Here are some web sites of interest to historians and genealogists.

www.ryde.nsw.gov.au/ryde/history.htm The City of Ryde’s History site contains a brief history of Ryde, including the history of the original aboriginal inhabitants of the area. There is also access to Ryde Library’s photographic collection and the photographic collection of the Hunters Hill Historical Society.

www.rahs.org.au  The Royal Australian Historical Society. This web site contains a lot of useful information, including links to associated organizations and all its affiliated historical societies.

www.ancestry.com.au  An online data base that includes Australian convict registers, Australian and UK registers, Sands Directories and other genealogy information.

www.findmypast.com  FindMyPast com (previously called 1837online) recently purchased the UK National Archives. They now have more than 550 million records accessible online.

www.ww2roll.gov.au  World War Two Nominal Roll. This contains information from the service recoallrds of the men and women who served in Australia’s defence forces and the Merchant Navy during World War Two.

www.naa.gov.au  National Archives of Australia web site. In addition to its usual wealth of information, since April 2007 it has had the World War One service records online.

www.nla.gov.au  The National Library of Australia website. This contains a wealth of information.
Its Australian Newspapers Digitisation Project is now online at www.nla.gov.au/ndp This is an ongoing project to digitise all Australian newspapers from 1803 onwards. More than 1,200,000 pages have so far been digitised.
90,000 pages may now be read online at http://ndpbeta.nla.gov.au. and more pages are being added each week.