State Records News
Stay up-to-date with all the latest news from State Records!
- In Living Memory tour opens Moruya on 1 December
- Exhibition heads to NSW South Coast
- Probate Packets recalled by the Supreme Court
- In consultation with the Supreme Court, State Records volunteers have commenced a project to correctly identify and list all probate packets held by State Records NSW.
- 'Online' microfilm of shipping lists available
- State Records has recently completed a pilot project to digitise the microfilm copies of the Persons on bounty ships (Agent's Immigrant Lists), 1838-96 (NRS 5316); Persons on bounty ships arriving at Port Phillip, 1839-51 (NRS 5318) and Germans on bounty ships, 1849-52 (NRS 5320).
- Can you date this photograph?
- Our blog series "A Moment in Time..."? asks you help us to date a photograph. This week the theme is summer and the image is Newcastle beach
- Christmas and New Year Opening Hours
- Find out when we are open during the Festive Season. See also changes to our Copy Serivce for this period.
- New website dedicated to [WWI] Soldier Settlement
- Over 300,000 soldiers returned to Australia from WWI. In all some 40,000 returned servicemen and women took up an offer of farming land, made possible by Soldier Settlement schemes in all the states of the Commonwealth; fewer than half remained on the land fifteen years later.
- Reading Room access to probate packets
- From Monday 9 November the probate packet retrieval service will be temporarily disrupted.
