The Society provides a service for the general public to research enquiries into the history of people, places or events relevant to the Yamba area. Our Research Officer, John McNamara has won a Royal Australian Historical Society Achievement Award for his research work and publications for the Society.

Our collection includes over 2,000 historical photos as well as documents and records such as:

• local school photos and enrolment registers dating back to 1882
• microfilm of local newspapers, indexed and dating back to 1859
• registers of Births, Deaths and Marriages in the Clarence for periods between 1859-1910
• Electoral Rolls 1869 – 1982
• pre-1900 Clarence River Pioneer Register
• early Land Selection on the Clarence River 1862 – 1869 and the Richmond River 1862 – 1866
• index of passengers and crew in and out of the Clarence River from newspaper articles 1860 – 1865, 1866 – 1869
• a database of historical property ownership
• minutes of the Yamba Urban Area Committee
• minutes of the School of Arts
• books and information files on topics such as family histories, Aboriginal peoples, churches, sugar cane, riverboats etc.

Please contact us below with your research enquiry and for the current fees to access these resources and services.

NOTE: no charge for assistance to other local non-profit voluntary organisations, Friends of the Yamba Museum or School students.