Resources

Our Society is proud to offer a substantial collection of family history resources, which has developed over its long history. The collection is continually growing as we purchase new resources and receive generous donations.

New additions are listed in the Queensland Family Historian every quarter.

Most items in the collection are identified by call numbers, sometimes called shelf numbers. These numbers are made up of three tiers.

• The top tier indicates the geographical area to which the item relates followed by the general topic, and sometimes by county code or postcode
• The next tier divides the main subject into a large number of subsidiary subjects
• The last tier refers to the volume number of a particular item.

Thus, referring to the Library and Resource Centre Classification Scheme, an item with call number N7/43 16 3 would be about English (N) Vital Records (7), relating to a Yorkshire (43) census (16) and is the third (3) of our holdings on this subject.

The Library and Resource Centre is a reference library only.

Our Library and Resource collection includes:

• books and journals
• microfiche and microfilms
• cemetery records
• George Bond Collection
• maps
• digital resources
• subscription websites
• member pedigree records

As a member, you may access our extensive digital resource collection from any of the nine networked computers. You can use our digital library finding aids, such as the library catalogue, cemetery index, George Bond index, and pedigree index.

Our Society is a FamilySearch Affiliate Library. At our Library and Resource Centre you can access FamilySearch images on the QFHS computers.