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During our library closure, join us with a

discounted membership

$70 (single members)

$105 (dual membership)

Use the code COVID-19

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QFHS and the Coronavirus (COVID-19)

We’ve taken the decision to close our Library and Resource Centre and to suspend our events and meetings until the end of April – and quite possibly for some time beyond then. If you have registered for an affected event, you will hear from us personally.

Members can view our Online Access materials, including at-home access to billions of global historical records via MyHeritage. We are adding more datasets, information pieces and presentations to our online collection each week.

We are sending a special edition of Snippets to members weekly, with plenty of ideas to help your family history activities at this time. Email snippets@qfhs.org.au if you’ve items to share.

We’ll keep you posted on any changes. Do please take care in these extraordinary times.

Using indexes: tips and traps

A quick guide to using indexes for family history research

Accessing FamilySearch images

You can try this at home

Finding your famly: a beginners course  July 2020

Commences Monday 13 July 2020

The Huguenots: the almost-forgotten people

Saturday, 25 July 2020

Ask QFHS

Do you have a quick family history or genealogy question?

Our new “Ask QFHS” service will connect you with one of our panel of experienced members to help. For example, help with:

• Finding out how to use a particular website or resource
• Understanding an unfamiliar term or phrase in a record
• Get recommendations for where to find records
• and more…

Email askqfhs@qfhs.org.au and find out how we can help.

Latest data available at QFHS Online Data

• Commonwealth Electoral Rolls (Queensland) 1969
  (listing more than 1 million Queenslanders)
• Queensland Cemeteries
  
• Monumental Inscriptions: Goomeri
• Monumnetal Inscriptions: Mundubbera
• Monumental Inscriptions: Toowong
• Queensland School Pupils Index (Part 1-6)
  (listing more than 2 million Queenslanders)
• Queensland Schools Past and Present
  (listing more than 4000 schools)

Note: Much of this data is NOT available at
Findmypast, MyHeritage, FamilySearch or Ancestry

More datasets will be released for members to search from home including:

• Customs House shipping lists
• More cemetery records
• Railway employees
• and much more.

MyHeritage

QFHS members can access MyHeritage at our library and from their home computers via the QFHS website. 

MyHeritage can help you with your genealogy search. Its genealogy search engine allows you to search thousands of databases simultaneously. In one search, you can cover multiple spelling variations, phonetic synonyms, and much more.

Our Future

The fourth communique about possible amalgamation of QFHS and GSQ has been sent to members. Read more here, along with details of how to have your say.