The Nepean Family History Society was founded in December 1980 by a group of local people interested in getting together on a formal and social basis to further their interest in family history.

The Society’s Library is located in the Old School Residence, Great Western Highway at Emu Plains (entrance off Lawson Street). The Library houses a great number of books, journals, maps, microfilm and microfiche records and CD ROMs. Card indexes, cemetery transcripts, parish registers, and the New South Wales Government Gazettes are some of the information that can be viewed in the Library.

The Library is divided into five rooms:

• Darrell Cox Room: Australian exchange journals , books & indexes. Also, the Library’s 2 PCs are located here. They support the many local and overseas CD ROM resources
• Reference Room: Australian cemetery transcripts and reference genealogy book material
• Overseas Room: includes books, exchange journals from overseas family history societies, microfiche especially the IGI for Britain and St Catherine’s House Index
• Government Room: Government documents (including government gazettes & maps)
• Microform Reading Room

Society members who live close to the Library are urged to avail themselves of its facilities for their research, whilst those members who live further away are entitled to one hour of free research by their Research Coordinator. Additional research for members is conducted by the Research Coordinator for a fee of $10.00 per hour.

The fee for non-members is $15.00 per hour.

Library Hours: Monday – 5.00pm – 8.00pm; Tuesday to Thursday – 10am-2pm; Thursday evening – 7pm – 9pm; Saturday – 2pm – 5pm.

Postal Address:
P.O. Box 81 Emu Plains NSW 2750 Australia