Links

Blacktown Historical Society
A comprehensive site about Blacktown history, containing a concise account of Blacktown’s history in addition to a number of articles and photos on Blacktown and surrounding areas.
Blacktown Historical Society

Rouse Hill House
Historical Houses Trust site containing basic information on Rouse Hill House and visiting information.
Rouse Hill House

Hawkesbury Library
Hawkesbury City Council Library Service has a large number of resources on local and family history in the area, both online and in a physical form. These include photographs, public records, newspapers, maps and published historical texts.
Hawkesbury Library

Castle Hill Library
Of the Hills Shire libraries, the Castle Hill Library contains the most comprehensive collection of local and family history resources. These include photographs, public records, newspapers, maps and published historical texts.
Castle Hill Library

Australian Dictionary of Biography
Contains over 10,000 scholarly biographies of people who played a significant part in Australian history.
Australian Dictionary of Biography

Blacktown Memories
An online resource containing information and photographs relating to the Blacktown City Council area
Blacktown Memories

Australian Cemeteries Index
The Australian Cemeteries Index is an extensive resource for family history researchers. It’s emphasis is to provide quality images of all inscriptions in each cemetery rather than just transcript lists. The ultimate goal is to photograph and index every headstone in Australia and to index every unmarked burial. The Riverstone Cemetery is available in the index.
Australian Cemeteries Index

Mt Druitt Historical Society
A site dedicated to Mount Druitt history, containing a concise account of the area’s history as well as a comprehensive collection of photos taken in the district.
Mt Druitt Historical Society

Hawkesbury Historical Society
An extensive site on Hawkesbury’s long history, containing a number articles and photos about the area and information on the Hawkesbury Regional Museum.
Hawkesbury Historical Society

Blacktown Library
The Max Webber Library, Blacktown has a large number of resources on local and family history in the area, mostly in a physical form. This material includes photographs, public records, newspapers, maps and published historical texts.
Blacktown Library

Voices of the Hills
A very large collection of oral history recordings of people living in the Hills area and their stories.
Voices of the Hills

Trove
Trove is a search tool hosted by the Australian National Library, focused on Australian content. It provides a single point of access to Australian resources which are often unavailable to Web search engines. These resources include books & magazines, photographs, newspapers, diaries & letters, maps, music & sound, archived Web sites and bibliographic information about Australians.
Trove

Ryerson Index
The Ryerson Index is an index to death notices appearing in current Australian newspapers (especially NSW). It also includes some funeral notices, probate notices and obituaries
Ryerson Index