State Archives collection
Small Debts Registers Index
Search by name and view/download the digitised entries. Information includes: names of plaintiff and defendant, cause of action, amount of claim, costs, judgment and amount of judgment.
Surveyor General's crown plans 1792-1886
A complete listing of the Surveyor General's Crown Plans from the Select List of Maps and Plans (and Supplement), 1792-1886
Assisted immigrants digitised shipping lists 1828-1896
If you know the ship your assisted passengers arrived on you can search, view & download the digitised shipping list
Surveyors' field books 1794-1860
The index records surveyor's name, date and locality covered and gives book and citation numbers
Land grants and leases (registers) 1792-1865
This is an index of the first six volumes of the Surveyor General's Registers of Land Grants and Leases [7/445, 7/447-451] and contains all grants to 1819, mainland grants to 1822 and Cumberland grants, 1823-65
Nurses index 1926-1954
The index contains 46,000+ entries and records name, hospital trained at, certificate number, date of registration, records number, and remarks. It should be noted this is an index of the register entries only and certificates referenced in these registers have not survived
Divorce records index 1873-1923
Search 21,000+ entries - divorce files can include petitions for the dissolution of marriage, petitions for maintenance, marriage certificates, decrees nisi and decrees absolute
Photos from Urban Affairs and Planning
This collection includes both colour and B&W photographs taken between 1945 and 1999, depicting Sydney, its surrounding areas, and regional NSW
On This Day
28 Nov 1975 – the Western Sydney Records Centre opened
The NSW State Archives officially opened the Western Sydney Records Centre (Stage 1) at Kingswood on this day