the NSW registry has a searchable web site www.bdm.nsw.gov.au. I think you can order stuff over the internet or shortly will be able to. The Registrar is guest speaker at our next C Coast FHS meeting at our new research centre on Sat Feb 3 1pm. I heard him speak last year and he is excellent. I recommend people attend if you can. Sorry to correct you Margaret but my understanding is that the agents can't access events after 1905. I was unable to get my father's birth certificate through an agent and he was born 1906. However, I could get it at the full price as a close relative. Judy Gifford