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Armidale Family History Group Inc.,
offers a Research Service to people who are unable to visit Armidale.
Please tell us as simply and concisely as possible, exactly what it is
you require. 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. Should you
have any information about the people with the surname being researched,
please type or write it clearly and send it with your application. We
need to be sure we are searching for the correct family.
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 make a charge of $30 Australian,
payable in advance, to research one surname in the
resources we hold in our Library. This may be paid by cheque or money
order, made payable to: Armidale Family History Group Inc. Up to five
(5) pages of photocopying is included in this charge, but if more
material is found, each A4 page will be charged at a rate of 20 cents.
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.
Resources in our Library
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These include all available birth,
death and marriage indexes for the Australian States,
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Convict records including
Tickets of Leave and Conditional pardons,
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Musters of convicts pre 1837, and
the 1828 Census,
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Indexes to shipping records,
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Family and local history books,
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Biographies
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Pioneer Registers for many parts of
NSW and the ACT, and
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Personality and locality files,
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Mining indexes and historical maps
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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
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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.
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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.
What else is available
to family historians in Armidale?
The University of New England and
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 Library.
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 - which 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, is open from 1 p.m to 4 p.m.
each day. Please phone (02) 6770 3536 for further information.
We hope you will come to visit us in Armidale one day and look forward
to making you welcome.
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