mentioned in health reports or having died on board etc) have been included and cross-checked with passengers named in the shipping intelligence columns of the Sydney Morning Herald. The passenger lists from the SMH have themselves, from 1844, been compared with the lists published in the Shipping Gazette and Sydney General Trade List, a weekly publication reproducing shipping information from the SMH as, on occasion, the passenger lists of the two papers differed. All variations have been noted in the index.

Occasionally, in the couse of cross-checking with the newspapers, other lists of names were found. For example, passengers who placed an advertisement thanking the captain for a safe voyage or passengers and crew involved in shipwrecks. Where these names were not otherwise in either the Archives Office reels or the shipping arrival column, they have been included.

Often it was found that the departure port stated in the original record was interstate only, whereas the SMH indicated that the voyage originated overseas. This information is shown in the remarks column.

In some instances, when a last name is common, such as Wright or Brown, and no first name initial is given, it can be hard to pinpoint which entry is your ancestor. If the SMH has provided a full forename where the original record had only an initial, the full name has been placed in the index and not in the remarks column. Often the entries on the records indexed will provide no more information than the details contained in this index.

The index is published on the State Records website with the permission of Ms Aileen Trinder and Ms Pat Fearnley (formerly Stemp) of Pastkeys, who compiled and retain copyright to this index.

The FH Service has a CDROM version of this index entitled ' Unassisted Arrivals (NSW) Index 1842-56 and Ships & Masters to Sydney Index 1842-56 ', one of Paskeys and Gould Genealogy's NSW Immigration Index Series (listed on this menu).

NSW State Records holds records of free settlers from 1792-1922, mostly records relating to free settlers arriving in Sydney. There are no comprehensive indexes to passengers arriving after 1855. If the name of the ship and the exact year of arrival are unknown, researchers will need to try to determine the date of arrival from other sources. There is the Mariners and Ships in Australian Waters website, listed on this menu, which focuses on unassisted passengers and crew arrivals from the 1870s. Otherwise, NSW State Records has an online Archives in Brief No.102 guide at How to find Unassisted Passengers and there is a NSW State Library guide to its holdings at Getting Started : NSW Unassisted Passenger Lists

After 1922, immigration became the responsibility of the Commonwealth Government and the records are held by the National Archives of Australia.

This NSW State Records index relates to vessels arriving in Sydney from 1837 to 1925 and records the name, type of vessel and date of arrival. There are 120,133 entries. If you know the name of the ship, this index will be useful to check or confirm the date of arrival.

Information has been transcribed from the State Records Authority of NSW Reels of the Shipping Master's Office, an Index of Vessels Arrived, 1837-1925 (NRS 13277 series; reels 2502-2503A).

There were a number of pages, or sections of pages, missing from the original records. Therefore this Index has been augmented with records from 'The Shipping Gazette and Sydney Trade Journal', the 'Sydney Morning Herald' Shipping Columns and vessel scans which are recorded on the Mariners and Ships in Australian Waters site. One complete section of vessels, with names commencing with letter A, was not on the reels. It will be possible to be reconstructed this information when the Mariners and ships in Australian Waters project has been completed.

This index was compiled by and published on the NSW State Records website with the permission of Ms Mary-Anne Warner, who also retains the copyright to this index.

NSW State Records holds many different types of shipping records, including sources on passengers arriving in and departing from NSW up to 1922. The National Archives of Australia holds post-1922 immigration records.

A number of online fact sheets or 'Archives in Brief ' on shipping records are available on the NSW State Records website, namely : No. 1 Shipping and arrival records; No. 24 Shipping and arrival records - additional resources; No. 21 Records relating to crew; and No. 45 Departing passengers from NSW.

This Society of Australian Genealogists index is derived from the butts of the original NSW convict tickets of leave for the period 1810 to 1875 and is arranged by the initial letter of the convict's last name.

A Ticket of Leave was evidence that a convict was allowed to work outside the 'assignment' system. Convicts were put to work on arrival in NSW, either providing labour for public works such as roadmaking, or through 'assignment' to an individual for whom they would work. Both free settlers and emancipists were commonly assigned convicts as servants, farm labourers, etc. Few records of such assignments have survived at NSW State Records, and only for the period 1821-1834. However, the 1828 census and various musters that have survived generally make clear the assigned status and employer of an assigned convict.

Convicts remained liable to assignment until pardoned, or obtaining either a Ticket of Leave or a Ticket of Exemption from Government Labour.

Conditions applied to a Ticket of Leave - the convict was confined to a named area, had to report regularly to authorities, and was supposed to attend divine worship each Sunday. Minor offences could see a TOL revoked by the magistrates and the holder returned to Government service. Penalties for greater offences were heavier than those for free persons. TOL holders were not allowed to own land, and until 1843 were not allowed to own personal property or sue (e.g. for wages).

The butts of TOL issued in NSW between 1810 and 1875 have survived. Potentially, each ticket butt gives the following information: prisoner's number, name, ship arrived on, master of ship, year of arrival, native place, trade or calling, offence, place of trial, date of trial, sentence, year of birth, complexion, height, colour of hair, colour of eyes, general remarks, the district prisoner was allocated to, the Bench that recommended him, and the date of issue of ticket. However, blank fields are frequent. The butts also often annotated with changes of district, conditional pardons, etc.

Tickets of Leave are different from Tickets of Exemption from Government Labour. Such tickets allowed the holder to reside with a named person, but, unlike Tickets of Leave, not to acquire property or become self-employed. Tickets of Exemption were frequently used as a form of assignment to relatives. Tickets required renewing each calendar year.

The surviving butts of tickets of exemption issued 1827-1832 are a valuable resource, providing a range of information including descriptive details such as height, complexion, colour of hair and eyes, etc as well as tattoos and scars. They also record colonial crimes and convictions, misdemeanours and punishments; name of master or details of employment. If residing with a relative, the relationship and other details of that person are often provided - ship of arrival, maiden name, if born in the Colony, and if a convict, ship and status (free by servitude, ticket of leave, etc). Ticket butts also usually record the reasons for it being granted (such as for services rendered, recommendation, or disability); and any change in the terms on whih the ticket was granted. NSW State Records has an online Index to Tickets of Exemption from Government Labor 1827 - 1832.

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