Archives Search Tools and Finding Aids

There are a large number of card indexes and finding aids available in the Public Search Room at the Queensland State Archives building at Runcorn.

Information is available in the following resources:

Other search tools and finding aids available include:

Card Indexes

The following card indexes are only available to search in the Public Search Room. The indexes may cover more than one series of records. Further card indexes are also available relating to land and immigration records held by QSA.

Brisbane General Hospital 1899-1913
Dunwich Benevolent Asylum Funeral Book 1866-1918
Index to Lands Department Correspondence 1866-68
Index to Report of Crown Lands Sales 1855-1883
Index to ships arriving in Queensland 1848-1915
Inquests 1897-1926
Justice of the Peace 1948-1957
Land Orders
Lessees 1842-1859
Maps Catalogue - Subject
Maps
Naturalizations 1858-1876, includes misc. references 1860-1904
Railway Plans
Register of Seamen
School Index
Runs 1842-1859
Soldier Settlement

Please note the following Card Indexes are now available online

Index to the Trustees 1889-1929
Queensland Divorces 1861-1894
Justices of the Peace 1859-1880
Registration of Companies 1863-1959

The following items are now searchable on Archives Search

Railway Rolling Stock
Divorces 1861-1899 (Supreme Court, Northern District, Townsville)

Online Indexes

The online indexes provide a quick and easy way to locate Queensland State Archives records relating to people. The entries in the indexes provide names of people in alphabetical order, and include the Queensland State Archives location numbers. The introductory section of each index provides the purpose and the way to use the index.

Other Indexes

A variety of Indexes created by other Agencies which complement the QSA collection have been loaded onto four dedicated computer terminals in the Public Search Room for researchers to use.

The Indexes available include:
Caloundra Family History Research Inc

QLD Government Railway Index to Staff Records 1878-1946 (this is an Index of QSA Registers, Item ID 301930-301939, available on microfilms Z2881-Z2891)
QLD Government Railway Index to Staff employed in Various Departments and Stations 1889-1912 (this is an Index of QSA Registers, Item ID 301909-301915, available on microfilms Z2875-Z2876)

Census of New South Wales

November 1828

Queensland Family History Society Inc

QLD Brands 1872-1900 & Directory 1949-1952
QLD Early Pioneers Indexes 1824-1859
QLD Gazetted Licences 1860-1901
QLD Government Gazette Consolidated Index 1859-1919
QLD Intestacies, Insolvencies and Wills 1859-1900
QLD Police Gazette 1864-1874
QLD Public Service 1864-1948
QLD Railway Employees 1889-1940
QLD School Pupils Parts 1-4

Queensland Registry of Births, Deaths & Marriages

QLD Births, Deaths and Marriages 1829-1914

Society of Australian Genealogists:

Australasian Genealogical Computer Index (AGCI)

Toowoomba & Darling Downs Family History society Inc

Darling Downs Initial Settlement Records 1843-1852 (transcription of Christopher Rolleston?s records as Crown Commissioner of Lands)
QLD Electoral Rolls 1880-1884 (compiled from QSA Historical Resource Kit Part 2)

Printing from the Indexes is available only in the Public Search Room at the cost of 50 cents per page.

Copies of the Indexes can be purchased directly from the relevant Agency.

Items of Interest Catalogue

This consists of specific items noted by staff in the course of their work which may be of interest to researchers. The entries in the Items of Interest lists provide names of people in alphabetical order, and include the Queensland State Archives unique item identifier to the relevant record.

Aaskov - Gair	428kb
Garrick - Murphy	440kb
Musgrave - Zillman	431kb

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Last Updated: Thursday, 27 August 2009