Armidale Family History Group Inc.

P.O. Box 1378, Armidale NSW 2350 Australia                                                

 

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Research Service

General Enquiries: Armidale Family History Group Inc., offers a Research Service to people who are unable to visit Armidale. The initial cost is $30.00 Australian per enquiry payable in advance by cheque or money order; this includes return postage. For this fee we will research one surname in the resources we hold in our Library.

Please download and complete the attached form to tell us as concisely as possible, exactly who it is you would like us to research. The completed form, together with your cheque or money order, should then be posted to:

The Secretary, Armidale Family History Group,

P.O. Box 1378, Armidale NSW 2350 Australia

If you have already obtained some certificates, it would be helpful if you could provide us with dates and places of births, deaths or marriages, and any relevant names from the certificates. Please provide as much of this information as possible so that we can be sure we are searching for the correct person.

Depending on the request, volunteers will search a variety of resources in our Library which include: Armidale Cemetery transcriptions, family and local histories, "Dust of Ages" (journal of Armidale Family History Group Inc.), Armidale and District Historical Society Journals and Armidale Family History Group's personality and place files.

We include up to five (5) pages of photocopying in our $30 charge, but if more material is found, each additional A4 page will be charged at a rate of 20 cents but we will not exceed an additional $5 without your authorization.

All research requests are handled in the order in which they are received. Please be patient as our Research Service depends on the goodwill of our volunteers and their available free time. We regret that we are unable to undertake any requests falling outside the above guidelines.


 

Armidale Cemetery Look-ups: There is no fee for this service but please supply a stamped addressed envelope. However, if your list exceeds four names we ask for a small donation to our ‘Resource Fund’.


 

Resources in our Library 

  • All available birth, death and marriage indexes for the Australian States,

  • Convict records including Tickets of Leave and Conditional pardons,

  • Musters of convicts pre 1837, and the 1828 Census,

  • Indexes to shipping records,

  • Family and local history books and biographies,

  • Pioneer Registers for many parts of NSW and the ACT, and

  • Personality and locality files,

  • Mining indexes and historical  maps

  • We have a growing collection of CDs containing Government Gazettes for NSW and CDs of interest to a genealogist, with extensive records of cemetery and headstone transcriptions

  • Our library also includes publications containing historical records of Australia’s early days, some British and European indexes to birth, deaths and marriages, and the Journal of the Society of Genealogists in London, as well as journals from many family history groups around Australia including a complete collection of Armidale & District Historical Society journals and a complete run of Genealogical Research Directories.

  • We can provide internet access and volunteers who are willing to help beginners and those who have reached a brick wall in their family history research.

  • "Boddyline, a family history site for the Boddy, Davidson, Gaffey and Berryman families"


 

What else is available to family historians in Armidale?


The University of New England Regional Archives - or Heritage Centre - is located on the corner of Dangar and Kentucky Streets, Armidale, across the road from the Family History Group's Centre.


The Heritage Centre is open from 9 am to 5 pm from Monday to Friday.
Please phone (02) 6773 6555 or (02) 6773 6565 to make an appointment to use their resources which include the Archives   Resource Kit (or ARK).  For more information regarding these and their other resources, visit their website at:  http://www.une.edu.au/archives/


 

Dixson Library, University of New England, Armidale, has a wealth of material for the family historian.

For opening hours - as these vary from time to time - please phone (02) 6773 2458
For more information on the Library holdings visit their website at: http://www.une.edu.au/library/ and follow the links to the catalogue.


 

Armidale Folk Museum, 116 Faulkner Street, Armidale, 2350 N.S.W. Australia, open from: 1 p.m to 4 p.m. each day. Please phone (02) 6770 3536 for further information.