• A wide range of book titles and topics specific to the study of Genealogy
• A large variety of Journals by Family History and Genealogy Societies from around the globe
• Newsletters and articles
• Books and papers written by both professional and amateur family historians
• Guides and tips on how to research
• Indexes
• Musters
• Census records
• Post Office directories
• Family History magazines

and many, many other resources to enhance the study of genealogy

• Australian Convict Records
• Birth, Baptism, Marriage and Death Indexes
• Cemetery indexes
• Electoral Rolls
• Monumental Inscriptions
• Newspaper indexes
• Pioneer Registers
• Probates and Wills
• Post Office Directories
• Ship Passenger lists - mainly Western Australian and some Eastern Australian indexes and many others

3. FamilySearch collcetion

FHWA is an affiliated  library of the church of the Latter Day Saints (LDS), which enables full access to the FamilySearch.org database of microfilms, which are being progressively digitised and indexed online.

We also stock a limited collection of LDS flims which can be viewed in the Resource Centre, these are listed in the FHWA Catalogue.

For an index of the films that are available at FHWA,  click here >> LDS films in the FHWA library - this index search is only available to FHWA financial members.

4. eLibrary

Our Resource Centre has uptodate computers for the use of members, with access to a number of paid subscriptions to genealogical databases: Ancestry, FindMyPast, IRoots Ireland, Roots Magic and British Newspaper archives.

5. CDs