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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, 39pp.  $15 including postage within Australia.  Book review

An 'index of indexes' (published & unpublished) with descriptions and contact addresses.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.  $21.45 including postage within Australia.  Book review

Index gives name and source reference.  Compiled from four surviving volumes of admission records for Brisbane Hospital, many of which 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.  Paperback, spiral bound, A4, 22 pages.  $12.45 including postage within Australia.

Index gives name and source reference.  Lists 9,000 old age pension applicants (successful and rejected).  Most were born in the UK, Ireland, Germany or Scandinavia but a few were born in Australia and elsewhere.  Compiled from State Government records that 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.  Includes many unnaturalised immigrants not on electoral rolls.  Two microfiche.  $12 including postage within Australia.

Index gives name and source reference for 5,000 hospital patients (many from Victorian goldfields) in this major North Qld gold mining area during and after the local gold rush.  Index compiled from original registers with 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.  One microfiche.  $7 including postage within Australia.

Three indexes (one for each town) in one volume.  Burketown 1909-1923;  Ingham Aug 1889 - May 1890;  Muttaburra:  part of 1887, 1892-1894, 1921-1928.  Indexes gives name and source reference.  Compiled from original records that are in the same format as those for Croydon (see above).  Paperback, A5.  $6.20 including postage within Australia.

Eventide provided for poor people who because of age, infirmity or otherwise, were unable to care for themselves.  The index to the Eventide death registers gives name, maiden surname for women, year of death, and source reference.  You need this information to apply for Freedom of Information access to the records, 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.

Index gives name, year, place, and source reference.  Compiled from three Police Department, Charleville Station, sources:  alphabetical register of persons received in the lockup, Jan 1889 - Jan 1893 [gives number, date of arrest, name, age, level of education, religion, occupation, country or Australian State, offence, how disposed of, remarks];  physical description of certain prisoners, Dec 1890 - circa Oct 1892;  register of persons arrested at Charleville, Adavale, Augathella, Cunnamulla, Eromanga, Eulo, Hungerford, Morven, Nocundra, Wooroorooka, Wyandra, Thargomindah and Upper Warrego, Jan 1901 - Feb 1904 [gives number, name, date of arrest, calling, religion, offence, how disposed of, rations issued code].  Paperback, A5.  $6.20 including postage within Australia.

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.  Indexes give name, year, place, and source reference.  Compiled from original sources that usually give most of these details: date, town, prisoner's name, aliases, age, occupation, religion, state or country of origin, education level, offence, how case disposed of (fine or term of imprisonment, or 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.  Paperback, A5.  $6.20 including postage within Australia.

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BOOKS:

• 'Emigrants from Hamburg to Australia: 1862'  (Kopittke)
• 'Emigrants from Hamburg to Australasia: 1872'  (Kopittke)

MICROFICHE: (Updated)

• Consolidated Index to the Qld Government Gazettes 1859-1869 (QFHS).  EXCLUDES entries re Intestacy, Insolvency and Wills and Members of School Committees. Many 'Trade Mark' and 'Patent' notices refer to people living interstate and overseas.
• Consolidated Index to the Qld Government Gazettes 1870-1879 (as above).
• Consolidated Index to the Qld Government Gazettes 1880-1889 (as above).
• Consolidated Index to the Qld Government Gazettes 1890-1899 (as above).
• Emigrants from Hamburg to Australia: 1854 (Kopittke & Dieckmann).
• Personal Notices in Mansfield [VIC] Newspapers 1869-1900 (Evans).
• Qld School Pupils Index, vol.1 (Mahony/QFHS).  About 46,000 names.  Dates & sources vary (school admission registers, school histories, local histories with a pupil list).  Banana, Biloela, Blenheim, Brightview, Coorparoo, Carbrook, Calvale (Upper Callide), Clermont, Dawes, Dundee, Dundee Camp, Enoggera, Elimbah, Earlsfield, Forest Hill, Forest Hill, Goovigen, Glen Cairn, Gregor's Creek, Hemmant, Harami, Harami, Harrisville, Hillgrove, Jambin, Jooro, Jimbour, Killarney, Kingsthorpe, Kariboe Creek, Kaimkillenbun, Kilcoy, Lake Pleasant, Lawgi/Mardale, Lowood, Mount Berryman, Mount Scoria, Milora, Mary River Road, Palmwoods, Pinkenba, Perwillowen Creek, Ropeley, Rockside, Rockside, Ropeley East, Rannes, Raedon (Callide Bridge/Melton/Raewurt), Radford, Ridgewood, Sheep Station Creek, Stanley River, Templin, Terror's Creek, Thangool, Upper Don, Villeneuve, Woolein, Wowan, West Vale, Woolmar, Winya, Yarparaba, Yednia.

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