Footprints before me
Tracing Queensland Indigenous family and community history
'Footprints before me' provides access to a wide range of resources, information and records useful in tracing Queensland Indigenous family and community history, where the information is held and how it can be accessed.
- Family history - getting started, finding records, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander family history collections and other resources
- Community history - administrative history and legislation, details about Queensland missions and reserves and oral history resources
- Photographs - significant photographic collections relating to Aboriginal people and Torres Strait Islanders
- Contacts - contact details for organisations that can assist with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander family history research
- Quick guides - shortcuts to selected resources throughout the 'Footprints before me' subsite
This website was created in consultation with Community and Personal Histories, Department of Communities.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander material and information accessed on this site may be culturally sensitive for some individuals and communities. Refer to the State Library of Queensland's Protocols for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Collections [new window
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More information
If you have an enquiry you can contact us in the following ways:
For general enquiries:
- Ask at your local Queensland public library
- Other libraries [new window]
Last updated: 29th July 2009
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