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Family Historians

At Sutherland Library you can search genealogical resources such as births, deaths, marriages, immigration and convict records, electoral rolls, Sands directories and cemetery inscriptions.

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Find My Past (Australian Collection)

Find people and places in millions of Australian & New Zealand family and local history records.
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Find My Past (UK Collection)

View around 750 million historical records on findmypast.co.uk which hold invaluable details about the past.
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Find My Past Ireland

Millions of Irish family history records dating as far back as the 13th Century.
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Internet History Resources

Digitised versions of historical records from New South Wales covering the period from 1850-1920.
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Sydney Morning Herald Archives

Search every edition of The Sydney Morning Herald and The Sun-Herald between 1955-1995.
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Search hundreds of millions of Australian and online resources: books, images, historic newspapers, maps, music, archives and more.
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Family History Collection at Sutherland Library

Sutherland Library houses a collection of physical materials for genealogists that may provide information not available in the online resources above.

It is based primarily on the Archives Resources Kit.  The ARK consists of microform copies of State Records NSW most popular and heavily used colonial records.  This collection is supplemented by a number of CD-Roms that contain information and records of interest to genealogists.

The library staff are not able to perform research on your behalf , however, on Thursday mornings a volunteer from the Botany Bay Family History Society is available at Sutherland Library to assist members of the public with their family history research.

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