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Located cnr Fahey's East Road and Old Northern Road, this cemetery was gazetted on 19 March 1873. Includes full inscriptions, verses, map of cemetery showing where each grave is located, some photographs, history and bibliography. Listings give name, date of death, age, type of headstone, and stone mason for each grave. Earliest grave: George Edward Draper, 9 February 1873, aged 39; oldest person buried: Bridget Poole, aged 102.

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Alberton, Bethania Lutheran, Eagleby, Mount Cotton and Pimpama Island Cemeteries (Queensland): Monumental Inscriptions and George Bond Photographic Collection

Complete transcripts and indexes of the monumental inscriptions of each of these cemeteries. Also included are the relevant sections of the George Bond Photographic Collection - an indexed collection of photographs by a former stonemason. Stats: Alberton 120 MIs and 110 photos; Bethania Lutheran 336/118, Eagleby 109/90, Pimpama Island 402/211.

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Anglican Cemeteries and Columbaria (Brisbane): Monumental Inscriptions:

VOLUME 1: (Parish of Sherwood) Prev published as Anglican Church of Australia Parish of Sherwood (Brisbane) Cemetery and Columbarium Wall). A complete transcript and index of 1300 monumental inscriptions.

VOLUME 2: Complete transcripts of the inscriptions of eleven of Brisbane's Anglican Cemeteries, Columbaria and Gardens of Remembrance. Stats: 1900 references and maps showing the layout of each of the sites are included. Columbaria : Annerley St Phillip’s, East Brisbane St Paul’s, Kangaroo Point St Mary’s, Kelvin Grove St James, New Farm St Michael and All Angels, Wilston St Alban's.

Garden of Remembrance: Camp Hill Annunciation, Ekibin St Luke’s, Lutwyche St Andrew’s, Sandgate St Margaret's.

Cemetery: Tingalpa Christ Church.

VOLUME 3: Coorparoo St Stephens, Grovely St Matthews, Kenmore Church of the Holy Spirit, Middle Park St Catherines, Red Hill St Barnabas. 1300 names from 1868.

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Australians and Other Expatriates in Papua New Guinea 1888-1975 (prev published as Some Expatriates of Papua New Guinea)

An invaluable resource covering various records of Australians, Germans, Pacific Islanders and other expatriates and includes a comprehensive index.

Records indexed — Cemetery Inscriptions, Registers and Memorials (22), Changes of name (from Government Gazette etc), German Deportees, Gun Licences 1891-1895, Naturalisations: applications for Australian naturalisation (PNG Government Gazettes), Probate Notices 1888-1975 (from Government Gazettes), and Birth, Marriage and Death Notices (newspapers).

Government Gazettes indexed —British New Guinea 1888-1906, Papua 1906-1942, British Administration of German New Guinea 1914-1919, Papua New Guinea 1945-1975.

Newspapers indexed — Papuan Courier 1911-1942, Rabaul Record 1916-1918, Rabaul Times 1925-1942, South Pacific Post 1950-1959, Rabaul Times 1957-1959, New Guinea Courier 1958-1959, New Guinea Times-Courier 1959.

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Located at River Hills Road, estab 1872. Includes inscriptions for each headstone/plaque: approx 4100 names. Maps included.

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British Army Index 1787

Index to the War Office List of Officers of the British Army and Marines and Officers on Half-Pay. A full index to the Army List published by the War Office on 15th February 1787 and previously published by QFHSInc as a microfiche publication. The new improved CD version includes QFHSdatasearch that enables direct searching of 9500+ names, including 4200 officers on half-pay. QFHSdatasearch is a generic interface designed to search genealogy databases and developed by QFHSInc. This version features field oriented and keyboard searches, Boolean selection, sorting and wildcard searches. The index covers name, title (where given), rank, regiment, whether cavalry, infantry, or on half-pay, and the page reference. Includes British Armies in England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, America (incl. New-York, Pensacola, Mobille, Louisbourgh, St Augustine, S. Carolina), Southern Charibbee Islands (incl. Grenada, St Vincent, Dominica, Barbados, Jamaica, Tobago, Martinique, Guadeloupe), Nova Scotia, Quebec, New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Africa (incl. Senegal), East Indies, Portugal, Gibraltar, Germany, Havannah, Minorca.

