FHWA Resources
Members & the public can search our Library Catalogue online - you don't need to be logged in to view & search the catalogue.
1. Library
FHWA Library Catalogue is online, free and available to the public.
You can search by title, author and key words. We have approximately 20,000 items covering many areas of the world.
Our Library includes:
- 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
2. Resource Room - FHWA Microfiche and Microfilm Library
- 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
Category | Items | Category | Items |
Birth, Marriage & Death | 342 | Cemetery | 46 |
Census | 741 | Convicts | 12 |
Councils | 12 | Courts & Prisons | 7 |
Directories | 200 | Electoral Rolls | 16 |
Family History | 21 | Heraldry, Peerage, Pedigrees & Visitations | 17 |
History | 5 | Huguenot | 9 |
IGI Records | 95 | Journals | 10 |
Landowners | 17 | Migration & Shipping (Incl Passenger Lists) | 27 |
Military | 43 | Miscellaneous | 48 |
Newspapers | 11 | Occupations | 30 |
Poor Laws | 21 | Schools, Colleges & Universities | 9 |
Vital Records | 52 | Wills | 13 |
World Region | Items |
Africa | 2 |
Americas | 100 |
Asia | 16 |
Europe | 1442 |
Oceania | 234 |
World Wide | 50 |