The industry's memory lives in family sheds
Behind this register's 1,427 historical workings are the people who dug them — and the diaries, maps, field notes, assay books and photographs their families still hold. Some of Australia's best rediscoveries began exactly there.
You keep ownership
The default arrangement is a simple licence: originals stay with your family, we digitise and preserve.
A written agreement, always
What's shared, how it's used, how you're credited (or kept anonymous), and what you're paid if anything comes of it — in plain English, signed before anything moves.
Credited, or private
Named as "the — family collection", fully anonymous, or asked each time — your choice, honoured in every use.
Tell us what you hold
A few lines is plenty. A person — not a machine — reads every submission and replies personally. Nothing is published or shared without a signed agreement.
Also use this form for corrections to any register page — every site page links here.