Bar Association First World War probate packs

30/04/2015

The Supreme Court of New South Wales has made 11,000 boxes of First World War probate packets accessible to public, with help from NSW State Records and donations from the Bar Association and the Law Society. The records contain valuable information about occupations at the time, along with marriage and divorce records, and should be enormously valuable to genealogists and historians. Soon they will be formally transferred to public access at the NSW Sate Records Office Western Sydney Records Centre in Kingswood and listed online. In an interview for Australasian Lawyer, the CEO and principal registrar of the NSW Supreme Court has thanked the Bar Association for its generous support of the project.