Tasmania

Spring in Tasmania [Australian Women's
Weekly, 8 November 1967, page 30
http:nla.gov.au/nla.news-article43017568]

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

Archives and Libraries

National Archives of Australia
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 Tasmania
The State Library of Tasmania website includes the following of interest to family historians:
Family History
Information on a variety of family history topics.
Tasmania's memory
Includes digitised content such as photographs and indexes to Tasmanian newspapers and journals, government records, place names and more.

Websites

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

Societies

Tasmanian Family History Society Inc. (formerly the Genealogical Society of Tasmania)

Journals

The following journals are available in the Genealogy Centre on the 1st floor:
Tasmanian ancestry / Genealogical Society of Tasmania
Tasmanian historical studies (Online)
Tasmanian historical studies

Other Resources

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