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| Tips for Queensland Research (2008 edition)
Information about sources, research strategies and problem solving techniques for family history research in Qld, with helpful hints and money-saving tips. The book describes various records and indexes on the Internet and at Qld State Archives, National Archives, Educational History Unit, Department of Families, State and genealogical libraries etc. The previous edition has been significantly updated and expanded, and new topics have been added including divorce, originating summonses, Pre-Separation, protection orders, undertakings (Home Secretary's Office and Premier's Department), and nurses, masseurs and shearers. It also deals with births, deaths and marriages (civil registration and alternative sources including cemetery records); identifying the father of an illegitimate child; orphans; adoption records; maintenance payments for deserted wives/children; wills and intestacies; immigration; electoral rolls (useful for tracing people's movements); missing persons and people who 'vanished'; the 'black sheep' of the family; mental asylum and Dunwich Benevolent Asylum records; police watchhouse charge books; CPS police charge bench books; prison records; criminal depositions; murder files; Police Gazettes; Government Gazettes; inquests; preliminary enquiries and other 'no inquest' records; insolvencies; hospital admission registers and related records; old age pension applicants; equity files; hotels and publicans; miners, teachers, dentists, doctors, chemists/druggists, engineers, solicitors, police, public servants, railway employees, ship's crew; land tenure records; Wallangarra quarantine registers (1918-1919 influenza epidemic); school admission registers and school files; Qld State Archives publications, facilities and services. Paperback, spiral bound, A4, 39 pages. $15 including postage within Australia. Book review |
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| Specialist Indexes in Australia: a Genealogist's Guide (2006 Supplement to 1998 edition)
An 'index of indexes' (published & unpublished) with descriptions and contact addresses. It tells you how to gain access to over 700 indexes (many privately held and not available in libraries) for all parts of Australia and some overseas areas. Newspapers; local area sources; overseas records; One-Name studies; immigration; cemeteries; ships; electoral rolls; naturalisations; convicts; asylums; Masonic Lodge; occupational, military, church, school, court, council, police and undertakers' records, and a very wide variety of other sources and topics. New and updated entries only, so you may also need the 1998 edition. Paperback, spiral bound, A4, 73 pages. $21.75 including postage within Australia. Book review |
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| Specialist Indexes in Australia: a Genealogist's Guide (1998 ed.)
Descriptions and contact addresses for about 500 entries that are not repeated in the Supplement above. Paperback, spiral bound, A4, 119 pages. Was $28, now $23.75 including postage within Australia. |
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| Brisbane Hospital, Qld: Index to some patients in 1887, 1900, 1901 & 1902
Index to four volumes of admission records for Brisbane Hospital. Paperback, spiral bound, A4, 22 pages. $12.45 including postage within Australia. This index lists names and source references, with which you can find the original records at Qld State Archives. Those records often give date admitted; age; birthplace; occupation; religion; ship of arrival; how long in each Australian State; last residence, and if there less than 3 months, previous residence; marital status; place of marriage, at what age, spouse's name; names/ages of children living; number/sex of children deceased; father's name, occupation and present residence if living (or 'father dead'); mother's maiden name; employment, wages, other sources of income, other wage-earners in the family, property, membership of clubs or benefit societies (or father's employment details etc.); name/address of relatives or friends; disease or reason for admission; discharge date or date/cause of death; if previously admitted, the reason. |
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| Index to Old Age Pension Applications, Qld, 1908-1909
Index to 9,000 old age pension applicants (successful or rejected - including many unnaturalised immigrants who were not on electoral rolls). Most applicants were born in the UK, Ireland, Germany or Scandinavia but a few were born in Australia and elsewhere. Two microfiche. $12 including postage within Australia. This index lists names and source references, with which you can find the original records at Qld State Archives. Those records usually give date, town, age, years in Qld, amount of pension or reason for rejection, and country or Australian State of birth. A few give death date, street address, spouse, or remarks about the applicant's income, character etc. |