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Brookfield and Moggill Cemeteries (Brisbane): Monumental Inscriptions

Complete transcripts and indexes of the monumental inscriptions of two historic cemeteries. Both are located in the western suburbs of Brisbane and were still in use in 1996. Earliest recorded inscriptions: Brookfield, 1876; Moggill, 1901. Stats: 220 references (Brookfield) and 100 references (Moggill).

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Bulimba Cemetery (Brisbane) [aka Morningside and Balmoral]: Monumental Inscriptions

A complete transcript and index of >9900 monumental inscriptions of Bulimba Cemetery, Brisbane. Originally transcribed in the early 1980s and updated in 1995, this transcript was published to facilitate Australia-wide research of one of Brisbane's major cemeteries. Some citizens of Brisbane buried here include — Jacob WELLER, after whom the suburb of Weller's Hill is named; Z. W. ROMASZKIEWICZ, who "organised the Polish people"; Walter H. SNOWDON, a Pioneer Pearl Sheller of Thursday and Aru Islands; James STONE, founder of the suburb of Stone's Corner, Amy Martha PROCTOR, founder of the Brisbane Seaman's Mission, Ellen McCONNELL, "A good wife and mother. She done her bit."; Sir James BLAIR KB KCMC, Lt Governor of Queensland, Chief Justice, and Chancellor of the University of Queensland; John Bailey HENDERSON, first government hydraulic engineer of Queensland.

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All cemeteries are located within the Pine Rivers Shire adjacent to Brisbane. Inscriptions for approx 2500 names, includes maps.

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Forerunner to the Public Service. An index of civil service employees giving name, present office, location, category (un/classified or probationary, division (professional or ordinary), class, DOB, date of initial appointment, and QGG date/page reference. Original source documents may show salary, allowances and qualifications.

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Located cnr Russell and Clarke Streets: approx 1300 names, maps included.

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Complete transcripts and index of headstone inscriptions: includes approx 2050 names, a map showing the location of each grave, and an index to photos in the George Bond Photographic Collection. Columbarium and memorial gardens are not included.

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Coleyville, Engelsburg (Kalbar), Boonah and Highfields Baptist Cemeteries (Queensland): Monumental Inscriptions

Coleyville: estab late 1860s, still in use (1997); Engelsburg: commenced 1884; earliest grave 1885, latest 1923. Burial records remain in the possession of the Kalbar Baptist church. Microfiche include a copy of the original German Burial Register. Boonah: earliest marked grave 1894, the latest 1911. Highfields: now closed apart from one further burial. Complete transcriptions and indexes of the monumental inscriptions of these Baptist cemeteries plus transcripts of the burial registers for Coleyville and Engelsburg. Maps of each cemetery included.

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Collection of 50 Biographies of Pre-1859 Families (Queensland)

The biographies of 50 pioneering families who resided in Queensland before separation from the Colony of New South Wales in 1859.

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An index of all electors registered in Queensland. Includes name, sex, place of living, occupation, roll number, polling place and division. QFHSdatasearch provides for field oriented and keyword searches, Boolean selection, sorting, wildcard searches and links to .pdf file images of the source record.

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Darling Downs Cemeteries (Queensland) (Toowoomba/Drayton cemetery not included)

Indexed lists of the monumental inscriptions of all the small Darling Downs cemeteries. Usually includes name, date of death and age at death.

Volume 1: Aubigny (Lutheran and Catholic), Back Plains, Bergen, Cecil Plains, Douglas, Dunmore, Emu Creek, Evergreen, Glencoe (Bethlehem Lutheran), Goombungee, Greenmount, Greenwood and Silverleigh, Highfields Baptist, Ivanhoe, Jondaryan, Kooroongara, Meringandan, Millmerran, Murphy's Creek, Nobby, North Branch, Westbrook, Western Creek, Yandilla, Yandilla Station and Yarraman.

Volume 2: Cabarlah, Crow's Nest, Oakey and Pittsworth.

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Directory of Family Names

Lists of names being researched by members of Queensland Family History Society Inc. OUT OF PRINT February 1998.

