Illawarra Family History Group have an extensive collection of resources and experienced members who specialise in Illawarra family history.

Some of the local records held by the IFHG Inc.

Cemeteries
• Scarborough General Cemetery (headstones & burial register).
• Helensburgh General Cemetery (headstones, burial register and registry office records).
• Bulli General Cemetery (headstones & burial register).
• St Augustine’s Cemetery Bulli (headstones).
• Corrimal Catholic Cemetery (headstones).
• Woonona Presbyterian Cemetery (headstones).
• Wollongong General Cemetery (headstones & burial register).
• Wollongong Wesleyan-Presbyterian Cemetery (included with Wollongong General).
• Berkeley Pioneer Cemetery (headstones).
• Mt Kembla – Windy Gully Cemetery (headstones).
• Mt Kembla Church of England Cemetery (headstones).
• St Luke’s Brownsville Cemetery (headstones).
• West Dapto Roman Catholic Cemetery (headstones & burial register).
• Kembla Grange Cemetery (Old cemetery – headstones & some Presbyterian burials).
• Gerringong General Cemetery (headstones).

Church Records

Various Illawarra church records covering various time periods, dependent on the availability from the particular church. Generally speaking, this covers the area Wollongong to Kiama and for some early periods down to the Shoalhaven and up through the northern suburbs.
• St Michael’s Wollongong (microfilm – Wollongong City Library material).
• St Luke’s Brownsville (microfiche).
• Christ Church Kiama.
• St Francis Xavier’s Wollongong.
• St Paul’s Albion Park.
• Sts Peter & Paul Kiama (microfiche)
• St Paul’s Albion Park.

Newspapers

• Index to Births, Deaths, Marriages etc in Illawarra Mercury 1901-1930.
• Index to Kiama Independent.

Other Records

• Wollongong City Council Chronological Burial Register 1967-1990.
• Illawarra Remembers (War Honour Rolls of the Illawarra).
• Rankins Funeral Records 1963-70 (restricted access).
• Shellharbour Council Valuation Books 1876-80, 1880-85; 1911-13, 1914-16,1917-19,1920-22,1923-25,1926-28 (East Ward).
• Index to Kiama Court Records 1852-1863 plus the microfilm of the records.

Wollongong City Library also has local newspapers – Illawarra Mercury, Kiama Independent, South Coast Argus / South Coast Times plus a few short-lived papers on microfilm.

Prospective members and visitors are welcome at meetings which are held regularly usually in the Old Wollongong Court House, corner of Harbour Street and Cliff Road, Wollongong NSW 2500 or sometimes in the Family History area of the Wollongong City Library Reference Section (Burelli St Wollongong).

On Wednesdays and Fridays – from 9.30 am till 12.00 pm – the Group’s member volunteers are available to help with your queries again at the Family History area of the Wollongong City Library Reference Section (Burelli St Wollongong).