New South Wales Research Tips and Strategies

New South Wales

Research Strategies

New South Wales Wiki Topics
Beginning Research
Getting Started Guided Research Research Strategies Record Finder
Record Types
Biographies Business and Occupations Cemeteries Census Church Records Civil Registration Convict Records Court & Criminal Records Directories Emigration & Immigration Genealogies Land & Property	Medical Records Military Records Naturalization Newspapers Obituaries Online Records Orphans and Orphanages Periodicals Probate Records Public Records Schools and Education Records Social Organizations Universities Voting Records
New South Wales Background
Cultural Groups	History Maps
Local Research Resources
Archives & Libraries Societies FamilySearch Centers

Purpose of Research Tips and Strategies Wiki Page The New South Wales Research Tips and Strategies page consists of links to specific research strategies for New South Wales. It also contains general tips and other resources for finding your ancestors in this locality.

New South Wales Research Strategies

Finding New South Wales Birth, Marriage or Death Records

• New South Wales Guided Research - find birth, marriage, and death records

Finding New South Wales Records

• Record Finder - gives suggestions for records to search

New South Wales Provincewide Databases

• Online Genealogy Records

New South Wales Research Process

• Finding Town of Origin - locating the town your ancestor was from

New South Wales Online Learning

• New South Wales Early Church Records 1788-1886 - online video
• Using the New South Wales Birth, Death, Marriage Index - online video

Australia Research Strategies

• Australia Finding Town of Origin
• See Australia Research Tips and Strategies for more resources.

Australia Online Learning

• Online Learning - Video Classes

New South Wales Research Tips

Civil Registrations. Civil registration (vital) records were created by the government and include births, marriages, and deaths. They are commonly referred to as vital records because they pertain to critical events in a person’s life. New South Wales Civil Registrations

Census. The first country-wide census was taken in 1881. National censuses have been regularly taken by the Australian government since 1911. New South Wales Census