Pricing
Search, browse and confirm that a reference exists for free. Pay only when you want the corrected notice, the original scan, and the tools around it.
Make discovery free. Charge for depth, convenience, certainty and scale.
One notice, once — no account needed
One corrected notice, scan and citation — when you’ve found exactly what you need. Guest checkout: pay by card and we email you a permanent link to your unlocked notice.
Corrected text · cropped & clean page scan · original OCR · citation · your A$2 is credited toward any subscription started within 7 days.
Free membership — opening special
While the Record is in its opening season, a free account includes 3 notice unlocks and 5 document lodgements every month, plus saved research files.
Opening special — join now and keep these monthly allowances. No card required.
Subscriptions — for ongoing research
Normal family-history use, at a comfortable monthly allowance.
Or A$120 / year. Additional notices A$1 each.
Heavy users, authors and local historians running sustained projects.
Or A$350 / year. Additional notices A$1 each.
Libraries, societies, councils and schools — access for many users.
Historical society from A$750 · Library from A$1,500 · Custom from A$2,500 / year.
Contact usFounding membership
While supporting the work of correcting and expanding the archive. Founding members keep this rate as the corpus grows.
We help locate, correct, classify and cite records that are difficult to find through ordinary OCR search. The original gazettes remain a public archive.
Not for a single unlock — pay by card as a guest and we email you a permanent link to everything you’ve unlocked. Subscriptions use that same email as a passwordless account (we sign you in with a magic link). Your A$2 single unlock is credited toward any subscription started within 7 days. And while our opening special lasts, a free account includes 3 unlocks and 5 document lodgements a month.
No. You can see the notice type, date, place, extracted names and a one-line preview — and confirm we’ve located the exact region of the page — entirely free. You only pay to read and download the corrected notice.
Email the Office within 7 days and we’ll refund it or re-credit the unlock — one email, no forms, no questions. Subscriptions cancel any time; your access runs to the end of the period already paid.
Mostly, yes. Government gazettes and many colonial records are public archives. What you’re paying for is the corrected transcription, the structured indexing, and the tools that make a specific record findable and citable — work ordinary scanned-PDF search can’t do.
Every record carries confidence ratings scored by extraction type, and cautious language for uncertain matches. Historical matches should always be verified against the original notice — which we show you.
Yes — libraries, historical societies and universities can arrange seat-based or IP-based access, plus commissioned research. See For institutions.