This CD provides three indexes covering approximately 60,000 horse and cattle brands and 17,000 sheep brands listed in the Queensland Government Gazette for 1872-1899 and 1877-1900 respectively, and approximately 79,000 entries for horses and cattle in the Queensland Brands Directory 1949-1952. The indexes can be directly searched on name, year and other details with QFHSdatasearch, which also provides direct links to images of the Queensland Government Gazette lists for the horse and cattle brands and for the sheep brands, viewable with Acrobat Reader.

The material on this CD is a valuable resource for researching Queensland farming families. Where possible the two indexes to 1800's information cover not only the owner, but also show and describe the brands in the search results, while the linked images of the Gazette lists show the actual symbols. For horses and cattle the index entries show whether a new registration or transfer, while for sheep the indexed lists are of all current registrations. Brands were registered under the relevant acts, and images of these are also included on the CD. The directory index covers name, address and page reference to the main section of the Queensland Brands Directory 1949-1952 (Parts I to VIII), with some additional owner information. Full brand information is in the original entry (not on this CD).

QFHSdatasearch is a generic interface designed for searching genealogy databases and was developed by the Queensland Family History Society Inc. This version features field oriented and keyword searches, recognition of diacritics, Boolean selection, sorting, wildcard searches and links between search results and images held in pdf files of the source records.

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