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Early Office Keepers of Queensland Post Offices and Receiving Offices

An index to office keepers listed in Joan Frew's book - Queensland Post Offices 1842-1980 and Receiving Offices 1869-1927. This book lists a wide ranging selection of early office keepers and their occupations — chosen to illustrate the range of people running the offices. Many had other occupations so you may be surprised to find your ancestor as a postmaster! Stats: >7,000 references. The index lists the postmasters/mistresses and the offices at which they served. Additional information given in the book includes the year they commenced, other occupations (in many cases) and occasionally the location of their property. In addition to Queensland offices, those of some towns around border areas of NSW and SA are also mentioned.

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Early Pioneers Index (Queensland):1824-1859 (previously Pre-Separation Population Index of Moreton Bay)

Compiled from primary sources and containing references to those who were living in Queensland (former Moreton Bay Region) prior to separation from NSW at the end of 1859. Stats: 156,760 references from 75 sources located in Brisbane. Covers the convict (1824-1841) and free settlement (1842-1859) periods. Convict records: Chronological Register of convicts, Captain Patrick Logan's Letterbook, Peter Spicer's Diary, Book of Trials, Convict Death Registers, Queale's convict information, Moreton Bay Hospital records, Colonial Secretary's Letters. Free settlement records: Administration (Colonial Secretary's Letters, Simpson's Letterbook, Government Residents’ Letters and papers), Immigration (Passenger arrivals at Brisbane, Coastal shipping arrivals, Fortitude shipping list, QFHS Pre-Separation Group records), Law (Brisbane Gaol records, Circuit Court - Toowoomba papers, Native Police records, Publicans etc Licences, CPS Brisbane, Gayndah and Ipswich, Small Debts Court Brisbane, Supreme Court letters), Land (Commissioner for Crown Lands records, Crown Lands Office records, Survey Department records, Title deeds - Titles Office, Receipts for deposits on land, Stock mortgages), . Newspapers (Maitland Mercury, Moreton Bay Courier, Sydney Morning Herald). Personal (Queensland Registrar-General BDM indexes, RC baptismal registers, QFHS Pre-Separation Group records). Welfare (Moreton Bay Hospital records). 

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Emigrants from Hamburg to Australasia

Includes ships to NSW, Vic, SA, QLD, Tas and NZ. These passenger indexes are from original Hamburg listings and include details of emigrants’ former place of residence, age and occupation which are not available on many corresponding arrival lists. The Hamburg lists, some of which are written in old German script, deny many researchers access to useful information. Although the NSW Bounty Immigrants’ lists provide significant information about some families, the spelling of names and towns is usually more reliable on the Hamburg records. The latter lists include a high proportion of names that do not appear on the Bounty lists. Other useful: For each ship: physical details and extracts from press reports on arrival at port. Includes listings for which no other Australasian records exist.

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Emigrants from Hamburg to Australia 1854

Includes ships to QLD, NSW, SA, Vic and Tas. Reconstructed passenger lists for ships departing in 1854. Gives name, town and occupation. During this gold rush period 47 ships departed from Hamburg for Australia with emigrants — 27 lists of which have been reconstructed. For the remaining ships (no Hamburg records available), newspaper extracts have been included giving names of some emigrants. Stats: 3996 entries.

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An index to notices appearing in the Queensland Government Gazette (but excluding those that have been indexed as stand alone resources - principally Intestacies, Insolvencies, Wills and Members of State School Committees). Approx 125000 notices with direct searching using QFHSdatasearch of name, topic, location and year. QFHSdatasearch features field oriented and keyword searches, Boolean selection, sorting, wildcard searches, and links to .pdf file images of the source records.

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The aim of this publication is to make researchers more aware of the extensive resources available so they can plan and utilise more effectively their time spent at the library. This guide brings together a comprehensive list of all microform and computer based records held in our library and resource centre. Categories are grouped geographically.

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Horse and Cattle Brands Index (Queensland): 1872 (2 microfiche)

An Act to provide for the due Registration of Horse and Cattle Brands [Assented to 22nd January, 1872] to consist of two letters and one numeral, or two signs and one numeral. The same brand was used for both horses and cattle and it became an offence to use an unregistered brand. This resource is an alphabetical index of owners of horse and cattle brands issued during 1872. It also lists the brand, certificate number, run or farm where brand was to be used, nearest Postal town, date brand listed and page reference in the 1872 Government Gazette. Additionally, the Gazette lists the horse and cattle brands superseded by the new registrations.

