What's new in family history resources

No. 32 (July 2012)

The following new family history related resources were added to the State Library of Queensland's collection during the year 2011. 

Contents:

Australia | Qld | New South Wales | Vic | Ireland | Scotland | 

Australia

Australasian Methodist ministerial general index [CD-ROM]
Names of ministers in the Australasian Wesleyan Methodist Church from the beginning to appointments in 1896 are included together with an indication of the principal offices which each minister has held from the Conferences. It lists all the ministers for Australia and New Zealand with all of their appointments arranged alphabetically by each conference. The book also features the following: past presidents and secretaries, nationally and for each regional conference; more extensive biographical sketches, many with photos, of twenty deceased and distinguished ministers; In Memoriam - a list of ministers who have died since the first conference, giving name, birthplace, dates of birth, commencement of ministry and death.  The whole text is searchable. Search for any word in the text - names, places and more.
QCFS 287.194 2004

A bibliography of Australian family histories and genealogies [CD-ROM]
This CD-ROM contains 11 359 family surname/book description entries and provides details of resources published in Australia relating to family histories and genealogies. The listings do not include manuscript or other archival material, or online-based resources. Each entry contains details of a published print or CD-ROM format family history that relates to the associated family name. These details include title, author/s, publisher, place and date of publication, number of pages, ISBN, types of content matter as applicable (such as portraits, family trees, etc). Also, each entry is tagged to indicate the State in which the first Australian-based generation described was originally established. The introductory pages provide detail as to how published works can be identified and located.
QCFS 929.394

How did they get here? Arrivals after 1924 / Cora Num
FAMHIS 929.1072 2012
Finding the shipping records for ancestors may be difficult. Cora Num looks at National Archives of Australia and Familysearch: their guides, search procedures and options as well as the various immigration schemes. She considers the newspaper options such as Trove and overseas titles as well as other printed and internet material which might assist in this search.

Protecting heritage places [CD-ROM]
This CD-ROM contains a copy of the website, a user guide, a workbook, a presentation and an outcomes document. It also includes a number of publications produced by the Australian Heritage Commission.
QCFS 363.69 2001

Shipping and Migration – Research on the Internet / Cora Num
FAMHIS 929.1072 2012
Cora Num explains the records available online via the Australian state and national archives, the role of newspapers in assisting the search. She also includes various immigration schemes and where to find ships’ pictures immigration diaries and accounts.

Queensland

Letters received relating to Moreton Bay and Queensland 1822-1869 [database]
“The correspondence of the Colonial Secretary is one of the most valuable sources of information on all aspects of the history of the Colony and the State of New South Wales. Chiefly responsible for this was the Colonial Secretary's pre-eminence in public life and the fortunate occurrence of the survival of the greater part of his papers.” – NSW State Records website 
A number of indexes to locate information relevant to a range of aspects of the history of Queensland, its events and individuals are listed. Use the indexes to locate the relevant documents on microfilm.

Commonwealth electoral roll (Queensland) 1941 [CD-ROM]
The electronic version of the Commonwealth electoral roll allows keyword searching by name, place of living occupation, division and subdivision, overcoming the problem otherwise encountered of searching by division and subdivision. This roll contains 604 000 entries and is of particular interest as it reflects movements during WWII.
QCFS 324.640994

Queensland muster roll database – Volume 1 [CD-ROM]
Title on CD-ROM: Queensland muster roll : Part 1.: families who were resident in the colony of Queensland, 1859-1901
It is a biographical register of over 25 000 pioneers who lived in the colony of Queensland between separation in 1859 and Federation in 1901. Originally created as a Bicentennial project in 1988, the Q150 project has updated and added to the existing register, through contributions from GSQ members and other family historians. The register has captured birth, and family details; occupations, businesses and properties; death details; and names of spouses and children, as well as other known facts about individuals. The CD contains records from the first 12,000 entries.
QCFS 929.3994 2010

