The whole collection of NSW Law Almanacs from 1886-2012, except 2002 (the only year it was not published) is available to view and to search online. Includes directories of organisations, agencies, and practitioners related to NSW law. These are of great benefit to both local and family historians.
The official NSW Government site for the online publication of legislation. Includes acts from 1824+, regulations, bills from 2007+ and explanatory notes from 1990+.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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.
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This index contains the names of some passengers who paid their own fare and some assisted immigrants. There are over 9000 entries to search.
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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.
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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).
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The NSW War Memorials Register is a database of war memorials in New South Wales. It currently holds more than 3000 war memorial records, and more than 200,000 veteran records. The Register enables communities to record accurate information about war memorials, provides best practice information about war memorial conservation, and connects memorials and veterans to sustain NSW military and commemorative history.
Notices remain in the main search for 28 days, and then they are moved to the archive section, where they can be searched. The archive commences mid January 2006. If the notice is not contained in their archive it is because neither the Funeral Director or the family have placed a notice for this person on obits.com.au. You can search the site for free but there is a cost to submit a notice unless you have booked and paid for a listing through your funeral director. Entries may also include photos.
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Obituaries Australia is a digital repository of obituaries published in newspapers, journals, magazines and bulletins. Here you will find the life stories of Australians from the earliest times to the present. While the Australian Dictionary of Biography focuses on the lives of notable Australians, Obituaries Australia offers a more egalitarian sample of the Australian experience.
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ODS is a full text database covering all types of official United Nations documentation, beginning in 1993. In addition, older UN documents are being added to the system on a daily basis. ODS also provides access to the resolutions of the General Assembly, Security Council, Economic and Social Council and the Trusteeship Council from 1946 onwards.
A joint project of the Ordnance Survey (the national mapping agency of Great Britain) and digital mapmakers Landmark Information Group. This site provides online access to an extensive archive of historic British maps.
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A gateway to historical maps in libraries around the world. Search by typing a place name or by clicking in the map window, and narrow by date. The search results provide a direct link to the map image on the website of the host institution.
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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. Scroll down the page to Dowload the Inventory of Burials | Excel Spreadsheet 553Kb
You can also download the About the Inventory & References which has information about the References in the Index.
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PriceFinder now Antique map price guide includes the most up-to-date information on the antique maps market. The database currently contains over 16,000 entries, representing over 1,000 mapmakers. This data was compiled from the offerings of over 100 dealer and auction catalogues. In the coming months, the database will be continually updated, with both historical data and new information.
Search millions of book records, and search across the full text of 1 million scanned books. Open Library is a project of the Internet Archive, and is funded in part by a grant from the California State Library.
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A site to find information published by NSW Government agencies, including Annual Reports and open access information released under the Government Information (Public Access) Act 2009 (GIPA Act). Please note, this site is not a comprehensive collection of all NSW government published information.
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This is the official site of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). It includes information about OECD statistics and access to some full text documents.
Oxford Art Online contains Grove Art Online, The Oxford Companion to Western Art, Encyclopedia of Aesthetics and The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms. It has over 21,000 biographies, 500,000 bibliographic citations, 40,000 image links and 5,000 images.
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Includes the 20 volume Oxford English Dictionary (OED) and supplements, and new and revised entries. All volumes are fully searchable and provide historical information as well as the meanings of words.
Eight online language dictionaries from Oxford University Press for English/Arabic, English/Chinese, English/French, English/German, English/Italian, English/Portuguese, English/Russian, English/Spanish. A virtual keyboard allows entry of characters in a range of scripts.
Oxford Music Online contains; The Encyclopedia of Popular Music, The Oxford Dictionary of Music, Grove Music Online and The Oxford Companion to Music with articles on composers, performers, conductors, individual works, instruments and notation, forms and genres, as well as biographical encyclopedia of rock, pop, and jazz artists etc from 1900 to the present.
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Contains hundreds of specialist encyclopaedias, dictionaries, language resources, and other reference works published by Oxford University Press as ebooks. Covers all subject areas.
It is a fully-indexed, cross-searchable database of these books.
Includes all Oxford Reference dictionaries and reference works relating to law published by Oxford University Press. It is a fully-indexed, cross-searchable database. Includes Dictionary of Law, Oxford Companion to the High Court of Australia, Encyclopaedic Dictionary of International Law and the New Oxford Companion to Law.
Compiled by Lorraine Larment and Marylin and Steve Jones, the ozburials index provides a searchable database of cemetery inscriptions in NSW, SA, Tasmania, Victoria and Western Australia. Particularly strong in South Australia and Western Australia.
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The Pacific Manuscripts Bureau (PMB | Pambu) copies archives, manuscripts and rare printed material relating to the Pacific Islands and the material provides the most extensive collection of non-government primary documentation on the Pacific Islands available to researchers on microfilm held by member libraries. The aim of the Bureau is to help with long-term preservation of the documentary heritage of the Pacific Islands and to make it accessible. The full version of this catalogue – including access to digitised materials – is available for Member libraries such as the State Library of New South Wales. NSW residents can access Pambu’s full catalogue by clicking on Log in with a Library card below.
A practical online tutorial to assist in reading handwriting found in documents written in English between 1500 and 1800. Provided by the National Archives of the UK.
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The papers of Edward Koiki Mabo are held in the National Library of Australia. This site provides a biographical note, series list, series descriptions, box list and selected Mabo images of the papers held.
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Online access to digitised newspapers at the National Library of New Zealand. The collection covers the years 1839 to 1920 and includes publications from all regions of New Zealand.The range of periodicals and the number of pages available will increase as the project develops.
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This site provides access to a wide range of information about the structure, role and functions of the Parliament of New South Wales as well as full lists of current members, ministers and shadow ministers. The site also provides access to Hansard in PDF format.
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A partial index of ships arriving in NSW (1837-1899), Queensland (1840-1915), Victoria (1837-1899), South Australia (1836-1860), Western Australia (1829-1889)and New Zealand (1839-1905). Includes convict transports (1788-1868). Produced by Margaret Bauer and Nancy Campbell.
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A database of passengers arriving in South Australia developed by the SA Maritime Museum. Also includes a list of ships logs and diaries, of ships arriving in South Australia, based on Ian Nicholson's 3 volume books, Log of Logs.
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Over 1 million applications, representing 20 years of the most important technological advances, are now available for free consultation. New technologies are often disclosed for the first time as international patent applications. The patent applications filed under WIPO's Patent Cooperation Treaty system and accessible through the PatentScope service, are typically those that inventors consider to be the most valuable and therefore worth patenting internationally.
Periodicals Archive Online is a leading humanities and social sciences indexing service that provides access to bibliographic records of articles from more than 4,000 journals published from 1770 to 2005. It gives the full text of articles from over 700 journals indexed.
Collections of photographs, albums and photographically-illustrated books from Britain, Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas. Topics include exploration, travel, Empire, colonization, life in colonized regions, topography, archaeology, science, medicine, criminology, photography as reproduction of art works, Key events and wars, etc. Document supply available.
Complete searchable archive of a popular British news magazine with extensive pictorial content and covering history, politics, the arts and popular culture.
Find literary criticism, reviews, and interviews with poets and short fiction writers, both historical and contemporary. Includes analyses of individual works, poetry showcases on contemporary American poets, and selected stories and poems in full text.
Prerogative Court of Canterbury wills made between 1384 and 12 January 1858, dealing with relatively wealthy individuals living mainly in the south of England and most of Wales. Charges apply to view the wills online.
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