From Classrooms to Courtrooms: Exploring NSW State Archives
The Royal Australian Historical Society, in partnership with the Central Coast Family History Society, present a full-day seminar for genealogists, historians, and researchers, covering a range of resources essential to exploring local and family history.
Participants will learn how to access and use records from the NSW State Archives Collections, including collections that have recently been digitised. Topics will includes:
- The Registers of Assignments and Other Legal Instruments (Old Register)
- Click to Connect: NSW Archives on Ancestry
- Education Records in the NSW State Archives Collection
- Unlocking Local Stories: Small Debts Courts
The seminar is part of the RAHS Regional Seminar Program, supported by Create NSW, which brings research skills to communities across New South Wales.
View of Point Frederick and Mann Street South from President’s Hill, Gosford, 1924 (Courtesy of Central Coast Council)
Event Details and Bookings
Event Date & Time: Saturday, 4 July 2026 @ 10.00 am – 3.30 pm
Event Location: Gosford Lions Community Hall, 3/8 Russell Drysdale St, East Gosford NSW 2250
Cost: $25 (includes morning tea, lunch and afternoon tea)
Bookings are essential for catering requirements. Bookings MUST close Friday, 26 June at 4:00 pm.
Book online or call: CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS | (02) 9247 8001
About the speakers
Carol Liston AO is President of the Royal Australian Historical Society and a leading historian of early NSW. Her research focuses on colonial society, families and institutions, and she has published widely in this field. She brings deep expertise in working with early government, church and archival records, and in interpreting them to reconstruct lives and communities.
Christine Yeats is Senior Vice President of the Royal Australian Historical Society and specialises in family and local history research. She is an experienced presenter of research seminars, with a focus on practical methods, digital tools and improving search techniques. Her sessions are known for their clarity and practical, step-by-step approach.
About the RAHS Regional Seminars Program
The RAHS Regional Seminar Program, supported by Create NSW, promotes the study, writing and sharing of Australian history.
The program builds research skills, supports local and family history projects, and connects communities with tools, resources and expertise. Seminars are delivered in metropolitan and regional locations, as well as online.
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