Queensland school pupils index – Part 5 [CD-ROM]
This CD-ROM indexes over 450 000 names drawn from 170 Queensland schools. It and the earlier QSPI CDs together cover almost 1 750 000 names from over 1 000 schools. Dates for this CD range from 1866 to 2003, with a 30 year closure, as recommended by Education Queensland, when names were extracted directly from Admission Registers. Sources used include actual school admission registers; school histories covering a significant anniversary (Jubilee, Golden, and Centenary) in the life of a school; and local histories which don’t focus on the school but include a pupil list as part of their story. Many sources provide additional information on the family including age at admission, birth date, parent’s name and occupation, religion, address.
QCFS 371.8205 2003-

Queensland schools past and present [CD-ROM]
Details on over 5000 schools from the beginnings of settlement to 2009 are included in entries covering school name, school number, initial opening date, final closing date, information on school history, location details, known publications with information about the school and reference sources. A history of Queensland education is also included.
QCFS 371.009943 2010

Queensland Ship Deserters 1862-1911 [CD-ROM]
QCFS 929.39 2011
There are approximately 3 800 entries for deserters from what were mainly immigrant ships. Information included is: given names but more frequently initials, usually age, ship and date of desertion, and occupation on this ship (omitted for Rockhampton in 1882 and for all ports from January 1884-1893). Date of desertion and additional remarks are also added.

Wallangarra Quarantine Admissions Registers 1918-1919 [CD-ROM]
QCFS 929.3943 2011
Strict health regulations during the flu outbreak of 1918-1919 meant border camps were established to keep people entering Queensland in quarantine for 7 days. The database records the following details on 2 554 individuals: name, occupation, address, date of leaving Queensland, marriage status, camp no and Queensland State Archives reference.

New South Wales

Berry General Cemetery. : Volume 2 circa 1865 [CD-ROM]
Title on CD-ROM: Berry Cemetery Obits, Books 1-3
It contains the following three books: Book 1 - Obituaries for all Anglican portions; Book 2 - Obituaries for Roman Catholic and Presbyterian portions; and Book 3 - Obituaries for Methodists/Uniting, wall of memories, independent, Harley Hill, known and possible burials.
QCFS 929.509944 2006

Brady’s Gully Park Pioneer Cemetery, Gosford : Digital Images and Memorial Inscriptions [CD-ROM]
It contains transcriptions of the memorial inscriptions and digital images.
QCFS 929.5099442 2008

Butts of Colonial tickets of leave 1849-1875 [microfilm]
The following details are included: number, date, name, ship and master, year of arrival, native place, calling, offence, place and date of trial, sentence, year of birth, height, complexion hair, eyes, general remarks and in which district prisoner is allowed to remain.
AO/SR Reels 891-893
MFL 929.3944

Copies of Conditional Pardons registered 1826-1870 [microfilm]
The following information is provided: name, ship and year of arrival, master’s name, native place, trade or calling, offence, sentence, year of birth, height, complexion, colour of hair and eyes, and any additional remarks.
AO/SR Reel 3037
MFL 9293944

Nowra General Cemetery
Available are 4 volumes with CD-ROMs that cover various sections of the Nowra General Cemetery. The first volume has 2 books and relates to Navy, Nowra War Graves, Jewish, Baptist, Children's Portion, Known Burials (portion not known), and Possible Burials plus cemetery information and appendices. The matching CD-ROM holds digital headstone photographs but the ref. no from Vol 1 Bk 1 is needed. The second volume contains the Lawn Section with obituaries, the third volume contains the
Independent Section with obituaries and the fourth volume contains Methodist Section transcriptions. All three have matching CD-ROMs that hold digital headstone photographs but the ref. no. from the respective volume is needed.