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Hotels and Publicans Index (Queensland): 1843-1900

The culmination of 20 years' research on 19th century Queensland hotels and publicans. The index is in 3 parts — (1) hotels, (2) publicans’ names and (3) a list of towns giving licensees’ names and transfer dates for Queensland country. A Brisbane index has been published by the Brisbane History Group. Information has been drawn from a variety of sources: Queensland Government Gazettes1860 to 1900, Butts and Returns of Publicans' Licences (NSW) 1842-1860, CPS Books and other related material (Queensland State Archives), all available directories (used as secondary sources only), all relevant 19th century Queensland newspapers, miscellaneous information from various correspondents.

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Intestacy Returns Index (Queensland): 1896-1910 (5 microfiche)

INCLUDES MANY INDIVIDUALS WHO DIED INTERSTATE AND OVERSEAS

Under the Intestacy Act of 1877 the Curator of Intestate Estates and his deputies were required to publish twice yearly in the Government Gazette a return of all estates they administered during the preceding six months. This is an alphabetical index to returns from 1896 to 1910 listing names, where died, birthplace, date and page reference in the relevant Queensland Government Gazette. The original entries also indicate the total amount received, paid, and invested for the estates of the listed persons. Aliases have been indexed when they occur.

Where died — although administered in Queensland, many places outside Queensland, are included — NSW, Tas, Vic, WA and SA; Irish, English and Scottish towns; China; Molpea, Portuguese East Africa; British New Guinea and the USA. Birthplaces are an invaluable item given by these returns — they include the expected Australian states, England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales. Also listed are China, Canada, NZ, Belgium, Germany, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Italy, Greece, Spain, France, USA, South Africa, New Guinea. West Indies, India, the Baltic States, Poland, Afghanistan, Syria, Singapore, Ceylon, South Sea Islands, Japan, Philippine Islands, Channel Islands and more.

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Family History and Genealogical Record Management System for beginners and people who have been researching for years but are still not organised. Covers: basic requirements, correspondence, postage books, files, notebooks, family records, charts - pedigree, drop, stemma, family group sheets, other charts and forms, books etc, numbering systems, preservation and storage - photos, photocopies, printouts, maps newspaper cuttings, jewellery, medals and books, what to do with your research, and useful addresses.

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Includes surname, Christian name, date of purchase, parish and land description, ie allotment, portion number and reference to DNR titles database. Copies of deeds can be obtained by quoting the DNR reference number. The deed will disclose county, location, parish, area of land purchased, purchaser's place of residence, and purchase price. Includes additional records not previously indexed in the 1824-1859 resource: some 3052 names.

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Letters from Emigrants to Queensland 1863-1885

Facsimile edition. Originally published by the Queensland Emigration Office, London (1863, 1866, 1883, 1885)

Consists largely of letters written by emigrants to Queensland, describing their start, toil, perseverance, encouraging success and reward, and gives other information relating to the colony of Queensland.

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Three indexes in one - a total of approx 180000 licences that were listed in the Queensland Government Gazette. Includes 70000 applicants for several types of timber licences 1860-1901; 40000 goldfields miners' rights, miners' licences and business licences 1870-1884; 70000 other licences 1860-1899 in 33 categories. Indexes can be directly searched on name, year and licence using the QFHSdatasearch facility. Other features: field oriented and keyword searches, Boolean selection, sorting and wildcard searches.

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Lone Grave Collection (Queensland)

Lists details of approx 400 lone graves throughout Queensland as it details burials which are often the most difficult to find.

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Minden, Tarampa and Vernor Baptist Cemeteries (Queensland): Monumental Inscriptions

Minden: estab 1884, cemetery still in use (1997); Vernor: estab 1876, church moved to Tarampa 1926 and new cemetery commenced. Closed early in 1995. Complete transcriptions and indexes of the monumental inscriptions of these Baptist cemeteries plus transcript of the burial register for Tarampa. Maps of each cemetery included.

