The Genealogy Centre located on the first floor of the Alexander Library Building in Perth, Western Australia is a great starting point for genealogists. The strength of the collection is records relating to each of the Australian states, New Zealand and Britain. For countries and regions for which the collection is not strong, up-to-date addresses are provided to assist genealogists.

Services
The Genealogy Centre is accessible during normal library opening hours. Volunteers from the Western Australian Genealogical Society Inc. provide extra assistance to genealogical researchers on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday mornings from 9.30am to 1.00pm.

Overview of the Collection
The collection houses material in printed format, on microfilm, microfiche, CD-ROM and also provides access points for Internet sources.

Key resources for Western Australian genelogical research are held in the Centre. More extensive resources relating to Western Australia are held in the Battye Library and the State Records Office.

The types of resources available for Australian genealogical researchers include indexes to births, deaths and marriages, newspapers, maps, records of cemeteries, census, convicts, courts, immigration, land allocation, probate and the military. The collection is also strong in New Zealand material with indexes to births, deaths and marriages, post office directories, and some electoral rolls. The Genealogy Centre holds 5,700 reels of Australian Joint Copying Project microfilm. These reels contain copies of records relating to Australia and the Pacific held within the Public Record Office of London.

There is also a substantial collection of printed material that reflects the place of Western Australia as a colony within the British Empire, including Foreign Office Lists, Civil Service Lists and British military material. Genealogical resources relating to Britain also include the St Catherine's House birth, death and marriage indexes for 1837 to 1945, post office directories for a variety of regions, and the records of the Society of Friends for c.1650 to 1837.

For those countries and regions where we do not have extensive collections of genealogical material we attempt to have appropriate addresses where researchers can begin their search for records.