An index of the inmates of the Sydney Benevolent Asylum for the period 1857-1900 compiled from records held at the Mitchell Library, Sydney.
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Information for adoptees, birth parents, adoptive parents and anyone affected by adoption. Provides information about services available, how to undertake a search, legislation in NSW, other states and overseas, post-adoption stories and weblinks to other services such as NSW Department of Community Services and adoption support groups.
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"This page provides information to assist Care Leavers to locate and access records of their time in out of home care in New South Wales, and adoptees to locate New South Wales adoption records."
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Care Leavers Australia Network (CLAN) is a support group for people who were brought up in 'care': as state wards, foster children or Home children raised in orphanages, Children's Homes, and other institutions, and in foster care. Here you can search for your Home by name or address, or look by state. If you were in one of these Homes, you may be able to make contact with someone you knew or attend reunions.
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Published by the NSW Department of Community Services this guide to NSW records from 1900 onwards is aimed at helping people separated from their birth families to locate their records. 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.
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If you grew up in a state or church institution or were in foster care, you may have been a State Ward. DoCS explains how you can find out if you have a Ward File and How to Request your file. Also see brochure Are you a former ward? http://www.community.nsw.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0006/319254/formerward_broch.pdf
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The Find & Connect website is a Federal government website which brings together historical resources relating to institutional ‘care’ in Australia including information about where to find the records of various homes and institutions, organisations, government departments and events such as the Apology to the Stolen Generations, Royal Commissions and Inquiries. You can use this site to locate information about a Home where you lived as a child, or you can find information to help you locate and access records relating to your childhood.
Finding Your Ancestors is a project of the Royal Australian Historical Society to encourage and help Aboriginal people to take their first steps into researching their family history.
Jigsaw.org.au is an Australian organisation that provides information, counselling, search and intermediary services to people separated from family for many different reasons.
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