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An index of approx 4300 names from a variety of primary sources including Brisbane Gaol register of prisoners admitted and discharged, Department of Justice Calendar of Criminals brought to Trial at Brisbane, Prisons Department Letterbooks of the Sheriff, Police Court Brisbane Depositions and Minute book, CPS Nanango Bench Book, CPS Taroom Depositions and Minute Book, CPS Taroom Monthly Statements of Monies received, CPS Gladstone Plaint and Summons book, Circuit Court Toowoomba Depositions, PO Drayton Letterbooks, Survey Office Letter received, Survey Office Inward Letters, Treasury Department Register of Miscellaneous Accounts. Gives name, title, nationality, age (where known), date, place, occupation, notes on the involvement of the person, religion, code and reference to the relevant record.

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A complete transcript and index of the monumental inscriptions of the St Pauls Lutheran and Cornubia cemeteries. Also included, as part of the George Bond Collection, is an index of photographed headstones in the Cornubia cemetery. Approx 180 references/120 photos.

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Name Directory of Moreton Bay Region [Queensland]

Includes details on place of residence, occupation, nationality, religion, date of arrival and age where recorded. These names form a part of the much larger publication - Queensland Early Pioneers' Index Volume 1 -1850-1851, 72 pp, Volume 2 - 1852-1853, 60 pp, Volume 3 - 1854-1855, 104 pp.

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Obituaries Index (Queensland)

This collection of notices was taken from Queensland newspapers and journals — many have been systematically collected over a number of years, while others have been collected at random. It contains the names of those who died and, where given, women’s maiden names. Most newspapers have given permission to reproduce the actual obituary so that full details are easily accessible. Most obituaries appeared in one of the following newspapers:

Volume 3 (6677 entries/900 obituaries from 1889 to 2002): Chinchilla News (CN), Queensland Country Life (QCL), The Courier-Mail (CM), Quest Newspapers (QN Brisbane), Glass House Country News, Dalby Herald (DH, Longreach Leader (LL), Outback Courier (Barcaldine), Nambour Chronicle (NC), Darling Downs Gazette, Toowoomba Chronicle (TC), Warwick Daily News, Townsville Daily Bulletin, Methodist Times

Volume 2 (700 obituaries): CN, QCL, CM, The Sunday Mail (SM), QN, NC, Queensland Freeman, Queensland Baptist.

Volume 1 (1570 entries): South Burnett Times, Gatton Star, QWHA Historical Happenings, DH, CN, CM, SM, TC, Bayside Star, Cairns Post, and the Daily Mercury.

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Open Day Papers (Queensland Family History Society Inc)

Man on the Land: Land use through history in Germany, Denmark, Britain and Australia - cites repositories for records and includes sample documents.

A Grave Look at Family History: A series of papers examining records of the dead. Cemeteries as Historical Sources, Tombstones do Tell, Government Records -wills, intestacies and inquests, and Death and Its Records - British lsles.

Our Migratory Ancestors: Covering general migration to and within Australia 1788-1900 plus separate papers on Scots, Germans and Chinese.

Diversity in Family History: The Interpretation of Old English Handwriting in Historical Records

Delving for Diggers

Do Buildings Have Dates?

Medical Look at Family History: Papers examining genetics, nursing, Queensland children's health (1859-1918) and Health, Hospitals and Medical records in the Moreton Bay Region 1824-1859. 

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Compiled from registers held by the Collector of Customs, Brisbane and currently held by the National Archives of Australia (Brisbane). Includes names, date, address. Principally Queensland residents but a surprising range of interstate (Sydney and Murwillumbah), and overseas countries (Canada, Papua, Solomon Islands, Ceylon [Sri Lanka], New Zealand, Fiji, East Bengall, China, Singapore and England) are included.

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An index to approx 31,200 names and aliases mentioned in the Queensland Police Gazette from its commencement in 1864 to 1874. It lists the name (and aliases), title (or rank), topic (including where possible the age, nationality, description of offence, occupation, supposed destination), and the reference to enable location of the entry in the gazette (page, date and volume number). The index is searchable with QFHSdatasearch.

A special feature of the CD is the inclusion of the topic, with many entries describing in detail offences, offenders and victims. These provide a fascinating insight into various parts of society and the day-to-day police activities at the time, and will appeal to a wide range of people as well as being an invaluable source of information for family historians. For example information on offences covers murder and attempted murder, highway robbery, theft, incendiarism, wife and child desertion, absconding from hired service, rape and abduction. For these the Gazette records names of the victim and suspected offender, addresses, place and circumstance of the offence, age of offender, nationality, appearance, dress and other marks of identity, and a description, as accurate as possible, of property that has been stolen, eg horses, etc. Topics also include lost property, lists of licences, police miscellaneous information, missing friends, government judicial appointments, death returns for inquests and extracts from Police Gazettes in other colonies.

