Museums of History NSW

The passage of the Returned Soldiers Settlement Act 1916, (Act No 21 1916) allowed the settlement of returned soldiers on Crown and Closer Settlement lands. When applying for...

Name search for railway employees who died in the First World War. This index contains 1214 entries and was compiled from one volume by the State Records NSW Volunteer program....

Name search for railway employees who formed the 1st Railway Section of the Australian Imperial Expeditionary Force, also known as the 6th Australian Broad Gauge Railway...

This index contains 763 entries from two series of records: a register of salaried officers working for the NSW Government Railways and Tramways, 1856-1890; and a personnel...

Researching deceased estates files before 1923 is a complex process, with researchers often having to check up to five different indexes to locate a file. This index simplifies...

Between 1788 and 1842 about 80,000 convicts were transported to New South Wales. Of these, about 85% were men and 15% were women. Almost two thirds of convicts were English...

View, download and reuse photographs from the collections of the NSW State Records Authority.

A repository of information published by NSW Government agencies, including Annual Reports and open access information released under the Government Information (Public Access)...