Follow a name into a life
A cemetery entry might lead to a newspaper notice, a family connection or a street where someone lived. A seed recipient’s name can reveal an act of remembrance; a visitors’ book can preserve the moment a walking party reached a remote lookout. These finding aids bring such clues together so you can follow them back to the original records.
Society volunteers have compiled and shared these indexes over many years. Clarice Boyd read through old district newspapers and made a card index of local items; later volunteers Sandy Mackenzie and Peg Harvey entered the index into a searchable database. Ask the research centre about this newspaper index as well as the finding aids available here.
Start with a name, place or subject, then check the linked source and explore the Society’s other collections.
Rowes Hill Cemetery
A name index bringing together burial and headstone information with notices and obituaries. Follow each citation back to its original source.
Mittagong infectious-diseases register
A local public-health finding aid for 1898-1938. Check the source register and its scope before drawing conclusions about a person.
Local businesses, 1978-1989
Tourism Association membership records link business names, owners or contacts, dates and business types.
Visitors to Bonnum Pic
A visitors’ book associated with the Mittagong-to-Katoomba walking track. Explore names, walking groups and dates.
Poppy seeds from Villers-Bretonneux
An index of names, addresses, soldiers, service numbers and recorded relationships, in its May 2019 edition.