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Three indexes in one: approx 65000 entries in lists of Queensland Public Service employees published in the Queensland Government Gazette (QGG) 1864-1948, or Queensland Blue Book 1870-1879;  approx 35000 teacher names from the Education Office Gazette (EOG) 1907-1920; approx 12500 School Committee names (>300 schools) from the QGG 1876-1899. Indexes can be directly searched on name, year and other details using QFHSdatasearch which provides links to the source images, viewable with Adobe Acrobat Reader. Details given: public servants - name, present office, location, DOB, date of initial appointment, QGG date/page/volume (original sources may provide details of salary, allowance, qualifications and appointment); teachers - admissions, promotions, transfers, resignations, name, type of entry, standing, schools, EOG date/page reference; school committees - appointments, resignations. Use field oriented and keyword searches, Boolean selection, sorting and wildcards.

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Beenleigh, Redlands and Cleveland Districts

This CD consolidates into a single collection of pdf files inscriptions on headstones and plaques in ten cemeteries in the Beenleigh, Redland Bay and Cleveland districts, as transcribed, indexed and compiled for publication between 1995 and 2002 by Rosemary and Eric Kopittke. The material has been previously released in printed and/or microfiche form by QFHS in eight separate publications. The ten cemeteries covered are Alberton, Beenleigh, Bethania Lutheran, Cleveland, Eagleby, Mt Cotton (Cornubia), Mt Cotton (St Pauls Lutheran) Pimpama Island, Redland Bay (Serpentine Road) and Redland Bay (Gordon Road). Some are still active - others closed many years ago

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Queensland Family Historian is the official journal of the Queensland Family History Society Inc. and is published four times a year — February, May, August and November. It seeks to keep members and others in the wider genealogical community informed and up-to-date in all matters relating to the fascinating hobby of family history and the pursuit of discovering one’s ancestors. Every issue is action packed with articles and features, items of interest and regular features that centre on what’s happening in QFHS per se. Now into its 26th year of publication, make sure you receive your copy either by becoming a financial member or an annual subscription. The journal is supplemented with regular monthly editions of "Snippets" — an e-newsletter that circulates (by free subscription) to members.

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A microfilm version of card indexes that have been compiled from details collected over many years and from a variety of sources. All indexes are held in the QFHS library and resource centre and may be viewed when visiting the centre. Microfilm versions (in 4 parts) are available for sale

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Railway Service in Queensland: 1892

The Railway Act of 1888 required the Commissioners to — (1) keep a record of all persons in the railway service, including details of rank, position or grade, length of service, salaries, and such other particulars as they thought fit; (2) maintain records of deaths, dismissals, resignations, promotions, and reductions, and (3) in July 1889 and every third year thereafter, publish in the Gazette a list of persons employed in the railway service up to the preceding 30 June. 

This resource indexes the name, branch, position, and district for each Queensland railway employee on 30 June 1892 — some 940 entries (1892) and 5630 in 1901. Also extracted from the Gazette lists are details of remuneration (daily, weekly, or annually) and whether on probation (p) or temporarily employed (te).

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This CD provides photographs of 145 headstones in the Ravenswood cemetery in November 2003 and includes an index to the 196 names mentioned in the monumental inscriptions. The index can be searched on name and year with QFHSdatasearch, with search results linked to the corresponding photographs for display via a button on the result panel.

Headstones remaining in the cemetery in 2003 record details of former residents from 1872 to recent times, with 2001 the date of the most recent burial recorded on the monumental inscriptions. Though there are many burials unmarked by a headstone these photographs provide a valuable insight into the lives of those who lived there.

Ravenswood, located about 120 kilometres south-west of Townsville, was founded in 1868 following the discovery of gold and was an extremely prosperous gold mining centre with a population of up to 5000. The Hotels and Publicans Index published by QFHS shows more than 50 hotels in the 1870s. Today it is almost a ghost-town though it still has many reminders of the past – mullock heaps, tall chimneys, discarded machinery and the cemetery.

