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Listed below are some key family history resources for Queensland. For information relating to specific types of material, such as passenger lists, please select from the links on the left.

Key Resources

Queensland public records historical resource kit
A major collection of records issued by the Queensland State Archives consisting of three parts:
Part 1 - Immigration records 1848-1923
Part 2 - State electoral rolls 1860-1900
Part 3 - Naturalisation records 1851-1905

For detailed information on how to use the kit, please refer to the handbooks located on top of the microform cabinets.

Archives and Libraries

Queensland State Archives
The Queensland State Archives website has information on their collections, brief guides on a number of family history topics and online indexes to inquests, wills, mining leases and more.

National Archives of Australia - Brisbane reading room
The National Archives houses Commonwealth government records such as military, immigration and naturalisation papers. Records date from Federation in 1901 although, for some government departments, earlier material dating back to the mid-1850s is held. Over 18 million records have been digitised and are searchable by selecting Search the collection from their home page. Other material can be viewed in their State and Territory Reading rooms.

State Library of Queensland
The State Library of Queensland website includes some family history info guides. It also has the following database with details of over 123,000 convicts transported to Australia in the 18th and 19th centuries:
Convict Transportation Registers Database
Details given include name, sentence, ship, date of departure and place of arrival. Information is taken from the British Home Office records and the database refers you to the relevant Australian Joint Copying Project (AJCP) microfilm reel number.

Websites

Use our SLWA Family History Bookmarks to find websites for Queensland recommended by the Family History Subject Specialists. Simply click on any heading of interest e.g. queensland-deaths to see a list of websites relating to this topic. The larger the tag, the more websites appear on the list.

Societies

There are two family history societies in Queensland:
Genealogical Society of Queensland Inc.
Queensland Family History Society Inc.

Journals

The following journals are available in the Genealogy Centre on the 1st floor:
Generation: quarterly journal of the Genealogical Society of Queensland
Queensland family historian: journal of Queensland Family History Society
Journal / Royal Historical Society of Queensland (Online)
Journal / Royal Historical Society of Queensland

Other Resources

To find other material at the State Library try searching our catalogue using the keywords queensland genealogy