Location
The Library is located on the 1st floor Cavenagh Court, 25 Cavenagh Street
Darwin NT.
Accommodation courtesy
Northern Territory Government.
| Library |
Hours |
to |
5.45pm |
| Tuesday | 10.30am | ||
| Saturday
|
1.30pm |
to |
5.45pm |
Library
The Society has Birth Deaths and Marriages indexes on all states of Australia
and New Zealand. There are many other records on microfiche/microfilm
such as cemetery, shipping, post office directories, divorce, convict,
school, probates, public servant records, funeral director’s, government
gazettes, land, naturalizations etc, which compliments the large range
of books on all states of Australia and overseas.
Membership
fees (become due on the 1 July each year) |
|
| Single * | $38.50 |
| Family Membership * (Two members at one address) | $49.50 |
| Single Pensioner/Student | $22.00 |
| Family Pensioner/Student | $27.50 |
| Single Country Membership (residing further afield than Batchelor) | $27.50 |
| Family Country Membership | $38.50 |
All fees are GST Inclusive Memberships marked with (*) may be used in conjunction with the Northern Territory Seniors Card to receive a 10% discount |
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Regardless of when
you join the Society all memberships become due on 1st July.
If you join
between 1 January and 30April half the annual fee will apply.
If you join after 1 May you will pay the full annual fee but it will cover
you until the following July i.e. 14months.
If an existing membership
is renewed part way through the financial year you will
still be required to pay the full years subscription
.
Members of the Society receive our journal Progenitor which is published quarterly. Progenitor is exchanged for journals of other societies from all states of Australia as well as societies in New Zealand, Canada, USA, England, Scotland,.Wales, Ireland, Sweden and Poland.
Research
Research can be undertaken by the Societies qualified researchers.
The fee is $33.00 per hour plus photocopying. Research for corporate
organisations is $55.00 per hour plus photocopying. gst included.
The Society specialises in Northern Territory records and has been very active in recording information from National Archive records which were deteriorating and very difficult to read, in some cases the records were closed after the Society indexed them.
Few burial records were kept of early Northern Territory cemeteries, which were usually established as a result of mining activities. Many of these cemeteries have now been indexed by the Society by using BDM Indexes, newspaper reports, Coroner’s Inquest, Police Journals etc.
Pioneer Register
The Society has also commenced a Pioneer Register which hopes to records
all those pioneers who were in the Territory from 1824 to 1939.
A lot of previously unrecorded information has been collated.
Northern Territory Police is another project the Society has undertaken, in recording the biographical information on early Police and including where possible a history of the Police Officer’s career in the Northern Territory with a photograph.
Probates for the Northern Territory have been indexed from 1911 to 1993.
The Society has a large range of Northern Territory records on microfiche,
which can be purchased. These include
indexes to the Territory’s first newspaper, the Northern Territory
Times and Gazette from 1870 to 1920, Census records for the Northern Territory
for 1881, 1891, 1901. Shipping information from 1887 to 1921, Pastoral
Lease Applications, Pastoral Permits, Land Transactions, Men of the Northern
Territory Police from 1870 to 1914, Probates from 1911 to 1993, Index
to the Star newspaper from 1976 to 1978, Cemetery books which cover many
Northern Territory cemeteries.
Would you like to join GSNT?
Email us and we will post you an application and information sheet.