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| Croydon, Qld: Index to Hospital Admissions 1888-1919
Index to 5,000 Croydon Hospital patients (many from Victorian goldfields) during and after the gold rush in this major North Qld gold mining area. One microfiche. $7 including postage within Australia. This index lists names and source references, with which you can find the original records at Qld State Archives. Those records have provision for name; date admitted; age; birthplace; occupation; religion; ship of arrival; how long in colony; place of residence; marital status; place of marriage, at what age, and name of spouse; names and ages of children living; number and sex of children deceased; father's name and occupation; father's present residence if living (or 'father dead'); mother's maiden name; disease or reason for admission; date of discharge, or date and cause of death; sometimes additional remarks (medical history, social circumstances etc.) Hospital registers sometimes contain the only surviving reference to ship of arrival. |
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| Burketown, Ingham & Muttaburra: Indexes to Hospital Admissions
Three indexes (one for each town) in one volume: Burketown 1909-1923; Ingham Aug 1889 - May 1890; Muttaburra 1887, 1892-1894, 1921-1928. Paperback, A5. $6.20 including postage within Australia. These indexes list names and source references, with which you can find the original records at Qld State Archives. Those records have provision for name; date admitted; age; birthplace; occupation; religion; ship of arrival; how long in colony; place of residence; marital status; place of marriage, at what age, and name of spouse; names and ages of children living; number and sex of children deceased; father's name and occupation; father's present residence if living (or 'father dead'); mother's maiden name; disease or reason for admission; date of discharge, or date and cause of death; sometimes additional remarks. Hospital registers sometimes contain the only surviving reference to ship of arrival. |
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| Index to Eventide (Sandgate, Qld) Registers of Deaths 1954-1959
Eventide provided for poor people who because of age, infirmity or otherwise, were unable to care for themselves. This index to Eventide death registers lists name, maiden surname for women, year of death, and source reference. You need this information to apply for Right to Information access to the registers, which show name, signature, date admitted, from where, cause of admission, age (often exact birth date), birthplace, religion, marital status (married, single, widowed, apart), occupation, pension, father's name and occupation, mother's maiden name, husband's name or wife's maiden name, where married, at what age, children (often name, age, exact address), other relatives (siblings, cousins, grandchildren etc., often with exact address), person to be contacted in emergency, height, weight, eye colour, hair colour, history, clinical record and conduct, leave of absence, transfers, discharges. Paperback, A5. $6.20 including postage within Australia. |
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| Index to Persons Arrested & Victims of Crime, Qld. Vol.1: South-West Qld 1889-1904
Index to three Police Department sources with details of persons arrested at Charleville, Adavale, Augathella, Cunnamulla, Eromanga, Eulo, Hungerford, Morven, Nocundra, Wooroorooka, Wyandra, Thargomindah and Upper Warrego. Paperback, A5. $6.20 including postage within Australia. This index lists name, year, place and source reference, with which you can find the original records at Qld State Archives. Many of those records show the date of arrest, age, level of education, religion, occupation, birthplace (State or country), offence, how disposed of (fine, term of imprisonment, discharged, cautioned, committed for trial at which court and when, or sent to a reformatory or other institution), and sometimes a physical description. |
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| Index to Persons Arrested & Victims of Crime, Qld. Vol.2: Charters Towers & Cloncurry pre-1900
Two separate indexes in one volume: Charters Towers watchhouse charge books for part of 1895-1896 and 1899; and Cloncurry watchhouse charge books for part of 1874-1875 and 1887-1891. Paperback, A5. $6.20 including postage within Australia. Each index lists name, year and source reference, with which you can find the original records at Qld State Archives. Those records often give date, town, prisoner's name, aliases, age, occupation, religion, state or country of origin, education level, offence, how disposed of (fine, term of imprisonment, discharged, cautioned, committed for trial at which court and when, or sent to a reformatory or other institution). Some registers also give details of previous convictions. |
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