(NSW Health, Australia)
Information on the health status of the NSW population. Major causes of disease and injury, and current trends. View record page

Allows you to find digitised geological heritage maps from the 19th and 20th centuries. Also includes a small selection of NSW parish maps with geological data added. Produced by the NSW Department of Planning and Environment. View record page

Contains digitised maps of Sydney dating from 1833 to 21st century. View record page

'Using the shipping lists from the records of the companies held at the Noel Butlin Archives Centre, Pure Merinos and Others records names of these newly arrived employees and, wherever possible, details of their ages, occupations and wages. The book also includes sailing and arrival dates of the ships on which they came, tonnage, captain and details of significant cargo, especially animal stock.' View record page

NSW Archaeology Online is a sustainable digital archive of information about the archaeology and heritage of important cultural places in New South Wales. Contains full text archaeological reports on topics such as Aboriginal Australians, heritage buildings and convicts. View record page

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

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. View record page

This collection includes material published on NSW Government websites under the *.nsw.gov.au domain. Imformation is gathered by a series of whole of domain web harvests, commencing June 2014. View record page

The whole collection of NSW Law Almanacs from 1886-2012, except 2002 (the only year it was not published) is available to view, search and download online. Includes directories of organisations, agencies, and practitioners related to NSW law. These are of great benefit to both local and family historians.

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The official NSW Government site for the online publication of legislation. Includes acts from 1824+, regulations, bills from 2007+ and explanatory notes from 1990+. View record page

Enter a street address to discover which planning instruments effect the property. These may include land use zones, environmental plans and floor space ratios. The database also provides the lot number and council area. View record page

Find NSW Probate notices on or after 21 January 2013 on the Online Registry, Supreme, District & Local Courts. Before this date, notices were published in The Sydney Morning Herald and/or local newspapers. Includes Name, Suburb, Date of Notice, Notice Type, Date of Death and Case Number. View record page

The NSW Registry of Births Deaths & Marriages provides a free online historical Index for vital records including: Births - 100 years ago or more, Deaths - 30 years ago or more and Marriages - 50 years ago or more.

 

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The NSW Spatial Collaboration Portal provides access to a range of NSW primary spatial data. It includes the SIX Maps Viewer (Cadastral, Topographic, Imagery, Place Names and Addressing data) and the Historical Imagery Viewer which contains imagery dating back to the 1930s.

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The State Archives Collection documents the daily work of the NSW Government and its agencies from 1788 to today. These records cover areas such as immigration and shipping, convicts, probate and wills, land, health and professions. Use the A-Z Subject Index to browse subjects.

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

NSW State Records offers online indexes and online 'microfilm' copies of 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 and 1880-96 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. View record page

This index contains the names of some passengers who paid their own fare and some assisted immigrants. There are over 9000 entries to search. View record page

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. View record page

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. 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). View record page