Online access to early NSW land information
Over three million Registrar General paper records have been digitised and are now available online to customers. Additionally, approximately 130,000 paper volumes and plans have been transferred to State Archives and Records Repository (SARA) for permanent retention.
This is part of a project funded by NSW Land Registry Services and managed by Spatial Services. The project is digitising 13 record sets - 10 of which are now entirely available online via NSW LRS’ Historical land records viewer and approved information brokers.
The table below provides a snapshot of the status of each record set:
| Record set | Status | Individual records available to customers online | Data sets transferred to SARA |
|---|---|---|---|
| Examination Surveys | Complete | 1372 | 1372 surveys |
| Change Of Name Indexes | Complete | 2486 | 6 volumes |
| Conditional Purchase Indexes | Complete | 83310 | 193 volumes |
| Deposited Deed Indexes | Complete | 15211 | 33 volumes |
| Deposited Deed Receipt Books | Complete | 91500 | 206 volumes |
| Detail Survey Sheet Indexes | Complete | 42 | 1 volume |
| Primary Application Miscellaneous Search Books | Complete | 123256 | 172 volumes |
| Primary Application Search Sketches | Complete | 59245 | 350 volumes |
| General Register of Deeds1 | Complete | 1721148 | 5642 volumes |
| Miscellaneous Registers | Complete | 161070 | 1726 volumes |
| Primary Application Search Books | Ongoing | 651941 | 1493 volumes |
| Early colour deposited plans | Ongoing | 159524 | 141000 plans |
| Powers of Attorney and Trust Registers2 | Ongoing | N/A | 137 |
Ongoing work
The remaining records need to be conserved and then, where possible, digitised. These record sets include the following (some of these are already online):
- Primary Application Search Books
- Early colour deposited plans
- Powers of Attorney and Trust Registers
For further detail on the project, please email [email protected]
Note:
1 Digitisation of General Register of Deeds continued from a previous government project where just over 2 million Deeds were digitised in addition to those digitised, as part of this project.
2 The Powers of Attorney and Trust Registers are particularly fragile and not being digitised before transfer to SARA. Scans of these documents can be obtained from SARA, please email [email protected].