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Redland Bay Cemeteries (Queensland): Monumental Inscriptions and George Bond Photographic Collection 1890-1997

Complete transcripts and indices of the monumental inscriptions of Gordon Road and Serpentine Road cemeteries. Maps showing the layout of each cemetery are also included. The Serpentine Road Cemetery has relatively few graves and many of these have no headstones. It appears to have been in use from the 1890s to c1910. The main Redland Bay cemetery in Gordon Road includes inscriptions dating from the 1890s to the present time (1997). Also included is an index to the George Bond Photographic Collection - a collection of photographs by a former stone mason with an interest in recording monuments. Stats: Gordon Road, approx 1,300 inscriptions; Serpentine Road, 9 inscriptions, 282 photographs.

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School Pupils' Index (Queensland): Q-SPI

Almost everyone has gone to school and many have been enrolled at more than one school but finding the enrolment records can be a very time consuming task. Q-SPI endeavours to make the task of searching for Queensland pupils easier by bringing together in one index names from many sources. Dates range from 1872 to 1966 (a 30 year closure on names exists). Schools range in size from large city, with admissions in the thousands to country one-teacher schools with an enrolment of just hundreds. Some schools have long ceased to exist — others are still functioning. Sources from which the names are drawn are as diverse as the actual schools — admission registers, school histories covering a significant anniversary, local histories that do not specifically focus on the school but include a pupils' list as part of their story. Many sources provide additional family information including age at admission, parents’ names, occupation, religion and address — all very useful to the family historian and genealogist. Volume 1 - c46,000 names from 65 schools. Volume 2 - c40,000 names/38 schools. Volume 3 - c47,000 names/22 schools. Volume 4 - c41,500 names/13 schools. Volume 5 - c55,000/36 schools. Volume 6 - c59,500 names/31 schools. Volume 7 - c64,700 names/35 schools.  Volume 8 - c65,000 names/40 schools. Volume 9 - c65,000 names/42 schools. Volume 10 - c65,000 names/63 schools. LIST OF SCHOOLS - CD versions part 1, part 2, part 3.

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An Act assented to on 7th November 1876 provided for the due registration of brands on Sheep. A brand was defined as "any legible firebrand permanently impressed on the nose, face or horn OR any brand permanently impressed by means of Indian or other ink on the ear OR any pitch, paint, or tar brand impressed on the wool or any portion of the body of the sheep". After enactment all sheep aged six months and above had to be branded with a duly registered brand and annual brand lists, together with details of the owner's name and address were published in the Government Gazette. Entries are indexed alphabetically and include the run or farm where the brand was used, nearest postal town, listed date and page reference in the Government Gazette. Additional information may be found by referring to the original lists.

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A Short Guide to Tracing Your Convict Ancestry

A guide to tracing convict ancestors based on the author's own research experiences. Covers location of records in Archives Office of NSW, convict indexes, and a list of suggested reading material.

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South Brisbane [aka Dutton Park] Cemetery: Monumental Inscriptions

A complete transcript and index of >13,000 monumental inscriptions of the South Brisbane cemetery at Dutton Park, Brisbane. Originally transcribed in the early 1980s, this transcript and index record details one of Brisbane's major cemeteries. 

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St George Cemetery (Queensland): Monumental Inscriptions

Complete transcript and index of the monumental inscriptions of some 1,700 graves. 

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An index of names from notices in the Queensland Government Gazette and covering schools from all regions of the State. Details include surname, given names, title, school, code, comments, date and page of Government Gazette. If members died, resigned, left the district or ceased to act, replacements were appointed and notified. The committee's duties were generally, to see that the non-sectarian principle of the system was maintained inviolate; to take care that all the school board's regulations and instructions were faithfully and efficiently carried out, to keep the school building in repair, to induce parents to send their children to school and to report the conduct of the teacher to the Board.

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Strays Collection Australasia

Did some of your ancestors stray? Are you looking without success in a known area? Then perhaps they strayed from there to another State or country. A stray is anyone who has left a record of a marriage, death, employment or any other event in a State, county or country other than where s/he was born. Such a record may indicate to a researcher an important source of information in some distant or unexpected place. Imagine how many Australians and New Zealanders down through the last two centuries are strays! Stats: approx 4,000 strays. 

