Botany Bay FHS - Land Records in NSW

Over three weeks spoke to an excellent group covering:

Introduction to NSW Land Records

• Early land Records in NSW
• Counties and Parishes
• Land Title Systems
• Parish Maps – How they can help your Genealogical research
• Overview of HLRV (Historic Land Records Viewer)

NSW Land Records 1

• In depth detail of Old System and Torrens Title
• What is on a Certificate of Title
• Using HLRV to look-up Certificates of Title.

NSW Land Records 2

• Primary Application – what is it
• Primary Applications on HLRV
• Primary Applications at State Records
• Conditional Purchases
• Impact on searching for Certificate of Title
• Conditional Purchases at State Records
• Conditional Purchases on HLRV

Sessions were well received with people seeking answers to the information available on the new HLRV (Historical Land Records Viewer) hosted by the NSW Land Registry Services.

Have now been asked to present the talks again early in 2020.

NSW State Conference of Family History Societies at Knox Grammar School

Gave a masterclass titled:
 Add  DimensioN  to your
Family Research and Storytelling
with map imagery.

This talk covered the information available in the NSW Spatial Services Portal and covered:

• Geographical Names Board
• Imperial to Metric Conversion
• The Map Store
• NSW Globe
• SIX Maps

Class was fully booked out and many questions answered, mostly for people who had not used the portal previously.