useful links
Photo collections
Picture Maitland by Maitland City Library.
Hunter Living Histories by Univ Newcastle.
Athel D'Ombrain Collection by Newcastle University.
Hunter Photo Bank by Newcastle Region Library.
Historical societies & local sites
Coal River blogsite
Allyn & Paterson Valley Tourist group
Dungog Historical Society – website offline, google for details.
Dungog Museum – google for current details
Dungog Magistrates Letter Book 1834-1839
Gresford District Historical Society
Maitland and District Genealogical Society
Paterson Historical Society & museum
Free settler or felon? (searchable Hunter Valley database)
History of the Williams River valley
Local history publications
Paterson Historical Society's range of publications
Tocal Homestead's range of history publications
Convicts
Ireland-Australia transportation database
Convict indexes, State Records NSW
Convicts assigned to John Eales
Heritage
National heritage list (includes the Old Great North Road)
General (Australia)
Trove (National Library integrated search)
NSW births, deaths, marriages - index
Web sites for genealogists (great site)
State Records NSW - online indexes
NSW Col Sec correspondence to 1825
Australian Dictionary of Biography
Map of squatting runs, 1860s NSW and QLD
National Archives (war service records)
Australian Medical Pioneers Index
Government schools New South Wales from 1848
Index to Journal of Royal Australian Historical Society