Brief Guides

These handy guides are a quick way to identify frequently used records at Queensland State Archives. Included are the main sources for family history research. Titles of the 38 Brief Guides are listed below. All titles are available for browsing online and in the Public Search Room at Queensland State Archives.

The complete set of 38 Brief Guides (all in PDF format) contains:

Publications	Brief Guide Number
Archives for Genealogists (11 KB)	10
Birth, Death and Marriage Records (234 KB)	24
Boer War Records (13 KB)	21
Cabinet Secretariat Records (10 KB)	23
Cemetery Records (30 KB)	30
Citing Archival Records (11 KB)	31
Colonial Secretary's Correspondence 1859 - 1903 (127 KB)	44
Company Records (80 KB)	7
Court Records (40 KB)	22
Deed Poll Records (102 KB)	20
Dunwich Records (11 KB)	26
General Information (7 KB)	9
Government Building Records (10 KB)	11
Government Gazettes (26 KB)	33
Hotel Records (21 KB)	14
Immigration Records (11 KB)	16
Inquest Records (6 KB)	12
Insolvency and Liquidation Records (8 KB)	17
Land Agents' Records (9 KB)	29
Land Tenure Records (19 KB)	5
Local History Sources (65 KB)	6
Maps (9 KB)	1
Mining Records (15 KB)	13
Multicultural Groups (56 KB)	4
Murder Files (85 KB)	32
Naturalization Records (9 KB)	15
Occupation Licences (160 KB)	37
Orphanages and Children's Homes (10 KB)	28
Police Gazettes (115 KB)	34
Queensland State Archives' Record Systems (39 KB)	2
Railway Records (81 KB)	3
Road Cases (186 KB)	36
School Records (205 KB)	18
Shipwreck Records (8 KB)	4
Soldier Settlement (162 KB)	35
Special Leases (143 KB)	28
State Electoral Rolls (11 KB)	8
Top-Numbering (9 KB)	25
Tracing The History of Your House (25 KB)	27
Will and Intestacy Records (16 KB)	19

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Last Updated: Friday, 3 April 2009