Family history resources

Resources to research your family history

Looking to trace your family tree? Looking to find out more about your ancestors? Randwick City Library offers a variety resources to assist you to research your family history and heritage including.

Online resources for Family History Research

Randwick City Library also has a variety of online resources to assist your research into your family history. Family historians are invited to submit further suggestions for purchase to the Local Studies librarian. For detailed enquiries please contact us to make an appointment with our Local Studies Librarian.

Ancestry Library Edition

Find UK and US census, court, birth, marriage and death records, newspaper articles, photos and historical maps. Includes Australian Electoral Rolls 1901-1936.

Access: Ancestry can only be accessed from computers within the library, at any of our three libraries.

Find My Past

Search billions of records from Australia, New Zealand, the UK and Ireland.

Access: Find My Past is only available to access in one of our three libraries.

Internet History Resources

View images of historical documents which contain information, which can help you trace people who lived and worked in New South Wales during the period 1850 - 1920.

Access: Internet History Resources can only be accessed from computers within the library, at any of our three libraries.

In-library resources

Lionel Bowen Library has a dedicated collection of resources to assist you to undertake your family history research. The collection includes books, serials, the NSW State Archives Genealogy Kit, newspapers, telephone directories, maps, photographs, microfilmed resources, gazettes and cemetery records.

Much of the collection is available to use for reference in our Local Studies room at Lionel Bowen Library, Maroubra. For more specifics of the collection, please see the "In-library Resources" below.