• Vol 1, Book 1, Navy, War Graves, Jewish, Baptist, Children's Portion, Known Burials
• Vol. 1, Book 2, History, Information and Appendices
• Nowra General Cemetery, Photographs, Small Portions, Book 1 [CD-ROM]
• Vol. 2, Lawn Section with obituaries
• Nowra General Cemetery, Book 2, Lawn 2008 [CD-ROM]
• Vol. 3, Independent Section with obituaries
• Nowra General Cemetery, Book 3 Independent 2008 [CD-ROM]
• Vol. 4, Book 1, Methodist Section transcriptions
• Nowra General Cemetery, Methodist Portion, Headstone photographs 2009 [CD-ROM]

FAMHIS 929.50994 2008- and QCFS 929.50994 2008-

Point Clare general cemetery pictorial collection including unmarked graves [CD-ROM]
[Disc 1] Baptist, Seventh Day Adventist, Methodist, Presbyterian and Roman Catholic sections -- [Disc 2] Church of England, memorial and stillborn sections -- [Disc 3] General lawn sections.
QCFS 929.5099442 2007-2008

Recorded deaths Coffs Harbour Shire, Orara Valley, and hinterlands [CD-ROM]
This CD-ROM contains records of cemeteries and graves (including photographs) in the Coffs Harbour and Orara River Region of New South Wales at: Coffs Harbour, Lawn Karangi, Coramba, Corindi, Bucca, Bellingen, Dorrigo, Urunga, Nana Glen, Glenreagh and Woolgoolga. It also includes World War 1 and World War 2 servicemen and women and many "recorded loved ones at other locations". This ongoing project is updated each year by Orara Valley Historical Society.
QCFS 929.39443 2006

Unassisted arrivals to Sydney (NSW) index 1842-1857 [CD-ROM]
This index lists name, age, arrival date, status, departure ports, including foreign, coastal and interstate and any other information such as nationality, description, occupation and any additional information from the original source.
QCFS 929.30944 2009

Victoria

Commonwealth Electoral Roll Victoria 1939 [CD-ROM]
Keyword searching provides direct access to name, occupation, residence, division and subdivision without the lengthy searching which would otherwise be necessary. As this roll was taken on the eve of WW11 it provides information on those who would be going to war.
QCFS 324.6409945 2010

Passenger Lists- Victoria, Australia, Outwards to New Zealand 1852-1923 [CD-ROM]
This CD-ROM contains transcriptions of passenger lists of the ships leaving Victoria, Australia for New Zealand ports, as contained in VPRS 948 Outward Passenger Lists 1852-1923. It contains all the data from the four previously published sets of fiche plus remaining data transcribed up to and including 1923. There are a total of 368,481 passenger records and 5040 ship records covering years 1852-1923.
QCFS 929.393 2009

Ireland

Index to the Marriage License Bonds of the Diocese of Cloyne Ireland for the years from 1630 to 1800 : preserved in the Public Record Office of Ireland [CD-ROM]
Over 9,000 marriage licence bonds prior to 1800 from the Diocese of Cloyne have been indexed here as part of a project to index all the marriage licence bonds for the entire county of Cork. Bishops required couples to enter into a Bond before granting a licence for a marriage as an insurance against potential legal action if there were some impediment to the union (e.g. a prior contract). It was also easier for couples who did not wish to have to go through the usual Banns, whereby a notice of the marriage would have to be publicised for three weeks or more before the intended date of marriage. These are important in the absence of parish registers.
QCFS 929.34195 2010

Scotland

Discover Scottish church records/ Chris Paton
FAMHIS 929.3411 2011
Chris Paton explains the historical background to the records, the nature of records which resulted, how to find them and use them. He covers all the denominations and their ministers and look at resources in different formats.

Please note:
The following are held in the reading room area:
• All microform (fiches and film)
• Books with location codes FAMHIS or MFA
• All CD-ROMs listed

The following are located in the relevant shelving on levels 2 or 3:
• Books with location codes PAM, G, GSB
• Books without a prefix code

Some items may take time to be retrieved.  It is a good idea to get a membership card and order ahead of a visit so the books are waiting for you.  It is a free card and may be ordered online.