SAG members enjoy a number of benefits
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There are many benefits to being a member, including:
Research:
- Access to our world-class collections at 2/379 Kent Street (Library resources) and 120 Kent Street (archives)
- Research advice from our volunteer library assistants during your visits to the Research Library at 2/379 Kent Street
- Look up & research advice service for country, interstate and international members
- Quick look-up service for all members – get something checked in the collection without making a trip to the city
- Discount on Findmypast subscription – contact the office for the special discount code to use
- Our quarterly journal Descent in either print or electronic format - download a sample issue
- Reciprocal visiting rights to societies around Australia and New Zealand
- Access to SAG’s courier services to purchase UK Birth, Death & Marriage Certificates & Probate Records if you don’t wish to do this online yourself
- Access to UK sterling payments
Activities:
- Discount rates for SAG courses, lectures, workshops and tours
- Free attendance at an SAG lecture or webinar during your first 3 months of membership
- Access to exclusive member-only events
- Access to webinars (online presentations viewed over the internet from your home or mobile device)
Free access to ‘pay to view’ websites while in the library:
At 2/379 Kent Street we providing access to many key subscription websites, saving you over $750 per annum on personal subscriptions
- Ancestry.com (Institutional Edition)
- Findmypast.com (World Library Edition)
- The Genealogist.co.uk (Diamond Library Edition)
- National Archives (UK) Discovery – download wills, military records and other documents for free
- My Heritage (library edition)
- British Newspaper Archives
- Biographical Database of Australia
- As an affiliate FamilySearch Centre we can provide access to many digital images from www.familysearch.org
ADDITIONAL ONLINE FEATURES AND Free access from home to:
- My Heritage (Library Edition) - save over $200 per year on a personal subscription
- The National Archives UK - save $6.50 every time you download a document through its Discovery service
- Additional information in our MIDAS catalogue - members see all references within files and can download attachments
- Additional services through the Library catalogue - members can register for alerts about new resources and maintain their own listing of records of interest in the collection
Image: Denison family, SAG Manuscript and Image Collection, Item 5/9775