Volume 4 (1993-1998, 2 microfiche) sources include

• Cemeteries - Tully, Cabarlah-Geham, Home Hill, Howard, and Innisfail (QLD) and Whroo (Victorian Goldfields)

• Newspapers - Dalby Herald (Qld), Brisbane Courier Mail (Qld) and the Sydney Morning Herald (NSW)

 Census - some extracts from census records

• Private records.

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An index to records of the Southern Court, Southern District, Brisbane series SCT/CJ1-SCT/CJ36 held at the Queensland State Archives: a total of 4194 entries. Includes matters where the principal question is the construction of an Act of Parliament, statutory instrument, deed, will, or other document, or some other question of law, where a substantial dispute of fact is unlikely, eg summons for maintenance, application for custody, summons to commence an action, protection orders, Court of Criminal Appeal summons, applications for bail, mercantile securities and deceased persons' estates. Indexed lists give surname, Christian names, form of address, date of summons, place of residence, occupation, notes, age, source of record and folio number. Where the widow of a person named in a summons has remarried, two entries are given - original and new married name. The notes show dates of birth, death and marriage, relationship to the person named in the summons, type of record - bail application, bill of costs/sale, civil and criminal proceedings, divorce, land sale, liquidation, mortgage, type of person - beneficiary of will, creditor, defendant, executor, lunatic, mortgagor/ee, plaintiff, trustee, witness. Original or copies of BDM certificates were often included in summons papers.

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A complete burial record since inception.

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A complete record of headstone/plaque inscriptions: approx 650 names.

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Teachers' Index (Queensland): 1907-1911 (3 microfiche)

An alphabetical index to teacher admissions, promotions, transfers and resignations in Queensland from 1907 to 1911, including pupil teachers through to the Director of Education. The listings include name, standing, school/s, type of entry, date and page reference in the relevant Education Office Gazette (> 6,900 references). Teachers listed in the Gazette for this period are high in relation to the numbers employed — a total of 2,402 teachers (1153 male and 1249 females) at the end of 1906. In 1907 there were 1,120 staff changes listed in the Gazette: some teachers being transferred five times, six and seven times. 

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Toowong Cemetery (Brisbane): Monumental Inscriptions

Brisbane's largest cemetery: the transcriptions were undertaken by members of the Queensland Family History Society Inc. between 1983 and 1987. Although Colonel Samuel Wensley Blackall (Queensland's second Governor) was the first person to be buried at Toowong Cemetery in 1871, several memorials predate his grave. In 1881, the bodies of the three children of the guards (convict settlement) who died in the early 1830s, were exhumed from a North Quay site and, with the original headstones, transferred to Toowong. After the Paddington Cemeteries Act of 1911, a number of remains and memorials from this cemetery were also removed to Toowong. The number of burials in Toowong Cemetery is unknown, though by 1963 a total of 106,000 burials were said to have taken place. The index to this resource references approximately 47,000 names - on memorials still standing, on graves demolished once they were considered unsafe; and on inscriptions from the columbarium. Described by the Lord Mayor of Brisbane in 1994, this was a project of great significance to the records of the City of Brisbane and no library should be without it. 

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An index to 202,472 names in the monthly lists of unclaimed letters published in the Queensland Government Gazette. Can be searched on name, title, occupation, nationality, address and year using QFHSdatasearch which features field oriented and keyword searches, Boolean selection, sorting and wildcard searches. An valuable resource for locating early colonists, many of whom moved frequently, either seeking employment or chasing gold. As a result letters were often not able to be delivered - the last known address no longer applying. Given addresses will help trace an ancestor's whereabouts even if s/he was no longer there at time of delivery.

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A complete record of burials from date of inception.

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A complete record of headstone/plaque inscriptions: approx 160 names.

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War and Other Memorials to 1996

Volume 3: A January 1996 indexed transcription of the war memorial at two of Toowoomba’s major cemeteries: Drayton/Toowoomba Cemetery - 406 entries, and Toowoomba Garden of Remembrance -1,063 entries.
Volume 2: A further 79 war and other memorials from Queensland (including the Anzac Square Crypt memorials), five interstate, WW I Awards, WW II (Tobruk Awards), Korean War deaths and Vietnam War deaths.
Volume 1: 106 war and other memorials from Queensland. 

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