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Lesser known Family History
ResourcesKirsten Perris
State Library of Queensland
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Aims• To develop an awareness of lesser
known family history resources held at State Library of Queensland
• To provide examples of the type of information that can be found in these resources
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What areas do the resources cover?• “They came direct” booklets
Queensland passenger lists, 1860s & 1870s – missing, damaged, incomplete
• “Ances-Tree” journalsLost German passenger lists
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What areas do the resources cover?Family History Indexes• Colonial Secretary’s Correspondence
Letters received relating to Moreton Bay1822-1860
• People called before Queensland government committees 1860-1920
• Queensland Mining accidents 1882-1945• Queensland railway appointments & removals
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“They Came Direct” series• Queensland immigration series compiled
by Eileen Johnson• Covers immigration vessels from the 1860s
and early 1870s• Contains all known information relating to
the voyage of a particular vessel that could be located at time of publication.
• Information comes from newspapers and government sources
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Example of covers from the series
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Example“They Came
Direct - Young Australia
1862”
Passenger List
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Example“They Came
Direct - Young Australia
1862”
Newspaper article
Queensland State Archive material
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“Ances-tree” journal• Journal of the Burwood & District Family History
Group• Lost or problematic German passenger lists• Articles written by Lisa Burton or Jenny Paterson• 3 series
German immigrant ships to Eastern Australia – Resources & problems
“Assisted German immigrants” who weren’t assisted
German ships with no lists
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Information in “Ances-tree” journalThe articles contain:• Information related to the voyage• Brief history of the ship• Sources with information, including
names• ‘Likely’ passenger list
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Types of sources used:• Birth, marriage, death indexes• Naturalisation / Certificate of Alien
Registration records• Obituaries, newspaper articles• Government records e.g.
hospital/asylum admission records, prison registers
• Trades/occupations
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Example of “Ances-tree” journal
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SLQ - Family history indexeshttp://www.slq.qld.gov.au/resources/family-history/eresources
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Colonial Secretary’s CorrespondenceIndex to Letters received relating to Moreton Bay and Queensland 1822-1860http://www.slq.qld.gov.au/resources/family-history/letters
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Information in the pre-1859 CorrespondenceThe business of administration including:• establishing the Moreton Bay settlement• dealing with convict and immigrant matters• decisions about employment and payment• use and construction of buildings• surveying, sales and use of land• growing of crops and grazing• responses to petitions (individuals &
groups)• decisions about public expenditure
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Format of the indexA descriptive index including:• reel number, letter number and date• origin of letter• content and people involved• keyword searchable• a work in progress
1822-1855, 1859 covered
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Use of index• valuable source of primary source documents on
Moreton Bay• a launching pad to other valuable resources including:
Queensland early pioneers indexes 1824 -1859 aka Queensland Family History Society Pre-Separation population index of Moreton Bay region 1824-1859 which includes 78 sources
Australian Joint Copying Project (AJCP) Images, newspaper sources Diaries, books
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Example - NaturalisationsSearch by “Naturalization”
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Example - NaturalisationsSearch by “ship name” e.g. Diana
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Naturalisation pre-1859
• Name of the ship of arrival provided
• Possible to find names of those from missingship lists.
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Persons called before Qld Committeeshttp://www.slq.qld.gov.au/resources/family-history/committees• Published in the Queensland Legislative
Assembly Votes and Proceedings / Queensland Parliamentary papers.
• cover a range of topics including education, immigration, mining, railway construction and the police force.
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Persons called before Qld Committees• A wide variety of people from different
backgrounds & occupations were called to give evidence i.e. farmers, publicans, civil servants
• Those called before government committees were often invited because of their knowledge or expertise in the topic being discussed.
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Use of Index
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Example
Queensland Legislative Assembly Votes & Proceedings 1867 Vol 2 pp 694, 695
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Qld Mining Accidents 1882 - 1945http://www.slq.qld.gov.au/resources/family-history/mining-accidents
Published annually in the Queensland Legislative Assembly Votes and Proceedings
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Information included:• Date of accident• Name of miner involved• Name of the mine involved• Brief description of the accident• Year, volume & page number for the
Queensland Legislative Assembly Votes and Proceedings / Qld Parliamentary Papers
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How to locate the indexhttp://onesearch.slq.qld.gov.au
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Example of an index entry
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Example
Check “Trove digitised newspapers” for articleshttp://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper
Queensland Legislative Assembly Votes & Proceedings 1901 Vol 4 p.465
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Qld railway appointments & removals• Published in the Queensland Legislative
Assembly Votes & Proceedings / Qld Parliamentary Papers
• Each entry provides name, position, wages and reason for appointment or removal.
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Qld railway appointments & removals• Two indexes
Qld railway employees 1890-1901(Published annually)http://fhr.slq.qld.gov.au/qldrail/
Qld Southern & Western railway employees 1866-1876http://fhr.slq.qld.gov.au/swrailway/
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How to access the index
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Example of index
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Example
Queensland Legislative Assembly Votes & Proceedings 1896 Vol 4 p.367
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Aids to accessBefore coming to the library:• Check the indexes• Make a note of the references you
want to follow up on• Bring a USB so you can save what
you find
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Aids to access: free library membershipJoin up online http://www.slq.qld.gov.au/services/membership/how-to-join
Use your free membership to login to these services:
• free internet access for 3 hrs a day at SLQ onsite
• home access to some databases• ordering closed access items before your
library visit or when onsite via catalogue
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Aids to access : copyingCopy from film or fiche in the following ways:• Scan the page on the computer then print.
A4 = 15c ; A3 = 30cAdd value to your library card in copying room then print in the reading room with the card.
• Save your document and email it home using a web email e.g. Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo etc.
• Save to a USBNB: Note copyright conditions
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Summary• SLQ holds useful family history resources
that are not well known• Different sources, beyond the common, can
lead to further information.• The indexes can lead to new directions• The resources covered in the indexes aren’t
readily available online• SLQ offers a free 2 hour research service.
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